Lesso 5 43 People Rejoice as Jesus Eters Jerusalem Mark 11:1-11 Fifth- ad sixth-graders kow well the idea of havig heroes. They pick people to look up to, ad they log to meet them, display posters of them, ad follow their every move. Kids at this age uderstad what it meas to hoor someoe. Use this lesso to teach them how Jesus is the ultimate perso to look up to he s our kig! LESSON WHAT KIDS DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 1 Gettig Started 2 Bible Exploratio You Deserve a Speech! (about 10 mi.) Write a speech that hoors a peer. How Ca He Be Hoored? (about 20 mi.) Discuss how objects used i the triumphal etry might defie hoor. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Bible Buzz, pes, CD player Teacher Pack: CD Bibles, paper, pes Teacher Pack: Bible Timelie Tear out the Lesso 5 pages from each Bible Buzz studet book. Bible Poit Jesus is our kig. Key Verse That at the ame of Jesus every kee should bow, i heave ad o earth ad uder the earth, ad every togue cofess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippias 2:10-11). Weavig Faith Ito Life Kids will give hoor to Jesus throughout the week. Grades 5 & 6 Lesso 5 Sprig Quarter
44 LESSON WHAT KIDS DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life 4 Lastig Impressios Hoor Poems (about 15 mi.) Lear the Key Verse, ad the write a poem about hoor. Service of Surreder (about 15 mi.) Show that Jesus is our kig by turig thigs over to him ad prayig about it. Daily Challeges (about 5 mi.) Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. Weavig Faith at Home (about 2 mi.) Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bible Buzz, pes, CD player Teacher Pack: CD Bible Buzz, pes, CD player, copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of this lesso), chair Teacher Pack: CD Bible Buzz Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Sprig Quarter Lesso 5 Grades 5 & 6
45 People Rejoice as Jesus Eters Jerusalem Mark 11:1-11 BIBLe BACKGROUND FOR LEADERS Prophecies Fulfilled Chaged Lives This momet i Jewish history had log bee aticipated. Zechariah 9:9 predicts that the Messiah would come getle ad ridig o a dokey, o a colt, the foal of a dokey. Without questio, the Jews alog Jesus path made this coectio ad kew what it meat. Their celebratio made this clear as they covered Jesus path with their outer robes ad palm braches a demostratio of hoor ad submissio. The Kig Comes Fortuately, we kow what happeed ext. After the Resurrectio, everythig chaged. Ad that s how it ca be i our lives. Whe we choose to live for Jesus, everythig chages. We do t hoor him just by cheerig ad prayig ad sigig great worship sogs. We hoor him as the disciples did i every facet of our lives. We hoor him through our worship but also through our obediece, service, witess, ad gratitude. The Jesus Coectio The cries of the people were sigificat. As they shouted hosaa, they were sayig, Lord, save us! As they referred to Jesus as he who comes i the ame of the Lord ad spoke plaily of the comig kigdom of our father David, they were makig clear refereces to the Messiah predicted may times i the Old Testamet. Cofusig Evets After the excitemet of his triumphal etry, Jesus ad his disciples left Jerusalem to sped the ight i Bethay, where Mary, Martha, ad Lazarus lived. No metio is made of the crowd followig them. After all the cheerig had died dow, everyoe must have goe home. Jesus had spoke earlier of his immiet death, but the day s evets probably ecouraged the disciples to thik about Jesus beig made kig. How could thigs possibly tur agaist him as Jesus said they would? Hosaa! Lord save us! Jesus aswers that plea: Through a relatioship with him, we ca experiece this great gift of salvatio. It s easy to uitetioally develop a ho-hum attitude about faith. Yet i this passage, the crowds hoored Jesus with extravagat, public displays of worship. What ca you do to break free of complacecy? How will you extravagatly worship Jesus this week? Pray about actios you ca take or words you ca say this week to hoor Jesus as the Messiah. You ca write your prayer here. As evets ufolded, the disciples heads must have bee spiig. Throgs hoored Jesus that day, but oly a few days later the disciples hid i fear of the authorities, tryig to fid a way to live for the crucified Jesus. Grades 5 & 6 Lesso 5 Sprig Quarter
