I L VE MY BIBLE! God s Word is SEED

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1 I L VE MY BIBLE! 13 All Staff Pre-Class Gd s Wrd is SEED Arrange tables and chairs. Pray fr tday s class. Have music playing. Welcme kids as they arrive and begin taking attendance. MEMORY WORK LARGE GROUP Chse activities t help students begin learning the bks f the Bible. T aid in memrizatin, use the Bks f the Bible Demnstratin Bard. Several f the fllwing activities use Bks f the Bible Cards. Bk Order Races Frm teams and have them race using the Old r New Testament bk cards t see which team can put them in rder mre quickly. OR Deal ut the Old r New Testament bk cards t all the students. Time the class t see hw lng it takes them t put the cards in rder (n the flr at the frnt f the rm). Repeat and have them try t beat the previus time. (Recrd their best time s that they can try t beat it next week.) Old r New (Cmbine decks f Old and New Testament bk cards fr these games.) Have a student draw a randm card frm the deck and call ut the name f the bk. Then chse a student t say whether the bk is in the Old r New Testament. If crrect, he/she gets t draw the next card. OR Display the Bks f the Bible Demnstratin Bard at the frnt f the classrm. Have students stand in a line (r if yu have a larger class, just have them stand at their seats) facing the bard. Make sure cards are mixed up, and then have a student begin turning cards and calling ut their names. If the bk called is frm the Old Testament, students take a step tward their left; if it is frm the New Testament, they take a step tward their right (since, as they are facing the Bks f the Bible Demnstratin Bard, the Old Testament is n their left and the New n their right). Let the student-caller draw and call several cards; then chse a new caller. Cntinue in this manner as yu have time r until yu have gne thrugh all the Bible bk cards. OR Frm tw teams. Have a member f each team cme t the frnt f the class. Randmly chse a card frm the deck and call ut the name f the bk. As quickly as pssible, each team member calls ut Old r New. Award a pint fr the speediest crrect answer (r award each crrect answer a pint). Cntinue, having a new player frm each team cme t the frnt. Musical Bks Seat kids in a circle. Chse cards f cnsecutive bks f the Bible equal t the number f players. Mix up the cards and give ne t each player. As the music plays, players pass the cards arund the circle. When the music stps, whever has the first bk in the series places his card in the center f the circle and is ut f the game. Play resumes until all the cards have been placed in rder. The last persn t place a card gets t chse the next cards used in the game.

2 Callut-Repeat Call ut 3-5 bks (e.g., Genesis, Exdus, Leviticus ) at a time and have students repeat them. Repeat the callut-respnse several times. Then call ut the next 3-5 bks and have them repeat thse. VARIATION: Have a student lead the callut. Pass the Beanbag (r Ball) Have students stand r sit in a circle. Pass a beanbag (it can t rll away like a ball). As each persn receives the beanbag, he/she names the next bk f the Bible (start wherever yu d like). OR Have the entire grup call ut the next bk as each persn receives the beanbag. VARIATION: Frm time t time call ut Freeze. The persn hlding the beanbag must name the next three bks in rder. Befre r After Randmly chse a card frm either the Old r New Testament deck. Dn t let the students see the card. Have them try t guess the name f the bk n the card by randmly naming a bk. If the card yu re hlding cmes befre the bk guessed, say Befre. If it cmes after the bk guessed, say After. Keep narrwing it dwn until smene guesses the crrect bk. Memry (Cncentratin) Game Chse several pairs f identical bk cards frm tw Old r New Testament decks. Mix the cards and lay them ut in a grid n the flr r a table. Have students take turns turning ver tw cards at a time, trying t find matches. If a match is fund, the student gets t hld the cards. (Althugh in nrmal memry game rules the player gets anther turn after finding a match, we usually have play pass t the next player.) The player with the mst pairs at the end wins. Variatin: Break int several smaller grups instead f playing with the whle grup. Sing the Bks Sing the Old Testament Sng and/r the New Testament Sng. Have a student pint (with a pinter r play swrd) t the names f the bks as the grup sings. Repeat several times with different students pinting. Sing Memry Wrk Sngs Several f the verses students are memrizing (during small-grup memry wrk time) have been set t music. Frm time t time, sing these sngs during largegrup time. (Visuals can be fund in the tubs with the students memry wrk flders.) Sing G Fish s Ten Cmmandment Bgie Sing with lts f actin. Use this sng t discuss the meaning f each cmmandment. Wrk n Memrizing the Ten Cmmandments Using the Ten Cmmandments visual display bard, say the cmmandments tgether. Then clse the bard and ask students t remember what the first r fifth (etc.) cmmandment is. At first just cncentrate n remembering the gist f the cmmandments and then wrk twards exact recall. (The cmplete 2 nd cmmandment [set t Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star ] and 10 th cmmandment [set t If Yu re Happy and Yu Knw It ] may be sung. Memrize Psalm 1 by repeating it tgether each week befre ging t small-grup time. Display a psterbard with the wrds. Use actins t aid in memrizatin (see back f Psalm 1 psterbard). Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 2

