"Manna" covered the floor of our classroom when the children arrived this week -- (actually, rice cakes covered a vinyl tablecloth.) The visual was an effort to surprise the children and impress upon them God's generosity and grace to His people. We talked about how God was faithful to provide bread from heaven, even when the people were complaining and had forgotten about God's other miracles in freeing them. God is faithful even when we are faithless. God provides what we can't possibly provide for ourselves. (Again, this story points forward to the coming of Jesus, the real bread of heaven, sent to an undeserving people to provide the source of life.)
We did a treasure hunt around the room for hidden words of our verse, then sang James 1:17 to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle." (Last week, Jacob had offered the suggestion that "Twinkle, Twinkle" would be a good song to celebrate crossing the Red Sea -- so I knew he knew the song.)
To review the four verses we have learned so far, we threw a bean bag bear to land on one of the picture clues of the verses and another to land on one of several options for what were to do with our bodies while we sang the verse (like "march in place" or "stand on one foot.") Standing on one foot proved a rather hilarious challenge.
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Hi Wendy. Thank you for keeping us informed. I love the stories you include about what happened in class. I always ask the children what they did in class. It's nice getting your summary.
Funny note about Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Samantha likes to compose her own songs on the piano and she writes them out. One day, Jacob asked me to write out Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on a piece of paper. I wrote out a couple of lines of notes (quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, etc. He had me write the title, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and we drew some stars on the paper. Then he placed it on the piano, sat down, played and sang. Now he tells eveyone that he wrote the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and we cannot convince him otherwise!
That is so Jacob! Well, now I can go around telling people that I personally know the actual composer of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
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