 Okay, good morning everyone and welcome back after the weekend, it's a new week and I hope it's going to be a good week for each one of you and a good learning experience as well and growing in the knowledge of the word and in your relationship with Christ. Before we begin our classes for this week and this morning, can one of you please lead us in prayer please, anyone? Can I ask Christopher to lead us in prayer? Christopher, can you lead us in prayer please? Okay, Christopher is not there and Prabhakar Rao, can you lead us in prayer? We can't hear you Prabhakar, sorry. All the classmates and especially Pastor Selena to pray for the leaders that we can learn and we can understand which you want us to learn mighty warriors in the coming days as a kingdom builders in the coming days. Father, thank you so much Father, each and every moment of this class and upcoming classes we dedicate unto you, we dedicate unto your name. I ask this prayer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you Pastor. Thank you Prabhakar, we couldn't hear most of your prayer but just say an amen to what you have prayed for, thank you. Sorry, might be network issue Pastor, so sorry. Yes, no problem at all, I understand, that's totally fine, thank you. Okay, so we're continuing looking at the developmental needs of children in different age groups. So I'm going to run through it quickly because we kind of got a feeling or an idea about what we really want to say in each age group. So it's going to be a little repetitive, so I'm not going to be explaining because I kind of explain most of it. Just a few points here and there I will highlight. So we looked at the developmental needs of children ages three and four and we began looking at the developmental needs of children in the age group of five to seven. We looked at the physical, mental, social and emotional needs, the spiritual needs as well what are the spiritual messages they need to hear. So we stopped at how they hear and understand the Bible stories. These children are able to understand Bible stories, they're able to actually answer a few questions that you ask them regarding the main points in the story, not the details but just the main points. They're also able to understand stories that go historically in timeline. When I say this, I'm not saying that they understand everything but they're beginning to understand because they're still in ages five to seven just grade one and two. So if you start with creation and then about creating Adam and Eve and then Cain and Abel and go on, they're able to understand that stories or the narratives in the historical setting in the timeline that is there in the biblical timeline. Also, if you're looking at narrating to them stories from the Gospels, then they're able to understand from Jesus's birth going forward. Or if you're looking at acts, they're able to understand after Jesus died, he rose again, he ascended to heaven and then the events following that. They're also able to understand abstract concepts like self-sacrifice, how to love others about faith, what is doubting, what is unforgiveness, what is forgiveness and guilt. So these are the kind of stories that they're able to hear and understand so you can talk about stories even relating to abstract concepts because they're beginning to understand. So since they're beginning to understand, we need to keep it very, very simple and clear because they just receive everything as you just tell them. Literally, Jesus take it as you explain to them. And then lastly, for these children in this age group, they're learning to pray together so you can get them to pray together, also pray individually but they need help how to pray. So if you want them to pray, then you can just stand behind. Sometimes when I ask children in this age group to pray, they're very shy, they don't know what to say, so I tell them I help them. So just give them the confidence. So when they come up and stand in the front, I quietly give them small sentences, put small sentences in their ear and what they hear, they're just praying it out in the class. So just basically helping them to learn to pray individually and also pray together. Okay, so this is the developmental needs of children in ages 5 to 7. We'll move on to the developmental needs of children ages 7 to 9. Okay, intellectually or mentally these children, they live in the present which means that everything that you are narrating to them or teaching to them needs to be connected to their present environment, what they're going through in their age, their developmental needs because they're able to understand because they're just living in the present. They can't talk anything about the future, like for adults, talk about something of the future, their past, how to deal with their past, how to wait on the Lord for the future, what they need to do to prepare for the future. These children will not be able to understand. They live in the present, so connect the Bible stories, the teachings, whatever to their present day situations and what they are going through. They learn best from creative activities, so you need to plan a lot of creative activities and how you can share the truths. They also love to learn, explore and investigate, so they just love to learn. They love to research things, they like to know why, they'll ask a lot of white questions because they're very curious, they like to explore things. So if you have a lot of white questions from this age group, you need to be very patient because you need to know that they're learning, they're exploring. Whatever they ask, they'll just literally come and ask you. So in the weekend, I