This unit in Bible, my third graders and I have been talking about the early church, how it developed, who were some of the early church leaders, and the persecution that it faced. This past Friday, we tried to simulate an early church meal, eating Middle Eastern-type food, sitting on the floor, trying to be quiet in order to avoid "persecution", and incorporating some Jewish customs.
We started with ritual hand washing...
...learned a traditional Jewish prayer...
...and ate.
The kids did a great job listening and following directions and they had a great time! One mom even emailed me to say, "I don't what you did in school today, but my daughter came home in such a good mood!"
you are such an awesome teacher! i never did anything like that with my kids. (well, there was that one Super Science Saturday, where we 'dissected' oysters, snails, river lobsters, and manhandled an octopus (that Arturo later had made into cebiche...) but that was because we had to make up swine flu time on a saturday...)
ReplyDeletethis was an awesome idea, and well done!!!