Fortunately we had some apples! Mommy helped Daddy make apple slices, and we got bowls for honey, and did a bit of celebrating the Jewish New Year. It was a busy day at work, and there was ballet to account for as well. Madison continues to mature as a dancer, and is absolutely happy there at the studio. This is great to see, as Mommy is living vicariously through her in a way, watching her and feeling her joy as a dancer.
Madison has been expressing herself as an artist lately as well though. Her drawing skills are improving dramatically! She's doing more and more, and getting better and better with her skills at drawing people, and objects. Her hand-eye coordination has just gotten amazing over the past year, that is to say her abilities are surprising even Daddy. She's inspiring all of us to do a bit more painting in fact - I see a day where we're all out there on the back porch with easels, doing our own artistic thing.
We didn't have as much time to do that sort of thing today. But we did do a message on Rosh Hashanah for the kids in third grade. It felt so much like the 'old days,' when Daddy first started teaching classes at KidPak. Here below is the flow, the one for all the kids in third grade:
Madison has been expressing herself as an artist lately as well though. Her drawing skills are improving dramatically! She's doing more and more, and getting better and better with her skills at drawing people, and objects. Her hand-eye coordination has just gotten amazing over the past year, that is to say her abilities are surprising even Daddy. She's inspiring all of us to do a bit more painting in fact - I see a day where we're all out there on the back porch with easels, doing our own artistic thing.
We didn't have as much time to do that sort of thing today. But we did do a message on Rosh Hashanah for the kids in third grade. It felt so much like the 'old days,' when Daddy first started teaching classes at KidPak. Here below is the flow, the one for all the kids in third grade:
1. Happy Rosh Hashanah! It’s the New Year for the Jewish people.
2. Leviticus 23:23 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.”
3. Blow Shofar - talk about the instrument, where it came from, how it is still used. They blow this 100 times with different kinds of blasts.
3. Blow Shofar - talk about the instrument, where it came from, how it is still used. They blow this 100 times with different kinds of blasts.
4. To this day, the Jewish people celebrate this holiday - no work, going to the synagogue, and they actually like to eat something that I’m going to let you try tonight: apples and honey. The taste is sweet - and that shows their desire for everyone to have a sweet new year.
5. This goes along with our message for tonight so well, as we’re talking our future being so bright - we have to wear shades. God is the ultimate time traveler - He sees the past, and He sees your future. And He’s got a plan for you, a plan not to harm you but to give you hope and a future.
6. You see, God’s got it all covered. He’s had that plan from the beginning, and it is a good one - let me share with you a scripture: Ephesians 2:10.
7. God is the ultimate handyman, and we’re His handiwork, created to do good works. What kind of good works, you ask? Discussion about talents, and the ones that the kids have. Maybe the ones that teacher has as well.
8. Leads to activity with tools - writing their talents on the tools, and cutting them out.
9. Put marked tools in toolbox together - see if some kids want to proclaim what their gifts or talents are. These are from God - we’re created by Him with the purpose of using these talents.
10. Repeat scripture - we’re all in that toolbox, useful tools, created to do good works, prepared in advance. And sometime soon, God is going to use us in a mighty way. In fact, you can say it will be pretty sweet.
11. Speaking of sweet, who’s ready for some apples and honey?
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