was just listening to one parent who has a seven-year-old and he was saying that I need so much of wisdom how to answer my kids because my son is a seven-year-old and he came home from school and asked me who is a lesbian. So he was pretty shocked because he's saying these words, we never knew when he was a seven-year-old, I didn't know how to answer him, what to tell him. So basically what they hear from the older children while they're in the field or they go in the school bus or wherever in school, they are listening to things and they just want to know, they just want to explore. And he was saying his seven-year-old came back and after church and said, I know what is Trinity, I understand what's the meaning of Trinity. So he was looking down-founded at his child, talking about Trinity, saying he understood the whole concept of Trinity. So they basically take things just like as you tell them, just registers in their mind, but they love to learn, explore and investigate. They think more concretely that they're able to separate fact from fiction, from fantasy. They're able to know what is what, why you do these things, why you should be doing these things. They're able to think more concretely and they're also growing in their language skills and able to speak, communicate a little more better. And they're able to sort out between fact and fantasy. Physically they're growing slowly, but sporadically that means it's not a periodical kind of a growth. It's not consistent, but suddenly you see a little growth that happens very periodically. They have a lot of energy, energy burst. Sometimes they're super excited, super high on their energy levels. Sometimes they can be totally down or they're not interested, they feel very lethargic and moody and lazy. They get tired very, very easily and they have a difficulty sitting still. So that's why I said you need to engage them in a lot of activities because they are full of energy, full of life. So they want to continuously keep doing things. And also we live in an age where children now are so exposed to media, to cartoons, to movies. And every second there is a change in the background, change the color, the voice tone. So if you are narrating a Bible story to this age group who are so glued to their television sets, to media, to their phones, the parents phones where they're looking at Bible movies related to Bible stories. Also looking at Cartoon Network, looking at various other related activities. Even in school they have started media presentation where they use PowerPoint, where they use various tools to teach them rhymes, songs. So if we are going to be still outdated in the sense of just narrating to them stories, they're not going to be interested. They won't enjoy Children's Church or Sunday school because they're living in a digital world where they're constantly looking at screens and color and movie. And there's a change in the movie screen every minute, every second also sometimes. So because of that, their concentration level is very low when you are just speaking to them and narrating to them. So it's very important that you plan a lot of activities. You use a lot of PowerPoints or these posters that you can use for showing children narrating stories. Or also flannel graphs which you can use so that they are engaged, they're listening and they are interested. Spiritually these children enjoy learning at church. They love coming to, sorry, they enjoy learning at church, they're open to learning about God. And they also find it very difficult to express their emotions like the other age groups. So you need to, they're crying, you need to help them to tell you why they're crying. Whether they're upset, they're sad, they're frightened, they're disappointed, they feel lost or whatever. So you need to help them to express their emotions. Also these children in this age group, they pray easily if encouraged. So you can encourage them to pray. And also they accept what authority figures tell them, whether it's their parents, their teachers. They accept everything, they just take everything as you tell them, they just take it. So it's very important how you tell them, how you explain to them because this is an age where you're just, you know, inculcating in them values, moral values, the choices that they have to make. So explaining to them, telling them why is very, very important because that kind of gets ingrained in their minds. And because they easily accept whatever you say because they just love you as teachers, as parents. So it's a good time to also teach them, speak into their lives, you know, and inculcate the godly values and how to make the right choices. So socially they love to have, make friends, they have best friends, but you know, they keep falling and fighting with each other very often. So their friends change very often. They kind of mimic the adults in their lives. They kind of imitate you. So it's very important, you know, as teachers, as parents, how we present ourselves before them. We need to be very careful how we speak, how we act, how we do things because they're watching us and they are just copying us. They're just learning from us because they're basically living in the present. So they just learn, they just receive quickly. So very important how we act, how we speak in front of them, how we conduct our lives because the way we conduct our lives is going to have a far reaching impact on their lives in the present and also in the future. They are, why this is not coming on. Okay. Okay, they're very loyal to their teachers, you know, you can just, even if you kind of discipline them, you know, you correct them, but you