Week 9

This blog is a make-up for week 9, due to the dedication of the new College Church building. This is what a class would have looked like if it would have been a normal week at the splash service, but this is all from my imagination.

1. This week I spent 1.5 hours at the dedication service at College Church.
2. For this week, everyone seemed to be very excited about coming to splash. As I arrived, some kids had already started to arrive. As they normally do, the kids were playing games and being crazy, playing on the drum set and dancing on the stage (not good Wesleyan Children). I played a checkers with a boy named Christian. Christian seems to be that child that likes to try and get attention. He is always making noises and talking during the kids service.

But today, Christian was somewhat quiet and wanted to play a game. This was a fun time because I am an expert at checkers and taught Christian some sweet new checker moves. To which he really enjoyed.

Well, after the game time, we then started the time of worship. The kids were very attentive to the worship today because ewe had a guest band in to lead worship, Sonicflood. The kids really enjoyed this time and the band was glad to be there to help out. This ended with the offering time where the kids gave some money that they brought for tithing. We then moved into the lesson time.

Richele taught on the fruits of the spirit this week. She really gave an emphasis on how our lives, if we are Christians, should be showing some good things giving evidence that we have faith in Christ. The kids seemed to pick this up very well, this was evident when she asked the question, “what are some ways we could see God work in us to help others?” Christian actually spoke up and said, “we can help by giving food to homeless people.” This was cool for me to see Christian understand the lesson and that he was getting something out of the lesson. I believe that getting students involved with questions like this is important when having them understand how the principles we talk about should be and can be applied to our lives.

3. Questions.
1. Should the kids be given something, a physical object, to help them remember what they learned during the week?
2. How do we, as ministers, design a lesson a direct it to an age group as wide as 1^st through 5^th grade?

Week 10

A. This week I spent 2 hours with the splash kids teaching and helping with the special music and an hour and a half in the main service.

B. My Lesson Plan.

Prayer

We opened with prayer, I had a young girl pray and she did a wonderful job, thanking God for the day and asking Him to teach us.

Scripture - 1 Peter 1:3-9

Discussion Questions

• What is blind trust?
• Vs 8:
• What are some examples from your lives of times you’ve had to trust people even though you don’t know what the out come will be.
• Examples:
• Parents – basics
• Vs 7:
• Do you still follow the rules when your parents aren’t there to watch you?
• What (should) makes us do this?
• Vs 9:
• Why does God want us to follow Him even though we can’t see Him?

Trust Fall

1. Joel and Sean – We used this as an illustration to show what trusting without seeing.

Activity

2. One person is blindfolded. Everyone has to direct that student around the room without talking. Only the blindfolded person can talk. After everyone gets around the room, they are all rewarded with fruit snacks.

Wrap-up

3. This person had to trust everyone to lead them around without getting hurt. Even though we don’t do everything perfectly, we can still be rewarded for following God in the end. Ws need to trust God, even though we cannot see what the outcome will be in our lives. Jesus is going to lead us, He doesn’t tell us where to go, He takes us and shows us.

Evaluation for Joel Stone

April 13, 2008

Ministry:

SPLASH morning worship

Age of Children:

K-5

Number of Children Present:

45

Task Given:

Teach a lesson

Interact with the kids

Help with classroom management

Work with Sean Myers in teaching a lesson.

Teacher Assistants:

5 volunteers

Teaching material used:

Joel and Sean prepared the material

Expectations:

Prepare a Bible lesson

Manage a very active classroom.

Supervise the children in the sanctuary before and after they children performed in the sanctuary

Evaluation:

Joel and Sean were well prepared as they introduced the concept of blind faith to the children. The two worked together on this project and it proved to be very affective. I observed the response of the children and they were attentive to the lesson. Joel and Sean chose an age appropriate activity that was applicable to the lesson. The two proceeded to conceptually break down each verse and used examples to explain the scriptures. This lead to an activity in which one child was blindfolded and another child lead them around the room and could only give verbal commands. I must say that when they started the activity I wasn’t sure how the kids were going to handle this because the children were unusually hyper. But all apprehensions were settled when they successfully lead the activity and were able to use the energy of the children for good! I was please and impressed by their ability to do this! They concluded by reviewing the basic concept of blind faith.

Joel and Sean were valuable to have in SPLASH this semester. Please send me ten more practicum students like Joel and Sean!

D. What I did well.

a. I think that I did well preparing the lesson plan. This was somewhat difficult when thinking about how to communicate this message to the splash kids.

b. Today it was easy to have fun with kids, this was good because they were able to have fun while learning.

c. I feel that I am getting better when in front of a large group of young kids. Today I had more confidence when I was in front of the kids.

d. I think that the activities related well to the message and I think I did a good job explaining how the activity related to the message.

E. To Improve

a. I think that I need more time in front of people. I need to be more confident in what I am saying.

b. Along with the last one, I need to be more rehearsed when teaching. I think that I need to be more well prepared, which would have helped with confidence and being a bold teacher.

c. I need to work on coming up with good questions to engage the students. They needed a little more with the questions.

F. Questions.

a. How do you think the children would have responded to not having the promise of a snack? Is it important to not always have a snack when teaching children?

b. How do you relate the message of faithful trust to 3^rd grade kids?

week #8

1. This week I spent an hour and a half working with the splash youth service and an hour and half in the worship service and fellowship.
2. This week was just the same as every week in splash. We arrived and played games, and talked with the kids as they came in. We started with the teaching time and learning. Richele started giving the lesson on John 4, sharing with the kids that Jesus wants us to love others and how we can love others. The students seemed to be receptive to what was being presented. Richele talked about how since Jesus was loving and accepting to others that were different and rejected that we need to be accepting to those kids of people.

As a part of this lesson, the kids had to go around to different stations and do different activities. One group read some scripture together and talked about how they could implement that into their lives. I’m not sure what the second group did, but they got fruit snacks and I didn’t get any which I was a little upset aboutJ. Then the third group played a game with four different colors and we should call out a color and they had to go to that color and do a different act of kindness for each other. I think that this activity did not accomplish what it was intended for. I think that the act of loving one another was supposed to be illustrated, but I think that the game was not designed in a way that was portraying that message. Although, the kids were enjoying it, so does that make it a good game?

I think that the kids did get the overall message, because we came back together in the end and had a discussion about loving and the kids gave practical examples of how they could love one another.

3. Do you think it is appropriate for young children to give an offering since they really don’t have an income? Or should this come at a later point in life?

What do think about showing a video for Sunday school instead of teaching?