Sunday School Roundtable Chats

A new series of live Web chats sponsored by TMC Youth

Part 2: Teaching the (Littlest) Children
With Shannon Hodgins and Susie Rynerson

Sunday, March 30, 2008,
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT

Join us for our new series of live chats with Sunday School teachers and superintendents around the world.

This month, in part two, we’ll explore the fun and expansive opportunity to teach the very littlest children.

• There’s no lower age limit for Sunday School, so how can we teach infants?
• What are good learning activities for children who haven’t learned yet how to walk, talk clearly or read?
• As they progress, how can we be sure we’re still instructing children “…according to their understanding or ability to grasp the simpler meanings of the divine Principle…?” (Church Manual, p.62)

TMC Youth host, Susie Rynerson, will share news of her recent Sunday School workshops in Australia and California. She along with Shannon Hodgins, Superintendent and teacher for the Sunday School at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Victoria, BC, Canada, will take up your questions. Shannon has a degree in child and youth care focused on early childhood education, but has drawn most heavily on the Manual and weekly inspiration from the Bible Lesson to guide her as she has taught Sunday School for the littlest ones for over 20 years.

The chat will be hosted on this site live in English. Shannon and Susie will field questions sent in via computer during the hour. If you can’t join the chat, you can post questions beforehand here in the Sunday School Discussion Forums or listen to the recorded chat afterwards.

Part 3: Prayerful Preparation for Sunday School

With SR and Eberhard Lasche, CSB from Mexico City, Mexico
Sunday, May 25, 2008, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT

Download the Song Book:

Song book for the littlest students about Bible stories: “My Song Book“

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Sunday School Roundtable Chats

A new series of live Web chats sponsored by TMC Youth

Part 1: Super Superintendents
With Laurie Scott and Susie Rynerson

TMC Youth is hosting a fun and informative new series of live chats with Sunday School teachers and superintendents around the world.

In part one, we explored the role of Sunday School superintendents in Christian Science Sunday Schools. We talked about how superintendents around the world are thinking about:

• Opening and closing exercises?
• Choosing the music?
• Finding good teachers?
• Attracting new students?
• Handling discipline problems?
• Communicating with students and their parents?

TMC Youth host, Susie Rynerson, shared news of her recent Sunday School workshops in South Africa. She, along with Laurie Scott, Superintendent of The Mother Church Sunday School in Boston, took up listener questions sent in via computer. Laurie has taught Sunday School in 5 different branches in 3 countries. She also served as superintendent for a small branch where the Sunday School grew—in just one year—from having no students to five full classes.

The chat is in English. We invite you to listen to the recorded chat at your convenience.

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