know, they'll come back, they'll show you a lot of love. They're very loyal to you. So, you know, you need to show them, correct them in love, show a lot of acceptance, care, because that will have a far reaching impact on their lives. They have a developed sense of right and wrong. So they know what they're beginning to know what is right, what is wrong. So, you know, it's good at this age to teach them, not think that they're too young, they're just only in grade one, two or three, you know, but teach them what is right and wrong. And they enjoy working in groups so you can have a lot of group activities for them, small group games, which they enjoy compared to the three and four year old. Okay. So, these children in this age group, six years can be very a bit bossy and demanding. So, you know, you need to know how to answer them, how to get them around to do things, how to keep them in the loop, how to keep them engaged, and also how you could, you know, complete what you have planned for them. Irrespective of them being a little bossy and demanding, they would sometimes say, you know, they're not interested, they want to go and play or, you know, they're just feeling tired, they want to sleep. But, you know, you need to know how to work along with them. The seven year olds, you know, tend to get worried very easily and take life very seriously. So, if they've lost their water bottle or a pencil or an eraser, you know, they can get very, very worried and serious. So, you know, don't tell them, it's just a small thing, you know, I don't know why you're so worried and serious. You know, you will find it, it will be somewhere here, but you need to just understand that, you know, seven year olds get tend to get very worried and serious, very, very easy. They take life very seriously, so you need to help them, you know, and say the right things and help them out to handle their emotions and how they can, you know, ease down, cool down and not be very anxious and, you know, worried about things so easily. Eight year olds are very enthusiastic and outgoing, so, you know, they love to do things so you can, you know, engage them in a lot of activities that will excite them, which will help them. And the nine year olds are very independent and rather rebellious because they are growing up, they like to do things the way they like to do things, you know, sometimes they might not even listen to you. Sometimes they might, you know, kind of be very rebellious, but you need to, you know, know how to get them around, speak to them, how you can help them out. Basically, how to teach younger elementary kids effectively, just like to point a few things here, treat each child as unique individuals. Okay. Treat each child as unique individuals, you know, provide activities where they can experiment and explore things, object lessons can help, you know, craft activities, puzzles where they can, you know, do these number puzzles and then, you know, find out what their memory versus or they can work out the number puzzles and they can find out the matching alphabets and find out what is the fill in the blank, which for important truths that you like to communicate, because they love to experiment, they love to explore. They actually, they live in the present, so you need to help them how they can apply what you are teaching them here in the present and in the now, how you can help them with their challenges, what they're going through, you know, plan some activity for each lesson, which is very, very important because they love activities, they are full of energy, they have this energy burst, they're enthusiastic, they love to learn, they're also learning how to read, write and count so you can give them basic puzzles, which will engage them, which will excite them, which will help them enhance their, you know, exploring skills and investigating skills. They also like to do a lot of craft activities. So, you know, you can get them to do a craft, avoid working on details, you know, they might do craft activities, they might engage in various things, but don't get too detailed and focus on things. You know, just keep it very simple and plain. You need to also this age group, you know, explain to children what is the difference between facts and fantasy, because they're kind of understanding how to think concretely. So you need to help them to understand what the fact is, what is fantasy, because like we looked at the development of children in ages three to four, you know, they fantasize a lot. So they're kind of growing out of it and you need to help them with this. Also just make, you know, worship and prayer a natural part of your time together because they love to worship, they love to sing and also learning how to pray. And even as they, you know, are children who basically, you know, are very loyal to their teachers, you know, you need to earn their respect and admiration. So, you know, do things that which will earn respect in their eyes, which they will be able to admire you and, you know, and it will be easy for you to work around with them. They believe everything you tell them. So you need to be very careful, you know, what you're telling them because facts and fantasies can be very confusing for them. So you need to be very, very clear, intentional about what you're speaking, how you're presenting the truths, how you're telling them the narratives. Speak literally because they understand things very, very literally, you know, so, you know, tell them the truth as it is, but explain it to them because they understand things literally take things as it is. They also begin to find out who they are, what they like. So