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Jesus, My Savior Theme: Redwood Forest Table of Contents EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief: Robin Johnston Associate Editor, Curriculum: Lee Ann Alexander Children s Editor: Chris Anderson Kindergarten

1 Jesus, My Savior Theme: Redwood Forest Table of Contents EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief: Robin Johnston Associate Editor, Curriculum: Lee Ann Alexander Children s Editor: Chris Anderson Kindergarten Editor: Joni Owens WRITERS Angie Clark, Krisann Durnford, Joni Owens, Sara Rowland, Barbara Westberg THEME DEVELOPMENT Kara McCoy, Joni Owens DESIGNERS Dennis Fiorini, Elizabeth Loyd ARTISTS Anthony Mitchell, Ron Wheeler Join us on our Facebook group. Interact with editors and Sunday school teachers. Post pictures of your class. Brag on what God is doing in your class. You teach with us; now interact with us. Check out our group, Word Aflame Kindergarten Curriculum Teachers. Unit 1: Prediction Editorial: Majesty and Power... 2 Theme: Redwood Forest... 3 Kids in Missions....8 A Preview of Summer Unit Aim: Students will investigate God s promises and the fulfillment of them Week of regarding Jesus birth Jesus in Prophecy Jesus, God with Us Jesus Fulfills Prophecy Unit 2: Revelation Week of Unit Aim: Students will compare how Jesus revealed His deity to different ones Jesus Withstands Satan Jesus Lives! Jesus Revealed to John the Baptist Jesus Revealed to the Disciples Jesus Revealed to All Unit 3: Confirmation Week of Unit Aim: Students will give examples of how Jesus proved He was God Jesus Knows Everything Jesus Gives Freedom Jesus Raises the Dead Jesus Restores Sight Review Jesus, My Savior Kindergarten Teacher s Manual Manufactured in U.S.A., March 2018, All rights reserved 2018 Pentecostal Publishing House, 36 Research Park Court, Weldon Spring, MO Materials in this curriculum may only be copied for use in the local classroom. Do not reproduce, distribute, or transmit any other part of the Word Aflame curriculum in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without possessing prior documented approval from Pentecostal Publishing House, a department of the United Pentecostal Church International. To request permission, contact customerservice@pentecostalpublishing.com. All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version unless otherwise noted. Scriptures quoted from the International Children s Bible, copyright 1986, 1988, 1999, 2015 by Tommy Nelson. Used by permission. Websites indicated in source citations are not intended to imply an endorsement by Pentecostal Publishing House (PPH), nor does PPH vouch for the content of these sites. Given the transient nature of online publications, it is possible a web address may no longer be active or may have been altered since the print date of this publication.

Editorial by Joni Owens Majesty and Power Ihave always wanted to visit the Redwood National Forest in California, but have not yet made that trip.

Trees that are centuries old tower above mere mortals, resistant to diseases and even sometimes to fire, creating a wonderful canopy for tourists in vehicles or on foot.

2 Editorial by Joni Owens Majesty and Power Ihave always wanted to visit the Redwood National Forest in California, but have not yet made that trip. I am well aware that pictures do not do it justice, but they still convey a sense of awe and majesty. Trees that are centuries old tower above mere mortals, resistant to diseases and even sometimes to fire, creating a wonderful canopy for tourists in vehicles or on foot. My mind boggles at the idea of driving through a tree, even though pictures prove it can be done. At this point, I have to depend on pictures and personal testimonies of visitors to the park to attest to the majesty and power of that magnificent forest. Now consider the majesty and power of the deity of Christ. I was not there when He walked the earth. There are no photos showing the empty tomb or the widow s son hugging his mother at his own funeral procession. I have to rely on the testimonies of those who were there as recorded in the Gospels. Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah wrote the promises God spoke so His people could look forward to a Savior. Mary and Joseph had personal encounters with an angel before the ultimate encounter with God Himself in the person of the baby Jesus. The disciples, the crowds, the demoniac, the blind man all listened to and spoke with Jesus, experiencing on a first-hand basis His majesty and awesome power. Now I can read of their encounters as well as His sermons to understand and realize His majesty and power for myself. Kindergartners will not immediately grasp the intricacies of the deity of Christ, but they can grasp one simple concept: Jesus is God. Maturity and understanding will come with more ageappropriate lessons as they grow, but for now, remind them over and over again that Jesus is God. Speak with awe and wonder as you tell of His miracles, the personal testimonies of those who knew Him on a one-on-one basis, and share His own words. The final proof is in the life you live before your students. Let them see the risen Christ in you as you tell of His majesty and power. Heads Up! Check all your lesson title pages now to see what supplies need to be gathered. Plan ahead to know what activities require multiple copies, cutouts, or unusual supplies. Recruit teenagers or seniors to help with drawing, copying, or cutting. Before the quarter begins, tear apart the activity papers and sort the papers by lesson for easier distribution each week. Order one set per student with a few extras for visitors and for growth. CUSTOMIZE THE CURRICULUM Downloadable resources for both the teacher s manual and the teacher s resource packet (trp) are available through access codes. The Kindergarten Teacher s Manual is available as PDF and DOC documents that can be customized to fit your teaching style, classroom setting, and schedule. Cut and paste, edit material out of or into the lesson, and make it your own using the following instructions. Downloadable Resources To access the PDF and DOCs of the teacher's manual online: 1. Visit and follow the instructions to access downloadable resources. 2. Use the download code: 3. The coupon code will be valid for one year from the date of the first lesson. Teacher s Resource Packet Downloadable Resources To access the reproducible items from the resource packet (trp), see the resource packet instruction sheet. If you have not purchased a packet, you can do so by going to com or calling NOTE: Not all lessons offer downloadable resources. 2

