A Challenging Class

Let’s just say keeping kids attention and focus can be challenging. I knew that this would be one of my struggles and I’m not too surprised that I’ve already encountered some problems this quickly. The book we follow suggests most of the class time be spent on lecture and discussion, which I don’t think is especially interesting to the kids. After separating some of the kids and writing their names on the board I think they started to take it a little more seriously for the rest of the class. I wasn’t sure if the kids were grasping any of the concepts I was going through in the lesson so I gave them a small quiz that I later graded at home to see if they had learned the key points. Most of them got an 80% or higher so I felt that even though a few of them had a hard time keeping focus, they are learning!

Last week we talked about how God reveals Himself through His son. We discussed how Jesus was sent to teach us about God and we also talked about eternal life and our faith. This week’s lesson we’ll be talking about scripture, which is such an important part of faith. We grow in our faith by reading scripture and by living life according to its teachings. Recently, Adam and I have gotten back in to reading our devotional book which highlights a few verses in the Bible and allows us to reflect and consider how it applies to our lives. I feel that this is almost a “how to” guide on living your life in a way that is pleasing to the Lord. I think it’s important to share what scripture means to us with the kids and I hope this will get them interested in reading scripture and making it a part of their daily life.