give them choices. So if they don't like craft, you know, they don't like sticking or cutting, they just like coloring. Give them that, that, you know, space to do what they like. If they don't like coloring, they don't like craft activities, give them some puzzle which will engage their mindset because that is their way of, you know, they love to learn. They're going to learn the different learning styles. So that is their learning styles. So just give them some children learn through mathematical puzzles or just through puzzles. Some children don't like anything to do with puzzles. They just like drawing and painting and coloring. Some children don't have to do anything with puzzles or drawing and painting. They're just like cutting and sticking and, you know, craft activities. So you can have, you know, alternate activities for them, which will help engage them. If they don't basically like something, then don't force them. You know, you can just basically say, okay, you can sit around, just observe the others. If you don't have a puzzle or anything, but if you have something, it will be very engaging and enriching experience for them. They love to help, you know, so give them room to, you know, help to pack up things, to lay out things, to enact, to, you know, help you with the object lessons. And all of that because that is, you know, going to give them a huge boost to their own self-confidence. You know, even if, you know, sometimes you can get them to come up in front, do an action song, get them to come and narrate the story or act out the story, give them parts to do. It just boosts their self-confidence. So give every child in the class a chance to help in the areas where they, what they like to do. Okay. And also provide them classroom jobs that kids can take turns in accomplishing, which will just enhance their self-confidence, boost their self-confidence, their own self-image. They're very active, so don't expect these, you know, these children in this age group to sit quiet for more than five minutes, provide them some sort of action. So even if you're teaching them something like, you know, like, for example, Pharaoh, you know, the place, you know, you can have puppets with the various plagues on your fingers. You can even give it to them, they can put it on, or you can give one child each puppet so they can put up the puppet in their finger, whichever finger they have, they can raise it up. Or, you know, if you're narrating to them something very monotonous like the plagues, and you know, at the end of it, you can say when, but Pharaoh was stubborn and heart-hearted, and he did not let the people go. So, you know, you can just teach them these two actions. So at the end of each play that you say, you know, when you say that, but Pharaoh was so stubborn and heart-hearted, you know, they're ready to do their action, and they did not, he did not let the people go. Okay. So they are looking forward when they can do that action because you are just engaging them. So you can think of various things like this where you can engage them if it's not just, you know, getting them to enact or sing a song or, you know, do an action. You just want to narrate a story, but you can get them also involved. Or, you know, sometimes if it is you're narrating a story, you can say, I'm going to narrate a story, you know, and these are the voices I want to make. Who will make these voices? So when I say this part of the story, you have to make the voice. So like when the disciples got into the boat, and they were all talking so they can, you know, the children can start chattering. And, you know, and suddenly, you know, and they all stay quiet. They all do action like this. And the wind starts blowing. So you say, you know, and this thunder and this, you know, lightning, they can clap their hands with thunder, whatever, you know, just something very innovative, something that will excite them. So you can, you can use that because they love to use their energy, their skills, they want to experiment things, they're excited. So, you know, get them to do various movements that they can also participate in the story. Okay. They're competitive by nature and they may not take a losing to games and activities very well. But you need to teach them as well. You know, that it's okay to lose. We can't always be first. But how to handle that emotion, which does not mean that we should not have competitive games. No, we have competitive games not all the time. But, you know, but help them to, you know, go through this process of knowing that, hey, we can lose. You know, we don't always win all the time, but we can learn from, you know, when we lose when we fail. It can be a learning experience that next time we can do better because they're very competitive by nature. They don't like losing games or when they do an activity. So you need to help them out. The way they think is they're very subject to their emotions and to their self esteem. If they're worried or unhappy, you know, they will not concentrate. They will not think properly. You know, they don't have strength to overcome their worries. And they need help to, you know, get those sorted out. So you need to help them out through all of this, you know, and sometimes if their self esteem is slow, they will not try new tasks. So you need to know, you know, whether it's their self esteem that is hindering them from trying new stuff, or it's just their learning style. So you need to understand each child and help them out if it's their self esteem with their same, basically know to everything that you know it's their self esteem. But if they're liking something, then, you