KiDS Weekly Experience Guide & Parent Cue: week of January 31st
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Check out our weekly experience guide below. Have a great week!
Preschool Resources
Bible Story: FIRST SIN — The Fall
Big Idea: Wisdom is knowing what’s right and choosing to do it. Ask God for wisdom. Listen to what He says. Stay on God’s path, and live like Jesus. Don’t make the wrong choice like Adam and Eve did when they disobeyed God.
Step 1: Watch the video with your preschoolers.
Step 2: Review with your kids.
Ask your kids: How do you make the right choice? (I ask God! God helps me make the right choice.)
Step 3: Practice the Memory Verse with your preschoolers.
“If any of you need wisdom, ask God for it.’” James 1:5 NIRV
Step 4: Print the Adventure Guide to use with your preschooler throughout the week.
Elementary Resources
STEP 1: Read the Bible Passage with your kids
Bible Story: Building on the Rock • Matthew 5:1-2, 7:24-29
This passage is part of the Sermon on the Mount. As was customary of rabbis in Jesus’ day, He sat down and taught His followers. He taught them many things about how they should follow Him and live. Jesus ended His message by telling His followers that they would be wise if they listened to His teaching and practiced it. He told them that if they practiced what He says, they would be like a house that is built on a rock. When the rains and hard times come, the house will stand. If they didn’t practice what He says, they would be like a house that is built on the sand. When the rains and hard times come, the house will collapse.
STEP 2: Choose a worship video to sing with your kids
STEP 3: Watch the Video with your Kids
STEP 4: Practice this month’s Bible Verse with your kids.
Memory Verse: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24 NIV
STEP 5: Review with your kids.
Big Idea: Jesus teaches us to practice doing what He says.
This story helps us address three kinds of questions that kids may have. They are our He (God question), our We (people question), and our Me (purpose question) for this week.
Ask Your Kids:
Our He Question about God: Why did Jesus spend so much time teaching people?
Our We Question about people: What can we learn from Jesus' teaching?
Our Me Question about our purpose: What does Jesus want for me?