School Day: Abraham

Lesson: Gen. 12-21

Focus: God's Special Promises to Abraham

Songs: Father Abraham

Reading: The Jesus Storybook Bible: Son of Laughter, My First Hands-on Bible: God's Promise to Abraham

Table: Counting Stars

I felt as if I should have stopped at the glitter, which might have got the point across a little better about not being able to count them all. But once, they saw the star-shaped foam stickers, they pleaded to put those one. But, it actually still turned out to be a great lesson for them in counting.. and as a BONUS, some of the stars were "glow-in-the-dark" so we spent a considerable amount of time in the closet counting (and geeking!) over the cool neon stars and talking about God's promises.

Talking Points: (throughout the day)

Abraham and Sarah

Being old

100

God's Promises

The stars

Babies

Gifts from God

Play: Closet

We just grabbed some light up toys (whatever was on hand) and shut ourselves in the closet. We just so happened to have a night-light pillow that actually projects stars onto the ceiling (a gift for X-mas..) and went along with our theme. I let them turn on and off the closet lights as they wanted to, in order to quench any fears. It actually turned out even more fun than I expected :)