BBC 2019: Joseph, Favorite Son

Here is week 5 in review:

The kids made a simple string (Joseph) puppet for craft this week.  It was fun seeing which yarn the children chose to make their puppets.  We did have some difficulty keeping some puppets from doing a headstand.  I finally solved the problem by running the puppet string through the clothing.  Still the kids seemed to enjoy the craft.

This week's Bible verse was Matthew 5:44.  I used a 2 person reader's theater skit to introduce the verse. The kids really are enjoying performing before their peers.  To practice the verse, a child chose a crazy card.  Whatever action the card said, is what we need to do while saying the verse.  

The Bible Lesson was taken from Genesis 37.  As the kids learned about Joseph and his brothers, they also saw how jealous can get WAY out of control.  We learned that when we are jealous we should. . . 1. Stop and Pray.  We need to ask God to help us not be jealous.  2.  Think.  We need to list all the things, talents, etc that God had given us.  3.  Love.  We need to show love to the person we are jealous of.  

After snack time, we played different versions of gaga ball:  Mayhem, Defender and Team Gaga.  My favorite is Defender, but Jonestown group voted for Team Gaga.  We also played Mennonite Madness with three of the groups.  In Newmanstown, I split the groups into a older and younger group to play.  It was funny to watch.  The older group, yelled, jumped, and just made a whole lot of noise while they played.  The younger group could hardly focus on their game because they were so curious over the older kids game.  

Then for our Bible review game, we played Joseph's Coat ZAP!  This was a fun game.  If you answer the question correctly, you team got 2,000 points AND you got to take a coat off the line  (you had to do what the coat said).  Some coats had the kids sing the Bible verse.  Other coats had them ZAP their score down to 0.  Other coats said to switch points or add/subtract points from their score.  It seems just when one team was getting WAY ahead, they would be ZAP! 





This past week's Contest was an art contest:  Draw a picture of Jacob wrestling with God.  Below are some of my favorites.  Enjoy!