Samson

As of lately my class has been playing games.  That's pretty much all we do.  Not so much learning english grammar or reading english, but having fun and playing action games.  I've gravitated towards not teaching from the book because I'm not a good teacher:  there are several levels of students in my class, meaning there are several books in my class.  I just cannot teach two books at one time.  I feel I leave one set of students out, and I focus all of my time and energy on one set, and I just don't like it.  I'm really not a good teacher!  But, anyways, my games are a result of different levels in my class.  I do try to make them learn english at the same time, though.

So, I've come to love making games for these kids.  We play jeopardy, hangman, duck-duck-goose, home-made board games, pictionary(my favorite with these kids... I always end up crying from laughter), and many more.  For some reason, I felt like I should tell the story of Samson, and make a game off of that, much like we do for Sabbath School here.  So, I did this for my class.  I had PNee, the school secretary, translate the story for me, and then we played a board game with questions about Samson's story.  To my shock, the kids LOVED the story of Samson.  They just loved it!!  They had never heard it before and this week they wanted to hear his story again!  

It just amazed me how interested they were in this story.  To think they had never heard any of our Bible stories before, that's so sad.  The Bible has so many fun stories in it, I feel bad that they are missing out on all of them.  I'm just so happy they liked his story and that they are having fun with it.  Today I'm going to tell the story of Jonah, I think.  I hope they like it... I think they will!!