First Look 3- through 5-year-olds, September, Week 2

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1 September 16, 2018 Bible Story Focus: God s promises are awesome! Moses in the Sea Exodus 13:17-18; 14 Memory Verse: Trust the LORD with all your heart. Proverbs 3:5, NCV Key Question: Who keeps His promises? Bottom Line: God keeps His promises. Basic Truth: God loves me. Social: Providing Time for Fun Interaction (Small Groups, 15 minutes) Activities that encourage preschoolers to enter the classroom and begin engaging with peers and Small Group Leaders by providing age appropriate and hands on fun while introducing new concepts they will hear in the day s Bible story. 1. Coloring Sheet-introduces the Bible story/concept 2. Theme Table-Colorific This month s Colorific theme is going to help us teach preschoolers that God keeps His promises. We ve all experienced a broken promise or two and our preschoolers won t have to wait long to experience one too. We want them to grow up knowing that God always keeps His promises. No matter how long we have to wait, God will come through. This is a great time to reinforce this month s bottom line and introduce the Bible Story focus! This week s Bible story focus is on Moses and the Red Sea and God promises are awesome! Explore fun color themed activities together! This week s color is blue! Key Question: Who keeps His promises? Children Respond: Bottom Line: God keep His promises! Gather children for a Large Group time that includes interactive worship and the Bible story. Worship: Inviting People to Respond to God Engage kids hearts through dynamic and interactive worship in a Large Group setting. Use the monthly song provided with the curriculum to lead your preschoolers in worship. Encourage children to be active during worship by incorporating the appropriate hand motions. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2018 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 1

2 What You Need: Paperclip Memory Verse Card in your Bible at Proverbs 3:5, NCV. this month s worship song, Promises, on the Dance Moves DVD, Hip Hip Hooray! LEADER: Good morning, everyone! It s so good to see you today. I can t wait to sing with you today. But first, tell me: Who keeps His promises? LEADER: Yes, that s right! [Bottom Line] God keeps His promises. God loves us so much, and He wants us to trust Him. It s time to dance and sing. Are you ready? (Lead children in singing Promises, this month s worship song.) Yay! What incredible singers you are. Who keeps His promises? LEADER: That s right! [Bottom Line] God keeps His promises. We can trust Him to do what He promises. Our memory verse says exactly that. Are you ready to do it with me? (Pause.) Let s do it! Trust the LORD (point both index fingers straight up in the air) with all (stretch your arms out wide) your heart (bring both hands together over your heart), Proverbs 3:5 (open your hands like a book). Let s do it again. CHILDREN and LEADER: Trust the LORD (point both index fingers straight up in the air) with all (stretch your arms out wide) your heart (bring both hands together over your heart), Proverbs 3:5 (open your hands like a book). (Repeat several times.) LEADER: Way to go! [Bottom Line] God keeps His promises. Yes, He does. And, we can depend on Him no matter what. Story: Communicating God s Truth in Engaging Ways Engage kids hearts through a dynamic and interactive Bible story and prayer experience in a Large Group setting. These scripts are written to be told and not read. Advanced preparation is necessary. Bible Story What You Need: A Bible LEADER: I have an awesome TRUE story straight from the Bible (hold up Bible) and let me tell you, this true story is amazing! Our story starts with a man named Moses. Moses had just gone to Egypt to save God s people, the Israelites. They had been kept there by a very mean king, Pharaoh. He was scary, but God promised to save His people from him. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2018 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 2

3 So Moses came to speak to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh agreed to let the people go. Everyone say, Hooray! CHILDREN: Hooray! LEADER: God promised to rescue His people, the Israelites, and when God makes a promise, He always keeps it! God s promises are awesome. Later on, after saying he would let God s people go, Pharaoh the mean king changed his mind. He came running after them on his chariot with all of his army. Pharaoh s army chased the Israelites all the way to the sea! So let s pretend this is the sea. Oh NO! What are the Israelites going to do? They ve got the sea on this side. And Pharaoh s army is quickly moving in on the other! They can t go this way (put one hand out) or this way (put other hand out). They looked left. Everyone look left. (Children look left). They looked right. Everyone look right. (Children look right.) Then left again. (Children look left.) Then right again! (Children look right.) Then left again. (Children look left.) Then right again. (Children look right.) Then left, right, left, right. (Laugh.) Whoa! Everybody stop! The Israelites were so scared, but God promised to save them, right? Yes! And [Bottom Line] God keeps His promises. Get ready for the awesome part. So God told Moses to hold out his walking stick, and all of a sudden, the water started to move and make a path for God s people to walk on! God parted the deep blue sea so His people could walk right through it! They were saved. How AWESOME and AMAZING is that? God moved an entire sea so Moses could lead His people through. God promised to save His people from the mean king Pharaoh and He kept His promise in the most AWESOME way ever! God s promises are AWESOME. Who keeps his promises? LEADER: Yes, He does. Let s pray and thank God for always keeping His promises to us. PRAYER LEADER: Wow, God! You are amazing! Only You could part the waters of the Red Sea so that the people could walk right through and be saved. Thank You for Your promises. We can trust You to always keep Your promises because You love us. Help us to trust You every day. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2018 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 3

4 Groups: Creating a Safe Place to Connect (Small Groups, 15 minutes) Create a safe place to connect through activities that are written to reach every learning style while reinforcing the Bottom Line that was introduced during the Bible Story and applying it to real life experiences. In addition, these activities provide preschoolers with an opportunity to build relationships with their Small Group Leader. 1. Water Parting Live for God Application Activity Made to Create: An activity that allows preschoolers to review the Bible story, Bottom Line, or memory verse by creating a craft What You Need: Water Parting Activity Page, white cardstock, blue painter s tape, blue dot markers, and fish stickers What You Do: Before the Activity: Copy the Water Parting Activity Page onto cardstock. Provide one per child. Take the tape and place a piece vertically down the center of each page. You can do this right on the table at each child s spot so that the top and bottom of the tape hold the page in place. Set the dot markers and stickers around the tables within the children s reach. During the Activity: Encourage the children to sit or stand in front of a page on the table. Explain that this be will their painting of the sea. Encourage the children to use the blue dot markers to paint all over the page (including the tape). Then carefully remove the tape to reveal the path down the center of the page. As the paint dries, encourage the children to place a few fish stickers in the water. What You Say: During the Activity: When Moses and the Israelites were facing the water in front of them and Pharaoh s army behind them, what did God do? (Pause.) Yes! God parted the water in the sea and made a way for them to cross on dry ground. I want you to use these dot markers to paint the sea all over your page. Remember, we need to share these, so as you finish be sure to pass the dot markers to another friend. I m going to come around and show you an amazing trick to reveal the DRY path they walked on. You can also add fish stickers to your pages. After the Activity: Wow! These look amazing! I ll admit the tape was a tricky way to make a path. But God made a path by His own power. God made a promise to rescue the Israelites and He did, because [Bottom Line] God keeps His promises. Who keeps His promises? [Bottom Line] God keeps His promises. I hope these pictures will remind you of that this week. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2018 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 4

5 2. Wonder DVD If you have time you may show the Wonder! Look at God s Story DVD to reinforce the lesson. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2018 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 5