Baby Moses/ Moses and the Burning Bush

The kids always know the story of Baby Moses pretty well by the time they get to my kindergarten class, so we do this lesson pretty quickly.   We read the story straight from the book of Exodus and they always love hearing about the princess finding the baby.  We also emphasize Miriam's role and I try to impress on the students that Miriam was young, and yet God could use her in his greater plan.

In conjunction with this, we study the burning bush.  When my class is calm enough, they take off their shoes just like Moses did, and when we say "this is holy ground," we talk about ways they should act to show respect to God.

We made a Moses lapbook to help the kids remember the story of Moses, and we add to it with each part of the story.  By the end of the lessons on Moses, they can retell the story to their families.  I will post a picture of a finished lapbook in a few weeks when we complete our Moses unit.

This time, for the burning bush, we had a fun "review" activity.  Our memory verse has been "But without faith it is impossible to please Him..."  Heb 11:6.

The kids came in to find this bush, which seems to want to stay sideways on the screen.  :)

Each of the colored "flames" had a word of the memory verse.  On a black piece of posterboard I wrote the verse in white crayon.  The kids had to go to the bush and find each word of the verse and tape them under the correct word on the posterboard.  With each word, we'd repeat the ones we'd found.  For instance, student #1 found "But,"  student 2 found "But without," and so on.

While most of my kids can't read yet, they could match up words.   They begged to play it again, but we ran out of time.  I think it would be a good way to do memory work from time to time, with different visuals.