WOW wk4, 12/26/2010 - G4/G5 Class

Hi parents,

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Continuing on Christmas theme (sort of, in a series), this week, we visited the account of the Magi (有幾個博士從東方來) who travelled from the East to find Jesus to worship Him.

Bible verses: Matthew/馬太福音 2: 1-12

Notice that the Magi asked/said, "那生下來作猶太人之王的在那裡。我們在東方看見他的星、特來拜他。"
So the Magi "have come to worship him." We ought to!

Firstly, the students went through the verses and a special presentation of the Matthew 2:1-12 clip was show as a "Sand Drawing"(沙畫圖片) of the story.
(YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8RkhQkUOY )

Several Q-n-A dialogue was exchanged in an attempt to highlight some bible points;
E.g.,
1) King Herod was having evil plot to find-n-capture Jesus via Magi's help.
2) Magi came a loooong way to worship Jesus - so can we.

OK, some hands-on activity to re-enforce the study/reading; We have a "Thumb Print Drawing" exercise of the account. It's sort of like "getting your hands dirty". :)

Teacher provided a book for reference.

Each Girls and Boys team is to draw using their thumbs to "vividly" paint the story of on the papers provided.

Here is the kids' masterpiece!

They have crafted the major characters recorded in the Bible and are required to narrative through the paint about the story.

You should be proud of your child - as they work in a team-work fashion to bring the story alive. Needless to say, the winning-points system is keeping the scores in check. This time, Boys team won!

Meanwhile, we also shared a video clip about the names used in the Bible to describe Jesus;
To name a few, Lord, Messiah, Truth, Bread of Life, and the list goes on and on.

When asked how many names are used in the clip, all the kids came up with many guesses - 97, 100, 400, with excitement so that they decided to watch the clip the 2nd time and starting counting as the name shown in the video clip.

Final count? 141!! (roughly)

A few words on the ink (Red and Blue): the ink should come off soon - we provided "Clorox" wipes in the class to help cleaning the ink print on student's fingers.

An interesting observation: some kids wanted to apply all ten fingers while some just used the thumb for drawing. I called it the "頑皮指數 ", which is very cute. :)

Lunch: 滷肉飯
(and it's so popular, teacher needs to share his portion with other kid, which is no problem at all... :))
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Memory Verse: Romans 10:12-13
"The same Lord is Lord of all ... "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Indeed, 『凡求告主名的、就必得救。』

Next week, I'll have a substitute teacher for the Class/

KLUP!

-Sam