Happy Birthday to the best sister in the world! Love you lots! Thanks for being someone that I have always been able to look up to--I know that I am privileged to have a sister like you!
Me and my sister Jennifer
Me and my sister Jennifer Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Valentine's Day!
We decided that rather than spend money on buying gifts for each other, we would spend the day together doing something fun. So, we spent our Valentine's Day at Virginia Beach enjoying the near 70 degree weather! What a treat for February! It was pretty windy, but that can be overlooked! :0) We ate dinner at Olive Garden and then walked through Williamsburg! Not many people live close enough to two tourist attractions like we do, so we try to take advantage of that while we are here!
Tuesday's Teaching Tips
Get them moving!
Incorporate movement into the activities as much as possible. Kids will move during class. It's much better to control that movement than to let it happen "their way". So alter typical class review activities to incorporate movement.
Here is an activity suggestion: Place a true sign on one wall and a false sign on another wall. The kids stand in the middle. If the statement is true, they stand by the true sign; if it's false, they go to the false sign.
Or have them play "hot potato" with a ball or some other object. When you stay stop, whoever has the object has to answer the question.
*eBibleTeacher.com
Incorporate movement into the activities as much as possible. Kids will move during class. It's much better to control that movement than to let it happen "their way". So alter typical class review activities to incorporate movement.
Here is an activity suggestion: Place a true sign on one wall and a false sign on another wall. The kids stand in the middle. If the statement is true, they stand by the true sign; if it's false, they go to the false sign.
Or have them play "hot potato" with a ball or some other object. When you stay stop, whoever has the object has to answer the question.
*eBibleTeacher.com
Monday, February 14, 2011
True Love
Since it's Valentine's Day, I most certainly could write a very mushy post...however, I won't put you all through that... :0) I do, however, want to write about what I believe is true love. In a world that is fast losing ( and maybe lost completely) its sense of morality and true love; I am blessed to be married to a man who first of all loves the Lord with all of his heart. It is because of that "first love" that he is then able to love me the way God has intended from the beginning. I believe that if we have not learned the meaning of true love from our Heavenly Father, who loved us so much He gave His very Sons' life's blood to save us; we are not able to love in the very truest sense of the meaning. Not many of us would be willing to sacrifice our only beloved child for the sake of someone who hated and despised us; but that is exactly what God did in sending His "only begotten Son" into this wicked world to die on a cruel cross for our sins. That, is TRUE LOVE. In that familiar, yet powerful verse from the Bible-John 3:16: "For God SO LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life", we see the message of TRUE LOVE.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday's Teaching Tip
Teach From the Bible
Rather than having your class book or notes on the desk and teaching from that, have your notes in your Bible and teach from it. We emphasis having our kids bring their Bibles to class, so let's put them to use. Pick out pertinent (and easy to read) verses from the lesson text for the students to take turns reading. That way they experienced that this was from the Bible.
*From eBibleTeacher.com
Rather than having your class book or notes on the desk and teaching from that, have your notes in your Bible and teach from it. We emphasis having our kids bring their Bibles to class, so let's put them to use. Pick out pertinent (and easy to read) verses from the lesson text for the students to take turns reading. That way they experienced that this was from the Bible.
*From eBibleTeacher.com
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Tuesday's Teaching Tip
Get Your Mind Thinking Early
Start early in preparing your lesson. Not just because it's easier, but because your mind will mull over the lesson even when you're not actively working on it. So if you're preparing a lesson and can't think of an appropriate craft, your brain works on that problem all week until it comes up with something. If you start the night before, you don't think of the perfect activity until it's too late.
*eBible Teacher.com
Start early in preparing your lesson. Not just because it's easier, but because your mind will mull over the lesson even when you're not actively working on it. So if you're preparing a lesson and can't think of an appropriate craft, your brain works on that problem all week until it comes up with something. If you start the night before, you don't think of the perfect activity until it's too late.
*eBible Teacher.com
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Tuesday's Teaching Tips
If you are a teacher (Sunday School, Junior Church, VBS leader) in your Church you may have experienced times of frustration over how to handle certain things or behaviors. I would like to share some helpful tips that I have found on an online source with you. Each Tuesday I will try to post a helpful tip for teaching. I will call it "Tuesday's Teaching Tip".
Today's Tip is:
If You Don't Know it, They Won't Learn it.
If you don't have a good handle on your lesson or topic that you are discussing, and don't know it forwards and backwards, it will show. This will cause the kids to lose interest in what you're saying because they will figure if you didn't care enough to study it, why should they care enough to learn it? That doesn't mean you have to be able to answer every off-topic question they ask. It's a great example to say, I'll have to look up the answer to that. But if it's part of the lesson you expect them to learn, you'd better know it.
*Helpful Hint from eBibleTeacher.com
Today's Tip is:
If You Don't Know it, They Won't Learn it.
If you don't have a good handle on your lesson or topic that you are discussing, and don't know it forwards and backwards, it will show. This will cause the kids to lose interest in what you're saying because they will figure if you didn't care enough to study it, why should they care enough to learn it? That doesn't mean you have to be able to answer every off-topic question they ask. It's a great example to say, I'll have to look up the answer to that. But if it's part of the lesson you expect them to learn, you'd better know it.
*Helpful Hint from eBibleTeacher.com
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