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In all likelihood, many of you have an established curriculum in your Sunday schools. Our goal is to augment your lessons with additional information. In March, the Activities section will review the Gospels and look at Paul’s letter to the Romans. We will not discuss the passion week, leaving that for April.
The entire Activities section is divided into Memory Work, Activities, Discussion Questions, and Assignments. You can go to any of these sections and select what best works for your pupils. March is a good month to show how Jesus lived the golden rule. |
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MEMORY WORK |
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Teachers and Parents
It is so important to encourage our little ones as well as ourselves to memorize Bible verses and stories – to become so familiar with the passage or story that its timeless relevance appears to us more and more clearly with every retelling. A major difference was evident between Sunday school pupils required to tell the story versus those who gave nodding recognition to the same story. Last year I asked three third graders to tell the story of Jesus’ birth. They couldn’t. After working with them to learn to tell the story in their own words and share it with family, friends, and our nursery children, they not only could tell the story at Christmas last year, but they remembered it without prompting. We can not overlook the significance of memorizing a verse or story.
Consider sharing with your Sunday school pupils and parents how to help little ones learn the verse and understand the impact of the message on their lives.
- Write out or type this week’s Bible verse on a card and place it on a mirror the child uses each day.
- Place the verse for the week in his/her lunch box.
- Ask the child to recite the verse before or after grace at the dinner meal.
- Practice as a family at dinner, going around the table with each one saying a word until the verse is complete.
- Put the verse to music. Create your own tune for each Bible verse. Create pictures to help remember the verse.
- Write it in a Bible verse notebook as many times as you can.
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Bible Verses
Work with your child and your students to learn each verse. Then, discuss the meaning of the verse and how it can be applied to our everyday lives. On Sundays during class, riding in the car, or at dinner, it's fun to share stories of how the children have used the verse in their lives that week.
We provide memorization verses for each week. You can add your own.
Sunday March 5 John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
- To whom is Jesus speaking?
- What is the significance of Jesus being “the way?”
Sunday March 12 Rom 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
- What does it mean not to owe anything but to love?
- How do we love those who appear “unlovable?”
- What law do we fulfill when we love one another?
Sunday March 19 Rom 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
- I love God and sometimes things go wrong. How is that working for good?
- How do I know if I’m called to fulfill God’s purpose?
- What kind of love is required to make everything go right?
Sunday March 26 JB Philips Romans 12:2
Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.
- How often do we do things because it’s what other people want?
- How does God “mould” our minds?
- What are God’s demands?
- How do we meet all God’s demands?
Sunday April 2 Rom 8:38,39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Why would anyone feel separate from God?
- How do you maintain your oneness with God?
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Bible Stories
This is a good time to review many of the stories we’ve read as well as a few we haven’t discussed. Keeping “I Love to Tell the Story of Jesus and his Love” alive is very important. Select one or more Bible stories for the children to learn this month.
I. Some Events and Stories in the First Year of Jesus’ Ministry
- Jesus’ baptism by John (Luke 3:21-23)
- Jesus’ temptations (Luke 4:1-13)
- Jesus at the wedding in Cana (John 2: 1-10)
- Healing of the Nobleman’s son (John 4:46-54)
- Healing of the leper ( Mark 1:40-45)
- Healing of the paralytic (Luke 5: 17-26)
II. Some Events and Stories in the Second Year of Jesus’ Ministry
- The Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7)
- Centurion’s servant healed (Matt 8:5-13)
- Raising of the widow’s son ( Luke 7:11-17)
- Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:1-25)
- Raising of Jairus’ daughter and healing of the woman with an issue of blood (Luke 8:41-56)
IIII. Some Events and Stories in the Third Year of Jesus’ Ministry
- Deaf and dumb man healed (Mark 7:31-37)
- The transfiguration (Luke 9:28-36)
- Tribute money provided (Matt 17:24-27)
- Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)
- Raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-46)
- Parables of Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, and prodigal son (Luke 15:1-32)
- Visit with Zaccheus (Luke 19:2-10)
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ACTIVITIES |
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This month we are reviewing Jesus’ activities and working on Romans
Younger Children:
- Read the stories of the Lost Sheep and the Good Shepherd (Luke 15:4-7 and John 10:11-16)
- What is the Good Shepherd willing to do?
- How many sheep did the Shepherd have?
- Why not just leave the one that was lost?
- How long do you look for a missing toy?
- Have the students complete the maze in KK - The Lost Sheep - while discussing how God seeks and saves us all.
Older Children:
- Discuss the importance of the Lost Sheep (Luke 15:4-7)
- Do you have enough love to go find a “lost sheep?”
- Who are some of the “lost sheep” in our society?
