Week #3 – 2/3/08
This week I observed and helped with the splash service for the children and I also attended the worship service. This was my three hours for the week.
This week in the splash service, the normal teacher was there, Richele Miller. She had a message about missions. As the children came into the service time, they were instructed to take twelve pieces of paper, punch a whole in them all, tie them together and to write one word on each page of a Bible verse that they were working on memorizing. After that, they started with a time of worship. This was an interesting time where the students either jump around, talk with there friends and on rare instances, sing along. But when they started singing the last song, How Great is Our God, the majority of the students stopped what they were doing and sang along. I was touched with how the kids sang. I could tell that most of them were engaged and were understanding what was happening.
We then went into the teaching part of the class. As I said before, this week was focused on missions. Richele shared a story from the
This story seemed to have a great impact on the students. They were attentive and showed great interest into the story. Along with the story, the students were given an activity to have the kids engage and understand a little of what missionaries are about. For this, I had to help the kids translate some directions for a treat from French into English. This was to help the kids understand how missionaries have a hard job of taking the gospel message to a native people. This was difficult because my group was made up of mostly kindergarten kids who weren’t able to read, so I had to do most of the work. I could tell that the kids were learning because they were able to relate the message to what there own lives.
Do you think that children should have times of serious worship or just do songs that keep them engaged?
What is the best way to portray a missionaries lifestyle to children?
2 comments:
Teaching Plan: 1
A. My Lesson: Matthew 28:18-20: The Great Commission
o Activity:
• One student whose birthday is closest to today’s date will be the Team Sculptor.
• The Sculptor’s job is to go to the far side of the room with 10 marshmallows and 10 pieces of spaghetti and construct an artistic masterpiece. Make sure the Sculptor’s back is to the group.
• Select another person in the group to be the Second Sculptor and give that student the remaining 10 marshmallows and 10 pieces of spaghetti.
• Tell the Second Sculptor that his or her job is to duplicate exactly what the Team Sculptor is creating. The Second Sculptor is to sit facing the opposite wall and cannot look at the Team Sculptor.
• The rest of the students in the group are to line up single file between the two sculptors. Their jobs are to one-at-a-time run down to the Team Sculptor and seeing what has been done and then telling the Second Sculptor… but you only have 10 seconds to talk to the Second Sculptor!!
• After the 10 seconds, then the next person in line runs down, looks, and talks for 10 seconds.
• Allow the students to create for 5 minutes.
o Discuss:
• How well did we do at making the sculptures alike?
• What helped us? What hurt us?
• Talk about the importance of the people who carried the message. Without someone to carry the message, it would have been impossible to create a sculpture that looked like the first.
a. Talk about the importance of carrying the message of the hope that we have in Jesus to others.
B. The Response:
a. The boys identified better than the girls did. The girls really didn’t want anything to do with the learning activity of building a structure through communication. However, both groups really identified with the importance of being a Christian and carrying that message to none believers.
C. Supervising Teacher’s Evaluation: I will be adding this, my supervisor is getting that information for me
D. Did Well: I felt like I did well with the material. I knew what I was talking about and how to relate it to kids in grades 1st through 5th. I did a good job in including everyone in what I was doing also.
E. To Improve: I really could have done better at keeping ALL the kids attention at one time. When you’re in a room by yourself with 15 little kids, it’s often hard to keep their attention. I also felt like I could have taught a little more on the scripture than the activity itself.
F. Questions: Do you think diversity in teaching (different activities) might help other kids relate to the teaching better?
Hey Joel, I think worship is something that should just keep them engaged at that age. Really if we try to make it too meaningful, they can often loose interest in whats going on.
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