You can see her childrens class blog HERE. #toolegittoquit.
Anyway - here is a photo/craft idea that I am filing under **to try later!!** basically a arts idea about caring for animals, and a crafts idea of using bits of nature to create animals. :)
There was a camp hosted Labour Weekend just past, in the beautiful Wairarapas. I wasn't there, but my mother had the good fortune of attending, and I have the good fortune of being facebook friends with one of the organisers!!
You can see her childrens class blog HERE. #toolegittoquit. Anyway - here is a photo/craft idea that I am filing under **to try later!!** basically a arts idea about caring for animals, and a crafts idea of using bits of nature to create animals. :)
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Here's a little excerpt from the back of the book..."In the Baha'i Faith, so its followers believe, may be found a healing message for the world - the fulfilment of the age-old promise of all religions. One of the greatest longings of a Baha'i then, is to see this message accepted by humanity as a whole. And since the Baha'i Faith has no clergy or other class of professional religious teachers, it is the ordinary believers themselves who must bring their Faith to the notice of those who are as yet unaware of it. Coercion of any kind is forbidden in the Baha'i teachings; instead, Baha'is are enjoined to teach their beliefs with 'wisdom and utterance' and people who accept the Baha'i Faith must do so of their own free will and conscience." Chapter 1 - Success in Teaching
Chapter 2 - Creating a Spiritual World
Chapter 3 - Overcoming Fear
Chapter 4 - Awakening the desire to teach.
Chapter 5 - Why we teach
Chapter 6 - Training our spiritual selves
Chapter 7 - Attaining a prayerful condition
Suggested 5 steps for prayer:
Chapter 8 - The importance of deepening
and that is all because I've now given the book away. lol.
Here are two more renditions: Elika Mahony and Ann-Sofie Wensbo. Definitely one of my favourite prayers.
We had a really beautiful celebration at the Baha'i Centre Sunday evening. Programme as follows:
The room was decorated with candles and flowers. A very moving evening :)
Charlie and I had the bounty of hosting this past feast! The programme was simple:
We had flowers! No photos of actual set ups, but same arrangement as the flowers below that I had prepared for my friends birthday (was the same evening). For the children's programme, I just reformatted a feast programme I found on the internet, and made a calendar for each of the children to have, with stickers attached to put on the days that they "used their knowledge to help someone". Both are below.
I had the fortune of picking up this little delight at a recent get together in Auckland.
It is so beautifully illustrated, and if you're in New Zealand, you can order it from the BDS (Bahai Distribution Service) for $16. Sweet deal. 8 stencils, spraypainted. Tried screen printing onto paper - not so much success. Will try screen print onto T-shirts some other time. Needing mental preparation. Anyone know who the original artist is?
The first three lessons for grade2 have been typed up. The theme is prayer. Read HERE. Here are 10 awesome extra activities you could incorporate (in no particular order). 1. Makin' Prayer Beads (#BrilliantStars)
2. Make decorative prayer mats
3. "Talking to God" board game (designed for 3-5s)This is a game to help the children explore times that make them feel happy and sad and help them, then, to tell God about them- either thanking Him or asking for help. Just throw the dice, move around the board and, if you land on a face, tell God about that feeling! HERE for printable board. 4. Prayer rhyme interpretation (#BrilliantStars)5. Make an actual little-bitty prayer mat! (pillow-case sized)More HERE and HERE. Edges stitched together. Patterns stitched on. A draw string, so that mat can be rolled up for easy packing & transport. 6. Boxes Prayer Game
7. PrayerBookCover8. Explore a Prayer! (#BrilliantStars)9. "Forgiveness Fizz"Get a jug of water and some effervescent vitamin tablets (I break these into quarters, so they're not so big). Encourage the children to think of someone they need to forgive. Talk about how when we are hurt and angry it hurts us too, but we can ask God to help us to let go of these feelings. Put the tablet in the water and get the children to imagine asking God to help them forgive. As the bubbles start to come off the tablets, imagine giving the hurt feelings to God. The tablets take a while to dissolve, which also illustrates that sometimes it takes a long time to forgive. The water might also have changed colour, which illustrates that it's not as if the thing that hurt you had never happened, it's just been changed by God. 10. Prayer Sheet (#MeaningfulMama)This was an activity on prayer. The left hand column has people that we can pray for, things we're thankful for and ways we can ask God to help us. On the right hand side, these are illustrated.
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Welcome!This is a place that I have been compiling resources as I develop/find them - as a a children's class teacher, as a parent as an individual who loves to study the history and teachings of the Baha'i Faith. Postings and opportunities are erratic as a working mother of two, but it is something that brings me great joy! Archives
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