BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K Unit 2. It's Not Always Easy to... COORDINATOR S PAGE Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Hope Go TRUST VOLUNTEERS WIll NEED beanbag play dough blocks paper markers puzzles blindfolds VOLUNTEERS WIll NEED blocks puzzles dress-up clothes Bible small suitcase crayons paper VOLUNTEERS WIll NEED paper, large sheet of paper crayons blue watercolor paint paintbrushes tape toy cars and trucks puzzles music CD Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Tell PraISE Grow VOLUNTEERS WIll NEED VOLUNTEERS WIll NEED VOLUNTEERS WIll NEED crayons black paper paper plates paper crayons markers watercolors chalk or masking tape hole punch, yarn Image Credit: Thinkstock.com paintbrushes painting smocks blocks index cards tape rhythm instruments music CD play dough, cookie cutters books about Jesus Bible with pictures of Jesus construction paper music CD Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-15
volunteers SUGGESTED SCHEDULE TEACHING TIPS Young children are becoming independent. Allow them to do as much as possible without your help. Provide a safe, fun, and happy environment for young children so they will want to come back to church and learn about Jesus. Restroom Break/Wash Hands (5 minutes) Enjoy a Snack (5 minutes) Group Time/Bible Story (10 15 minutes) Bible Learning Activities (35 minutes) Clean Up (5 minutes) Closing Activity (10 minutes) Dismiss (5 minutes) Make sure you have some positive one-on-one time with each child. REMINDERS Use a calm, quiet voice. Focus attention on the kids. Review parents instructions and medical information for each child. Release children to authorized adults only. Thank families for bringing their kids to church. 16-BTH.
BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K UNIT 2. SESSION 1 Room Your teaching partner(s) Thank you for serving! DATE OF USE Hope Acts 9:10-16,20-22 Life PoINT Show that you love Jesus. CHRIST FoCUS Hope in Jesus. Life verse God will give you strength. 1 Peter 5:10 BIBLE FUN ACTIVITIES SNACK Include the children in the distribution of the snack. Ask for one or more volunteers to pray. Lead the kids to clean up after the snack. Thank them for their help. MOVE TO GROUP TIME Remind the children that God called Ananias by name. Invite them to fold their hands like they are praying as they come to group time. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE STORY Open your Bible to Acts 9 and tell the Bible story. Ananias was a follower of Jesus. One day he was in his house and God called to him, Ananias! Here I am, Lord, Ananias replied. Go to a street called Straight, God said. Find a man named Saul, who is praying there. He has seen you in a vision (a special experience when God gave Saul specific instructions) coming to help him. I know about this man, Ananias said. He wants to hurt all the people who love Jesus. Go and help him, God said. I will use this man to tell people about My Son, Jesus. So Ananias went to the house and found Saul. Saul had been blinded by a bright light on the road into the city. Ananias put his hands on Saul, and Saul could see again. Saul stayed in the city and told about Jesus in the synagogues, telling everyone that Jesus is the Son of God. Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-17
SING TOGETHER To the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star sing: What I do and what I say Show I love Jesus today. Being kind and doing right, Trying hard, I will not fight. What I do and what I say Show I love Jesus today. SAY the life VERSE Open your Bible to 1 Peter 5:10 and read the Life Verse: God will give you strength. Invite the children to sit in a circle. Pass a beanbag around the circle while chanting the Life Verse and Scripture reference several times. PRAY Take prayer requests and pray for each one. Thank God for Jesus. BIBLE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES As the children try different activities, emphasize that our actions can show that we love Jesus. Review the Bible story at each activity area. A. Play with play dough. Give each child a ball of play dough. As the children play with the dough, use your Bible to tell the Bible story. B. Build a Bible times house on Straight Street. Provide blocks. Mention that God told Ananias to go to a house on Straight Street where he would find Saul. As the children build, tell the Bible story. C. Make Js. Print the letter J on a piece of paper. Lead the children to practice making Js on a sheet of paper. Mention that Jesus begins with a J. The children may want to use markers to decorate or trace around the Js they have printed. Tell the Bible story as the children work. D. Wear blindfolds and complete puzzles. Provide puzzles and blindfolds. Direct the children to find a partner and choose a puzzle. Blindfold one child in each pair. Instruct the blindfolded child to put the puzzle together and the other child to help. Allow each child to have a turn being blindfolded. Tell the Bible story. Remind the children that Saul was blinded by a bright light and that God sent Ananias to help him. CLEAN UP Walk around the room and assign a cleanup task to each child. Play music, if available, as the kids clean. Thank the children for their help. PLAY a GAME Direct the children to form a line. Show them how to hang onto the friend in front of them. Instruct the children to close their eyes and stay in line as they follow you around the room. Call out directions as you approach obstacles so they can navigate safely around the room. After you have circled the room, lead the children to sit down and listen as you briefly review the Bible story. DISMISS Make sure the kids have gathered all of their personal belongings. Greet each parent. Distribute the Kids Activity Page. Point out the One Conversation and explain its use for family Bible study this week. 18-BTH SESSION 1.
BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K UNIT 2. SESSION 2 Room Your teaching partner(s) Thank you for serving! DATE OF USE Go Acts 13 Life PoINT God wants us to go and tell about Jesus. CHRIST FoCUS Go and tell about Jesus. Life verse God will give you strength. 1 Peter 5:10 BIBLE FUN ACTIVITIES SNACK Include the children in the distribution of the snack. Ask for one or more volunteers to pray. Lead the kids to clean up after the snack. Thank them for their help. MOVE TO GROUP TIME Lead the children to swing their arms as they walk to group time. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE STORY Open your Bible to Acts 13 and tell the Bible story. In the church in the city of Antioch, there were men who were teachers and prophets. They taught the people that Jesus was the Son of God. Paul and Barnabas were two of these men. God spoke to the men, saying, Paul and Barnabas are special. I want them to go many places and tell about Jesus. So the men in the church laid hands on Paul and Barnabas and sent them off. They traveled to an island named Cyprus. They taught about Jesus in the synagogues. A Roman official believed in Jesus after seeing and listening to Paul and Barnabas. Paul and Barnabas continued to travel to many places to teach about Jesus. People would listen and some would believe, but others would not believe. Paul wanted everyone to believe that Jesus was God s Son. Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-19
SING TOGETHER To the tune of If You re Happy and You Know It, sing: Jesus said for us to go and tell. Jesus said for us to go and tell. Jesus said for us, Oh, Jesus said for us. Jesus said for us to go and tell. We can tell others about Him. We can tell others about Him. We can tell others. Oh, we can tell others. We can tell others about Him. SAY the life VERSE Open your Bible to 1 Peter 5:10 and read the Life Verse. Invite the children to say it with you several times as you clap on each word. PRAY Pray, thanking God for missionaries like Paul who went and told others about Jesus. Pray for missionaries today who tell others about Jesus. BIBLE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES As the kids try different activities, remind them that God wants us to go and tell about Jesus. A. Build vehicles with blocks. Provide blocks and lead the children to build different vehicles with them. Mention that missionaries travel using lots of different forms of transportation. Open your Bible and tell the Bible story. Emphasize that Paul and Barnabas trusted God to help them. B. Travel and complete puzzles. Place puzzles around the room. Explain that Paul became a missionary and traveled to many places to teach about Jesus. Invite the children to travel to different parts of the room to work puzzles. C. Role-play missionary work. Provide dressup clothes and a small suitcase. Lead the children to pack clothing and a Bible as they role-play traveling and telling others about Jesus. As they pack, talk about the Bible story. D. Make a doodle picture. Show the children how to make swirling squiggles and zigzags with a crayon. Invite them to make these marks or whatever marks they would like to make on the paper. As the kids work, tell the Bible story. Emphasize that Paul and Barnabas trusted God to help them tell others about Jesus. CLEAN UP Walk around the room and assign a cleanup task to each child. Play music, if available, as the kids clean. Thank the children for their help. PLAY a travel game Place two chairs so that the children can travel between them. Make space at a table so the children can travel under it. Create a few other obstacles in the room for the kids to travel around. Guide the children to line up. Tell them you are all traveling to tell others about Jesus. Lead the children through the obstacle course. At the end of the course, ask for volunteers to tell something they know about Jesus. DISMISS Make sure the kids have gathered all of their personal belongings. Greet each parent. Distribute the Kids Activity Page. Point out the One Conversation and explain its use for family Bible study this week. 20-BTH SESSION 2.
BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K UNIT 2. SESSION 3 Room Your teaching partner(s) Thank you for serving! DATE OF USE Trust Acts 14 Life PoINT Trust God. CHRIST FoCUS Trust in Jesus. Life verse God cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 BIBLE FUN ACTIVITIES SNACK Include the children in the distribution of the snack, prayer, and cleanup. Thank them for their help. MOVE TO GROUP TIME Commend the children for helping clean up their trash. Invite them to tiptoe as they travel to group time. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE STORY Open your Bible to Acts 14 and tell the Bible story. Paul and Barnabas were missionaries. They traveled to different cities telling people about Jesus. They would go to the synagogues and talk about Jesus. Many of the Jews and also Greeks believed that Jesus was the Son of God. Some Jews did not want to believe that Jesus was the Son of God. They began to cause trouble for Paul and Barnabas. People wanted to hurt them. But Paul and Barnabas found out about this and left to go to another city. When they were in a city called Lystra, they healed a man who could not walk. When the people saw what they did, they thought Paul was God. Paul said, I am only a man like you. We are proclaiming the good news that you should turn from worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth. More people tried to hurt Paul and Barnabas, so they left that city. They traveled to many towns, spreading the good news that Jesus was the Son of God. Many people believed in what they said. They returned to the church in Antioch, which had sent them out. They told about all the things God had done and all the people who had believed. Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-21
SING TOGETHER Sing to the tune Row, Row, Row Your Boat : I will trust Jesus. I will trust Jesus. I will trust Jesus. I will trust Jesus. SAY the life VERSE Lead the children to walk in place as they say the Life Verse and Scripture reference with you three times. PRAY Pray, thanking God for the opportunities He gives us to trust Him and tell others about His Son, Jesus. BIBLE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES Review the Bible story and Life Verse at each of the activity centers. A. Make ocean pictures. Invite the kids to use crayons to draw pictures of various fish, shells, coral, or other items they might find underwater. Guide them to brush over their pictures with blue watercolor paint to make an ocean picture. Mention that Paul and Barnabas sometimes traveled by boat. B. Play with cars and trucks. Tape a large sheet of paper to the floor and draw a variety of scribble-type lines from one end to the other. Invite the kids to push cars over the lines following the dips, curves, rolls, and hills. Comment that missionaries travel over many different types of roads to tell others about Jesus. C. Work puzzles with a partner. Guide the kids to work puzzles and recall Bible stories about Jesus. Comment that Paul and Barnabas partnered together to tell people about Jesus. Encourage the children to tell things about Jesus that they could tell others. D. Role-play vehicles. Play music and invite the kids to listen as you call out vehicle names for them to imitate. They can hold out arms and pretend to fly an airplane, turn a steering wheel to drive a car or truck, and do a rowing action for a boat. Periodically, hold up a red circle for everyone to stop. Ask a child to say the Life Verse or tell something he recalls about the Bible story. CLEAN UP Walk around the room and assign a cleanup task to each child. Play music, if available, as the kids clean. Thank the children for their help. PLAY a GAME Lead all of the children to close their eyes and listen carefully as you describe one way to travel. When a child knows the answer, she must call out, I know. The first child to call out gives her answer. Affirm her if she is correct. If she is not, just say, Let s try another one. Continue describing other travel modes for the children to guess until the parents begin to arrive. DISMISS Make sure the kids have gathered all of their personal belongings. Greet each parent. Distribute the Kids Activity Page. Point out the One Conversation and explain its use for family Bible study this week. 22-BTH SESSION 3.
BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K UNIT 2. SESSION 4 Room Your teaching partner(s) Thank you for serving! DATE OF USE Tell Acts 21:27 22:29 Life PoINT Don t be afraid to tell about Jesus. CHRIST FoCUS Depend on Jesus. Life verse God cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 BIBLE FUN ACTIVITIES SNACK Include the children in the distribution of the snack. Ask for one or more volunteers to pray. Lead the kids to clean up after the snack. Thank them for their help. MOVE TO GROUP TIME Invite the children to march like soldiers to group time. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE STORY Open your Bible to Acts 21 and tell the Bible story. Paul had returned to Jerusalem. As he went into the temple to worship, some people saw Paul enter the temple. They did not like that Paul told about Jesus. They were angry and grabbed Paul and tried to hurt him. The commander of the troops heard what was happening. He took soldiers and ran down to them. The commander ordered that Paul be taken to the barracks. Before they could take him away, Paul asked the commander if he could speak to the crowd. Paul stood on the steps of the temple and motioned to the crowd. There was a great hush before Paul spoke. Brothers, I am a Jewish man like you. I once did not like people who believed in Jesus and wanted to hurt them. Jesus appeared to me in a bright light and spoke to me. I understood that He was the Son of God. He told me to go and tell people about Him. I have traveled to many places telling that Jesus is the Son of God. The people got angry again, and the soldiers had to take Paul away. The soldiers protected Paul from the angry crowd. Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-23
