Red sea and dead sea

Hi Kids,

Remember about last week story by Kak Ipei? When God instruct Israelites to cross Jordan river, He helped them to do it. Israelites just need to trust God and follow His commands!

Some of you asking why Red Sea is named after Red color?
Here is a map of Red sea….between Saudi Arabia and Egypt. This is the sea which was parted by Moses with God’s help.


Picture 1. Location of Red Sea

There are many opinions why is it called Red. Here are some opinions about why Red sea is named after “red”:
1. It was near a land name “Edom” (in ancient time) which in English means “red”.
2. Because the mountains surrounding are made from reddish minerals.
3. Because of a type of algae called Trichodesmium erythraeum which is found in the sea. When these blooms of algae die off they appear to turn the blue-green color of the ocean to a reddish-brown.


Picture 2. Algae Trichodesmium erythraeum under microscope

So Red sea doesn’t always look red…:-). This answer is the most common answer I found over internet.


Picture 3. Red sea which looks reddish because of Trichodesmium erythraeum algae

What about Dead Sea? I heard some of you asking also why dead sea is named after a word “dead”.

Take a look at the picture below:


Picture 4. Dead sea location

The face of dead sea lies 400m below sea level….it is like a basin, where waters are entrapped there, along with the minerals and salts carried by the water. Because of that, it become the saltiest sea in the world…around 8.9 times more salty than normal sea. And because of that, there is no fish or animal live in it…therefore it is called “dead”.

And thanks to the salts in dead sea, you can float without even swimming!


Some of you might think: “ if Jordan river constantly flowing to Dead Sea….and there is no water coming out from dead sea….why dead sea is not constantly flooding?”

There is a little amount of water flowing to Dead sea from Jordan river…most of them stopped a Sea of Galilee and being used as Israel’s main water supply, and the rest evaporates. Anyway, the region around dead sea, is very hot! And now in modern era, some companies took the water out of dead sea and sell it as medicine!

have a blessed week!

Bird Park photos -2

Hello Kids,

There are additional photos from your outing to Jurong Bird Park on 2009.

You can find it at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/suvanno/JurongBirthPark#

or



Enjoy :)
- kak Lung sen

Sunday School Outing 2009 - to BirdPark

Hello Class,

You can find photos of our Outing last week at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/papilona01/OutingAnak#

Or you can browse using flash player:

For the Birds! - Blog Quiz

Hello kidz,

Here is a funny cartoon by Pixar animation studio (the one who created Finding Nemo). :-), it is one of my favorite clip =).

Okay, quiz time. Please mention what lesson(s) we can learn from the clip. I will choose one best answer. If you can quote bible verse to support your answer, it will be a plus value. You can submit your answer to: lungsen01@yahoo.com. Please submit your answer latest by 26th September 2009. I will give a present to one who give the best answer (judged by Kak Daniel, Kak Aini, and me)...

Happy fun watching..

Hello Kids,

For POMG (meeting between your parents and teachers) on 11 October 2009, our class is going to perform something, it is called Human Piano :)

How does it look like? It looks like this:



But the thing is, we arenot going to cover you with all-white clothes, but you are going to sit behind a screen. And, you will use styrofoam scores, instead of balls and sticks to throw and catch. Sounds difficult? come to our practice everyweek after Sunday School :)

Class Attendance June 2009

Hello class,

and this is the class attendance for June 2009. However I didnt come to our class on 21st June 2009, due to a meeting that I have elsewhere. So, for that I assume everyone come to the class :)



Soli deo gloria,
Lung Sen

Class Attendance May 2009

Hello class!

It has been a while since I update your class attendance. The class attendance is used to measure how often are you going to Sunday School, but it is not to judge you. It doesnt mean that a person who go to church more often will be more "righteous" than the one who go there less frequent. But I always encourage you to come everyweek to Sunday School :)

So here it is for May 2009. Please click on the picture to get clearer picture :)



in His grace,
Lung Sen