Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Kindergarten Bible Class "Syllabus"

Here are the stories and lessons we cover in our kindergarten class (for the most part).  As I can, I'll post about individual lesson plans.


Unit 1 – The B-I-B-L-E  

  • God Made Me Special
  • What is the Bible?  (Josiah)
  • Respect the Bible (Ezra)
  • The Bible is the Best Book – basic Bible facts – we review these facts most of the year at the beginning or ends of classes as time allows
  • Memorizing all the books of the Bible – we continue this until all the children have accomplished it, and then we review it periodically throughout the year.

Unit 2 – Children of the Bible,
based on the verse “Even a child is known by his doings; whether his works be pure and whether they be right.”    I use the Hanna Publications Even a Child booklet as my basic starting point.  We stress that even children can do good things for God!

  • Joseph
  • Miriam
  • Samuel
  • David
  • Widow’s Sons gather oil
  • Boy Kings
  • Naaman’s servant girl
  • Daniel & Friends refuse the king’s food
  • Loaves & Fishes
  • Timothy
  • Jesus in the temple

Unit 3 – Prayer no printed curriculum used
  • What is Prayer?   How do we do it?  (Model Prayer, use “web” to discuss)
  • Daniel – Pray even when no one else is
  • Jonah – we can pray anywhere and everywhere and anytime!
  • Elijah and Mount Carmel
  • Solomon
  • Sometimes we cover Nehemiah
  • Prayers of Thankfulness
  • Prayer Booklet – we make a flip book of people in their lives for whom they can pray

Unit 4 – We Worship God Because He is Powerful
adapted from Young Reader’s Bible lessons
  • God Makes Everything  (Creation, Adam and Eve)
  • God Sends a Flood and Rainbow (Noah)
  • God Promises Abraham and Sarah a son
  • God Repeats His Promise to Jacob (his dream; rock pillow)
  • God Helps Joseph Explain Dreams

Unit 5 – We Worship God because He Helps His People
adapted from Young Reader’s Bible lessons
    • Baby Moses
    • Burning Bush
    • Pharaoh & the Plagues
    • Red Sea
    • God Gives 10 rules

Unit 6 – We Obey God Who Helps Us
adapted from Young Reader’s Bible lessons
  • Joshua and Caleb
  • Joshua and Jericho
  • Ruth Makes a Good Choice
  • Balaam & His donkey
  • Gideon
  • Samson – discuss disobedience and consequences

Unit 6 – Armor of God
  • learn different parts of God’s armor and why they are important, where we get them, etc.
  • review/reinforce basic Bible facts learned throughout the year

Unit 7 – varies with each class, and sometimes is done earlier in the year
Lessons vary depending on how much time we have used throughout the year to review, for snow days, for unusual circumstances, etc.  I try to cater this particular “unit” to the needs of each individual class.
  • Some examples we’ve done include:
    • women of the Bible (when I had all girls) & things girls can do to help
    • “Unusual” Bible stories
      • Balaam
      • Jehoshaphat
      • Babel
      • the Ark and Dagon
    • Items of worship
    • Behavior in Worship
  • MISCELLANEOUS

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