Elementary Curriculum

November 29, 2020 | Unit 2, Session 1

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

  • Baby Name Book or Internet Access

  • Sheet of Paper

1. Read the Bible Passage | Genesis 12; 15; 17

2. Ask the Big Picture Question:

Why can we trust God?

3. Watch the Bible Story

4. Review the Key Verse

Galatians 3:29, “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”

5. Answer the Big Picture Question

We can trust God because He is faithful and does everything for His glory and our good.

6. Interact with the “Questions from kids” Video

7. Pray together

8. Do one or both of the Activities

Activity #1: The Name Game

Directions 

Invite your kids to sit in a circle with you. Lead them in a simple clap-clap-snap-snap rhythm. Repeat the rhythm until your kids feel comfortable with it. Then, without dropping the beat, state your own name in place of the second snap. Your child to the right will do the same, and so on until each family member in the circle has said their own name. 

Say 

Usually, we use one name for our whole lives. Today we will learn about a time God made a covenant with a man and changed that man’s name! Why do you think God would change someone’s name? 

Activity #2: Name Meaning Research

Directions 

Use a baby name book or a computer to help your kids research their name’s meaning. Allow your kids to write their names on a large sheet of paper, along with their names’ meanings. Encourage them to draw pictures that represent what their name means. 

Say 

The names we chose to give you sometimes have meaning based on what we felt when you were born or what wehoped would be true about you. God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, which means “father of many nations.” God made a covenant to bless the whole world through Abraham. God used Abraham’s new name as a way to reassure him that the promised family would come. 

In our lives, sometimes it can be hard to trust God when we don’t understand His plans. Why can we trust God? We can trust God because He is faithful and does everything for His glory and our good. 

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