Lesson Three: Jesus' death and resurrection

Bible reading: Matthew 27:27-66, 28

Warm up / welcome game:
We played a helping puzzle game, each sharing pieces to help everyone solve their jigsaw puzzles.

Memory verse:
Our memory verse for this unit of work about the Life of Jesus is "Jesus will come back" an abbreviation of Acts 1:11.


Telling the story:
We used pictures to recap what we've already learned about Jesus (his birth, his baptism, riding into Jerusalem on the donkey, etc.)  Then we talked about the people who did not like Jesus and who decided to kill him.  We talked about how sad Jesus' friends were when he died and how amazed Mary was when she mistook him for the gardener near his tomb - Jesus is alive again!

Craft time:
We made a picture of the tomb in the garden.  (I found the template on the internet but did not note the reference - if it's yours let me know and I'll link directly to it.)

Lesson Two: Jesus' baptism

Bible Reading: Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:1-11

This week we're learning about John the Baptist telling people about God and Jesus going to him and being baptised.

Warm up / welcome game: Find the dove
We started our lesson playing with pictures of lots of different kinds of birds.  We talked about their names, we looked for yellow birds and birds that can swim and then last of all we found a beautiful dove.  Guess what - there's a dove in our story!

Memory verse:
We're still working on our memory verse, remembering "Jesus will come back." based on Acts 1:11.

Attention grabber:

• Has anyone seen a person being baptised before? Can you tell me what happens?
• When someone is baptised, they say that they believe in God, they love God, they want to serve Him, they are sorry for the wrong things they have done, and they are completely dipped under the water very briefly.
• Have a look at my peg doll. We are going to pretend that he is going to be baptised.

Telling the story:
We looked at pictures of the scene as we listened to the story.

Craft time:

• Make a happy face from coloured paper to show how God felt when Jesus was baptised
• Make a dove stick puppet (white cardboard with white paper wings made by folding paper into a concertina fold)

Lesson one: Jesus' Birth

Bible reading: Matthew 1:18-25, 2:1-12, Luke 2:1-20

Today’s story is about two people called Joseph and Mary. They were chosen by God to be parents of a very special person in the Bible called Jesus. Jesus was the son of God!

Warm up / welcome game: Christmas card puzzles
•    Christmas card nativity scenes cut into three pieces, mixed up and the class ‘solve the puzzles’
•    What can you see in the pictures? <baby, stable, animals, angels, shepherds, mum, dad, etc.> What is this story about?

Memory verse:
Our memory verse for this unit of work about the Life of Jesus is an abbreviation of Acts 1:11 which says:
"Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking at the sky? Jesus has been taken away from you into heaven. But he will come back in the same way you saw him go." (NIrV)
Everyone will get a copy of the memory verse to stick on their refrigerator and hopefully over the next three weeks will remember it!

Attention grabber:

• A picture of a baby.
• Has anyone seen a baby before? Have a look at my picture / photo.
• What can you tell me about a new baby? (They are very small, very fragile,cannot do much, very precious)
• Today’s lesson is about a very special new-born baby in the Bible. He was the son of God!

Telling the story:
We will be using a model nativity scene to tell the story. Everyone gets to hold pieces and help tell the story.  We may need to add extra peg dolls to be the angels and the shepherds!!

Song time:

• “Who is he in yonder stall” (Colin Buchanan: King of Christmas CD, Track 17)
• "Away in a manger" 

Craft time:

• We will be making cardboard stars and decorating them with glitter.
• Cut and Paste Nativity Scene from Danielle's Place [craft sticks, pictures of Mary, Joseph, Jesus, etc.]

Take home:
To help us remember the wise men followed a star everyone gets a small star on a stick (tiny magic wands from the party section of the supermarket actually!) With the Bible text attached "Where is the child who has been born to be king of the Jews? When we were in the east, we saw his star. Now we have come to worship him."  Matthew 2:2

Welcome

This blog will record our adventures in Sunday School as we explore Action Heroes Book 2. Ours is a small Kindergarten class (ages 3 - 6 years). We really enjoy learning about the Bible and we hope you will enjoy travelling through the year with us.

We begin with Unit 1 which is all about the LIFE OF JESUS

• Lesson 1 Jesus’ birth
• Lesson 2 Jesus’ baptism
• Lesson 3 Jesus’ death and resurrection
• Lesson 4 Jesus’ ascension and return