Here is something to remember! Next Sunday we leave Daylight Savings Time, at 2 AM local time. So don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour at that time or you will be really early to Church that morning!
And while you are at it, you might want to say a mental “thank you!” to Ben Franklin, of all people. Seems it was Ben’s idea in the first place to begin changing clocks in the summer time in order to get more use out of daylight hours and save on the expense of oil lamps! I only just learned that recently when I took in a performance of our Ben Franklin school assembly program with Dave Mitchell, one of our finest school assembly performers.
That is one of the things I love about assemblies for schools, and about educational school assembly programs featuring historical characters especially. You come away not only with a better understanding of the person and their importance and accomplishments, but also with a wealth of little bits of information you are highly unlikely to find anywhere else but which are extremely fun to learn. The Ben Franklin program is a great assembly program! But, over the years, I have heard many people express similar pleasure about the information in our Abraham Lincoln assemblies, and our Black History assembly programs (Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, The Spirit to Overcome!).
So if you are seeking ideas for elementary or middle school assemblies, or alternatives to field trips in this down economy, remember to consider bringing in a historical character. You never know what you might learn!
