I'm in the home stretch!

This week has gone by so fast. It's amazing how time seems to go by when you are having fun. I feel as though I've been going like the energizer bunny all week long between teaching c.c.d. classes all week and working with my 2 yr. old kids in the afternoon, and then going home and planning the next day's work for classes... I am very pleased with the way my week has gone by. I am more amazed with just how intelligent the third graders that I am working with are. I feel as though I need to challenge them more than hold off on the lessons, and they seem to be having fun for the most part too. Today we talked all about how we are made in God's image and then I had them make a collage of different people on big poster boards to show how we all are different, but we are all very much the same when it comes to our faith. We also talked about our heritages and where our families have come from. I had the kids read and act out the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 people. The kids had a lot of fun with that. Some other major topics we happened to talk about were abortion and euthanasia and how life is to be kept and cherished from the moment they are in the mother's womb until death. We then read and acted out the parable of the Good Samaritan and talked about how everyone should be treated respectfully, whether the children get along with someone or not. I think my favorite part of the day, though, was when I had the kids sit in a circle and did a mini-affirmation activity.... I had them pull a name out of a box and asked them to say at least three things they liked and appreciated about the person who they ended up picking out of the box... It was nice to see the third graders take that activity seriously. I could tell they really liked it from the smiles on their faces. Even though I have been going non-stop this week, I am also some-what sad to see it end. Oh well.... life goes on.