Off to a Good Start

We've had 2 Sunday School days, and so far, so good. The changes still through us off a bit - like getting to the Roundabout by 10:35 for song time - but we haven't lost anyone yet.

There've been some behind the scenes meetings about the Stations we're putting into place starting in October, trying to figure out how it will all work. Originally, we were going to do the first Sunday of each month. Now we're entertaining thoughts of changing the dates, making it half a class time, not doing it every month... Teachers don't want to give up their class time, and I guess that's a good thing, yes? They care deeply about teaching each lesson. But, we need to try new things, and if we don't give it a good shot, we can't really evaluate it properly at the end of the year.

With that in mind, I think we will change some dates, and we won't have one in December, but we will have a station every month besides December, and we'll keep it for the whole class time. I think we can make this work, and that once it gets up and running, it will be a good thing. Good enough that everyone will wonder why we didn't do it years ago. The biggest hurdle is to tap into the talents within the church body, to make these stations fun and exciting.

Meanwhile, the 3rd graders may be using this blog soon as a forum for questions. Jessica and I, the 3rd grade teachers, have found the last several years' classes have had lots of good questions, which, given half a chance, can totally derail the lesson for the day. So, we will try a Question Box, and then I think we'll post our answers here. 3rd Grade Q&A? Are you as curious as a 3rd Grader? We'll need a good label -- something to ponder for a couple of days.