3 Frm time t time discuss the verall meaning f the passage and what specific wrds mean, such as: blessed (happy), cunsel (advice), ungdly (withut Gd, sinful), scrnful (thse wh mck and are disrespectful), delight (enjyment, happiness), meditate (think abut, pnder), wither (dry up, die), whatsever (whatever), prsper (succeed, d well), chaff (dry uter cvering that is separated frm grain), judgment (time when Gd judges), cngregatin (gathering f peple), righteus (right with Gd), and perish (die, cme t nthing). MEMORY WORK SMALL GROUP All Staff Break int smaller grups, ne teacher with each grup, and wrk with students n individualized memry wrk. Fr ur class, we divide int fur grups: tw each fr 5- t 7-year-lds and 8- t 10-year-lds. (T cut dwn n nise and cnfusin, tw grups may leave the rm t practice verses in anther classrm, the hallway, etc.) Wrk with each student n a list f Bible verses that yu wuld like him/her t memrize. Allw students t wrk at their wn pace (e.g., lder kids nt held back by yunger), keeping track f their prgress n charts r in wrkbks. We use wrkbks entitled Quick and Pwerful Scriptural Cncepts fr Children by Valda Jhnsn and Ilene Sargeant, rdered thrugh Pentecstal Publishing Huse. In these, students memrize a set f six verses at a time, quting them ne at a time, then tw at a time, then three at a time, etc., until they are ready t test n all six at nce. Als allw time fr the kids t qute the names f the bks f the Old and Testaments in rder as they learn them, as well as Psalm 1. Remind students that there will be prizes fr thse wh memrize. Students must pass with a scre f 80 percent r better when wrking in their Quick and Pwerful wrkbks. Remind students that during Bible Memry Wrk time, everyne must be wrking! Encurage them t wrk tgether t memrize verses, as ppsed t distracting each ther. Clring pages are available t help ccupy visitrs (r yunger/distracted students) while their classmates are quting verses. As students achieve memry wrk gals, reward them during a large-grup time s that everyne can cngratulate them n their accmplishments. Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 3

4 REVIEW (10 min.) Ask review questins frm previus lessns. See I LOVE MY BIBLE! Review Questins. Ideas (keep in mind that yu nly have abut 10 minutes): Tss ut candy fr crrect answers. Frm teams and play Bible baseball. Frm teams and play tic-tac-te. (A crrect answer allws a team t place its X r O. ) Play musical chairs. If student answers a questin crrectly, he/she is NOT ut. RULES & PRAYER (5 min.) G ver rules (Pwer Hur Prmises) by calling n students t read/remember the rules. Pray tgether fr the class. (Take individual requests frm students nly as time allws.) BIBLE LESSON Teacher Prep: Read Mark 4 (the Parable f the Swer is als fund in Matthew 13 and Luke 8). Pray fr aninting. Items Needed: A variety f seeds and seed packets; Parable f the Swer visuals; Seed visual. Shw seeds. What are these and what d we d with them? (seeds; we plant them t grw things; we eat them) See if students can identify the varius seeds and briefly discuss the kinds f things that grw frm seeds. Hw d we plant seeds? (dig up/prepare the grund; make sure the grund receives the prper amunt f sunlight; place the seed in the grund; cver the seed; keep the seed watered and prtected frm birds, etc.) Can seed ever be, r becme, bad? (yes; it can becme ld and unable t sprut, r it can grw bad r annying things like weeds that strangle ut useful plants) Jesus tld several parables abut seeds and grwing things. What is a parable? (a stry that illustrates truth by cmparing earthly [natural] things t heavenly [spiritual] things) Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 4

5 Let s talk abut ne f His parables called the Parable f the Swer. What is a swer? (a planter, a farmer, a gardener) Tell the Parable f the Swer, using visuals. Read and shw nly the frnt sides the first time thrugh. Then say: Remember, in a parable, the natural things stand fr (represent) spiritual things. Shw page 1 f the Parable f the Swer and read Mark 4:14 frm the back. In this parable, what des the seed stand fr? (Gd s Wrd) Shw page 2 f the parable and read Mark 4:15 frm the back. The grund f the wayside is very hard. The seeds d nt sink in. What des the wayside represent? (a hard-hearted persn wh des nt listen t Gd s Wrd) What d the birds wh eat (take away) the seed represent? (Satan) Shw page 3 f the parable and read Mark 4:16-17 frm the back. The stny grund desn t have enugh dirt t supprt a large plant. What des the stny grund represent? (a persn wh hears Gd s Wrd gladly but desn t d what it says [desn t put dwn rts]) What des the sun represent? (persecutin, temptatin, things ging wrng, etc.) Shw page 4 f the parable and read Mark 4:18-19 frm the back. What des the thrny grund represent? (a persn wh hears Gd s Wrd and begins t bey it but then gets busy and distracted by ther things) Shw page 5 f the parable and read Mark 4:20 frm the back. What des the gd grund represent? (a persn wh hears and receives [beys] Gd s Wrd cntinually) Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 5

