What a wonderful story about what it means to be a neighbor, and our responsibilities as followers of The Way to help those around us. You might want to include time in your morning to go visit the Good Samaritan statue near the remembrance garden.
Here are the wondering questions. I'd love to share the children's responses in our weekly newsletter. Thank you for writing down their responses.
Wondering Questions:
1. I wonder who is the neighbor to the person who was hurt, had everything taken from him, and was left by the side of the road half dead?
2. I wonder what would happen if the people in the parable were women and not men?
3. I wonder what would happen if the person finding the injured traveler were a child?
4. I wonder what it means to be a neighbor.
5. I wonder if you've ever had anyone be a neighbor to you like this Samaritan was to the hurt man.
6. I wonder if you've ever been the one who was the Good Samaritan?
7. I wonder how you can be a Good Samaritan kind of neighbor to others.
Idea Sparkers for our Gift to God Time
I. Our Ongoing Summer Project:
As I blogged last week, we're hoping that at some point this summer each of the children will want to illustrate their own scene from Jesus' life, so that we can have some illustrations to use as art on the children's hallway. Thanks for making this one of your options for the Gift to God time.
Here are the topics we'd love the children to illustrate on the paper I've provided (only because it's the right size):
1. Jesus' birth
2. Jesus as a boy in the temple
3.Jesus' baptism
4. Jesus' temptation
5. Jesus' work as a healer and parable teller
6. Jesus offers the bread and wine
7. Jesus offers himself at Easter
If you like, show the Easter tiles as examples.
The most important thing is to get the children to use the whole page and to use COLOR!
Thanks so much!
II. Other options for the Good Samaritan Parable
Here are some ideas for the parable itself:
1. Children make get well cards as a way to help others, like the Good Samaritan in the story
2. Children act out the story. (My camera will be in its usual place and takes pretty good video. Please use it! I'd be glad to show you how!)
3. Children could make a collage or drawing on who is our neighbor.
4. Children could make a collage or drawing on How I Can Be a Good Samaritan.
5. You could also go with the What Would Jesus Do theme. Make a bracelet with WWJD, or a mural of the story, or act out scenes of different conflicts and ask the question, "What would Jesus do?"
6. If you've visited the Good Samaritan statue, why not ask the children if they'd like to try to make their own with play dough or quick dry clay?
Enjoy!
Love, Becky
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