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Two questions that come up every time I teach a class are “How can I memorize that story? Can’t I just read it?” These are good questions since we want the storyteller to tell the story and not read it. Let’s take a look at the answers to each of these questions in turn. Reading vs. Telling When telling the story, you will want to focus on the story and materials more than anything else. When focusing on the story, you are able to really enter into it and bring the children along with you. When you read the story,…
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For most of us, we’re kicking off our new RE year. We’re finalizing our volunteer assignments, selecting our stories, getting our work options ready, and freshening up our classrooms in anticipation. We also need to think about how we’re going to ensure a strong start with our children and their parents. Do you conduct an orientation each year for them? This blog post looks at four different orientations to consider holding. Teacher Orientation Each church likely has an orientation for their teachers for the year. This might or might not include any specifics on the Spirit Play classes. In our…
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Welcome the first Spirit Play blog! This blog represents a new commitment to sharing resources, keeping people up to date about opportunities for training and learning, and encouraging all of our efforts to go deeper into Spirit Play. I begin with gratitude. Spirit Play went through a number of changes last fall. Debbie Atkins launched the online training on the revised website. She also did a great job with creating the new logo. Now Spirit Play is more geographically accessible and has more options for training. Debbie also manages the website and the online training throughout the year. Thank you,…
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