First Day School: Listening For God

After a rather long hiatus from First Day School due to scheduling issues, exhaustion and the need for me to spend some Meetings with the Meeting, our Lower El "class" (my six-year-old) finally met again today (the teen was still busy - the Young Friends "class" resumes in June).  Having finished a couple of years of parables and other New Testament and Old Testament-based lessons, we have been starting on a year or so of Quaker Faith & Practice-based lessons.  Today's lesson was about Listening For God.  We walked the Labyrinth they have at the church where we meet and Listened for God and we had a lesson based on/in the style of the Faith 'n' Play Listening For God lesson, which was very nice - like a return to those wonderful parables almost.  We included some meditative labyrinth art and the story God In Between by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso.  I will reinforce the lesson sometime in the next two weeks with a reading and discussion of Horton Hears A Who as well (I am also interweaving a curriculum of Dr. Suess books with a variety of other materials).

It was so nice. For me and her.  We need to not go so long between lessons again.