Faiths and Festivals
A guide to the religions and celebrations in our multicultural society
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 2012
87 pages
978-1-907241-89-5 (ISBN)
Description
A must-have guide for early years practitioners designed to help explain world religions and festivals to young children in a way that is meaningful to them.This guide is designed to be a practical guide to explaining the main five world faiths to young children, as well some lesser-known faiths to young children in a way that makes sense to young children.The book is also full of activity ideas to tie in to a range of religious festivals throughout the year. Each festival contains background information on the festival and why it first started, as well as activities to encourage children's learning.Introducing young children is vital in our multi-cultural and multi-faith society, and this title will provide all early years practitioners with ideas on how to teach children to value diversity and respect other children's views and backgrounds.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Body Matter
- Calendar of festivals
- RE: What you must teach
- Learning about festivals
- Working in a global environment
- The Baha'i faith
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Tell me about God
- Hinduism
- Humanism
- Islam
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Judaism
- Quakerism
- Seventh-day Adventists
- Sikhism
- Chinese New Year: Yuan Tan
- Holi: festival of colours
- Shrove Tuesday: 'The Runaway Pancake'
- The Runaway Pancake
- The Christian festival of Easter: The Last Supper
- Helping a child cope with loss
- Art and craft for Easter
- The Jewish festival of Passover
- The Sikh festival of Baisakhi
- Celebrating May Day
- Maypoles and Morris men
- Maypole dancing
- The Buddhist festival of Wesak
- The Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan
- Celebrating harvest: Harvest Festival and Sukkot
- A poem for harvest time
- Farmer, farmer
- The Hindu festival of Divali
- Decorating for Divali
- The Jewish festival of Hanukkah
- Exploring Christmas traditions
- Christmas around the world
- C is for Christmas
- A Christmas alphabet
- Christmas craft
- Planning a party
- Good News - a nursery Nativity
- Performing the Nativity
- The Muslim festival of Muhammad's birthday
- The Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr
- Eid ul-Adha (Great Eid)
- Assembly theme: Celebrations
- Celebrating birthdays
- Birthday biscuits
