First Look TM Curriculum for Preschoolers

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1 First Look TM Curriculum for Preschoolers We want preschoolers to take a first look at who God is and understand... God made me. God loves me. Jesus wants to be my friend forever. January 4/5, 2014 Basic Truth: Jesus Wants to Be My Friend Forever Key Question: Is anything too hard for Jesus? Bottom Line: Jesus can do anything. Memory Verse: With God, all things are possible. Matthew 19:26, NIV Bible Story: Jesus can do things we can t. Catching Fish Luke 5:1-11 Here s an overview of what you ll be teaching in 3s 5s this week. Make It Fun Caught You! Goin Fishin Make It True Worship & Bible Story in Kidville Park Make It Stick Memory Verse with Motions Nets Full of Fish Make It Real Small Group Time Prayer Dismiss Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2013 The ReThink Group. All rights reserved. 1

2 Make It Fun (Introductory Activities, 15 minutes) Prepare to offer one or more of the following activities as your 3-, 4-, or 5-yearolds arrive. Let one or two teachers lead activities in different areas of the room while another teacher greets parents and kids at the door. 1. Caught You! What You Need: CD player, the song Under the Sea from the movie The Little Mermaid. What You Do: You and the children will pretend to be fish as you play a version of tag. Play the song Under the Sea, and encourage the children to pretend to be fish. Show them how to swim like little fish all around the room. When the game starts you will be It. As you tag a little fish it must go into the net, which is the large rug in the middle of the floor. After all the little fish have been caught in the net, empty the net and let them swim away. (Note: Make sure you use the words fish, caught, and net as much as possible.) What You Say: Before the activity: Raise your hand if you like fish. (Pause.) Me, too! Well, guess what! Today you get to pretend to be fish! You will be the fish and I will be the fisherman. If I tag you that means you re caught and you have to go into my net. (Point to circle on floor.) Once I catch all you little fish, I ll empty my net and we can play again! During the activity: Swim, little fish! I m going to catch you! I caught one! Into my net you go, little fish! Yay! I caught another fish. Go into my net! Looks like I caught all the little fish. I m going to empty my net now. Swim away, little fish. Swim away! (Continue as long as there s interest.) At the end of the activity: That was fun! But we re not done. No way! There s more fishing in our Bible story today! Peter is a real fisherman and Jesus helps him catch A LOT of fish! It s such a GREAT story and I can t wait for you to hear all about it! 2. Goin Fishin What You Need: Paper Fish, fishing poles What You Do: Scatter your fish cutouts on top of the pond rug. Give the children a fishing pole to go fishing with and show them how to touch the end of their string, where the magnet is, to the mouth of the fish, where the paper clip is. The two will stick together and they can catch a fish! What You Say: Before the activity: How many of you have ever gone fishing? (Pause.) Fishing is fun! Today we re going to go fishing right here in our room! Let me show you how this works. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2013 The ReThink Group. All rights reserved. 2

3 Watch what happens when I put the end of my string right on that little clip at the fish s mouth. Ta-da! I caught a fish! Now you try! (Continue as long as there s interest.) At the end of the activity: You caught a lot of fish today! You caught red ones and (help the children can identify the colors) blue ones and (pause) green ones and (pause) yellow ones (keep going until you identify all the different colors of fish). Let s count and see how many we have. One, two, three (count the fish out loud together). See? I told you, you caught A LOT of fish! Our Bible story today is about a fisherman named Peter. He didn t catch a lot of fish at first, but then Jesus showed up! Jesus helped Peter catch a WHOLE lot of fish! Make It True (Large Group, 20 minutes) After children have participated in Make It Fun, gather them in Kidville Park for a large group time that includes interactive worship, introductory sketch and Bible story. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2013 The ReThink Group. All rights reserved. 3

