Grades 1-4 Week 1 IN THE BEGINNING Leader s Guide Overview 4 WEEK CONTENT OVERVIEW Week 1: What s in the Bible? Week 2: Who Wrote the Bible? Week 3: Genesis & Primeval History Week 4: Primeval History LESSON SCHEDULE Video 1 / Small Group 1: Buck Denver Headline News (5 Min) Video (2 Min) / Small Group (3 Min) Video 2 / Small Group 2: Smarter than Clive & Ian (15 Min) Video (5 Min) / Small Group (10 Min) Video 3 / Small Group 3: Buck Denver s Dizzy Doodle (25 Min) Video (9 Min) / Small Group (16 Min) Video 4 / Small Group 4: Bible What s It? (20 Min) Video (4 Min) / Small Group (16 Min) EXTRAS! Video Outtakes Parent GO HOME Card Graphics Music LESSON OVERVIEW Today the children will discover what s in the Bible by learning who wrote the Bible, and how the Bible is organized. REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT You may notice that some of the videos or small group activities repeat questions; that s not an accident! What s in the Bible? is a Biblical literacy curriculum that seeks to help children know the stories of the Bible, and how those stories were formed. Review and repetition are central to helping children understand the Bible. MUSIC IDEAS A few ideas for incorporating music into the What s in the Bible? lessons: Use the songs and music videos to sing along to in between Video 2 / Small Group 2 and Video 3 / Small Group 3. Or, add your favorite song after each small group activity! You might also use the What s in the Bible? songs as children are walking in or out of the classroom, or as quiet music during small group activities. MAKE IT YOUR OWN! What s In the Bible? gives you the freedom to customize your own curriculum. That means you have the ability to change, edit, remove or add anything you want to make this lesson a perfect fit for your children s ministry. If you have a template that you use every weekend, feel free to copy and paste the Leaders Guide into your template. Have fun customizing this lesson! OUTTAKES The outtakes are included as a special bonus! You can use the outtakes from the video as a creative way to welcome children to large group, or as parents are picking up their children from the classroom. You can even use them if you have extra time and need something to fill the time! THIS WEEK S SUPPLY LIST Video 1 / Small Group 1: Video 1 (Buck Denver Headline News), Buck Denver Headline News Template (1 Per Child), Markers (1 Per Child), Shepherding Guide (1 Per Child) Video 2 / Small Group 2: Video 2 (Smarter Than Clive & Ian), 2 Smarter than Clive & Ian Scorecards, 2 Pens Jellyfish One, LLC grants permission to churches, schools, and other licensees to edit What s in the Bible? Church Edition materials to fit their requirements and needs. These resources are intended to be downloaded and printed for use by the subscribing entity only and may not be electronically transferred or duplicated by other non-subscribing entities. Any unauthorized reproduction of this material or incorporation into a new work is a direct violation of U.S. copyright laws. 2013 Jellyfish One, LLC. All rights reserved. Video 3 / Small Group 3: Video 3 (What s in the Bible? Video), Method for Drawing: White Board, Paper or Chalkboard, and One Drawing Instrument: Crayon, Marker, Chalk or Pen Video 4 / Small Group 4: Video 4 (Bible What s It?), GO HOME Cards (1 Per Child) Week 1/Overview
Grades 1-4 Week 1 IN THE BEGINNING Leader s Guide Overview 4 WEEK CONTENT OVERVIEW Week 1: What s in the Bible? Week 2: Who Wrote the Bible? Week 3: Genesis & Primeval History Week 4: Primeval History LESSON SCHEDULE Video 1 / Small Group 1: Buck Denver Headline News (5 Min) Video (2 Min) / Small Group (3 Min) Video 2 / Small Group 2: Smarter than Clive & Ian (15 Min) Video (5 Min) / Small Group (10 Min) Video 3 / Small Group 3: Buck Denver s Dizzy Doodle (25 Min) Video (9 Min) / Small Group (16 Min) Video 4 / Small Group 4: Bible What s It? (20 Min) Video (4 Min) / Small Group (16 Min) EXTRAS! Video Outtakes Parent GO HOME Card Graphics Music VIDEO 1 / SMALL GROUP 1 Supplies: Buck Denver Headline News Video, Buck Denver Headline News Template (1 Per Child), Markers (1 Per Child), Shepherding Guide (1 Per Child) Teacher Note: This activity is designed to be used with Buck Denver Headline News Template, download or print one copy for each child, along with 1 Marker per child. Ask each child to fill in the blank