6 What des the fruit represent? (the gd things we d when we bey Gd s Wrd; the Fruit f the Spirit: lve, jy, peace, lngsuffering, gentleness, gdness, faith, meekness, and temperance [we will be studying these next quarter]) Des every piece f gd grund prduce the same amunt f fruit? (n; sme gd grund prduces 30 times mre than was planted, sme 60 times mre, and sme 100 times mre) We shuldn t cmpare the gd things we d t what thers d. We shuld just listen t and bey Gd s Wrd and watch Him d gd things in and thrugh ur lives! Have a student attach the Seed visual t the bard Hw can we make sure we are GOOD grund that Gd s Wrd (the seed) will grw in? (read Gd s Wrd, listen when Gd s Wrd is taught and preached, bey Gd s Wrd, pray [prayer helps sften ur hearts and get ut the stnes the things that keep Gd s Wrd frm grwing in us]) Let s pray right nw that we will be gd grund. Let s ask Gd t keep ur hearts sft always. Ask Him t remve any stnes. Ask Him t help us listen t and bey His Wrd s that it can grw in us and prduce beautiful things! Lead the kids in prayer respnse t lessn. BIBLE SKILLS Familiarize students with the structure f the Bible and the names f all the bks, using the Bks f the Bible Demnstratin Bard. Hw many bks are in the New Testament? (27; 3 letters in New x 9 letters in Testament = 27) Hw many Gspels are there? (4) What des Gspel mean? (gd news; the Gspels cntain the gd news f Jesus birth, life, death, and resurrectin) What are the names f the Gspels? (Matthew, Mark, Luke, Jhn) Hw many New Testament bks f Histry are there? (1) Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 6

7 What is the name f the New Testament bk f Histry? (Acts) In which chapter f Acts did Peter say, Repent, and be baptized every ne f yu in the name f Jesus Christ fr the remissin f sins, and ye shall receive the gift f the Hly Ghst? (Acts 2) Hw many New Testament bks f Prphecy are there? (1) What is the name f the New Testament bk f Prphecy? (Revelatin) What is the New Testament divisin with the mst bks? (Letters [Epistles]) Hw many Letters are in the New Testament? (21) Hand ut Bibles. Remind students t handle Bibles carefully and t help yunger students find verses. Teachers will need t assist students until they becme familiar with finding verses. Find the letter, 1 Peter. Is this letter written BY Peter r TO Peter? (by Peter) Hw many letters in the New Testament were written by Peter? (tw: 1 Peter and 2 Peter) Find 1 Peter 1: Have a student(s) read 1 Peter 1: Natural seed is crruptible; it will decay/die. But Gd s Wrd is incrruptible; it will never decay r die! It will last frever! And it is planted in us!! Chse a cuple f students t carefully cllect the Bibles. ACTIVITY/SNACK Supplies: Small dispsable bwls Permanent markers Small peat pts (2/student) Ptting sil Spn r scp Pencils Sunflwer seeds Plastic wrap Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 7

8 Hand wipes Paper twels Sunflwer Seed Instructins Shelled, rasted sunflwer seeds Drinks Fill small peat pts with ptting sil ahead f time (fill enugh fr each student t have tw). Give each student a dispsable bwl and have them write their names n them with permanent markers (r teacher can d this ahead f time). Give each student tw peat pts filled with ptting sil. Students shuld then: 1. Place their peat pts int their bwls. 2. Pke a pencil int the sil f each peat pt (past the sharpened pint s the sil just reaches the yellw ). 3. Place ne sunflwer seed int each hle and cver with sil. 4. Cver their bwls with plastic wrap t secure the cntents fr the trip hme. 5. Wipe their hands and clean up their area. Give each student a Sunflwer Seed Instructins sheet and review the infrmatin with them. Serve a snack f shelled, rasted sunflwer seeds and drink f yur chice. If time remains, play a game frm Memry Wrk Large Grup r sing sme memry wrk sngs. Lessn 13 Gd s Wrd is SEED Annette R. Evans. All rights reserved. Page 8