Lesson Time

After breakfast and missions time, the kids go to their classes--one before lunch and one after. So the thing about little kids is that their  attention spans are so SO short, but their enthusiasm never flags. If you  ask for a volunteer reader, a zillion hands shoot into the air--and since it is common knowledge that the highest hand wins, they will lift off their cabooses in little bounces and use the other arm to support the raised  one, all the while--in case you doubted their willingness, they stage-whisper "memememememe!!!!" :-) It really is the sweetest thing.

My lesson incorporates color imagery from the Bible and friendship bracelets--a more successful lesson than I thought! I worried that the boys would balk at wearing bracelets made of faith, forgiveness, sin, etc., but they did not! One little fella did his best to talk me out of my sample  bracelet,  but eventually saw the value in doing it my way. :-) When he was done, he pronounced it "supereasy" and proceeded to offer his advice all around. One gross-out moment when I went to tie on a bracelet and it was soaking wet! No worries, the little girl tells me, "I was just holding it in my teeth as I braided." Oh, well, in THAT case, I won't freak out. !!! Must admit intense relief that the lesson works. Little kiddoes make me nervous!!

Now movie time! It thundered during swim time, so it's Narnia in the chapel AC. I suspect that, in the sea of sleeping bags in front of the movie screen, at least a third of them are snoozing. Poor,  tuckered-out kiddies!!