with words that describe his/her week. Welcome the children! PLAY: Video 1 SAY: Did you see Buck Denver? He is Buck Denver, Man of News! Let s play a game and deliver our own news. TAKE OUT the Buck Denver Headline News Template and give 1 to each child. SHOW the children Buck Denver s Headline with Picture: Breaking News! Buck Denver breaks record in hair height! SAY: Let s create our own headlines. You can write your headline, draw your headline or say your headline! But your headline must be about something that happened this week! Example: Breaking news! Olivia and Matt became known as the twins of Tae Kwan Do when they won medals at yesterday s competition. Here are some words to get you started: Was Happy Sad Mad Glad Played Football Baseball Soccer Cheerleading Tae Kwan Do Laughed Talked Cried Jumped With For About Made Music Cooked Helped Tried My Friends My Family My Peeps My Cousins My Neighbors My Teacher My Coach SAY: Let s share our headlines with the group. SAY: These are great headlines! I have one more question for you: If you saw a headline that said, What is the Bible? what do you think would be in the news article? Today we are going to learn more about what is IN the Bible! SHEPHERDING GUIDE Teacher Note: This tool is to help you know the children in your small group. It can be used as a tool for remembering what each child shares each week, so that you can follow-up in future weeks. Child s Name, Parent s Name, Contact Information, Headline News, Weather Headline, Sports News, Travel News, Prayer Requests Week 1/Small Group 1
VIDEO 2 / SMALL GROUP 2 Supplies: Do You Know About the Bible? Video, 2 Smarter than Clive & Ian Scorecards, 2 Pens Teacher Note: This game is intended to reinforce content covered in the video. PLAY: Video 2 Divide the group into 2 teams. Give each team 1 Clive & Ian Scorecard, and 1 Marker or Pen. SAY: Today we are going to test our knowledge of the Bible with a game called (use a loud voice) Are you Smarter than Clive & Ian? Here s how to play the game. I will ask a question, it might be a 100 point question, or 200 point question, 300 point question, or 400 point question. Once I ve asked the question, 1 person on your team can write the answer on your scorecard. If you get the answer right, you can circle the answer and add that number of points to your total. The team with the most points at the very end, wins! QUESTIONS Level 1: 100 point questions for each question answered Q. Who hosts the news Q. What is the first book Q. What is the best-selling Q. There are two parts of the Bible, on What s In the Bible? of the Bible? book in history? what are they called? A. Buck Denver A. Genesis A. The Bible A. Old and New Testaments Level 2: 200 point questions for each question answered Q. According to Dr. Q. Which testament has Q. True or False: Q. How many years did it take to Schniffenhousen, more books? The New Testament write the Bible? the Bible is made of A. The Old Testament has letters written to A. It is believed to have taken over what three things? other people? 1600 years to write the Bible A. Paper, Ink, and Cow A. True Level 3: 300 point questions for each question answered Q. Which character Q. True or False: Q. The first four books of Q. How many books are in the Bible? uses the Magic the Bible is just the New Testament tell A. There are 66 books in the Bible. FlannelGraph? one book? the story of whose life? A. Sunday School Lady A. False. The Bible is A. Jesus many books put together. Level 4: 400 point questions for each question answered Q. What is the name of Q. What three characters are Q. Approximately how many Q. Finish this sentence: Ian s brother? from the Old Testament; writers wrote the Bible? The Bible tells the story of A. Clive Noah, Adam, Jesus, A. 40 God and. Paul, Jacob? A. What He has done for us A. Noah, Adam, & Jacob Week 1/Small Group 2
