Family Meals
Growing up my family always ate meals together. Meals weren’t fancy, but they tasted great. Conversation wasn’t stimulating, but everyone shared their day and we discussed whatever might be an issue at...
View ArticleGreat questions about God
My now 9 year old son asked some great questions last night in the car to my wife and I as we drove home from his “celebration” birthday dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in Oklahoma City. We had...
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Podcast6: Grapple Digital Curriculum and Technology Integration with 5th...
This podcast is a mid-semester review of the “Grapple” digital curriculum package from Group Publishing which we are using to co-teach 5th grade Sunday School in fall 2007 at my church in Edmond,...
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Lots of online discussions!
Our 5th grade Sunday School class is using Group Publishing’s “Grapple” curriculum this fall, which includes an online “walled-garden” social networking environment for students. This is a screenshot...
View Article5th Graders speak: “Who Is Jesus?”
5th grade students in the Sunday school class I’m co-teaching this semester contributed to this four minute audio podcast on the theme, “Who Is Jesus?” Some of these recordings were made during our...
View ArticleLesson plan on my iPhone
Our fifth grade Sunday school class has been using the Grapple curriculum from Group Publishing this year. I have been pretty pleased with the curriculum topics and activities. Generally when I have...
View ArticleChristmas caroling around our church neighborhood
This evening for the 3rd year, the Childrens’ Ministries department at our church hosted an evening advent night for families of caroling, eating and fellowship. This is a short (49 second) video of...
View ArticlePreSchool Christmas Program from 2007
Last December, I helped my wife record and produce this preschool Christmas program for our church in Edmond, Oklahoma. The video was shown at a family church gathering prior to Christmas, but not at...
View ArticleThe Power of We
By Shelly and Wesley Fryer 28 December 2008 This past Christmas our family was blessed by “the power of we.†No, we are not talking about a Nintendo “Wii†console game system. Rather, we are...
View ArticleElgg learning community for 5th grade Sunday School created
I’m going to be teaching 5th grade Sunday School this year at our church for a third year, and this time around I think we’re going to try using a walled-garden learning community website powered by...
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Why did God create me? (Lesson intro and class podcast)
Cross-posted to the BLASTcast blog. This morning in our 5th grade Sunday school class we started a new unit with the theme, “Why did God Create Me?” We read and discussed the following verses:...
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Fruits of the Spirit
Update 26 Dec 2014: The podcast links for BLASTcast in 2009 are unfortunately broken due to a server change. Cross-posted to the BLASTcast blog and podcast. We continued our discussions [in our 5th...
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We love to listen to Go Fish!
Thanks to a recommendation from my Sis over the holidays, our family is now LOVING songs from the album “Snazzy” by Go Fish! I bought this on iTunes a few weeks ago. My current favorites are...
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Survey: 72% of Millennials ‘more spiritual than religious’
The USA Today article, “Survey: 72% of Millennials ‘more spiritual than religious’” caught my eye today. From the survey of US residents: Among the 65% who call themselves Christian, “many are either...
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Greyson Chance, YouTube, Lady Gaga, Paparazzi, Ellen and Jesus
Today in our fifth grade Sunday school class, we discussed Edmond 6th grader Grayson Chance and his experiences on the Ellen show Thursday. To start, the students brainstormed answers to three...
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Good resources and conversations about Christian parenting
I had an opportunity yesterday to attend the “Journey” Sunday School class at Liberty United Methodist Church in Liberty, Missouri. I attended with my sister and family. Their class is using the...
View ArticleTeaching preschoolers about Noah’s Ark
Yesterday during our Sunday service, my wife led a time of singing and storytime for preschoolers in our church nursery. I took a short video of their story time about Noah and the ark. Technorati...
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Initial Christian focused videos with Storyrobe
Cross-posted to BLASTcast. Encouraging 10 and 11 year old students in fifth grade to think deeply about the ways God speaks to us in our lives, what the Bible means for our lives, and how we should...
View Article10 year old reflections about Jesus on Christmas Eve
I’ve republished a 10 minute, 47 second enhanced audio podcast which my fifth grade Sunday School students created in 2007 for the Christmas Eve service at our church. They reflected “reader’s theater...
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Upendo Kids International: Sharing Christ’s Love in Kenya
On December 16, 2010, our family attended a mission dinner to support Upendo Kids International at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma. UKI is an outreach ministry to Kenya led by Eunice and Robert Menja....
View ArticleAsk Lots of Questions (and listen!)
This is our memory verse in our new Sunday school rotation: After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. (Luke 2:46...
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Children’s Musical Sketchnote
Kids in our church‘s Children’s Ministry Department shared a wonderful musical during our worship service today called, “I Am a Friend of God.” I created a sketchnote during the performance...
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