know, okay, this is their learning style. This is where they're learning better. So enhance them in that area. But if they're, you know, not willing to take on any new tasks, you know, it's their self esteem, you need to help them out. Okay. They just need help to sort out their arguments and disagreements in play during playtime. So you can help them out. They are also very bossy, timid, uncertain, brash. So you need to teach them because they're learning also what is right and wrong. So you need to help them to understand their emotions, how they can love others, how they can be accommodative, how they can self sacrifice. That's why they, you know, I said we need to teach this, all of these things for this age group. Okay. So what can you do for this age group, you know, they love listening to stories, encourage them in a realistic way. Give them little individual time. The more individual time we spend with this age group is going to have a lasting impact because they are sorting out things in various areas. Their emotions, their thinking, their behavior, you know, accommodating others, loving others, sharing with others. And also take time to build a relationship with each child, you know, so that you can help them understand. You know, help them also to understand who they are, their expertise, their skills, where they're good at, help them if they have a low self esteem, self image, self value. And, you know, because they actually adore their teachers, they love their teachers, they're very loyal. So they will easily learn from you, easily, you know, change, and you can easily help them in this age group. Okay. Any questions about seven to nine year olds? I hope all of you are there with me in class. Yes. Okay. If there are no questions for the questions, we'll move to children eight to 10 years old. I know I just actually shared with you about children in ages seven to nine, just a little overlap. But we look at children ages eight to 10. Okay. The goals for this age group is basically they're learning about their strengths, their gifts, their talents, the areas they're good at, so they're learning to accept themselves. You need to have stories, narratives, truths from the Bible that will help them along these lines. They're learning to get along with others. They're learning to make friends. So, you know, also Bible narratives that will help them to love stories and how they need to love their neighbor as they love themselves. Also, how God loves us, how he expects us to love others as the way he loves us, forgive others will just help them, you know, in this, in this age, understanding that they're all different. They're able to accept their own differences and also able to accept that all of them are different. That God has created each one of us unique, different specials. So, you know, the various narratives in the Bible that you're teaching them, you can, you know, talk about and connect. Hey, we learned about Moses, you know, Moses had these strengths, these weaknesses, we're learning about Joshua. He has the strengths. He has his weaknesses. We learned about Zacchaeus or Bartimus or Jadius, you know, whatever, you know. So, when you go back, you're basically going back and forth with all the narratives that you taught them, you're telling them how each one of us are different. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. How important it is to accept all of us, how God accepts us with all our strengths and weaknesses, how we need to accept each other. They're also at this age group, you know, beginning to learn about their role in society, their responsibility to their family and their friends. So, you can teach them to be responsible, the importance of carrying on their little responsibilities they have. They're also early readers. They're able to read with a little more increasing ease. They read for information so you can get them to look up things in the Bible, read verses. You can also get them to write down their memory verses, you know, if you want to engage them in, you know, in reiterating truths, you can just give them simple fill in the blanks, true and false, questions that will reiterate the truths that you taught them, you know. Also, they play with written word games so there's a lot of free available material on word games. I will show that to you when we're talking about how to prepare our lesson plans. But exciting things for these age groups which will help them through these word games puzzles to find out what is a topic that you're teaching them, you know, to write down their memory verse using different numbers corresponding to different alphabets so they look at the numbers, write down the alphabet and that gives them their memory verse or the truth that they're learning or what they need to apply. Children in this age group are also learning to write paragraphs and give oral reports so you can get them to, you know, speak on what they have learned, what the narrative is teaching them, what's the truths they have learned so that you're able to understand whether they have, you know, have got the whole, you know, crux of what you are basically trying to communicate to them. If you're teaching them a theological truth, you can kind of reiterate that by asking them questions. They're also learning to write in paragraphs but not fully so they need help. Don't give them long question and answers. The short ones will do for this age group. Okay, they're also learning to do different types of chores at home and school so you can get them and, you know, get them to help you out. That way is you're, you know, achieving the goal of teaching them to be responsible, to