December 29th

Monthly theme: God gave us Jesus. 

Announcements: 

• I will be out of town this Sunday.  All the materials to do any of the activities listed are in a bucket in the resource/supply room.  You will have to make the copies for what you want, but paper , etc. is in the bucket.
• My assistant Tammy will be present Sunday, and she is more than capable and willing to help you.
• We have a fun take home for the kids.  "Find the star" Tammy will help distribute.

Curriculum: Lesson 5 of 5 : The wise men. 

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December  Scripture:  Please go over scripture each week with the motions.    Click here for the December  motions  "God has given a son to us."  Isaiah 9:6

Story for Sun. Dec. 29th:   This week's story is the wise men.  I have a great story copied for you and it will be in your rooms.  This will make it easy..

Prayer time:  Don't forgot to make time to pray.  (Of course I led this past week and forgot myself.)  

Activities:  I have listed the activities that I will supply materials for.  They will be in resource/supply room clearly labeled.   Their will be originals to copy along with colored paper.  You can make the copies (Janet or Tammy can help you if you need.) 

• Follow the stars- love this game.  Super easy!  Materials in supply room for this.
• Look for It game- Also an easy game.  I called this the "I spy " game.  Materials in supply room for this as well.
• Shaped like Wise Men- This looks cute.  A shape matching craft/game.  Materials provided in supply room.
• Stepping stones-Good game for memory verse review, but there are other things you can do for memory verse review if you like.  Materials provided for this as well.   

December 23rd

Monthly theme: God gave us Jesus. 

Announcements: 

• See the lesson layout below.  I have planned everything for you, so you can just show up.  All materials will be in your rooms.  Plan to arrive just a few minutes early and/or review the summary below.  Hope this helps remove an extra something "to do"  this week. It will be a great Sunday!  

December  Scripture:  Please go over scripture each week with the motions.    Click here for the December  motions  "God has given a son to us."  Isaiah 9:6

Plan for Sunday Dec. 23rd:   The focus of the lesson this week is:  Happy Birthday Jesus!  It is focused around a birthday party theme.  Since we already had an "official" happy birthday Jesus party, we are not going to do cupcakes,etc.  Although we will stick with the birthday party theme for the lesson.  The story is basically an overview and can be told during the "table activity" part of the lesson.  I am supplying materials for the following activities which you can do that morning.  

Game before the story:  Balloon Race.  Tape up the colored balloons around the room and children will match their balloon color with those around the room.

Group game before the story:  Birthday party match up.  There will be one larger poster that you can do as a group.  It matches birthday party symbols together.

Bible story/Table activity:  This is the story part of the lesson.  EAch child will receive a set of cards to put in order of the Christmas story.  Guide children through the story and help them put in order and then glue on their sheet.  They can color these if they want later.

Happy Birthday Jesus craft:   Lead up to this craft with the culmination of a birthday party-cake and singing.  Could sing happy birthday to jesus.  Children will decorate a die cut birthday cake and then glue to a sheet.  They will also add the manager and baby Jesus.  
 

December 15th

Monthly theme: God gave us Jesus. 

Announcements: 

• We will not be making the manager scene throughout the month that they reference in the curriculum.  Our children will receive a special manager scene at the "Celebrate Jesus" event on Dec. 8th at 10am.  There are plenty of other activities in the lesson we can use.

Curriculum: Lesson 3 of 5 : The angels tell the shepherds the good news. 

• Click here to view December's  3 min.overview video. Manager Scene.
• Curriculum link: www.whatisorange.org
• Login name:  fishleader     Password: jesus  Choose: First Look Curriculum
• Contact Amy: text or voice:  502-553-9347  email: amy@ccum.net

December  Scripture:  Please go over scripture each week with the motions.    Click here for the December  motions  "God has given a son to us."  Isaiah 9:6

Prayer Time: #1 in our top 10:   Ask the kids what you can pray about and lead them in prayer.

Bible Story:  (found under Make it True) This week's story is the Angel delivering the news to the Shepherds that Jesus was born.  You can continue to story tell this or I have a few books. You can read through them focusing on the part with the Angels and Shepherds.  Let me know Sunday morning and I will get them for you. 

Activities: So many awesome activities this week:

Games/Activities:

• Herding Sheep-Love this fun activity that uses candy canes and cotton balls to "herd" the sheep into a circle taped on floor.  I can provide candy canes and cotton balls.  Let me know!
• God gave us- Also a fun game where you fill in the blank on the sentence.  I have the pictures printed out already.  Let me know if you want to use them.  You could write the sentence on the board or on index cards.  EASY!
• Run and Tell- EASY game as well.  I have pictures printed out for this and I know kids would love to stand up on a stool/chair for this.  Just might require an adult to stand by and assist them.  
• Host of Angels-table activity where they can match angels.
• Telephone-This is not in the curriculum, but you could play the old telephone game where you pass the message around the circle. You can talk about how we share information.One person tells another, and another, and another, etc. 

Craft:

• Good news:  This easy craft allows children to color in the pictures of the angels and shepherds and then glue cotton on the sheep and angel.  

December 8th-Come Celebrate Jesus in the Fellowship Hall with your children.  10am

Lana Toler and Courtney Schuster will stay in the blue fish room (with Tammy) and collect any children dropped off that might not have an adult. At 10:10 Lana and Courtney can bring any children (along with their own) to the fellowship hall.  Thank you, Thank you Lana and Courtney.