1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide

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1 1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide The Temple Was Completed Bible Passage: Ezra 4:1-7; 5:1-5; 6:1-22 Main Point: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us. Memory Verse: John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper. He will give you this Helper to be with you forever. 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: Build it Bigger Form two teams of kids. Provide each team with a set of Cards. Instruct both teams to build the tallest and sturdiest building they can. Allow the kids to work together for about five minutes. Then stop them and tell them that you will come by and bump each table to see if either structure can remain standing. If one or both stay standing, allow the kids to knock them down. Say: Enemies destroyed God s temple. Today we will learn how the people rebuilt it after returning to their homes. Then we will learn about a sort of temple that was destroyed and rebuilt in less than a week! 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: Letter Items needed: construction paper, crayons, yarn Instructions: (1) Give each child a piece of construction paper. (2) Have them write a letter to someone they feel like God is asking them to speak too. (3) Have them decorate it and roll it up into a scroll and tie it with a string. Say: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us. Gospel Project Unit 16.5

2 5:00 5:10 BIBLE STORY REVIEW: Story: Read the Bible Story provided in the teacher aid bin. Say: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us 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. In what city did God s people build the temple? (Jerusalem, Ezra 5:2) 2. What two prophets encouraged the people to keep building? (Haggai and Zechariah, Ezra 5:1) 3. What governor was in charge of the land of Judah? (Tattenai, Ezra 5:3) 4. Who was the king of Persia at this time? (Darius, Ezra 6:13) 5. What did King Darius tell Tattenai to do? (Do not bother the workers, and give them whatever they need; Ezra 6:6-9) 6. What feast did God s people observe? (Passover, Ezra 6:19) Say: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us. 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 had a hard time obeying your parents, teachers, or the Bible? 2. Have you ever asked the Holy Spirit to help you to obey? 3. How often should we ask the Holy Spirit to help us to obey? (every day) Say: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us. 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. John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper. He will give you this Helper to be with you forever. 5:25 ENDING ACTIVITY / PARENT ARRIVAL: Activity: Continue with Build it Bigger Form two teams of kids. Provide each team with a set of Cards. Instruct both teams to build the tallest and sturdiest building they can. Allow the kids to work together for about five minutes. Then stop them and tell them that you will come by and bump each table to see if either structure can remain standing. If one or both stay standing, allow the kids to knock them down. Say: Enemies destroyed God s temple. Today we learned how the people rebuilt it after returning to their homes. Then we learned about a sort of temple that was destroyed and rebuilt in less than a week! Gospel Project Unit 16.5

3 Main Point: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us. Elem Take Home Sheet

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6 John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper. He will give you this Helper to be with you forever. Elem AcAvity Sheet

7 The Gospel Project: 16.5 Elementary MC Guide The Temple Was Completed Bible Passage: Ezra 4:1-7; 5:1-5; 6:1-22 Main Point: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us. Memory Verse: John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper. He will give you this Helper to be with you forever. Lesson: Go over Classroom Rules: Play the Intro-Video Timeline View: We learned last week that God changed the king s heart so the Israelites could go home. When they got there, they began to rebuild the temple, the place where God met with His people. Well, this week, our story is called The Temple Was Completed, and I bet you can guess what happened from the name alone! Main Point: That leads us to our main point: God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us! 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: When God s people began to rebuild the temple, they faced some challenges. At first, they stopped working on the temple. But that is not what God wanted. God sent the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to encourage the people to obey God. Eventually the people did start to rebuild the temple again. Zerubbabel helped the people. God s people faced more challenges, but they didn t stop building this time. Again and again we have seen that God looked out for His people. He made a way for them to obey Him. God helped His people rebuild the temple. When they finished, they had a place to worship God the way God wanted them to. By helping His people obey and finish the temple, God was also helping them obey and worship Him correctly! Years later, God sent His Son, Jesus, to be with His people. Now God dwells not in the temple, but directly with His people. Because of Jesus, we don t need a temple anymore. Before Jesus went to the cross, He said to the Pharisees, Destroy the temple, and I will raise it up in three days (John 2:19). Jesus was speaking about something amazing His death and resurrection. When Jesus died on the cross and rose again, He changed everything. We don t have a temple anymore because God is always with His people. He sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in all believers. The Holy Spirit guides God s people to love and obey God. Show Main Point (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us!

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 John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper. He will give you this Helper to be with you forever. Show Main Point: Let s review our Main Point one more time. God gave the Holy Spirit to us to help us! (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) Dismiss kids to class:

9 Bible Story: Video The Temple Was Completed Ezra 4:1-7; 5:6:1-22 When God s people returned to Jerusalem, they got to work rebuilding God s temple. They finished the temple s foundation, but their enemies did not want them to rebuild the temple. God s people did not want any trouble, so they stopped. God sent the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to encourage the people. So the leaders Zerubbabel and Jeshua started working on the temple again. At this time, a governor named Tattenai (TAT ih nigh) saw the rebuilding had started again. Tattenai worked for King Darius (duh RIGH uhs), the king of Persia. Tattenai had been put in charge of some of the land, including Judah. Tattenai talked to Zerubbabel and the others working on the temple. Do you have permission to rebuild this temple? Tattenai asked. Tattenai sent a report to King Darius. While he waited for an answer, God s people kept building. This is what Tattenai s letter to King Darius said: To Darius the king This letter is to tell you that the people in Judah are building the temple of the great God. They said King Cyrus gave them permission to rebuild the temple. Please search the royal records to see if this is true. King Darius s officials searched the royal records for Cyrus s order. They found it a scroll with a record from King Cyrus. This is what was written on the scroll: Let God s temple be rebuilt. It will be a place to offer sacrifices. Let its foundation be rebuilt. King Cyrus had also ordered for the cost of building the temple to be paid for out of the royal treasury. So King Darius sent a letter back to Tattenai. He gave this order: Stay away from the workers in Jerusalem. Don t bother them, and don t try to stop them. Give them whatever they need. And if anyone tries to destroy God s temple, may God destroy that person! Tattenai and the other officials obeyed King Darius s order. The Jewish leaders kept building, and they finally finished the temple of God! The people celebrated and made offerings to God. They chose priests and assistants to serve in the temple. Then God s people celebrated the Passover. They killed the Passover lamb and ate the Passover meal. God s people were so happy because God had changed King Darius s heart so that he wanted to help them. Now the temple of God was finally complete. Christ Connection: God s people rebuilt the temple so they would have a place to worship God. Years later, God sent His Son, Jesus, to be with His people. Now God dwells not in the temple, but directly with His people. Because of Jesus, we don t need a temple anymore.