1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide

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1 1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide God Brought His People Home Bible Passage: Ezra 1:1 2:2; 2:64 3:13 Main Point: God always keeps his promises. Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 7:9a Keep in mind that the Lord your God is the only God. He is a faithful God, who keeps his promise... 3:45 4:00 CHECK IN / SNACKS / GAMES: One teacher take control of sign-in: One nametag will go on the child, another will go on the clipboard, and one will be used for checkout. Just place the Pick Up sticker on the clipboard to check the child out. If someone is new to the church or not in our database, they can fill out a guest tag. Please make sure that you get their phone number in case we need to contact them and any special instructions for the care of their child. One teacher lead orderly free play. 4:00 4:10 ACTIVITY SHEET / ARRIVING ACTIVITY: Activity Sheet: Distribute activity pages and instruct the kids to complete the challenge. (The challenge is located on the back of the coloring sheet.) INTRO ACTIVITY: Rock, Paper, Scissors Invite kids to pair up to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. Instruct kids to play three rounds with their partner. The player who wins at least two rounds remains, but the other player must sit out. Tell players sitting out that they must count to 70 before rejoining the game. Remaining players will pair up to play another three rounds. Each time, losing players will sit out and count to 70. Kids will rejoin and find a new partner to play with. After several minutes call for kids to stop. Say: How did you feel when you had to sit out? Did it seem to take a long time to count to 70? Today we are going to hear a story about God s people who were in exile for 70 years! They waited a long time for God to keep His promise to let them go home. God always keeps his promises. 4:10 4:15 CLEAN UP / GO OVER RULES & CONSEQUENCES: Respect the Leaders Respect Others Respect the Property 4:15 4:50 KIDS LIVE: Have the kids sit together. Keep an eye on them and watch the door for more kids. 4:50 5:00 CRAFT: Craft: Home Items needed: printout of bricks, scissors, glue, crayons, construction paper Instructions: (1) Give each child a printout of bricks and construction paper. Have them cut the bricks out along with the top of their house. (2) Have each child design a home they would want to live in. (3) Encourage the child to draw a backdrop for their home. Say: God always keeps his promises. Gospel Project Unit 16.4

2 5:00 5:10 BIBLE STORY REVIEW: Story: Read the Bible Story provided in the teacher aid bin. Say: God always keeps his promises 5:10 5:20 REVIEW & APPLICATION QUESTIONS Review Questions: Family Feud Style Game (Items Needed: Buzzer) Divide the group into two teams. Have one person from each team come to the Check-In desk with the buzzer on it. Tell them to put their hands behind their back until you ask the question. The first person to hit the buzzer gets to answer the question. If the team answers the question correctly, they get 10 points. If they answer incorrectly, the other team can steal the points. For each question, pick a new person on the team to answer the question. The goal is to give every child the opportunity to be asked a question. 1. Which prophet told about God s promise to bring His people home? (Jeremiah, Ezra 1:1) 2. How long were God s people in exile? (70 years, Jer. 29:10) 3. After the priests finished rebuilding the altar, what did the people do? (They gave a burnt offering to God, Ezra 3:2-3) 4. What did the people say when they sang praises to God? ( The Lord is good. His faithful love will last forever ; Ezra 3:11) Say: God always keeps his promises Discussion: The small group time is when we want to get the kids to engage and talk about the lesson. Split the room up into 2 groups. Each leader will ask the questions, giving time for a few kids to answer. 1. Have you ever been promised something that never happened? How did that make you feel? 2. Have you ever promised something to someone else and forgot? How did that make the other people involved feel? Say: God always keeps his promises. 5:20 5:25 MEMORY VERSE: Review with the entire group. *Use the Memory Verse sheet located in the teacher aid section of the bin. Deuteronomy 7:9a Keep in mind that the Lord your God is the only God. He is a faithful God, who keeps his promise... 5:25 ENDING ACTIVITY / PARENT ARRIVAL: Activity: Ha-ha, boo-hoo Invite the kids to sit in a circle. Choose a kid to go first. She must say ha as seriously as possible. The kid to her left must then say ha twice, the kid to his left three times, and so on, around the circle. After the ha s have passed all the way around at least once, kids may choose to instead say boo which switches the direction of turn passing, and starts the counting back over at one. The kid to the right of the one who said boo will say boo-hoo, and to her right will say boo-hoo-hoo and so on. After at least three kids have followed this pattern, a kid may choose to say ha again, which resets the game to its original pattern. Kids continue passing the laugh or cry around the circle, choosing to reverse the direction whenever they desire. Say: In today s story, God s people finally get to go home. At the end of the story, some of the people cheered, and some cried. What do you think could cause two such different reactions from one group of people? God always keeps his promises. Gospel Project Unit 16.4

