Coloring God's World

Many classrooms use the “student of the week” practice to highlight the students in their classroom. Kindergarten teacher Tami Boomsma of Dutton Christian School wanted to align her traditional approach with her Deep Hope: My students will embrace the knowledge that they are uniquely designed by our loving God to work and play in his world. In the past, her star students would complete a store-bought design-your-own poster about themselves; however, she changed the wording from “Star to the Week” to “Uniquely Designed” and created her own poster for the children to complete that applies her Storyline of Color God’s World. Tami says that the poster helps direct their discussion of how each child is “uniquely designed by our loving God to work and play in his world.” This new approach allows the class to review the Deep Hope weekly, personalize it to each child, invite parents into the Deep Hope, and recognize ways that they are all Coloring God’s World!

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