SING TOGETHER To the tune of Jesus Loves Me sing: God cares for me, this I know. He is with me when I go. School and home and work and play, God is with me every day. Yes, God cares for me. (Sing three times.) He s with me all the time. SAY the life VERSE Open your Bible to 1 Peter 5:7 and read the Life Verse: God cares for you. Invite the children to stand in a circle. Walk around the outside of the circle and tap one child on the head. Lead all the children to point to that child and say the Life Verse and Scripture reference. Repeat several times. PRAY Invite the kids to pray. After they have prayed, ask God to help people remember to not be afraid to tell others about Jesus. BIBLE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES Encourage the children to try different activities. As they play, emphasize that God cares for them and He is always with them. A. Sort crayons. Lead the children to sort the crayons by color. With your Bible open to Acts 21, tell the Bible story. Comment that the crowd of people became very angry when Paul preached to them. Repeat the Life Verse with the children several times. Comment that when we are afraid, we can remember Bible verses to help us. B. Paint and fold. Provide paper, watercolors, paintbrushes, and painting smocks. Help the kids to fold their papers in half. Instruct them to paint only on one side. Talk about the Bible story as they paint. When they are finished, help them fold the blank side over the painted side. Show them how to reopen the paper to reveal the print made on the blank side. Offer to print the Life Verse on each child s art. Read the verse to each child. C. Make a chair train. Create a train with chairs. Distribute small scraps of paper as tickets. Choose a conductor. After the children are all on the train and the conductor has collected all of the tickets, tell the Bible story. D. Build a crowd. Use each block to represent a person. Show the children how to stand the blocks close together to make a crowd. To represent Paul, place an upright block on a base of blocks. Comment that the Bible story has an angry crowd of people in it. Open your Bible and tell the Bible story as the children work. CLEAN UP Walk around the room and assign a cleanup task to each child. Play music, if available, as the kids clean. Thank the children for their help. PLAY a COUNTING GAME Lead the children to stand together to make a crowd. Walk around and lightly touch each child s head as you count the crowd. Encourage the children to count with you. Instruct the children to mix themselves up then stand together as a crowd. Announce: I wonder if we still have the same number of people in the crowd? Touch each head again as you and the children count the crowd. DISMISS Make sure the kids have gathered all of their personal belongings. Greet each parent. Distribute the Kids Activity Page. Point out the One Conversation and explain its use for family Bible study this week. 24-BTH SESSION 4.
BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K UNIT 2. SESSION 5 Room Your teaching partner(s) Thank you for serving! DATE OF USE Praise Acts 16:16-34 Life PoINT Praise God. CHRIST FoCUS Praise Jesus. Life verse God cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 BIBLE FUN ACTIVITIES SNACK Include the children in the distribution of the snack, prayer, and cleanup. Thank them for their help. MOVE TO GROUP TIME On the way to group time, lead the children to sing, Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE STORY Open your Bible to Acts 16 and tell the Bible story. Paul and his friend Silas traveled to many places to tell about Jesus. Paul healed a young girl, which made some men angry. They brought Paul and Silas to the judges. These men are disturbing our city, they said. The judges put Paul and Silas in jail. They ordered the jailer to chain them so they were not able to escape from the jail. In the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were praying and singing songs to God. The other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake. The earthquake shook the jail, the doors opened, and everyone s chains came off. When the jailer saw the open doors, he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul called out to him, All of us are here! The jailer asked for lights then rushed in to Paul and Silas. I want to believe what you believe, the jailer said. How can I do that? Believe that Jesus is the Son of God, Paul told him. The jailer took Paul and Silas to his home and gave them some food. The jailer and his family believed in Jesus and were baptized. Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-25
SING TOGETHER To the tune Three Blind Mice sing: Paul and Silas, Paul and Silas, Were in prison, Were in prison. They sang songs, And an earthquake came. The jailer was afraid; He thought they escaped. They said, Don t worry; We are still here. Paul and Silas, Paul and Silas. SAY the life VERSE Lead the children to pace back and forth as they repeat the Life Verse and Scripture reference after you three times. PRAY Ask for volunteers to pray. End the prayer by praising God for all of the ways He cares for us. BIBLE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES Review the Life Verse and Bible story as the children work on the different activities. A. Make nighttime pictures. Invite the kids to use white, yellow, and pastel crayons to draw nighttime pictures on black paper. Mention that Paul and Silas were in jail late at night. Use your Bible to tell the Bible story. B. Play hopscotch. Either draw a hopscotch grid outside with chalk or make one inside using masking tape. Include at least five squares. Print each word of today s Life Verse and the reference on separate index cards and tape one in each square. Invite the kids to take turns hopping through the grid and saying each word. C. Make music and sing. Guide the kids to choose rhythm instruments and play along with music on a music CD. If instruments are not available, improvise with available items, such as rubbing two blocks together, tapping plastic dishes, clapping hands, or snapping fingers. Mention that God wants us to sing to Him. D. Review the Bible story. Guide the kids to practice making expressions for happy, sad, scared, worried, and so forth. Make Bible story statements such as these: The door slammed in the jail, and the jailer put chains on Paul and Silas. Paul and Silas sang songs to God. A strong earthquake shook the jail! Encourage the children to respond with the appropriate expression. Remind them that God cares for them always. CLEAN UP Walk around the room and assign a cleanup task to each child. Play music, if available, as the kids clean. Thank the children for their help. SING SONGS to GOd Lead the children to sing God Is So Good and Jesus Loves Me. Think of other simple songs you know and teach them to the children. Sing the praise songs until the parents arrive. DISMISS Make sure the kids have gathered all of their personal belongings. Greet each parent. Distribute the Kids Activity Page. Point out the One Conversation and explain its use for family Bible study this week. 26-BTH SESSION 5.
