Friendship

So here I am, cracking my head trying to think of activities for the children today!The class starts in 4 hours so I don't have much time. I wasn't here for the class last week because I had to go out of the country, but from what I hear, the theme was friendship. Only half the number of children came last week, so we still wanna keep this theme for today's class.

I've found a story called Lucky and Mucky by Rosa Vasseghi to tell the kids. It's basically about an unfriendly turtle who's too arrogant to make friends and ultimately she gets into trouble and all the sea creatures help her. I think this theme is so relevant to the group of children I teach! From what I hear from my sister, there's a lot of politics involved in their friendships in school, "I don't friend you anymore" is commonly heard. If X talks to Y, then Z will no longer friend X. Complicated stuff! I hope this story helps. I also want to link this to war and what happens when countries don't friend each other.

A few classes ago, the children made little scrapbooks and decorated them. I'm gonna ask them to draw a picture about the story so that they don't forget it.

The Holy Writing for today is :
" The best way to thank God is to love one another"-Abdul Baha

At this point, I have not yet given the children prayers to memorize. I'm trying to introduce the concept slowly, because most of my students have never said prayers in their lives. Does anyone have ideas on how to introduce it to them?
This quote ties perfectly with our last class as well since it encompasses the idea of God being the Creator.


We're also gonna re-cap last week's song " The time to be happy" and learn a new one " We are drops!"

At this point, I really wish I could play the guitar.It's such a useful talent. Thankfully, my brother does :) Yay.
Here are the chords, for you lucky guitar players out there.

We Are Drops Composer Unknown

C We are drops (we are drops) echo voice C Of one ocean (of one ocean) F We are waves (we are waves) G Of one sea (of one sea)

CHORUS: C Come and join us (come and join us) F In our quest for unity C G C F It's a way of life for you and me

C

We are flowers (we are flowers) Of one garden (of one garden) We are leaves (we are leaves) Of one tree (of one tree)

CHORUS

All the earth is (all the earth is) But one country (but one country) Man is one (man is one) Can't you see (can't you see)

CHORUS

As for games, I plan to use the games from Ruhi book 3A. I want to introduce drama and acting more seriously, because I plan to get them to perform a skit at our upcoming children's party. We're going to play the game where the children have to draw invisible squares around themselves and pretend there's a rope in the middle of the square. Great imagination booster! Also, I'm gonna incorporate some of the theatre activities we do in my theatre class. One of it is something we casually call Boal's hand game (after Augusto Boal-famous theatre practitioner). In this game, people are divided into pairs. A has to follow the palm of B's hand. B can walk, run,jump, bend-do anything. A has to stay focused on his/her task. It's a great game that trains the attention-span and gets an actor to think about his/her character's motivations. Since they are kids, I'm gonna get them to pretend they are different animals, take on different professions and ages. It should be fun!


No idea how my planning has been, I'm pretty sure I'll have to modify and change some things as I go along! Will post about their responses soon :)

Happy fasting!