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Parents' Guide Calendar and Overview
OLD TESTAMENT
PARENTS’ GUIDE
MASTER SCHEDULE -- sample, fill in your own dates
Schedule of Classes:
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Special Notes |
Opening Exercises |
Creation
CREATION
All through the week point out the wonders of nature; on which day was each created? Look for small ways to care for God’s creation: Do you recycle? Pick up litter?
Puzzle and coloring sheet.
Read the story of Creation at bedtime; you can dwell on one day each night.
Prayer: We thank You, Lord, for all You have created.
Match the day of creation with that which was created:
Ages 3-5 Overview (Schedule, Recipes, etc...)
OLD TESTAMENT
AGES 3-5
This file is provided as a resource for Church School directors. Feel free to plug in your own dates and your own teachers.
Teachers:
Schedule of Classes:
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Teacher |
Lesson/Activity |
The Fall
THE FALL
Visit the Reptile House at the Zoo. What are snakes like?
Identify trees – maple, oak, Tree of Life, Tree of Good and Evil. How are all trees alike?
How are these 2 different?
Puzzle and coloring sheet.
Put the icon of the Resurrection in your icon corner; where are Adam and Eve?
Read the story at bedtime each night.
Prayer: Help us, Lord, to obey You at all times.
Creation
THE CREATION
Objectives:
Noah
NOAH
- Visit the Zoo again; see all the animals. Remind the children that all these were on the ark.
- Look around for pictures of rainbows – they’re everywhere! What do they say?
- Is there a storm this week? What was the storm like for Noah?
- Puzzle and coloring sheet.
- Read the story at bedtime.
Prayer: Lord, give us the faith of Noah no matter how bad things look.
Adam and Eve and the Fall
Objectives:
1. Children should be able to identify Adam and Eve by name.
2. Children should be able to tell the story of the Fall.
3. Children should identify Satan, the snake.
Possible Lesson Plan:
- Open with prayer.
Tower of Babel
TOWER OF BABEL
Home activities:
- Take a trip to Greektown or visit a Greek Church. What are they saying?
- Learn some phrases in another language or two.
- Get a language tape from the library.
- Puzzle and coloring sheet.
- Read the story at bedtime.
Prayer: Lord, help us to understand each other by listening and learning
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Noah
Objectives:
- Children should be able to tell the story of Noah and the ark.
- Children should identify the Great Flood and its significance.
- Children should know God’s meaning for a rainbow.
Possible Lesson Plan:
Abraham
ABRAHAM
Home activities:
- How about the zoo again, this time for a camel ride?
- If the weather’s warm, pack up and camp in a tent, even if it’s in the back yard. What do
- you need? How do you cook?
- Puzzle and coloring sheet.
- Trace Abraham’s journey on the map.
- Put the icon of the Trinity in your icon corner. Invite three guests to tea or dinner; what
- constitutes good hospitality?
- Read the story at bedtime.
Prayer: Lord, give us the faith of Abraham to follow You.