OT BX5 Croftlands Juniors

Had a great time this afternoon with the year 5 classes from Croftlands Juniors.  It was our last lesson of Bible Explorer Old Testament.  We had a couple of hand signs to catch up on from last week which I did first then started on today's stories and hand signs.  Lots of children wanted to help out in the telling of the stories which was great to see their enthusiasm - we needed kings for Assyria, Babylonia and Persia as well as a queen Esther and Mordecai, I played the part of the nasty Haman as I don't want to put that role onto a child.  The children joined in when required to boo or bow down or cheer as the story unfolded.  I also explained about the gap between the testaments of 400 years when history of the people carried on but wasn't recorded in the bible for some reason.  We ended with the hand signs for 400 years silence - Christ.  The last thing we did was a complete run through from creation before I handed out the certificates.