Play! Listen! Talk!

Who’s talking the most in your class? You? The kids? The parents? I heard it said once that in a class setting the person doing the most talking is the one who is learning the most!

After today’s class, I’m actually kind of glad about that, because we were ALL talking! Kids were talking to each other and to their teachers. Parents and teachers were talking at the door at the beginning and end of class. Even Skitter the squirrel puppet was talking! We were talking about all the amazing things God put in His creation. I had an excuse to bring lots of fun stuffed animals for kids to see and touch, and every animal I showed seemed to prompt a story from an eager-to-talk preschooler!

What was really cool was that the kids weren’t just eager to talk to each other. They were eager to talk to God, too! Today our Bible verse was “Pray always and be thankful” (see Colossians 4:2). After we said the verse together and even learned it in sign language, we did just what the verse said to do: We prayed and thanked God for the world He made and for making us! So, my advice is to keep on talking! Talk to your kids and their parents, and make many opportunities for them to talk to you. Most of all—keep talking to God about the needs and lives of of the children whose faith you have the privilege to nurture.