Hello families of "green room" kids! I hope 2016 is off to a good start for everyone! The 4th-6th graders are a great group of kids! Caring, enthusiastic, and fun! And great learners, too. We are following along with FBC's curriculum, which has recently "started over" in Genesis with stories of familiar characters (Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph in Egypt), and now we are in Exodus and learning about Moses. This curriculum is great because it tells the kids what we can learn from each story, about God, about people, and how Jesus ties in to all of it. Along with the video curriculum, the green room kids are learning the books of the Bible (old and new testament), and we are memorizing one reference from each book of the Bible. Right now we are learning verses from the first 5 books of the Bible. I encourage you to help your kids remember these verses(and the Books of the Bible)! They are: Gen. 1:1, Ex. 3:14, Lev. 19:1-2, Numbers 6:24, and Deut. 11:1. I am keeping track in class who has recited these verses from memory, and they earn a prize when they do. But I don't want them to "cram and forget"! :) I keep re-capping what we've already learned so it stays fresh.
It's great when parents can get involved in Sunday School, and your kids are all "awesome!" Thank you for sharing them with me one day each week! I will keep in touch throughout the year to let you know what's going on.
One last note - each week I send the kids out with papers letting you know what lesson we had that week, and I include one or two "extra credit" pages. If the kids complete these activity pages and bring them back the next week, they earn extra prize coins. We have prize box week once every 6 weeks or so, where they can spend their prize coins.
Thank you again and have a great weekend!
Tia
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