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Preschool TeacherVolume 2, No. 3, Spring Quarter, 2018Writer: Brenda Jackson; Theme Writer: Patricia RicheyEditor in Chief: Kyle Elkins, kyle.elkins@bogardstore.orgBusiness Manager: Wayne Sewell, wayne.sewell@bogardstore.org© 2018, Bogard Press, 4605 N. State Line Ave. Texarkana, TX 75503-2928www.bogardpress.org; 1-800-264-2482

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spring 2018

Dear Preschool Teacher,

If you are new to SPLAT I would like to introduce myself. I am Brenda Jackson and I have been privileged to write the Preschool SPLAT curriculum.

Wow! I can hardly believe I am writing the introductory letter to the Spring Quarter of the second year of SPLAT. It has been such an amazing journey writing this curriculum for Bogard Press. It has certainly been a humbling experience. I know that many of you have prayed for all of the SPLAT writers and I thank you for your prayers.

For the Spring Year 2 quarter we are turning again to the Old Testament to teach preschoolers the rich truths found in God’s Word. In this quarter your students will engage with Bible figures who God called into service and who stepped up to the task. Filled with many classic Bible events your students will be engage in learning lessons they will treasure for a life time.

One of the great new things about SPLAT curriculum is the element of choice. Each lesson provides you with many activities from which you may pick and choose the ones that work best for you and your students. Select the activities that fit your teaching style and your students learning style. Preschoolers are busy little people and we need to engage them in actively learning God’s Word.

I pray you will enjoy this quarter while teaching your children to “Listen Up” and follow “God’s Plan” in their lives.

Don’t forget to check out SPLAT on Pinterest and the SPLAT Blog at bogardpress.org. You may also want to follow me on Pinterest. I would be thrilled to include a fellow preschool Sunday School teacher as one of my followers.

Know I am praying for you! And remember…SPLAT – Share-Pray-Learn-Apply-Tell.

Thank you so much for choosing to use SPLAT for your children’s Bible study time. I hope you are excited about the amazing things that God is going to do through you during this time.

SPLAT stands for Share, Pray, Learn, Apply and Tell. You and your students will go through each of these five elements each week. Our desire is that your students:

Begin to share life experiences with each other and with you. Learn the power of prayer both publically and privately. Experience God’s Word through active learning. Apply the never ending, never changing truth found in God’s Word. Tell others about what they have learned during SPLAT.

As you view your set of SPLAT Preschool Teacher Leaflets, you will see multiple suggestions for each lesson element. You do not have to use all of the teaching options provided under each heading. Instead, choose one or more of the teaching options for use based on how your students learn, the amount of time you have to prep, what best fits your teaching style and based on how you believe the Holy Spirit may be directing your teaching time.

During Share, be sure to remember to have your students place their attendance sticker on the attendance chart. The attendance chart is located in the SPLAT Preschool Visuals. The attendance stickers, however, are located on the sticker page in each child’s set of SPLAT Student Preschool Leaflets. You will want to place the attendance chart in your classroom somewhere with easy access.

Teaching students the power of prayer is an important part of your Bible study time each week. During Pray, don’t be afraid to ask students for prayer requests or for a student volunteer to pray each week.

Each week’s lesson for Learn and Apply will vary. So, please pay attention to creative ways our writer has used the visuals, student leaflets to develop fun hands-on learning activities and object lessons.

Tell provides the perfect opportunity for you to hand out the SPLAT Preschool Tell Cards to each student. Be sure to explain that each tell card should be taken home and saved each week like a trading card. In each child’s set of tell cards, one special tell card for the student to color. You can use this as a prize for a game or a special challenge for students. A student may color it and give it to someone else as a way to tell him about Jesus.

SPLAT visuals can be identified by lesson number and the portion of the lesson in which the visual will be used. Visuals have a unit visual for each unit in the quarter. The unit visuals should be hung in a special place in your classroom to help students know what unit they are studying and to help them memorize each unit memory verse. Each set of visuals also contains the Signs of Salvation Visual. This visual should be placed in your classroom where students can easily view it and use it at various times throughout the quarter to present the gospel message.

Finally, you should notice that there are fourteen lessons available for this quarter but only thirteen weeks. The fourteenth lesson in the quarter is the Theme Lesson. The Theme Lesson allows you to present a lesson out of the chronological scope and sequence in order to fit a specific holiday in each quarter. Whether you use it or not is up to you. If you choose to use the Theme Lesson, you would either combine two of the lessons from this quarter or simply skip one and then fill in the chronological gaps for your students the next week.