3 Theme Development Redwood Forest The Redwood Forest is one of God s most breathtaking and inspiring creations. Standing straight and tall, these trees provide a majestic canopy that is home to eagles as well as bees, towering over lush green ferns that line pathways for motorists and hikers to enjoy. As your students discover and delight in the awesome creations, they will discover the wonder and majesty of Christ and His deity as shown in the Gospels. Just as He gave intricate details to the forest and its creatures, He gave us the details we need to understand who He is. Through the predictions or prophecies of the prophets, Gabriel, and John the Baptist, we see the foundation of His deity. Revelation came to His disciples and followers, and confirmation was made through His teachings, conversations, and miracles. Explaining Our Acronyms and Symbols (trp) = Teacher s Resource Packet = Downloadable resource using code on TRP instruction sheet (ap) = Activity Paper BP = Bible Point MV = Memory Verse KiM = Kids in Missions SMP = Special Memory Passage Avoid a Panic Attack If you occasionally loan out your teacher s manual or accidentally leave it at church, don t panic! Before the quarter begins, follow the process on page 2 to download the entire manual to your electronic device. You can check supplies, study, and focus your prayers with a few simple clicks on your device. NOTE: Some smartphones will not open zip files but will open PDFs. Save the zip files to your computer and then send the PDFs to your phone. While deity and theology can be deep and detailed, help your students understand what Peter understood: Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. The woman at the well knew Him as Messiah, because He knew everything about her. The demoniac knew Him as a deliverer, and the blind man knew Him as a healer. Three simple words will convey this quarter s focus: Jesus is God. Just as a simple tree can be majestic and powerful, so too is that simple statement: Jesus is God! Be sure to visit Pinterest and search forest classroom decor and camping classroom decor for ideas. Brainstorm with teachers in other levels to see what ideas they are using for this theme, and then make your room unique. Additional ideas are provided on the theme art. Lesson 1 Jesus in Prophecy Scripture Text: Genesis 3; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6; 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5 6; Micah 5:2 Toddler Home Connection Ages 2 3 Today I heard that God promised to send a savior. Don t Miss These Features! Home Connection On the bottom of each activity paper is a URL address for parents to take advantage of our Home Connection. This take-home piece covers the aligned lesson that was studied across Toddler through Preteen levels; show this to parents when they pick up their children and encourage them to review it with their children. Or each week make copies of the Home Connection (trp) for each student to take home. Please note that all children s levels are included on one sheet, making it easy for parents of children across multiple age or grade levels to discuss the day s lessons. Send the entire half sheet home. Theme Song Download the kids POWer hour song (audio and video files), Jesus Is God from the Grounded in the Truth series. Oneness of God Bible Study Follow the download instructions on the TRP instruction sheet to view a detailed study on the oneness of God as presented by Dr. David K. Bernard. This excerpt came from the Apostolic Study Bible, which is available through the Pentecostal Publishing House. Call customer service at , or go to to order. Q: Where did Adam and Eve live? A: In a garden Q: What did they do that was wrong? A: They ate fruit from the special tree. Q: What did God promise? A: To send a baby boy to help us love God Talk Time Note to Parents: Visit a beautiful garden. Talk about how Adam and Eve had to leave the garden because they disobeyed God. God promised to send a savior to help them learn to love and obey God. Suggested Reading: Adam and Eve and the Garden by Jane Ray The Promise by Larry Dane Brimner A Promise Is a Promise by Florence Parry Heide Bible Passage: God... gave his... son (John 3:16). Bible Words: God came to us. Kindergarten & Beginner Home Connection Pre-K Grade 2 Read Isaiah 7:14, 9:6, 11:1, Jeremiah 23:5 6, and Micah 5:2 to discuss prophecies, or promises, God made regarding sending the Savior. Q: Why do we need a savior? A: To save us from our sins Q: What does Immanuel mean? A: God with us Truth about God God promised to send a Savior. Bible Lesson Verse For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). God promised God wants to to send save a me. savior. Together Time Find a challenging puzzle to assemble with your family, but secretly withhold one piece. Discuss how all the pieces must fit together to make the picture complete. The prophecies were like puzzle pieces, waiting for the final piece to be put into place. Next week we will discover the final piece. Word Time Unit 1 Bible Verse: Isaiah 9:6 Special Memory Passage: John 1:1 5, 14 Primary & Preteen Home Connection Grades 3 6 Family Activity Sign a Promise Pledge to one another. Promises may include doing extra chores for the week, complementing each other daily, giving extra displays of affection, praying together nightly, reading the Bible aloud, and so forth. Discuss the security in knowing family members are dependable. Identify Jesus promises, especially the promise of His birth, His Spirit, and His second coming. Discuss the security His promises provide Pentecostal Publishing House, All rights reserved. Spring CUT HERE

