Sunday School

Monday’s Sunday School Review

Topic: Joseph the Dreamer
Attendance: Above Average (9)
Fun Factor: Average
Involvement: Above Average
Grading my performance: B
What I learned: Donuts need to be fresh.  Key needs sleep.

Before the lesson started, I served donuts and water to the class and let them tell me about their weekend experiences.  They had gotten back that morning from the Spring Youth Retreat and they were all excited.  They were also all tired.  This is where I learned my first lesson of the day; the donuts were not fresh.  In fact, they were one day old because I had gotten the morning before.  I had eaten one myself that morning, but it turns out that some were a bit too hard for the youth’s liking.  Next time, fresh donuts for all!

The lesson was on Joseph, and it went fairly well but for one exception.  The class was unusually rowdy.  I chalk this up to three reason.  1) They had been up all weekend.  2) We had 9 people, which is more than we typically have in our small Sunday School room.  3) I was incorporating Bible sword drills into the lesson.

For those who don’t know, a sword drill is where I call a book, chapter, and verse out and they have to find it and be the first to stand and read.

Starting the week after next, we will begin a 6 week competition on sword drills.  Each week they have to bring their own Bible to compete.  If they win that day, they get some candy.  If they are the one that wins overall, I’m going to give that person $25.  The whole reason for the competition is to get them to bring their Bibles.

Well, I spread the sword drills throughout the lesson on Joseph, so every few minutes I would call the reference and the class would go nuts with activity.  The pro was that they were paying attention to me.  The con was calming them down after each time.  It worked well, though, in my opinion.

During the lesson, I learned another lesson myself.  Key needs sleep.  Key is a girl in my class.  Very nice and well-behaved, but very, very hyper when she is sleep deprived.

Overall, the class was good.  I’ll just remember to bring fresh donuts the next time we have them.  Also, other than the sword drills, this lesson lacked interactivity, which I don’t want to do very often.  They respond much better when they are doing more than listening.

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