First Quarter...Finished!

Well..we just finished the first nine weeks. I love every one of my classes. Such a sweet group of sixth graders!

The Bible ISNs have been fun for both me and the students. A favorite activity was the "fakebook" worksheets. I just googled Fake facebook activities and so many worksheets showed up. I printed off a free sheet and after our study on Noah and later on, after our study of Joseph...I had the students create a "fakebook" page as the Biblical figure. They then pasted the page in their ISN and I could grade it from there.

Bible Fun

Every Friday my students have two things to look forward to. First is their memory verse quiz *wink wink* and second is Sword Drills.

Students use their Bibles or the Bible under their desks...I call out a random verse and they frantically search for it so they can win.  I have sweetened the deal for my classes though. I have had parents donate prizes so the kids compete for candy prizes or the revered "Big Box" prize.

Here's how we play:
I call out different groups to participate. Sometimes it is by row, sometimes by shirt color, other times it is by what they ate for breakfast or if they have particular pets. The kids love this part.

Then I call out what they are playing for...either fun sized candy or a big box prize. The big box prizes are awesome donations that I had asked for near the beginning of the year and continue to ask for throughout the year. Usually they are non edible, dollar section prizes. Things like pens, locker magnets, journals, silly putty...

I call out a verse. All bibles are shut. If students have book tabs they have to hold them against their chest. I say the verse once more then say "GO."  The first student who starts reading the correct verse wins the prize. It is such a great way for the students to get to know their Bibles and the books in them!

I encourage my slow pokes to play at home with their families..it's a lot of fun

I have included a picture of our prizes.

School starts tomorrow

Our Bible department was told that the kids wished Bible class was less like history class...so I made it my goal to learn and do something new. 

I have been reading a lot about interactive student notebooks (isn) and decided to try it this year. Today I spent a couple hours with lesson plans and creating an interactive notebook of my own for unit one.

Honestly, I am not finding anything out there on the internet in terms of isns for Bible class. If you know of any sites that are Bible specific interactive notebooks would you post in the comments? I will make more posts as we begin using our notebooks. Just an fyi I am using Bob Jones sixth grade Bible curriculum and supplementing with the notebook.