Elementary Bible Day at SBEC

What a great time we had at Bible Day 2013!  Every year our fourth grade students study a unit on Biblical culture.  During this unit, they learn more about people who lived during the Bible days and how their lives were much different than ours today.   

 

Our fourth grade students worked for many weeks in their Bible classes to prepare for Bible Day.  They selected a character from the Bible and read an encyclopedia article about him or her.  They wrote a report about their Bible character and dressed up as that character for Bible Day.  They also researched various aspects of Biblical culture and wrote paragraphs and made illustrations about them.  They worked with a team to use these paragraphs and illustrations to create a display board for Bible Day.  They also made an object that would have been used during Bible times like a sling, unleavened bread or even a model of a mud brick house.  The fourth graders took a field trip to the Biblical Resource Center and Museum in Collierville, TN.  During that field trip they got to hold a lamp that was excavated from Jerusalem and was during the time that Jesus lived.  They saw pictures of the modern cities that Paul traveled to on his second missionary journey.  They even participated in a scavenger hunt in the museum’s gallery.

During the morning of Bible Day, March 7, each team of students put their display board, their character reports, and their Bible objects on a table in the Trojan Hall gym and presented what they had learned to other students at SBEC.  For most fourth graders, this was the best part of Bible Day.  The students really enjoyed telling the younger students at SBEC all that they had learned.  They were also able to view a model of the Tabernacle and second Temple during Bible Day.  These items were made possible through a grant.  In the afternoon, the fourth graders participated in various activities to increase their knowledge of Biblical life.  They played Bible Baseball, made Stars of David, and studied about Hanukkah which included playing with driedels.  They also participated in a Passover Seder Tasting and learned more about this Jewish feast.  

Cindy Brassel

Elementary Bible Teacher