I was fascinated by history , so I really appreciated the stories my teacher passed on about his own life. Experiences.
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MBE’s history is interesting and important. Knowing that she used to heal animals on the farm.
--I don’t remember any ‘thing’ or what was said as I sat around those tables all those years. What did strike me was that I loved those ladies who were my teachers. I always enjoyed being with them. They were really kind
Saying the Scientific Statement of Being in unison at the end of our SS. It involves them. They learn it. Now it’s extended into our going to sleep times
I still have cards they sent me with little prayers on them
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They always talked about how to heal..
Shared lots of anectdotes. It made it interesting
This one quote really stood out to me when I was in the university class: Man is the expression of God knowing himself
When you came to SSchool you were spending time with people who wanted to be there.. They were not being paid, they just loved doing this.
Everyone there was loved to bits
The students like to show off tha they know things. They have quizzes at the end of class.
Watch movies outside of SS time. This created memories and ideas to refer back to in class. It created a context for our leanring and being together. It built relationships in the class.
I had some similar talents to my teacher ( we both liked to draw)
Social connections amongst the children
At TMC 0-3 sessions we had an open space set up. We sometimes would move into different areas to do different activiites
We had music and movement built into every lesson p;lan\\\
There still was structured time
Instruction/ activity was kid-based.
After the end of Sunday school we always had dancing..
Objects that help students tell stories.. like Magnetic themed story boards ( some have felt –based ones) with character and object markers that can be moved around.
Kids in grade 8 or so like poetry – it’s a way to express themselves, ( See Leanne for more details on this)
- acrostic poetry
- scaffold poetry.. ( they fill in words)
- virtues poetr
- improves their vocabulary -- developing vocabulary is a key to expressing and making sense of what they’ve done
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Journals.. writing.. reflecting on their experience:
“ you don’t really know what you’ve done until you write about it”
The Grant’s gratitude calendar: what people are grateful for each day.
Peg’s ‘oil’ containers…A tray of little containers that had ‘oil’ in them that the students could take turns pouring into.. The young student was allowed to take this home with them. Two years later he still talks about it. He also knows and loves the Bible story.
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I have been working on sprucing up the Responsive Reading by using other Bible Translations; also reading alternately with a student reading the part of the superintendent - all with the intention to make this portion of the SS session more meaningful to the students.
We also use a standing up white board with specific messages pertaining to the lesson written on it - or an explanation of a not so well known word or words.
For instance, last Sunday (subject Love) it read:
LOVE speaks directly to each of you (teachers included) saying:
you are precious;
you are valuable, worthy, irreplacable;
you are loved at all times.
On Sunday,Feb.12, we invite the congregation to join us right after the service for about 30 minutes for a presentation, entitled IN CELEBRATION OF LOVE. We invite them to choose the most beautifully decorated panel (room dividers,there are 6 of them) with an announcement of the winner and the award at the end. (The congregation does not know that the winner will be "the Sunday School", regardless which panel declare to be the best, because everybody worked on the display including the teachers; the award will be lunch for the whole gang at a nearby restaurant, maybe Pizza Hut.)
There will be readings and skits,
Love Story 1 (Mark 1:39-42)
Love Story 2 (Luke 7:36-48
Love Story 3 (Luked 7:11-16
all performed by the students.
You can imagine, how busy I am preparing decorating materials, writing out scripts for the skits and planning how we can possibly get the students to memorize their lines ect. But they are all very joyously and actively engaged in the event. And they will get a deeper understanding of the significance of those healing and their relationship to love.
The memories I have of Sunday school that have always remained with me,
are the homework we had to do re the Lesson. We always had to find one
phrase that was the sub-text of each section in the Lesson. I still do
that ! I
Hhaving very young children act out that sentence from S&H about the depth, breadth, height, might, majesty etc. fill all space.
Many of us in the Sunday School have had good experiences with having the children acting out Bible Stories, taking parts, drawing on the white board for props etc; using the felt board, making up board games, question and answer games etc, and they are probably being used currently.
With teens when the lesson included the Trial, we had 2 columns on the white board. One was Court of Spirit and the other was Court of Error and we gleaned ideas from the trial to put under each.
Another white board idea was using the idea of error as nothing like a score board with error 0 and truth with a good score- found in the lesson.
Once with pre teens we had adding machine tape that we would roll up and then use every week to add on our work with the synonyms. I don't recall the exact project, but it went on for a long time and we had long pieces of tape.
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