Active learning requires supplies. The following supplies are supplies that you may want to consider having on hand in your classroom and considered basic classroom supplies: extra Bibles, pencils, crayons, colored pencils, permanent markers, watercolors, washable markers, finger paints, craft paints, paint brushes, washable glue, hot glue gun and sticks, glue sticks, tape (scotch, Washi, masking, double-sided, duct), hole punch, stapler, scissors, cotton balls, Popsicle sticks or craft sticks, copy paper, construction paper, bulletin board paper, wax paper, poster board, poster putty, a chalkboard, cardboard, foam sheets, foam board, whiteboard or flip chart or chart paper, lunch paper sacks, glitter, glitter glue, chalk or markers, foam cutouts, chenille wires/stems, yarn, string, ribbon, index cards, note cards, paper towels, paper clips, Play-Doh, modeling clay, cardstock of all colors, dowel rods, brass fasteners, tissue paper, project display board, rubber bands, aluminum foil, safety pins, pushpins, T-pins, clothespins and stickers. Other supplies will be required for certain activities and crafts. They can be found in the materials list on each week’s teacher leaflet.

Praying for a SPLAT-tastic time in your children’s Bible study time!

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Once you have received your copy of SPLAT, it is recommended that you get a little organized. This can be easily accomplished with the use of a portable file folder case and fouteen hanging file folders.

Label each folder with the dates found in the quarter you are working with. Then place the teacher leaflet, student leaflets, tell cards and visuals for each date in their specific file folder. You may even want to place the tell cards inside a zipper bag so they don’t fall out of the folder.

Then you are done getting organized for the quarter. Your material for each week is all together and ready for you to prep each week. All you need to do is grab the next week’s folder on your way out of class or just grab the next week’s teacher leaflet. Leaving the student leaflets, tell cards and visuals, help you to prepare for an emergency substitute teacher.

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Unit 1, Lesson 1March 4, 2018

Devotional

In a troubled and unstable world it is good to know God is our provider. Because of God’s promise we should be free from worry, but we often fret over unpaid bills or the price of food rather than to trust in Him. As I contemplated retiring from a thirty year teaching career, I was concerned about income. One morning as I talked with the Lord, the Holy Spirit gently reminded me, to not worry about the money. He was going to handle it. He has, and I strive daily to trust Him to provide all my needs. Read and memorize Philippians 4:19. It is a great Scripture to use against Satan when he tempts you to worry.

Bible Background

This lesson takes place in a dark period in the history of the nation of Israel. King Ahab, the ruler of the Northern Kingdom, was a worshiper of Baal and, because of the King’s influence, most of the nation of Israel had committed spiritual adultery in their worship of this pagan God. The worship of the one true God had all but ceased in the Northern Kingdom.

The prophet of God, Elijah, began his ministry during this depraved time in Israel. Elijah went before King Ahab and declared there would be no dew or rain until Elijah said. This seemed to be a direct challenge against Baal who was believed to be the god of the sky or weather. For three and a half years the land of Israel experienced a drought.

God instructed Elijah to go hide by the Brook Cherith. Perhaps, had King Ahab been able to find him, King Ahab would have harmed Elijah. God sent Elijah away where He provided protection and substance. God sent ravens with bread and meat twice a day and there was water to drink in the brook.

Lesson 1

3 - 4 - 2018Unit 1 Theme: Listen Up!

Scripture Text: 1 Kings 17:1-6

Application: I need to trust God to provide for me.

Unit 1 Memory Verse: “He went and did…the word of the Lord.” 1 Kings 17:5

Lesson 1 Memory Verse: “God shall supply all your need.” Philippians 4:19

Basic classroom supplies

SPLAT Preschool Visuals:

Attendance Chart

Signs of Salvation Visual

Prayer Song Visual

Unit 1 Visual

Lesson 1 Learn Visual

Pattern Page

SPLAT Preschool Student Leaflet and sticker page

SPLAT Tell Card

Grocery Store Center —shopping cart, toy food, cash register, play money

Box for puppet stage

Styrofoam cup

Clear mini tongs

Bread, wieners

Magazines pictures—bread, meat, water

Blue plastic tablecloth

Wiggle eyes

Choose one or more:

Prepare the All I Need game boards and one set of game cards per student from page 3 of the student leaflet. You may want to glue the cards on cardstock for extra support. Shuffle all cards and place in a pile. Everyone takes a turn drawing a card and matching a picture of something God provides. First person to fill his game board wins. If a player does not need the card drawn, return it to the draw pile. Remind the students of God’s provision. Teach that God has also provided for us spiritually through His Son, Jesus Christ, the best gift of all.