take on responsibility. They also play complex group games and even competitive sports so for this age group onwards you can have a little more complex group games compared to the earlier age groups that we saw. Okay, they're very good with their glues, you know, cutting and sticking and, you know, doing elaborate craft activities. They're also learning, you know, other, you know, activities like knitting, baking, you know, putting up a tent or laying out the chairs, whatever, you know, so you can teach them all of this. Basically don't get them to use the hammer and screwdriver and saw and all of that is learning but they'll be interested in using that but, you know, that can be a little dangerous for them which we don't want to get into. But if you're taking them camping and stuff like that, you know, you can teach them but they need guidance, they need help. Basically they're, you know, their motor skills are getting more refined, becoming more finer so you can help them and give them more complex craft activities which they will enjoy. They also can do puzzles, play a lot of, you know, games because they're memorizing a lot of tables, mathematical tables, multiplication tables, sorry, multiplication tables in school. So you can give them a little more complex puzzles that, you know, that will help them to engage in what you're teaching them, reiterating what you have taught to them. So also because they're growing and they're learning a lot of more detailed things, you know, you can get them to memorize a lot of scripture. Not just one or two verses or lines in scripture but you can get them to learn like 23rd Psalm, the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, what is love, the definition of love, you know, all of those things in the Bible, you can get them to memorize. You can also get them to memorize the different books of the Bible so they know where each book is, also the names of the disciples, the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit, all of that you can get them to memorize. They also learn to pray together and individually but they need lots of help and confidence in this area so the more you're giving them opportunities, the more it's going to help them. They're also beginning to understand the historical overview of the Bible so you can, you know, you know, get them to understand why God chose the Israelites going back to Abraham, why he was special to them, why he gave them all of those laws, why he called them his priests, why were his chosen people and all of that. Also, you know, helping them to see things in the historical setting, why Jesus was born at that time, why he was called a messiah and, you know, all of those things, what people's expectation was, what is the cultural background in that place, historical background, in a very, very simple way but will help them to understand in depth what the whole narrative, the setting that is there, able to interpret it by a scripture better, understand scripture better. Okay. The spiritual messages they need to hear is basically salvation message, also that, you know, they can accept Jesus as their Lord and person, Savior. God loves them, not only them but everyone else. So he loves everyone whether they're good or bad, he loves them but he does not like the bad things that they do but he loves everyone, he's not a partial God. Also that he knows about them, he knows, he sees what they are doing, he loves them just as they are. He has, God has a wonderful, okay, God has a wonderful plan for their lives, God will never leave them, no forsake them, you can learn, teach them how they can trust in God, put their faith in God. Also, you know, teach them about God, the characteristic, the nature, the attributes of God. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. And also that there's nothing they can do to make God love them more or love them less. He loves them, his love is constant, his love never changes. God is love, we need to explain to them what is the meaning of that because, you know, they're learning to love and accept themselves, learning to build up their self-image, their self-value. So all of these things can be very, very important. Also that Jesus is the way, he's the only way because, you know, yeah, because they're learning different things from their friends, they're listening to their friends, you know, friends who are from different religions, but we need to explain to them why Jesus is the only way, why is salvation only through Jesus. So, you know, those things we need to elaborate, explain, work detail for this age group. Also that, you know, salvation is by grace and not by works because, you know, at this age group, the performance becomes very, very important. How they do in school, you know, their grades matters, they love to, you know, take part in various things if they lose, they feel they're the loser, they're failure, they're not doing well in their studies. All this has a great impact on their lives. So important to explain to them that, you know, God loves them and salvation and then his love is not based on what they do, who they are, how they behave. But, you know, they're saved by grace and not by works. And also you can teach children how to evangelize, how to share the gospel with others in simple ways, how they can minister to their friends in school because they're very friendly, they love to share, they love to speak about various things. And, you know, they take things literally, they just speak things literally so they can just share it as and how you teach them, tell them. So it's a good time when our Christian children can also minister to other children