Teaching Wall This is the wall with the writing board. Mount the memory posters (change with each unit) and the Kids in Missions poster at the sides of the writing board.

Consider covering the top portion of the wall with blue and the bottom with green to correlate with the rest of the walls. Giant Redwood Cover the top half of the wall with light brown paper.

Of course, your wall is not high enough to show the top of the tree where foliage grows, but it will demonstrate how large the trees are.

Secure him to the base of the trunk as though he is hugging it. Use the theme art (trp) to create ferns and flowers to place at the base of the wall.

Add additional smaller tree trunks at the sides as though in the background to help give the illusion of a forest. Camping Cover the wall with light brown paper.

4 Teaching Wall This is the wall with the writing board. Mount the memory posters (change with each unit) and the Kids in Missions poster at the sides of the writing board. Mount the attendance and memory charts (ap) at child height so they can be accessed. Consider covering the top portion of the wall with blue and the bottom with green to correlate with the rest of the walls. Giant Redwood Cover the top half of the wall with light brown paper. Crumple brown Kraft paper to create a 3-D textured tree trunk to resemble a giant redwood. Make it wide enough to fill about two-thirds of the width of the wall. Of course, your wall is not high enough to show the top of the tree where foliage grows, but it will demonstrate how large the trees are. Ask a student to lay on top of a piece of butcher paper with his arms outstretched at his sides, and then trace around him. Paint with acrylic paints, or make him a silhouette. Secure him to the base of the trunk as though he is hugging it. Use the theme art (trp) to create ferns and flowers to place at the base of the wall. Add yellow tissue paper rays of sun from one upper corner to shine down through the trees. Add a squirrel scampering up the side of the tree, and a woodpecker on the tree. Add additional smaller tree trunks at the sides as though in the background to help give the illusion of a forest. Camping Cover the wall with light brown paper. On the lower half, create a large green clearing for tents. Behind and around the tents, add large tree trunks. Remember, the redwoods are large and tall, so their foliage would not be at ground level with the tents. Add ferns around the base of the trees for greenery. Create colorful tents using bright wrapping paper. They won t be realistic, but they will add color to the forest. If your wall is large, consider making a tent for each child. A smaller wall could accommodate a large tent that holds several children. Take pictures of your students (headshots), print, and mount at the tent opening(s) as though they are peeking out. Add additional camping props according to your space: a campfire, signs (pointing to the lake, do not feed the bears, and so on), lanterns, campstools, picnic tables, and backpacks. If room allows, use real props for a 3-D effect. Add narrow sun rays with yellow tissue paper shining down through the trees. Treetops The final wall will be a view of the treetops of the redwood forest. Cover the top of the wall with blue paper for the sky. Use dark green paper to form mountains in the distance. Add several brown trees with green foliage using the theme art (trp). Add a couple eagle nests in the tops of the trees. Create narrow sun rays with yellow tissue paper. Add white clouds. 4

Print headshots of each student and place on the cutouts, or simply name each cutout. Place the cutouts around the tree as though hugging it. Label the space: Awesome Jesus, Awesome Kids!