After playing the All I Need game on page 3 of the student leaflet, students should be able to draw the things that God provides on page 4 of the student leaflet.

As you sing the following song to the tune “God Is So Good”, encourage students to touch the matching pictures on page 4 of the student leaflet.

God gives me food,God gives me food,God gives me food.He’s so good to me.

Additional verses: God gives me clothes, God gave us moms, God gave us dads, God gave His Son.

10 minutes

Choose one or more:

Prepare your preschoolers to share with their families and friends the lessons learned in today’s lesson. The lesson memory verse is the perfect way for them to share how God provides for us. Repeat the memory verse activity from the Learn time of the lesson. Allow students to skip around in a circle while they sing the memory verse. Skipping will be challenging for most preschoolers, but they love to try.

It is difficult for young students to keep up with their papers. Consider attaching the Tell Card to the student leaflet with a staple or paper clip to ensure it will not get lost.

10 minutes

BONUS ACTIVITIESPlay the All I Need game again.

Spend more time in the grocery store center.

Suggested Songs of Praise: “My God Is So Big” “Jesus Loves Me.”

EVERYTHING I NEED

15 minutes

Make a copy of the attendance chart for each student using the pattern found on the Pattern Page. Have students color the picture on their spring attendance chart. Fill in each student’s name in the blank. Display the charts low on the wall so that your preschoolers can reach their chart. Help students add an open Bible sticker in the Unit 1section. Introduce the Unit 1 Visual and the Signs of Salvation Visual.

Choose one or more:

Raven Craft: Use the pattern on the Pattern Page to make a copy of the raven on card stock for each student. Provide strips of black construction paper and scissors for each student. Students cut and glue tiny pieces of black paper to the raven. Younger students can tear their paper. Add longer strips for tail feathers. Using a hot glue gun the teacher can add wiggle eyes. As students work, discuss how God provided the needs of a special servant of God using birds.

Grocery Store Center: Provide props for the students to role-play shopping in a grocery store. Purchase a toy shopping cart with play food. A cash register and play money could also be part of this center. Set the food up on shelves. As children play, teach them how God provides for them. Discuss how God gives people jobs to make money so we can buy the things we need like food and clothes.

Establish a routine to transition from active time to quiet time using the Prayer Song Visual to the tune of “Where Is Thumbkin?” provided in the Preschool Visuals. Lead your students in prayer, thanking God for providing their needs. Be specific as you pray.

Suggested Prayer: “Dear God, Thank You for the food I eat. Thank You for the clothes I wear. Thank You for people who take care of me. In Jesus’ name, amen.”

5 minutes

Share today’s lesson using today’s Scripture text or the narrative found on page 1 of the student leaflet.

Choose one or more:

Prepare a simple stage from a box to use with the Lesson 1 Learn Visual. Attach King Ahab, Elijah and the Brook Cherith to dowel rods or wooden craft sticks. Attach the ravens to string and the string to a craft stick so they can fly to bring Elijah bread and meat at the appropriate time. Involve your students in helping manipulate the figures as you share the lesson of Elijah’s warning to King Ahab. If your class is young, consider using extra adult helpers or a Styrofoam storyboard.

Place the wooden craft stick holding the Elijah puppet in the bottom of an upside down Styrofoam cup. Using black cardstock, draw and cut out a raven and attach to mini clear plastic tongs. Make sure to leave room for the students to grasp the tongs. Provide small pieces of bread and pieces of wieners for the students to pick up with the tongs and carry to Elijah. Remind the students how God provided Elijah food and water. Provide extra bread and wieners or pieces of lunch meat for the students to enjoy as a snack. Cut wieners into very small pieces to prevent choking.

Prepare an origami raven for each student out of black folding paper. Let the students play with the ravens as you share the lesson on God providing Elijah’s needs.

Before class cut out magazine pictures of bread and meat. During class give each student a sheet of cardstock then have him glue one large picture of either bread or meat to the cardstock. Make sure that each child has one card. After using a hole punch, attach a piece of yarn to the picture. Allow each student to wear his card like a necklace. Have one student pretend to be Elijah and the other students pretend to be the ravens flying food to Elijah. Create the Brook Cherith using a blue tablecloth or blue towel.

Have students sing the words of the memory verse to the tune of “Skip to My Lou.” God shall supply all your need, God shall supply all your need, God shall supply all your need, From His riches in glory.

Have students trace through the maze on page 2 of the student leaflet to help Elijah get to the Brook Cherith. God sent Elijah to the brook so he would have water to drink during the drought.

15 minutes