46 GETTING STARTED You Deserve a Speech! Supplies Bible Buzz pes CD player Teacher Pack CD: Pomp ad Circumstace (track 8) You Deserve a Speech! Easy Prep Tear out the Lesso 5 pages from each Bible Buzz studet book. You Deserve a Speech! What You ll Do Welcome kids warmly as they arrive, ad ask them how their week wet. Say: Today is a importat momet i your life. You re about to meet oe of the most ifluetial people you ll ever meet. So get ready! Distribute pes ad this week s Bible Buzz pages. Have kids get ito pairs, fid the Hoor Iterview sectio, ad write their ames o the pages. Say: Imagie that your parter is the most importat perso you ve met so far i your life. I d like you to iterview this perso to get to kow him or her as completely as you ca. Give pairs several miutes to iterview each other. As pairs are iterviewig ad presetig, play Pomp ad Circumstace (track 8 o the CD). Whe pairs have fiished, have kids each prepare a 15-secod speech about their parter. Whe they ve fiished, have pairs joi with aother pair to form foursomes. Ask kids to share their speeches oe at a time i their groups. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: How did you feel hoored by your parter s speech? What s the best way to hoor someoe? Who are some people we hoor? Say: Hoorig others is t somethig we thik of doig very ofte. But today we re goig to look ito hoorig the oe perso who deserves the most hoor Jesus. JESUS IS OUR KING ad deserves our hoor. Sprig Quarter Lesso 5 Grades 5 & 6
47 2 BIBLE EXPLORATION How Ca He Be Hoored? What You ll Do Show kids the People Rejoice as Jesus Eters Jerusalem picture o the Bible Timelie. Say: Let s look at a passage i the Bible that tells how people hoored Jesus. Have kids form five groups, ad give Bibles to each group. Have each group ope to Mark 11:1-11. Say: I this passage, people wet to great legths to show Jesus that they hoored him. Ad if you look closely at this passage, you ll see they did it i differet ways. I m goig to assig you differet people or items to look at as you read this passage. Come up with a way to defie the word hoor based o the way the people showed hoor or the way objects were used to show Jesus hoor. How Ca He Be Hoored? Supplies Bibles paper pes Teacher Pack Bible Timelie Distribute paper ad pes. Assig groups the followig parts: Cloaks used o the road ad o the colt, the Colt, the Colt Owers, the Disciples, ad the Crowd. Remid groups to defie hoor based o their perso or item. For example, the Cloak group could say the item was used to provide a hoored pathway for Jesus to travel o. Give groups five miutes to study the passage ad create their defiitios. Say: Now let s act out your group s assiged part i hoorig Jesus. I ll read the passage, ad whe you hear your perso or object metioed, simply act out the role. Before you begi readig, have groups fid their places. The Colts, the Colt Owers, ad the Disciples should be off stage. Show the Crowd how to hold the Cloaks by puttig their hads o the shoulders of the kids playig the part of the Cloaks. Have the Crowd hold the Cloaks ad mill aroud. Oce all the pretees are i their places, begi readig the passage aloud, stoppig whe each group will act. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: How did your group s perso or item show hoor to Jesus? How might that traslate ito a way you could show hoor to Jesus askig? What did you otice about how these people hoored Jesus as kig? Say: The eat thig about this Bible passage is that these people hoored Jesus with what they had. They simply hoored him with their words ad actios. They did t dress up or buy somethig ew or act like someoe they were t. They kew who Jesus was, ad their oly respose to his presece was to hoor him. JESUS IS OUR KING, ad we ca hoor him with our actios ad words. Grades 5 & 6 Lesso 5 Sprig Quarter
48 3 WEAVING FAITH INTO LIFE Hoor Poems Supplies Bible Buzz pes CD player Teacher Pack CD: Quiet Music (track 9) Hoor Poems What You ll Do Have kids form groups of three ad fid the Key Verse, Philippias 2:10-11, o their Bible Buzz pages. Have a willig pretee i each group read it aloud: That at the ame of Jesus every kee should bow, i heave ad o earth ad uder the earth, ad every togue cofess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Say: The people who met Jesus o the road to Jerusalem did just that: They took a radical step to hoor Jesus as kig. They did t care about how they looked or eve if their cloaks were ruied. Their respose was a result of beig i the presece of Jesus the kig. Let s cosider what it might be like to hoor Jesus with a poem. Direct groups to the Hoor Poem sectio of their Bible Buzz pages. Have groups work through the questios but hold off o writig the poem. Say: Now that you ve doe a bit of research, work together i your groups to create a poem. Your poem ca be i ay style you choose. It could rhyme or be freestyle; it could be a rap with a backbeat whatever you decide. Play Quiet Music (track 9 o the CD) i the backgroud as kids work, ad cotiue playig it util all the groups have writte their poems. Whe everyoe has fiished, have groups preset their creatios. Groups may simply read the poems, or they may choose a more creative way of presetig them. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: What did you lear about hoorig Jesus through this experiece? I what ways is Jesus like a kig? What are some ways people treat kigs? What ca we lear from that about how to hoor Jesus? Say: There are may ways we ca hoor Jesus with actios ad words, just as the people did i Jerusalem. We ca hoor him because JESUS IS OUR KING. Sprig Quarter Lesso 5 Grades 5 & 6
