jomegat wrote:
My suggestion is to not over-emphasize it, but do encourage them to do the reading and offer praise for any progress they make in that area.
We have encouraged them to read at home and have done praising aswell as giving out gifts.
jomegat wrote:
I'd still organize the class time around the curricula: teach the honors, do all the group activities called for by the classwork, and practice the worships (we do worship after class time, and each unit takes turns presenting). Ask them to do the reading at home (or listen to it - that's an option for all of the Bible reading and most of the EGW). If they don't do it, they still get the honor patches - just not the class strip. It's important to keep them engaged, otherwise they will never hear you suggest that they do the reading.
We do our worship as a group first than into classwork and teaching. The main problem is the classwork. The kids are not reading efficient and always want to keep there hands busy and always want to play games. The last thing they want to do is doing the classwork.
jomegat wrote:
You can also try bribery. Kids will go to great lengths for 25 cents or a candy bar, especially if they have to compete for it. That might work for the memorization - not so much for the reading.
We have tried bribary, That did not get very far. They just keep on complaining.
jomegat wrote:
Another idea is to do a worship/skit around one of the subject areas for the reading - read each passage aloud together and then develop a series of mini-skits around each passage demonstrating the concepts. You don't have to tell them they are doing the reading requirement when they are researching the skit.
We have tried doing a skit and because of there reading level, they have a hard time comprehending and reading out loud.
w126jep wrote:
It would also depend on the age and sex of your kids. 10-year-old boys are attracted to very different things than 14-year-old girls. Your approach could depend greatly on this difference. Is your club full of different ages or is there an age or sex that is more prominent?
We currently have 4 kids, they are a mix of ages. All boys except for 1 girl. We had 8 kids but 4 of them moved away.
The kids seem like they want to be kept physically active and always doing something except for reading. I know the club is all non-adventist. but can a club only work on Honours and not classwork? How would that look if the club did not follow the guideline of the classwork?
Fundraising is the other hard part the kids do not want to take part in.