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 :)

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"Tower of Babel" Snack

This went along with our lesson today. Very simple, fun, and the kiddos loved making them.

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School Day: The Creation

Lesson: Gen 1

Songs: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

Reading: Genesis 1:1; The Jesus Storybook Bible: The Beginning

Movie:

The Beginning - Read And Share from Tommy Nelson on Vimeo.

 Table: "Creation" Pita Snacks

Talking Points: (throughout the day)
God
"In the Beginning.."
 The Earth
Day and Night
What did God make?
Sorts of animals (land, sea, air)
Humans/People
God made me in His image
7 days of the week

Play: "God made me" Life-size Posters

 

 Then we just decorated them anyway they wanted to outside. Could've used pretty much anything, but we decided on chalk..

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"Creation" Pitas with Hummus

These went along with our lesson for today on The Creation Story: Gen. 1

It turned out to be a  last minute idea that was a hit with the kids. Just had some pita bread, really good Hummus, and some food coloring on hand..

Just one drop each was plenty.. 

They tore it up!! That hummus was really good :)

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School Day: The 10 Commandments

Lesson: Exodus 14-20

Songs: Ten Commandments Boogie

Reading: The Jesus Storybook Audio Bible: Ten Ways to be Perfect

Movie: Found these on YouTube..

 

 Table: Ten Commandments Train Craft

We connected our train together with staples. (That's all I had..) Came out nice though. EZ n Raya glued each car onto pieces of colored construction paper they had preciously cut in halves themselves.

Talking Points: (throughout the day)

Moses on the mountain

Talking to God
Counting to 10

Each Commandment

Obeying Rules
God's People

Play:

We took turns being Moses on the "mountain." I pretended to be God speaking to them and wrote the numbers 1-10 on their fingers as I recited each commandment to the corresponding number.
They were just thrilled to be able to climb the couch without reprimand..lol

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School Day: Moses

Lesson: Exodus 1-13 

Songs: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

Reading: The Jesus Storybook Bible: God to the Rescue

Movie: The Prince of Egypt

 Table: Mess-free water coloring

We each drew a picture of Moses on some paper. Added some water with a few drops of blue food coloring to gallon zip-lock bags, sealed it, then taped it over the picture, directly onto the table.

It was fun for them to try and "part" the water in the bag with their fingers, and try to see the picture of Moses underneath.

Talking Points: (throughout the day)

Moses as a baby

Egypt

Pharoah

The burning bush

The 10 plagues

Parting the Red Sea

God's power

Play: Prince of Egypt

We acted out the story of Moses as a baby. We took turns being his "Mommy" and sending baby Moses down the river in a basket.

 

My furniture re-arranging actually served as double-duty! We also used it for the parting of the Red Sea. We took turns being Moses. Each would say "With the power of God, all things are possible!" and then put the staff in the sea. Then lead everyone through the water. This lasted about 20 mins. (Eventually they just started running through it, and chasing eachother..)

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