49 Service of Surreder What You ll Do Say: JESUS IS OUR KING, ad oe way we ca show our kig how much we love him is to sig sogs of praises to him. Distribute copies of the lyrics, ad play At the Name of Jesus (Philippias 2:10-11) (track 10 o the CD). Have kids sig alog. He is Lord! That at the ame of Jesus every kee should bow I heave ad earth ad uder the earth. At the ame of Jesus every kee should bow I heave ad earth ad uder the earth, Ad every togue cofess to Jesus holiess; Ad every togue cofess to Jesus holiess. Service of Surreder Supplies Bible Buzz pes CD player copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of this lesso) chair Teacher Pack CD: At the Name of Jesus (Philippias 2:10-11) (track 10) (Repeat from the begiig.) (Repeat.) He is Lord! He is Lord! At the Name of Jesus (Philippias 2:10-11) by Be Glover. 2005 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved. Say: Today we ve see how people i the Bible hoored Jesus, ad we ve see how other people who might live aroud us could hoor him. We may lift our hads i praise or speak our hoor with our mouths. Thik about how you could hoor him. Remember what the disciples said to the owers of the colt? They said, The Lord eeds this. Givig Jesus the hoor he deserves as our kig meas that we recogize that there are thigs i our lives that God eeds from us. Ad the way we hoor him is to give him what he desires from us. Direct kids to the Body Outlie sectio o their Bible Buzz pages. Have kids look at it ad cosider how they ca hoor Jesus as kig with somethig i their lives. Ecourage pretees to write a prayer o the body, committig to hoor Jesus i that way this week. Allow three or four miutes for this. Grades 5 & 6 Lesso 5 Sprig Quarter
50 Say: Close your eyes ad imagie that you re sittig before God s throe. You re totally uaware of other people aroud you. While kids have their eyes closed, move the chair to the frot of the room. Say: Ad you wat to sped time hoorig Jesus by layig dow somethig for him. Now ope your eyes, ad let s hoor Jesus. Istruct pretees to lay their Body Outlies at the foot of the chair. The sped the ext few miutes i silet prayer. Talk With Kids Whe you ve fiished, have kids retrieve their Bible Buzz pages ad lead them i this discussio. Ask: How was this exercise like what those people did whe Jesus etered Jerusalem? What do you fid hardest to give to Jesus? How ca we show Jesus is kig over our daily lives? Say: The people hoored Jesus with their words ad actios, ad he asks the same thig of us. JESUS IS OUR KING, ad we ca act like he is, every day. 4 LASTING IMPRESSIONS Daily Challeges Supplies Bible Buzz Daily Challeges What You ll Do Say: Let s thik about how we ca show this week that JESUS IS OUR KING. Have kids fid this week s Daily Challeges o their Bible Buzz pages ad choose oe to do this week. They ca choose oe or more of these three optios: Show that Jesus is kig over your time by growig closer to him through prayer ad devotios. Tell someoe about how Jesus is the kig of your life. Sig a sog or write a poem as a way to show Jesus that he s your kig. Make sure you choose a Daily Challege as well, ad tell the kids what you chose. Kids will be more iclied to follow through o their commitmets whe they see you doig the same. Sprig Quarter Lesso 5 Grades 5 & 6
51 Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: What s a practical way you re goig to do your Daily Challege? Iclude a time, place, ad other ideas. Say: Jesus is worthy of hoor the same sort of hoor those people showed him o that road so log ago. Let s show this week that JESUS IS OUR KING by hoorig him with our Daily Challeges. Weavig Faith at Home Ecourage kids to talk with their parets about the Daily Challeges they chose ad what they leared about Jesus beig our kig. Kids ca also do the activities i the HomeCoect sectio of their Bible Buzz pages with their families. Talk to your Director about emailig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families! Available at group.com/digital. Take a couple of miutes to pray with your kids, thakig Jesus for beig our kig. Grades 5 & 6 Lesso 5 Sprig Quarter
52 Lyrics At the Name of Jesus (Philippias 2:10-11) He is Lord! That at the ame of Jesus every kee should bow I heave ad earth ad uder the earth. At the ame of Jesus every kee should bow I heave ad earth ad uder the earth, Ad every togue cofess to Jesus holiess; Ad every togue cofess to Jesus holiess. (Repeat from the begiig.) (Repeat.) He is Lord! He is Lord! At the Name of Jesus (Philippias 2:10-11) by Be Glover. 2005 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved.! OK TO COPY Sprig Quarter Lesso 5 Grades 5 & 6