So what did they find?
They found more pieces of clay pottery, a small clay bowl, and several “gold” coins.
What Bible story do you think we were exploring on Thursday?
In its day, Jericho was a bustling city of commerce and trade. It was a frequent place for beggars to perch near the city gates to ask for the help of strangers. In this day’s Bible story, we learned about the blind beggar, Bartimaeus, whom Jesus healed. Bartimaeus would have sat with a bowl to collect the gifts of coin from passersby. When Jesus HELPed Bartimaeus, he no longer needed to beg and he leapt up saying, “Thank you, thank you” to Jesus.
At craft time, our junior archaeologists made a banner with a cross and helping hands encircling the cross which proclaimed “Jesus is our HELPER”. They also made a “silver” embossed frames with textured items glued beneath the foil. During snack time, they ate hand shaped gelatin jigglers and made cracker “hands” by smoothing peanut butter between Ritz crackers and sticking 5 pretzel sticks in the peanut butter. A hand was added to our archaeology dig journal to remind us that Jesus is our HELPER.
They dug for treasure in our archaeological dig site and found “gold” coins and dinosaur finger puppets to take home to remember today’s lessons.
During our Activity Center time, we learned about how the images on coins told people who the money belonged to (religious symbols for temple money, Ceasar for Roman coins, U.S. presidents for American coin) and how people used seals to mark their ownership of their belongings. We used rubber stamps shaped like hands to practice stamping, and created our own “seal” with half a potato and some paint.
In the afternoon, each junior archaeologist was given the opportunity to excavate a dinosaur skeleton with a miniature dinosaur archeology kit.
They learned about Maiasaura. Archaeologists are continually finding new evidence to suggest that though their brains may have been small and the social skills of dinosaurs very simple, it appears some dinosaurs did indeed rely on others for help. Maiasaura seem to have taken extra care with their young dinosaurs, and the dinosaurs of others. Maiasaura was a North American plant-eating duckbilled dinosaur that made its nest within about 30 feet of other Maiasaura nests. It appears that the young dinosaurs stayed in the nests a long time while their parents went out and brought back vegetation for them to eat. Archaeologists wonder if groups of Maiasaura helped take care of each other’s nests to keep away predators.
Maiasaura and Jesus. Helping others.
This world can be a very tough place to survive, whether you are dinosaur or human. Jesus showed us how we should be a HELPER to others. In doing so, we can all flourish and grow. Helping others brings us joy in knowing that someone else’s life is a little better because we took some time for them.
Amen.
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