Rookies History #6

Ancient  Israelites

Welcome to our last history class. It is also Holy Week. This is the week where we get to celebrate Jesus Christ and the Easter season. This is a fitting topic to also be studying the ancient Israelites.

Please watch kids animated history with pippo the two episodes on Ancient Israelites.

In those episodes they talk about the Torah. The Torah are the first five book of the Bible. Do you have a favorite Bible story ? Please draw a picture of one of your favorite scenes in the Bible. Hopefully you can put enough details in your picture that we can guess what your favorite story is. Please bring it to class to share with us.

A patriarchy is that the  oldest living male is in charge of the family. I would like you to find out something about the patriarchy of your family. Who is your great grandpa that shares your same last name? Will you please print out a picture of him and learn about his life so you can share it with us. Ask your dad if he remembers him or if he ever met him? You could also call your grandparents and ask them to tell you about him. Find out a neat story and come prepared  to share what you learned.

A few months ago we learned about the Ten commandments. Moses received the Ten Commandments from God and brought them to the children of Israel. Do you remember the Ten Commandments and the sign language we learned for them? I told you we would revisit them and this is the time. If you can do all 10 and remember them I will give you five van bucks. If you don’t remember them all, that’s all right too. You can learn them again and teach them to others. Remember American Sign Language counts with the numbers 1 to 10 all on one hand. That might help jog your memory. Number one Thou shalt have only one God, number two don’t kneel before other gods, number three don’t take the lord’s name in vain, number four keep the Sabbath day holy, pray go to church read your scriptures and take a nap, number five honor thy father and thy mother, number six don’t lie, number seven don’t steal, number 8 don’t commit adultery, number nine don’t kill, number 10 don’t covet tell people to have cool stuff. If you need any help feel free to call me and I will show you how it’s done. Go teach three other people. Check up on the people you have already taught and see if they remember. I hope you enjoy this.