WOW Week 4 - PCAC G5 Class on 12/25/2016

Hi parents,

Here is the quick update on week #4, 12/25/2016.

This week's theme is "Wise men seek Jesus", whose account is based in Matthew (馬太福音) 2: 1-12, 

where the story unfolds about 幾個博士從東方來到耶路撒冷 (Magi or wise men from the east) seeking a new born King (of the Jews).

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.

As all of us who are Christians, all need to prepare ourselves for worship on regular basis.

The ruler over the land of Israel at that time is Herod who was known for "jealous", "deceitful", and evil!

Next, we continued with regular scripture reading exercise.

Scripture Reading in 5W exercises

5 W : What/Who/When/Where/Why (with "WHY" being the HIS divine reason)

 I have prepared a few pictures of "WHO"/"Where"/What objects for the 5W session.

Team FOOD and team BACON took turn to answer each "W" category, so that each student gets an opportunity to re-impress himself/herself about the theme of the passages.

It is worth mentioning that one of the students came up with "John 3:16" verse for the "WHY" category, in my opinion, which is very impressive and insightful.

And the gifts that those wise men brought with them to present to Jesus and Mary are,
the gifts of gold and incense and of myrrh. While each gift represents its own meaning:

Gold: kingship, Jesus was the King of kings
Incense: Priesthood,  Christ as our great High Priest
Myrrh: gift of Faith, the Old Testament again and again foretold his suffering.

We learn that Jesus is who we worship  and we ought to live a life to honor God with our words, attitude or possessions.

Then we get to view a short video clip: (available from youtube)

It is much effective to view a video sometimes to vividly convey the messages.

(Here is the URL link :
https://youtu.be/xhD8lG9VDVc )

OK, next is the hands-on time!

Team Project: Christmas!

Both team FOOD and BACON gets to work as a team to create a poster with gospel messages as an evangelical tool.
I have to admit that both teams are much engaged and so creative in their own capacity. I also ask each team to 

present their own project at the end of the session. Each student needs to own certain part of the poster message.

One interesting observation:
Team FOOD (Girls) : showing more artistic creation in their project rendering (see the poster on the left),
while the Team BACON (Boys) demonstrates more "Logic" and "Knowledge"-based messages in their Poster project.

This is so wonderful as we get to see how GOD gives each one of us a special talent or unique capacity. 

I am so proud of your children who have demonstrated so much energy and creativity in and throughout the G5 class; Encourage them to keep up the study and bible-reading!

OK, here is a short video on what's happening during the Project time ...

At last, we enjoy some gift/candy goodies, since it's Christmas time celebration.

Here is the scores from both teams: FOOD and BACON
FOOD: 8 points
BACON: 7 points




Until next time...

KLUP!
-Sam