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?