3 Main Point: God always keeps His promises Elem Take Home Sheet

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6 Deut. 7:9a Keep in mind that the Lord you God is the only God. He is a faithful God, who keeps his promise.. Elem Ac=vity Sheet

7 The Gospel Project: 16.4 Elementary MC Guide God Brought His People Home Bible Passage: Ezra 1:1 2:2; 2:64 3:13 Main Point: God always keeps his promises. Key Passage: Deuteronomy 7:9A Keep in mind that the Lord your God is the only God. He is a faithful God, who keeps his promise Lesson: Go over Classroom Rules: Play the Intro-Video Timeline View: As you know, God s people had been living in exile. They were not living in the land God had given to their ancestors long ago; that s why Daniel and the other men we ve learned about had to deal with the kings of Babylon and Persia. But God is in control. This week our story is called God Brought His People Home. Main Point: That leads us to our main point: God always keeps his promises! Show the Main Point Everyone say that with me (Have them repeat the MAIN Point) Very interesting! Let s take a look at how he did this! Bible Story: Play the Bible Story Video: Goodness gracious! What an incredible tale of God s faithfulness and power. God s people had been living in exile for 70 years! But when the time was right, God changed the king s heart so the Israelites could go home. Zerubbabel led God s people back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. The temple was the place where God met with His people on earth. When the people returned, they felt different emotions. Some of them were happy to finally be back in the land God had given them. Some were sad because they remembered what the temple used to be like. But all of them were learning to trust God and obey Him. How can we obey God? We trust God to give us strength to obey Him. Jesus came to earth to rescue people from sin. One day, Jesus will return to restore a greater home for all of God s people, and we will spend eternity with Him. The difference is that when Jesus returns, all the changes will be good ones, and He will take our sadness away! No one will cry when Jesus restores the world because it will be perfect. Show Main Point (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) God always keeps his promises!

8 Application: Let s watch our discussion starter video and see what it might have to do with our story. Play the Discussion Starter Video: God s people were longing to go home, just like the kid in the video! But the whole world is currently broken by sin. That means that for now, nowhere on earth is our true home. However, Jesus will return someday and fix the world, and our true home forever will be with Him! That is a home that we can be excited to get to! Show Memory Verse: Repeat after me Deuteronomy 7:9A Keep in mind the Lord your God is the only God. He is a faithful God, who keeps his promise Show Main Point: Let s review our Main Point one more time. God always keeps his promises! (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) Dismiss kids to class:

9 Bible Story: Video God Brought His People Home Ezra 1:1-2; 2:64-3:13 Many years before God s people were taken to Babylon, God promised the prophet Jeremiah that the exile would last 70 years; then God would bring His people back home. God always keeps His promises. Cyrus, king of Persia, had taken over Babylon. God gave Cyrus an idea. Cyrus said, Let all of God s people go back to Jerusalem so they can rebuild the Lord s temple. Give them gold and silver and animals. Give them gifts for God s temple. The exile was over! God s people were free to go back to their homes. God s people got ready, and their neighbors gave them gifts gold and silver and animals and other expensive things. Zerubbabel (zuh RUHB uh buhl) and the high priest led God s people back to Judah. They had been away for 70 years. Many of the people were born in Babylon; they had never seen the land God had given their parents and grandparents. In all, thousands of people went back to Judah. They settled in their hometowns and set up their houses. Then the people met together in Jerusalem to rebuild the Lord s temple. First, the priests rebuilt the altar in the same place it used to be. They followed all the laws of God for building. When the altar was finished, they offered burnt offerings to God. The people also obeyed the law about special celebrations. They had a festival like God had told them to do, and they made sacrifices to God. Then God s people gave money to stonecutters and carpenters who would work on God s temple. They paid people to bring cedar logs to Jerusalem. Finally, when everything was ready, the people started to work. They laid the foundation of the temple. The foundation was important; it would make the building strong. When the foundation was finished, the priests put on special clothes, and the people praised God. They sang, The Lord is good. His faithful love will last forever. Then the people shouted and praised God. They were so happy! The foundation of the temple was complete! Not everyone was happy though. Some of the older people remembered what the temple had looked like 70 years ago, before it had been destroyed. They cried. The noise of the crying and shouting was so loud that the people could be heard far away. Christ Connection: Zerubbabel led God s people back to the temple to rebuild it. The temple was the place where God met with His people on earth. Jesus came to earth to rescue God s people. One day, Jesus will return to restore a greater home for all of God s people, and we will spend eternity with Him.