For the last few years, I've been teaching my own lesson plans in children's church. Some of these I've even posted on the website. But I've been thinking about buying some for the winter session. So, which curriculum do you use in children's church?
Which curriculum do you use in children's church?
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Posted 2 months ago #
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messiahsjedi
MemberI have been coming up with my own lessons for children's worship. I just ended a series I called The 7's in the Gospel of John. In it we focused on the 7 "I AM" statements Jesus proclaimed and the 7 miracles John recorded prior to Jesus' death and resurrection. The goal was to use all these to prove to the children that Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God. Now we are changing things in children's worship by giving it a new name - Treasure Island. Our theme verse is Matthew 6:21. The first set of lessons will be from Group's Kid's Travel Guide to the 10 Commandments. This will be our lessons for 13 weeks.
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phurst
MemberOur church uses FaithWeaver. It is a 4 year cirruculum. It has the same lessons each week that is geared to each age bracket,i.e. Tots, kindergarten, early elementary, etc. It has helped the families with kids in diffeent classes because they all can discuss the same lesson...according to the age level. Everyone loves this!
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At one point our church also used "Worship Kid Style" from LifeWay. It's their curriculum for Children's church.
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A number of years ago, our church used a novel approach to teaching in our Sunday School classes. We used a chronological series based on the "Creation to Christ" curriculum that many of our missionaries were using in tribal ministry. I adapted it to our Sunday School for preschool through 6th grade. We used teaching teams for each level, and grouped the younger kids by ability, not age (ie. readers and non-readers), so pre-school through 1st grade children were together, 2nd & 3rd grades and 4th thru 6th. All of the kids had the same lesson each week, with activities geared to their understanding. The entire goup met for about 20 minutes at the begining of the session for an introductory puppet skit or people skit, singing, etc. before going to their classes for the Bible lesson.
The advantage of having all the kids on the same "page" was that families could discuss the material during the week and parents and older children could participate in the skits/opening activities. There were over 50 lessons, and we did not meet during the summer, so the material lasted for over a year. Also, since the material was not dated, we could interrupt it without spending money on curriculae that we never used.
A side benefit was that many people who would never teach a class participated in the drama activities.Posted 1 month ago #
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