preschool.
in preschool one sweet thing you get to do is sing songs.
you know...those silly songs. like...the peanut butter and jelly song. or...'where is thumbkin?' (that was my favorite of last week...b/c kids can't get their fingers to respond as they would like...and it's hilarious to watch them try). we also read books. this past week we were reading some eric carle books. they are framed around this general framework: "brown bear, brown bear what do you see?"
"I see a purple goat looking at me..."
"purple goat, purple goat...."
blah blah blah.
the past few days i've been attempting to catch up on missed reading for my OT survey class. so i've been working on the minor prophets tonight. i got to zechariah and started reading chapter 5 and i couldn't help but laugh aloud. Check it: "Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll! Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”" Zechariah 5:1-2.
Do you think a song about Zechariah seeing a flying scroll would fly in a childrens book format?
"zechariah, zechariah, what do you see?"
"I see a flying scroll spinning towards me"
anyone...? anyone...? is it just late at night. sorry.
you know...those silly songs. like...the peanut butter and jelly song. or...'where is thumbkin?' (that was my favorite of last week...b/c kids can't get their fingers to respond as they would like...and it's hilarious to watch them try). we also read books. this past week we were reading some eric carle books. they are framed around this general framework: "brown bear, brown bear what do you see?"
"I see a purple goat looking at me..."
"purple goat, purple goat...."
blah blah blah.
the past few days i've been attempting to catch up on missed reading for my OT survey class. so i've been working on the minor prophets tonight. i got to zechariah and started reading chapter 5 and i couldn't help but laugh aloud. Check it: "Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll! Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”" Zechariah 5:1-2.
Do you think a song about Zechariah seeing a flying scroll would fly in a childrens book format?
"zechariah, zechariah, what do you see?"
"I see a flying scroll spinning towards me"
anyone...? anyone...? is it just late at night. sorry.
posted by lp at 10:27 PM
5 Comments:
It may work. The problem is explaining what a scroll is to a child and what value that is, if any.
I like the idea when the smartest children were chosen to be scribes later in life, they began their education at a very young age. The teachers would take a scroll and roll it out before the children. Then he would drizzel honey all over the parchment. The children would then lick the scroll up.
This taught them that the word of God was sweet (i.e. your word is like honey to my lips; then I ate the scroll and it was like honet; etc.). We should implement conditioning like this towards children today when it comes to education. So, for things like adding, every time you add correctly you get to eat that amount of candy, etc. I'm sure you do some of this even now.
Mmmm.. I'm hungry now. I'm going to get some biscuts from KFC and drizzle them in honey!
so...what happens w/ the dumb kids that get no education? (in todays society). because we only pick the smart kids to educate. it seems our country does the following...and focuses on the kids that have difficulty learning anything and let the smart people fend for themselves. hmm...maybe that's why china will soon over take the world. they grab the smart students and plug them into groups which will tap into their potential. ok...i'm done making everyone and their mom upset.
What you say is true. I believe it's an education "guilt" or ethic which believes we must pour resources into the more needy. If we didn't we'd be like China... and they're communist. I think it just sounds heartless to not set up special programs for needy children. It just sucks a lot when they get to age 22 (I read your autism article). What then? Should we only invest into children who will be able to achieve independence by age 22?
In regards to salvation, how much awareness does an individual have in order to be able to make a conscience decision to follow Jesus? What if they don't have that awareness? Do they still sin? Are they under wrath if they can't decide?
I so enjoyed the "Brown bear, brown bear..." book when I was young! I remembering coloring pictures to make a book just like it. *sigh* memories...I miss coloring.
That would totally work, and THUS help children learn Bible stories. Pictures, of course, would be necessary.
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