5 Bulletin Boards Any of the wall ideas can be used on a smaller scale for those who must decorate boards and not walls. If you have a space outside your classroom to decorate, use the giant redwood idea and create a large tree trunk. Create a gingerbread cutout (see theme art ) for each student. Print headshots of each student and place on the cutouts, or simply name each cutout. Place the cutouts around the tree as though hugging it. Label the space: Awesome Jesus, Awesome Kids! Door Poster Mount the door poster (trp) welcoming students to the Jesus, My Savior Campground. New Birth Poster Mount the New Birth poster (trp) where children can visit it regularly, such as on the inside of your classroom door (assuming you close your door) or on a closet door. Grow to Go Temperance Longsuffering Gentleness Faith Meekness Joy Love Bible Points Every week children learn a short take-home phrase summarizing the lesson objectives. Say the Bible point frequently to help children lock this important life application into their hearts and minds. Hold up a large pinecone each time you want students to say the Bible point. Find Faith in Christ Pray Baptism in Jesus Name Receive the Holy Ghost Repentance Goodness Peace Truth about God While the Bible is filled with narratives that we teach our children, it is God s story. It is all about Him, not the characters. Each lesson focuses on a truth about God, an attribute or principle that helps define God. While children do not memorize this statement, the lesson segments will support it. Home Connection On the bottom of each activity paper is a URL address for parents to take advantage of our Home Connection. Review questions, activities, and memory work are provided for athome discussion. Be sure to show this to parents when they pick up their children. This piece is also available in the resource packet for teachers to copy and send home with students. Offering Obtain a large tree branch (approximately 6 inches across by 6 inches long). Ask a woodworker to carve out the inside to make an offering container. Students place their offering in the container each week as soon as they arrive so they don t lose or play with it. Volunteers Write each student s name on a brown paper pinecone (see theme art ) and place in a bucket. Whenever a volunteer is needed, pull from this bucket. Return when all the names have been used or at the end of class, whichever comes first. Bible Verses A unit Bible verse is studied each unit. The multi-week study will explain the verse as well as encourage memorization. Each unit, mount the unit memory poster (trp) on the teaching wall. Each week, gather students at the poster to study the verse. An additional Bible lesson verse that connects to the Bible lesson is mentioned and is included in the activity paper. 5

Add a sticker for each week you attend class. Name: Attendance and Memory Charts Tear out the charts from the activity paper sets.

Each week after students study the memory work, they add a star to the sky. Activate your faith and buy extra copies to allow for growth in your classroom.

Kids in Missions The focus this quarter is Central America/Caribbean. Ideas and information are included on page 8.

6 Add a sticker for each week you attend class. Name: Attendance and Memory Charts Tear out the charts from the activity paper sets. On the first Sunday, give each child a chart and let children write their names on the line. Each week a child attends, the child adds a pinecone sticker to the page. Each week after students study the memory work, they add a star to the sky. Activate your faith and buy extra copies to allow for growth in your classroom. Although copyright laws prohibit the copying of this material, one allowance is to make copies for visitors using the master of each chart. Kids in Missions The focus this quarter is Central America/Caribbean. Ideas and information are included on page 8. Mount the map of this region (trp) on the teaching wall as a reminder to pray for our missionaries. Bible Art Pictures Each week the Life Application supply list includes a Bible art picture (trp). Use this at your discretion if you feel your students could relate to a visual of biblical times. For added stability, mount the week s picture in a frame and display for the day. For those who like to display the pictures throughout the quarter, the Bible art pictures are available as a downloadable resource for you to print. Follow the instructions on the teacher s resource packet face sheet. 6

Teacher Training Helps Our website offers several teacher training articles as well as other items to enhance your teaching experience, such as a child information form, childhood characteristics,

aspx A teacher training article is included in the resource packet. This piece is 3-hole punched for placement in your personal or classroom resource notebook.

7 Teacher Training Helps Our website offers several teacher training articles as well as other items to enhance your teaching experience, such as a child information form, childhood characteristics, how to build a tree, and how to make sock puppets. A standard supply list details items that should be regularly available. pentecostalpublishing.com/t-teacherstraining1.aspx A teacher training article is included in the resource packet. This piece is 3-hole punched for placement in your personal or classroom resource notebook. Music Worship is an important part of each lesson. Several children s CDs are available at www. pentecostalpublishing.com, including Word Aflame s Kids in Praise volumes 1 and 2. Many children s worship CDs include today s choruses that are popular in church and are usually sung by children. Let students help lead worship time by using inflatable mics and musical instruments. Facebook Join us on Facebook and share exciting news, ask questions, offer suggestions, and most importantly, post those room décor pics! Your pictures inspire others as well as offer options for turning rooms into WOW! rooms. Search for Word Aflame Kindergarten Curriculum Teachers. Note: Before posting pictures of children, be sure to get parental permission. The teacher training link from our website offers a model release form. 7

God with Us. Unit 1: Prediction

God with Us. Unit 1: Prediction God with Us Theme: Redwood Forest Table of Contents EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief: Robin Johnston Associate Editor, Curriculum: Lee Ann Alexander Children s Editor: Chris Anderson Beginner Editor: Joni