The First Seven Days

For "The First Seven Days" we read the story of how God created our universe. I used The Young Learner's Bible Storybook to retell the story, but there are a lot of great choices. (Genesis 1:1-2:3).

The storybook suggests going on a number hunt and singing "He's God the Whole World in His Hands," but we didn't have time due to weather.

Here is the link to the free sequencing activity I created for my kids to cut and glue.

The Young Learner's Bible Storybook

One of my favorite Children's Bibles is The Young Learner's Bible Storybook by Dr. Mary Manz Simon. I've been using it since 2005 for lessons with young children. We are going through the Bible again this year, January-June focusing on the Old Testament and July-December the New Testament. I'm going to be using this early Bible as a guideline of which story to focus on each week, as I have a tendency to reteach personal favorites more often (and oddly enough I skip commonly-known ones, which really isn't great for kids who are enjoying their first taste of the Bible in my lessons! They need to know about Noah's ark, too!)

New Testament Vocabulary and Labels

Here is the vocabulary I included in my New Testament set to help kiddos learn terms as they read the lessons.

Here is a sample of what the New Testament Book cards from my NT set look like when printed. I hung up a large sheet of paper and we glued the book(s) we read about on each week as a growing list. I went back and added notes to each section (Gospels, Paul's letters, etc.) for clarity.

Revelation

I tried to spend a bit of time talking about how some things in Revelation sound confusing and scary, but we don't need to be worried or afraid.

Jude

Jude

1, 2, and 3 John

1, 2, and 3 John- I loved this lesson. The three letters are short and are pretty simple for your kids to understand.

1 and 2 Peter

1 and 2 Peter