Be world-embracing...
Last week we started exploring a new quotation from The Tablets of Baha'u'llah Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas:
"Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self."
The possibilities of themes and concepts that can be studied with this quotation are endless! We briefly looked at the major vocabulary words and then started looking at the concept of the world. We read through
which was introduced to the kids in a lesson last spring. I promised myself we would take more time with the book this time and the kids had all sorts of comments and questions to ask as we went through the pages.
Next we did a collage activity. To start off, the children created a painted paper background -- which was inspired by an entry at this wonderful blog on teaching children art.
The next part of the collage was to create an image of the earth. As you'll see below, their earth images turned out really beautifully. The color and texture are the result of melting crayon shavings over globes they've already colored. The steps for doing this can be found here.
They chitted and chatted with one another while cutting out magazine images for their collages.
The were really quite lovely.
The children traced the words of the quotation. There is a nifty handwriting practice web site that allows you to customize your own printable template of words and sentences for students to trace.
