The BFF did it!

Someone came into my house while I was out and... 

DID MY DISHES! 

They also 

EMPTIED THE BIN  and 

FOLDED LAUNDRY. 

What is this strange phenomenon?  How do I get it to visit my house? You might ask. 

Well, you get yourself a BFF like mine.  

Then you just wait until you feel absolutely awful and almost pass out at work, mess up your medication dosage, have a weird reaction to your medication dosage being messed up, whack out your sleep pattern, forget to do the dishes and leave clean laundry in a pile on kitchen stools and have another horrible day at work.  Then, your BFF will happen to be visiting the house for a completely different reason, see the mess and come to the rescue. 

That probably sounds quite complicated.  It would probably be much easier to just do the dishes.  

FRIDAY! 

JS Prayer Series Pt 2

Hi everyone,

I have just finished organising the Junior Soldier Activities for our special Mothers' Day meeting tomorrow.  There will be a big mess to clean up tomorrow and that is all you are going to hear about that for now.  

Our adventures in learning about Prayer have been loads of fun and I have been promising highlights and photos for a while. Today I will be deliver.  

Week One: What is Prayer?

We have talked about prayer together before and have even prayed together as well.  The lesson started with an amalgamation of two games.  Pictionary coupled with 20 Questions meant that the game had some variety and we played the 'game' for much longer than we usually would have managed.  There were two different colours of paper squares (fairly small).  On the purple squares I wrote the names of people we knew well, such as our Officer (minister), the kids' parents.  On the orange squares I wrote communication objects such as a telephone, mobile phone, laptop computer, postcard.  When they pulled out a purple square the kids had to tell us it was a person and we had to ask yes/no questions until we could guess which name was on the square.  If an orange square was pulled out, the child would draw a picture of it so that the rest of us could guess what object was on the square.  We had quite a bit of fun with this game. 

We then talked about prayer as communicating with God.  We also talked about how the games restricted the ways that we got our message to our friends, there were rules we had to follow.  Even though Jesus taught us how to pray and there are lots of verses in the Bible about the right way to pray, we are not restricted in our prayers.  God is our friend and He loves us.  He wants us to talk to Him about anything and everything.  
The poster we created had the first part of Ephesians 6:18 and the words "We can prayer anywhere, any time about anything."

Each of us had three hand print sticky notes.  On each sticky note the kids wrote: a place we can pray, times that we pray and things we can pray about.  All the sticky notes were then stuck on the poster around the Bible verse as you can see below. 

We also made our own prayer rocks and I gave the boys a modified "prayer rock" poem which you will see next time.  At the end of the lesson we shared thank you prayers.  

More next time! :D

One of "those" teachers

Yesterday, I caught myself doing something.  No, it isn't strange that I was active.  The 'something' that I was doing was a thing I promised myself I was not ever going to do when I became a teacher.  

The class teacher was at the front of the classroom teaching (funny that..) and there was a child facing the back of the room (where I was sitting).  He was smirking at a friend.  I tilted my head forward and peered at him over the top of my glasses.  I frowned and furrowed my (very bushy) brows as I caught his eye.  His face dropped.  My eyebrows climbed and my eyes flicked towards the front of the room where the teacher was still teaching.  The student turned to face the teacher.  All of that took less than ten seconds.  Unbelievable.... Inconceivable. 

Many will say that a simple look is the ultimate teacher tool.  "Save your voice," they would say.  But I never wanted to be 'that teacher'... the one that can scare with a stare.  I was going to be the one who would inspire with a smile.  But apparently that is not the way the world works at times.  I suppose I will get over it. I don't mind the idea of having a 'look' or two that are easily interpreted by the kids BUT... I was LOOKING OVER MY GLASSES!  I'm not just the scary teacher... now I'm the OLD scary teacher!!! 

It is a Sad Day!
LOL