4 Make It Stick (Application Activities, 20 minutes) These activities are designed to help preschoolers understand and remember today s Bible story and Bottom Line. 1. Memory Verse with Motions What You Need: Nothing needed What You Do: Teach the children the following Memory Verse and the motions. With (hug yourself with your arms) God (point up), all (spread your arms out in a moving circle in front of your body) things (lay right hand in the palm of your left hand) are possible (two thumbs up), Matthew 19:26. (Open hands like a book.) (Repeat as many times as desired.) What You Say: Our Memory Verse this month tells us that God can do ANYTHING! He can do things that we can t do. Let s all stand up and practice our Memory Verse together. First I will say the verse and show you the motions. Everyone watch super close so that we can do it together. With (hug yourself with your arms) God (point up), all (spread your arms out in a moving circle in front of your body) things (lay right hand in the palm of your left hand) are possible (two thumbs up), Matthew 19:26. (Open hands like a book.) Okay, are you ready to give it a try? (Pause.) Here we go! With (hug yourself with your arms) God (point up), all (spread your arms out in a moving circle in front of your body) things (lay right hand in the palm of your left hand) are possible (two thumbs up), Matthew 19:26. (Open hands like a book.) Nice job! Let s try it again! (Repeat as many times as desired.) At the end of the activity: That was awesome! In our Bible story today, Peter had been fishing all night long and had not caught any fish, but with Jesus, he had more than the net could hold! Is anything too hard for Jesus? (Pause.) No! Jesus can do anything. 2. Nets Full of Fish What You Need: Nets of Fish Activity Page, crayons, and fish stickers What You Do: Hand out Activity Pages and allow children to color the picture. When finished, help the children place the foam fish stickers in the net on the picture. What You Say: Today in our story Peter had empty nets when he went fishing. His nets looked just like the nets in our picture. (Point to the empty net on the Activity Page.) Then Jesus helped him, and he caught many, many fish! Let s use these stickers to show how many fish Jesus helped Peter catch! Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2013 The ReThink Group. All rights reserved. 4

5 During the activity: First, let s use our crayons and color the picture. (Allow children to color.) Nice job! (Give each child the fish stickers or foam fish.) Now use the stickers to fill up the nets on your picture, just like Jesus filled the fishermen s nets. At the end of the activity: Wow! Look at all of the fish! I bet Peter was surprised and super happy when he saw all of those fish! I bet he was really amazed! Is anything too hard for Jesus? (Pause.) No! Jesus can do anything! Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2013 The ReThink Group. All rights reserved. 5

6 Small Group Time (5 minutes) What you Need: Memory Verse Card bookmarked in your Bible at Matthew 19:26. SMALL GROUP LEADER (SGL): Wow! What a story! Can you imagine going fishing all day and not catching anything? I mean, not one little, itty, bitty fish! But then Jesus gets in the boat and you catch so many fish you can hardly pull your net in! THAT is amazing! And it really happened to Peter! True story! Peter couldn t catch the fish, but Jesus could. Jesus can do all kinds of things we can t. Is anything too hard for Jesus? CHILDREN and SGL: No! Jesus can do anything! SGL: Jesus can heal people when they are sick. I can t do that. Can you? (Pause.) He can make it rain or stop raining. I can t do that. Can you? (Pause.) Do you want to know what my favorite thing is that Jesus does? (Pause.) Jesus loves me no matter what. It s true! And He loves you, too! That s why He wants to be your friend forever. Yes, Jesus wants to be your friend forever. Say that with me. CHILDREN and SGL: Jesus wants to be my friend forever. SGL: Good job! Now who s ready to start learning our new Memory Verse? (Pause.) Listen while I say the verse and do the motions and then we can do it together. With (hug yourself with your arms) God (point up), all (spread your arms out in a moving circle in front of your body) things (lay right hand in the palm of your left hand) are possible (two thumbs up), Matthew 19:26. (Open hands like a book.) Say that with me. CHILDREN and SGL: With (hug yourself with your arms) God (point up), all (spread your arms out in a moving circle in front of your body) things (lay right hand in the palm of your left hand) are possible (two thumbs up), Matthew 19:26. (Open hands like a book.) (Repeat several times.) SGL: We ll practice that verse every week and I ll have a sticker/hand stamp waiting for you when you learn it. Okay, it s time to pray. Today let s make a list, in our journal, of things Jesus can do that we can t. When we pray we can tell Jesus how amazing He is! Prayer: God, thank You for sending Jesus to be our friend forever. He is SO wonderful! We know He can do LOTS of things that we can t. He can (read the list the children made). We could never do those things, but He can! We know He can because Jesus is Your Son and with YOU all things are possible. We love You, God. In Jesus name, amen. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2013 The ReThink Group. All rights reserved. 6