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Hijos del Altísimo |
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Teaching Idea of the Month - June 2001 |
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On this page, you will find each month a new idea for teaching or for an activity with children.
Visual aid: David and Jonathan
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Click on the picture in order to get the same picture in a larger format (to be printed on an A5 sheet at 180 dpi). |
Biblical foundation: 1. Samuel 18:1-5 etc.
What you need:
- Copies of the picture above
- Further illustrations of the story: Flannelboard, landscape
backgrounds, etc.
- Colors
- Scissors
Let's start!
| The picture represents David,
Jonathan, and Jonathan's coat. The teacher needs to paint
and cut a set of pictures in advance, and prepare a copy
(without painting) for each child. These pictures serve as visual aids for telling the story of the friendship between David and Jonathan. In the beginning, Jonathan is wearing his coat. (Fold the coat along the dotted lines.) When we get to 1 Samuel 18:4 in the story, we take the coat from Jonathan and put it on David. We can also put the two figures one upon the other in order to illustrate that "the soul of Jonathan was bound together with David's soul" (1 Samuel 18:1). For the continuation of the story, we can prepare background pictures of different landscapes (for example for the flannelboard) according to the places where David and Jonathan are, and move the figures over these backgrounds: in the fields (1 Samuel 19:1-7, 20:11-24, 20:35-42), in Saul's palace (1 Samuel 20:25-34), in the desert (1 Samuel 23:15-18). After teaching the story, each child gets a copy of the picture for painting and cutting it out. |
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Hijos del Altísimo - http://www.altisimo.net
You can contribute to "Idea of the
Month"! If you have a good idea for teaching children, send
us an e-mail describing your idea. We will publish here the best
ideas, together with the name of the person who sent us the idea.
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with the subject "Idea of the Month".
