We are beginning to learn our Christmas songs for our Christmas Eve service which incidentally is not on Christmas Eve this year, but rather on the Sunday before Christmas. Anyway, as we were learning a new song that mentioned Bethlehem, I asked my four year old class what happened in Bethlehem. Now, granted, I haven't taught them the official lesson yet, but since we have been singing these songs I have explained certain crucial parts so they better understand why and what they are singing about. So as I was reading them the words that mentioned Bethlehem, I asked them what happened in Bethlehem, which I thought was a gimme question. Here are a few responses which came after a few moments of intense thinking. (This group always tells me they have to think a little, I personally feel their brains need to wake up or something)
"That is where the walls fell down." (No, that would be Jericho)
"That is where the people all got sick" (No. that would be in Egypt before Moses led the Israelites out)
"That is where they took the big ship" ( No, that would be the Mayflower which is not mentioned in the Bible)
And there were a few more very lame guesses until I had to hand guide them to the answer of Jesus being born there!
The next day, I asked my three year old class the same question in the same way and immediately a few of them said, "Jesus was born there in a stable on Christmas."
After 25+ years of teaching little ones, it is still amazing how different classes can be.
I hope all my readers know what happened in Bethlehem all those many years ago and how that one little event changed our world forever!
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