BONUS TEACHING HOUR for 3s Pre-K UNIT 2. SESSION 6 Room Your teaching partner(s) Thank you for serving! DATE OF USE Grow Acts 16:1-3; 2 Timothy 1:1-5; 3:14-17 Life PoINT Grow in what you know about Jesus. CHRIST FoCUS Learn more about Jesus. Life verse God will give you strength. 1 Peter 5:10 BIBLE FUN ACTIVITIES SNACK Include the children in the distribution of the snack. Ask for one or more volunteers to pray. Lead the kids to clean up after the snack. Thank them for their help. MOVE TO GROUP TIME Lead the children to stand up tall and walk to group time. TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE STORY Keep your Bible open to Acts 16 and 2 Timothy 1 as you tell the Bible story. Paul chose a young man named Timothy to travel with him and help teach people about Jesus. Timothy was taught about God by his mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois. The believers thought that Timothy was a special young man and was able to help Paul teach about Jesus. Later Paul wrote a special letter to Timothy. These are some of the words Paul wrote to Timothy. Timothy, you are like a son to me. I pray for you constantly. I thank God for your mother and grandmother, who taught you to be a faithful believer. Continue to believe in everything you were taught from the Bible and about Jesus. Remember everything you were taught by your mother and grandmother. Remember that the Bible is from God and is used to teach and train people. It is also used to help people make right choices. Follow what the Bible says, just as you have done since you were a young boy. Bible Studies for Life 3s pre-k BTH-27
SING TOGETHER To the tune Are You Sleeping? sing: Are you learning? Are you learning, About God, about God? Grow and learn of Jesus. Grow and learn of Jesus, Every day, every day. SAY the life VERSE Lead the children to crouch down on the floor and say the Life Verse and Scripture reference. Lead them to pretend to slowly grow a little and say the verse. Lead them to grow more until they are standing tall as they repeat the Life Verse and Scripture reference one more time. PRAY Pray, thanking God for helping us grow and learn about Him and about Jesus. Thank God for the Bible. BIBLE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES Review the Bible story and Life Verse at each activity center. A. Draw a family portrait. Lead the children to draw pictures of their families on paper plates, punch holes around the outside of the plate, and lace yarn through the holes. Remind the children that Timothy s family helped him learn about God. B. Make play dough cookies. Encourage the kids to use cookie cutters and make pretend cookies out of play dough. Talk about things they enjoy doing with their mothers and grandmothers. Mention that Timothy s mother and grandmother taught him about Jesus. Open your Bible and tell the Bible story. C. Look at books. Provide books about Jesus and at least one Bible with pictures of Jesus. As the children look at the books, offer to read some of them. Invite a child to find a picture of Jesus in the Bible. Emphasize that we learn about Jesus from the Bible. Note that our families and teachers at church can teach us from the Bible. D. Recall stories about Jesus. Mark familiar stories about Jesus in the Bible with colored strips of construction paper. Play music as the kids carefully pass the Bible around the circle. When the music stops, the child with the Bible can either tell something Jesus did or open the Bible to a picture to recall something Jesus did. CLEAN UP Walk around the room and assign a cleanup task to each child. Play music, if available, as the kids clean. Thank the children for their help. PLAY a describing game As the children sit in a circle, describe one child. When the children guess the child, comment: (Child s name) can grow and learn more about Jesus. Continue with other children until all of the children have been described and have heard that they can learn more about Jesus. DISMISS Make sure the kids have gathered all of their personal belongings. Greet each parent. Distribute the Kids Activity Page. Point out the One Conversation and explain its use for family Bible study this week. 28-BTH SESSION 6.