- Who do you know that would come and find you?
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Exercise: Make a list of the major events in Jesus’ life. (Get a Harmony of the Gospels for a chronological look at Jesus’ life.)
Create a chart of Jesus’ healings; teachings; and events. What are the most important events to you?
Ask children to draw pictures of their favorite healings, teachings, and events. Post them with each chart. |
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Exercise – Matching Quiz
This will help with a review of people, places, and events in Jesus’ life. Downloadable version in Kids Korner. Get a map of the Bible lands and help the children find the places listed below.
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Exercise – After a review of Jesus’ life, assign someone to be Jesus and the rest of the class will be the press corps. Each one should ask “Jesus” questions about his healings, teachings, life, people, travels, and experiences with God. Help the individual to respond to the questions if he/she doesn’t have an answer. Keep handy: their charts with information on them to read; a harmony of the Gospels; and the Gospels.
Help pupils formulate questions. Example:
- What kinds of questions did you ask the Rabbis when you were twelve?
- How did you overcome the temptations from the devil?
- Were you really angry with the money changers?
- What were they doing wrong?
- Did you ever get tired of healing people?
- What lessons do you want us to learn?
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Exercise: Moral and Ethical Choices. Help your students take the following quiz and discuss the results.
Living the Sermon on the Mount Quiz
The lessons from the Sermon on the Mount guide us in how to treat one another morally and ethically. After reading Jesus’ words from Matthew, how would you handle the following challenges? There are some answers listed. Discuss each one and then add your own.
Matt 5:43,44 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
- A girl at school has been telling lies about you. What do you do?
- Get some friends together and start your own lies about her.
- Tell your teacher.
- Invite her over to bake cookies and get to know her better.
- Your best friend copied your homework and you got blamed for cheating. What do you do?
- Since you can no longer trust him, don’t be friends any longer.
- You take the blame and let your friend off the hook.
- You forgive your friend and ask him to tell the teacher the truth.
- Someone stole your new iPod and you know who it is.
- Call the police.
- You get your toughest friends together and go and teach him a lesson.
- Talk to him and offer him you’re older mp3 player.
- You just became a member of a new group at school. To be initiated, you need to shoplift a CD at the local electronics store.
- You tell the principal.
- You go ahead and do it because you want to be part of the group.
- You explain to them that you can’t break the law to be a member of their group.
- Kids at school make fun of you for believing in God.
- Don’t ever tell anyone again that you believe in God.
- Find something about them to tease and taunt them.
- Ask them why they don’t believe in God and be willing to be a witness for God.
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Exercise: Share the healings from your journal. If you started the healing journal last fall, you should have wonderful experiences to share with the class. Make certain you list the Bible verses that helped you. One third-grader wrote: “I was afraid of what I might get on my report card. My SS teacher had me study Phil 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. I made this list:
- Whatsoever things are true
- Whatsoever things are honest
- Whatsoever things are just
- Whatsoever things are pure
- Whatsoever things are lovely
- Whatsoever things are of good report
THINK ON THESE THINGS.
I need to be true, honest, just, pure, lovely and these lead to a good report of my life. So my grades in reading, spelling, science, and math have just to be equal to my living a true and honest life. God’s report card is in Gen. 1:31 when God saw everything He had made and behold it was very good. God’s highest grade is very good. That’s God’s A. I can trust my grades to God as long as I’m doing my work. My school teacher told me not to worry. I got a thank you card from my school teachers that thanked me for being a good and dedicated student. I did get a good report!
Even teachers should keep a healing journal and share it with the class. |
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Exercise: Romans has wonderful verses for students to memorize that relate to their lives today. Here are two exercises to help students learn Romans 12:1
and 2.
Teen Time’s Make a Difference discusses these verses. Great for discussion in class. |
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Exercise: Break the Code for Matthew. This exercise uses Matt. 6:25 from the Sermon on the Mount. This is a good time to discuss the role of food, diet, exercise, and the perennial question of “what to wear.” This is also a good time to talk about what consumes thought most – fashion, body, what to eat, where to eat, etc.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS |
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ASSIGNMENTS |
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Teachers:
- Should I Forgive? helps family members practice the art of forgiveness.
- Swap Shop offers suggestions for encouraging children to open up and share their lives.
- Finding your purpose is the topic for Hot Topics
- Child actress and writer, Margaret Shays, shares how God helped establish her career and family in Guest of the Month
- Romans in Bible Overview.
- This month Did You Know? is a who’s who in Romans 16.
- Make a Difference offers teens a way to live Romans 12.
Younger Children:
Puzzles and Games
Stories to read
Stories to hear
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Puzzles and Games
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Teens:
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