because, you know, they are waiting to experiment, they're waiting to investigate, they're waiting, they're wanting to learn things. You know, they're also excited to listen to what others say, they take things literally in this age group. So very good age to help them to evangelize, to share the gospel in simple ways, just telling them, you know, just share how, you know, Jesus loves you or, you know, how Jesus did a miracle in your life or how he answered your prayer. Or just talk about good God's goodness and faithfulness and how he helped you. So when they're sharing this with their other children in that same age group who take things literally as is said to them, and they like to experiment, investigate, do it. They would also try it out and, you know, they can even, you know, Jesus, his ways, his doing their lives miracles and that can be very, very exciting for this age group. And many children in this age group at a very young age will also, because of the Christian children in their class will be able to know that Jesus answers. He hears their prayer, answers, he's a miracle working God, he loves them, he cares for them. Okay. So those are the basic things about children in this age group. Any questions anyone has? Any questions? No, okay. There are no questions. We'll move on to children in 11 and, what, 11 and 12 years old. The goal for this age group is basically that they're learning more about their strengths and gifts. So, you know, they're basically learning to accept themselves, getting along with others while making friends. They're also learning to handle their own emotions. They're also learning techniques to resolve conflicts because they can have fights with, you know, with their classmates, with their own friends, with their siblings or help to resolve conflicts. So all of those narrative stories can, you know, help achieve this goal. Just in the previous age group that we looked at, you know, eight to 10 year old, you know, they also in the same age group they're learning to accept their differences. So narratives that will help them, you know, along these lines can help. Okay. They enjoy reading. They basically, you know, read for self-enjoyment relaxation or they just read for information. They're able to use the information that they read to write reports or papers, you know, write stories, write poems. They also, you know, they begin to do a lot of project work so they can do it so you can get them to, you know, begin to write stories, enhance their skill in this area, get them also to write poems, songs, you know, for this age group. You never know, you know, they can even write a song, a poem that can be used as a song, which just, you know, shows that what they're going through, their challenges, their emotions, you know, helping them to, in their creative arts, how they can release the supernatural. They also are able to find answers to questions. So, you know, you can get them to think, write down their thoughts about why did this character in this Bible behave this way? What should he have done differently? What do you think would be the consequences of what he did and all of those things? You can get them to write down their own thoughts. You can also get them to meditate on scripture, help them to know how to meditate scripture, write down their thoughts, what they are learning and all of those things. Children in this age group, you know, enjoy complex games, team games, competitive sports. You can, when you plan activities or games for them, you can basically get them to do all of these things. They also, you know, can do a lot of complex art stuff so you can get them to do more creative art, you know, like paintings, cultures, painting on t-shirts, speed work, leather work and all of those things, which, you know, they can, again, you know, enhance the supernatural and this whole thing, bring about the supernatural. As they're doing it, you know, think about, you know, what message God is, the Holy Spirit is communicating to this, who he wants you to give this to and, you know, pray over it, give it to that person, just a painting, just a drawing, how it can minister to people. Also, you know, you can encourage them to, you know, participate in group chores in the classroom, cleaning up, you know, take turns doing things, pack up, set up at APC because we don't have our own venue, you know, we have to set up, we have to do pack up so you can get children in this age group to help. If you're serving, you know, snacks, they can, you know, help out in serving snacks for the younger children. Also take responsibility in, you know, helping the younger children when you have team activities, team games, group games or when you're doing things together, how they can take responsibility in helping the younger ones to play the game, to do the activity along with them. Also, you know, a good time to take them for various evangelistic mission trips like, you know, to home for the old age, or for those who are sick, or those who are needy, and this will just help them to, you know, pray for them to look at the needs of others, consider the needs of others, and help others as well. Sorry, I didn't look at the time, I was just going on and on. Okay, we'll stop here. Anyone has any questions? No. Sorry, it's kind of getting very monotonous, but it's very important that we go through this. So we'll go through this quickly. I think just another class and then we'll get done and then we'll move on to more exciting things. Okay. There are no questions. We'll end class. Thank you all for joining class today. And I'll see you for the next hour for first minute. Thank you everyone.