VIDEO 3 / SMALL GROUP 3 Supplies: What s In The Bible? Video, Choose One Method for Drawing: White Board, Paper or Chalkboard and One Drawing Instrument: Crayon, Marker, Chalk or Pen Teacher Note: This game is intended to reinforce content covered in the video. PLAY: Video 3 SAY: Today we are going to test our knowledge of the Bible with a game called Buck Denver s Dizzy Doodle. I will ask the group a question; if you answer the question correctly you can then draw a portion of today s picture. The picture is a mystery! Let s see how quickly we can guess the picture! Sitting around the white board, ask the children the following questions. Choose one child to answer each question. After a question has been answered, give the dry erase maker to the child who answered the question. That child can then draw one piece of Buck Denver s News Room. For large classrooms, split the group into several teams. Each team takes turns answering the questions and drawing their own pictures. QUESTIONS 1. The Old Testament and New Testament could also be called the Old and New? A. Promise 2. How many books are there in the Old Testament of a Protestant Bible? A. 39 books 3. What color is Sunday School Lady s hair? A. Blue 4. In the year 400, the common Greek translation of the Jewish Old Testament was called what? A. Septuagint 5. True or False: the Septuagint had extra books that were not part of the Jewish Old Testament? A. True 6. Pirate Pete s brother s name is Roger or Randolph? A. Roger 7. How many books are in the New Testament? A. 27 8. What are the first five books of the Old Testament called; the Pentateuch or the Historical books? A. Pentateuch 9. What are the first 4 books of the New Testament called: Gospels or Wisdom? A. Gospels 10. The word Testament means? A. Covenant or Oath 11. Is the Bible a collection of books? A. Yes DRAW Draw Buck Denver s face. Draw Buck Denver s body, including a red jacket. Buck needs his classic hair. Draw Buck Denver s hair. Draw four circular clocks above Buck Denver. Put the time on the four clocks Clock 1 Clock 2 Clock 3 Clock 4 Write the following cities under each clock: Clock 1-London Clock 2-New York Clock 3-Tokyo Clock 4-Wheaton In front of Buck Denver s feet, draw a circle with a Jellyfish in the middle. Behind Buck Denver and below the clocks draw a semi-circle (you can color blue if you like). Draw another semi-circle by Buck s feet with the Jellyfish circle in the middle. (you can color blue if you like). Draw 3 long horizontal lines. 1. Above the clocks 2. Below the clocks 3. In front of Buck to create a desk. On the top line write Jelly News. Where are you? The Jelly News Room! Week 1/Small Group 3
VIDEO 4 / SMALL GROUP 4 Supplies: Bible What s It? Video, GO HOME Cards (1 Per Child) Teacher Note: This activity is a set of review questions that will appear on the video. Take time to answer and discuss each question with your small group. At the end of this time, take prayer requests and lead a time of prayer with your group. PLAY: Video 4 SAY: Let s play Bible What s It? I will divide you into 2 teams. You can work with your team to answer each question. The team who answers the most questions correctly wins! Questions 1. The first four books of the New Testament tell the story of whose life? A. Moses B. Jesus C. Chuck Waggin D. Paul 2. There are two main parts of the Bible, what are they called? A. Old and New Testaments B. Genesis and Revelation C. Clive and Ian D. Both A & B 3. In the year 400, the common Greek translation of the Jewish Old Testament was called? A. Septar B. Secular C. Mints D. Septuagint 4. It is believed to have taken over years to write the Bible. A. 1000 years B. 10 years C. 1600 years D. 150 years 5. There are books in the protestant Old Testament. A. 440,000 B. 2 C. 39 D. 41 6. The word Testament means. A. Promise B. Kind C. Friend D. Jesus 7. Buck Denver is Man of. A. Salami Sandwiches B. News C. Network D. Phones Answers B. Jesus A. Old and New Testaments D. Septuagint C. 1600 Years C. 39 A. Promise B. News SAY: What do you think it would have felt like to be one of the writers of the Bible? SAY: If you were one of the writers of the Bible, what would you have written? ASK the children to share their prayer requests. PRAY with your children. GO HOME CARD PARENT WALK OUT TIME GIVE each family 1 GO HOME Card. Today, your child learned what s in the Bible! A few discussion questions for the way home: The Bible is divided into 2 parts, what are those 2 parts called? (Old & New Testament) How many years did it take to write the Bible? (1600 years) What does the word Testament mean? (Promise) What was one new thing you learned about the Bible today? What was something that surprised you about the Bible? BIG QUESTION: Can you finish this sentence? The Bible tells the story of. Go to whatsinthebible.com to discover the answer! Week 1/Small Group 4