Elementary Curriculum

November 22, 2020 | Unit 1, Session 6

Quick Links: Printable Lesson Plan | Younger Kids Activity Page | Older Kids Activity Page

Hey Parents!

We wanted to offer a few directions as you navigate leading your grade-schooler through today’s lesson and activities. Below you will find our Bible passage for the day, a lesson plan for the day, and several other tips that can help you and your child as you study and worship this morning.

Here are the materials you will need for our lesson today:

  • Coloring Supplies

  • Burlap Sack or Pillowcase

  • Index Cards

  • Pen

1. Read the Bible Passage | job

2. Ask the Big Picture Question:

Who is God?

3. Watch the Bible Story

4. Review the Key Verse

Colossians 1:16b-17, “All things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

5. Answer the Big Picture Question

God is our Creator and King.

6. Interact with the “Questions from kids” Video

7. Pray together

8. Do one or both of the Activities

Activity #1: Potato Sack Race

Directions 

Form two teams and direct each team to line up at one end of the room. Provide a burlap sack or pillowcase to your first child or family member in each line. Demonstrate how to step into the sack and hop to move forward. Tell your kids that when you say go, the first person on each team will hop to the far side of the room and back. Upon returning, she will step out of the sack and give it to the next person, who will step into it and hop down and back. The first team whose members complete the race wins.

Say 

In Bible times, people who felt very sad would often wear sackcloth. Sackcloth would have been rough and uncomfortable, but it was used to show how sad they were. Today we will hear about a man who wore sackcloth and wanted to ask questions of God. 

Activity #2: Peer Mediators

Directions 

Write scenarios on index cards that might cause two people to disagree with each other. Form groups and provide a card to each group. Invite two of the members in each group to play the roles of people who disagree. The third person will practice being a mediator. Explain that a mediator is someone who goes back and forth between people who disagree to help them communicate, understand each other, and come to an agreement. 

Example scenarios:

  • Two kids want to watch different TV programs, but the programs come on at the same time.

  • Two kids each want to be goalie in a soccer game, but they are on the same team.

  • One kid has two friends who refuse to speak with one another.

Say 

Job said he was innocent. He felt his suffering was unfair. He thought that a mediator could help him show God that he did not deserve such hard circumstances. In fact, none of us is innocent. We are all guilty of sin. Thankfully, God sent Jesus to be our mediator. He died on the cross to save us from sin and protect us from the punishment we deserve. 

EXTRA TIPS

  • If your grade-schooler is in First or Second Grade, start the morning working on the coloring sheet and activity page.

  • As time permits, do one activity before the Bible Story Video and one activity afterward, to help reinforce the message.

  • If your grade-schooler is in Third, Fourth, or Fifth Grade, download and print the Older Kid Journal Page for them to work on at the end of the lesson