BDS Inside Out Class: Coat of Arms
Being myself is what got me to where I am. Jeff Hardy
Last week, our students created their own design of their coat of arms. Today, they are making the final copy. The coat of arms is a reflection of who they feel they are. It was wonderful to see our students eagerly putting themselves creatively onto the drawing board.
I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was! Psalms 139:14
BDS Character Class: Blurting out vs Listening well
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Pay attention! That is hard for our young people. In this class, we taught them the harmfulness of randomly blurting out their thoughts. They can speak their hearts out but they should learn to listen first.
Even the wise could become wiser by listening to these proverbs. They will gain understanding and learn to solve difficult problems. Proverbs 1:5
BDS Senior Character Class: Coat of Arms
“You opinions about me does not change who I am.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To be successful, you need to know who you are not just from the external or from the mirror, but from who you are in the inside. Our inside is what makes us strong. Our students learned about themselves doing the “Coat of Arms” activity. In their coat of arms, they describe their dreams, their favorite things, who they admired, what’s unique about themselves, their motto. In the middle of their coat of arm, they stick their very own photos – to say “This is Me. And I love who I am.”
I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was! Psalms 139:14
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Inside Out Class: Cooking Competition
“Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
We love adventures. Our children loves adventures. Trying new things. Doing something that they have never done before. The thrill of failing. The joy of success. It is all in there.
Today the children were given a change to cook. For most of them, this is the very first time for them to cook. They had to come prepared with their own recipes and try their very best at making a sumptuous meal. All the children did a marvelous job cooking. And they did it on their own for the very first time. Hurrah to the children.
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Inside Out Character Class: Patience
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance – Samuel Johnson.
Love is patient (1 Corinthians 13:4). To learn patience is to learn love. Patience is that calmness in our hearts when everything else around us urges us to run, to be aggressive, and to not wait. But when we are patient with others, it helps them feel loved; thinking “I am important enough to you that you are willing to wait for me.”
Patience Activity
1. Split to groups with equal number of students
2. With a straw, blow the cotton ball from one end of the line to the other.
3. The key is not which group finishes first. Rather, which group has the least amount of deviations of the cotton ball from the line.
In our exercise, one of the teams finished quickly. But because they were not patient, their group had the most number of cotton balls being blown off the line. So from first place, they had to settle for last place.
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Character Class: Emotions 2
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions” – Pablo Picasso
The power of motivation lies not in the knowing. It lies in the feeling of what you know and letting that feeling move your knowing forward. No wonder, emotion is spelled E-Motion.
Today, our children learned more about identifying feelings. At the end, they made Masks of Emotions. Their own emoji, that will be used in the subsequent lessons.
“For the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23)
Character Class: Emotions
The power of the heart – emotions. Our children were taught how to identify their own emotions and naming them. The goal of this is to teach them the beauty of emotions. Not to be afraid to have them. Not to be overcome by them. A man who understands all his emotions, is like a captain of a ship who knows how to use all his navigation tools to ride the rough emotional seas that lies ahead of him.
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller
Character Education: Kindness
BDS Character Class on Kindness. Character Matters. Character is the foundation for future success.
Proverbs 11:17 A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.
箴言 11:17 仁慈的人自己获益，残忍的人自己受害
Character Class on Teamwork
Today character class was about teamwork. The students were shown a tray of 15 things. They were supposed to remember and list down all the objects. They first tried to list down by themselves, then in a group of 3 to 4, and finally as a whole class. From the results, the students were able to see that when they worked as a group, their accuracy were much more higher than when they worked alone.
The scripture shared from Mark 2:1-12 further demonstrated the benefits of teamwork, when a group of friends helped their paralytic friend to be cured even though it was challenging and difficult. Doing it alone would virtually be impossible.
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