Joshua

 

Objectives:

1. Children should be able to identify Joshua as Moses’s successor.
2. Children should be able to tell the story of the battle of Jericho.
3. Children should identify Joshua as the person who said, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

 

Possible Lesson Plan:

1. Open with prayer.

 

2. Read the story of Joshua in The Beginner’s Bible, pages 124-135, the Children’s Bible Reader, pages 106-109, or in the Read with Me Bible, pages 144-151.

Add Joshua to your timeline.

3. Feed the Elephant True/False statements:

                                      True                                                  False

                  Joshua led the Jewish people.                   Joshua went back to Egypt.

                  Joshua conquered the land of Canaan.     Joshua was defeated in battle.

                  The walls of Jericho fell down.                 Joshua climbed the walls of Jericho.

           

4. Try an old, but revamped, song or two:

Ring around the city,                                Jericho is falling down,

Trumpets in our handies,                          Falling down, Falling down,

Shout it! Shout it!                                     Jericho is falling down,

The walls fall down!                                With Joshua’s army.

(Everyone falls down.)                            

     

5. Make a funnel trumpet:

Use masking or duct tape to hold a funnel on one end of a paper towel tube and a small party horn on the other and cover the whole trumpet with aluminum foil or more silver duct tape. Then march around the classroom or outside seven times before blowing the trumpets and shouting loudly!

6. Close with prayer.