Thanking God For Our Food

[Guest]

I am teaching "thanking God for our food" next week. Would love some ideas for both carpet time and activities we could do!

Edited September 17, 2010 by yellowdaisies

[AnonyMouse_13453]

You could teach them the song Johnny Appleseed

[AnonyMouse_1195]

I am wondering if you are in a faith school and if you have some guidelines for this topic to support you. It is not the easiest of subjects when food is so reliant on climate, supply, and the people who produce it. Whilst we have food many people are starving after all!. Perhaps the way to go is talking about where we get it from and how hard people work to produce it, and how grateful we should be to have the food we have, compared with many other places in the world. You could do tasting sessions and talk about where food comes from, or perhaps just follow how a loaf of bread is made starting with a seed and use the story of the Little Red Hen.

[AnonyMouse_29641]

Our school's lunchtime prayer is

 

Thank you for the food we eat,

Thank you for the world so sweet,

Thank you for the birds that sing,

Thank you God for every thing.

 

Amen

 

Think it's in the Lion Book of Prayer

 

Honey

[AnonyMouse_1469]

Blimey...........are they still singing that one?? we used to sing it when i was at junior school ( cough) years ago!

[AnonyMouse_13453]

Me too - although the first two lines were the other way around

[Guest]

Yup, we sing it too!!