John

Here is the Book of John's lesson.

Luke

Here is the lesson on the Gospel of Luke. I use NLT (New Living Translation) for the most part, since it's written at a level most kids can read and understand. For older kids, I recommend having several translations available, so discussion about key words can take place. 

Mark

Here is our lesson about Mark. The left half tells about the book of Mark. The right half tells about Mark.

Matthew

As I mentioned, I am making a fact sheet for the New Testament books as we go through them, so each child can have a booklet at the end of the year, if they want to keep the sheets together.

We started the first Sunday of July setting the tone for the next 6 months. What is the New Testament? What is the purpose? Why is it important to us? The kids were able to ask questions they had, and I hyped them up a little with "You'll learn about..." comments to get them excited. I had a NT Books puzzle the kids had to solve using the index from a Bible (think: "The first letter of the second book") to solve Why was the New Testament written? and they were so into it they didn't want to stop at noon to go outside for a few minutes as I had told them we could. That makes my heart happy!

The second Sunday we started with the Book of Matthew. I gave the kids a hand-out and had them color specific parts ("color the speech bubble blue as xx reads it aloud") as I read and we talked about the facts. This let them listen but also gave them a specific thing to do which kept their little minds from wandering. The first half tells about the book itself, and the second tells a few facts about Matthew, the tax-collector/disciple/probable author.

The kids asked some really good questions and I was able to go a little deeper than anticipated thanks to the group of kids being a little older than usual. They seemed really excited about learning more!

After I have a few more of these sheets made, I'll probably put them on my Teachers Pay Teachers store so you can snag a copy.

Learning the New Testament

Just as I planned back in December, my kiddos from church spent 6 months learning the books of the Old Testament. Each week we went through 1 (or more, depending) and talked about its importance for people then and now. I really wish I had made a fact-sheet for each one, but that idea didn't come to me until May (The best ideas happen that way!) so I decided I would do that starting in July.

PS- I was SO PROUD of the kids who got up on stage and recited EVERY.SINGLE.OLD TESTAMENT BOOK. in front of the congregation. Many folks mentioned afterward that they wished they knew the books of the Bible that well. You couldn't have dimmed the light on my kids' faces for anything after that! It made them all the more excited to jump into the NT, which is what we're doing now!