The Beatitudes provide so many Sunday school resources to use with your 6-8 year olds in class. Help the children realize just how much they already know and how to feel good about themselves using the ideas below.
Bible Story:
Use the Beatitudes (Matthew 5: 1-10) as an example of Jesus teaching, or any other story from the bible that shows Jesus as a teacher. This should be at a level a level of understanding appropriate to the age of the children in your class (6-8). If you wished, you could choose a number of stories to illustrate how Jesus taught the people he met.
Drama:
Ask for volunteers to “teach” something to the rest of the class. This could be a 3 minute talk about something that they are interested in or a hobby that they have. If possible warn the children of this the week prior to holding this class so that they can prepare something, and/or bring any demonstration or visual things that will help to explain the subject they are teaching. If you have time, allow as many children as possible to take a turn at being a “teacher”.
Discussion 1:
Explain that the subject that the children talked about is their “knowledge” and the fact that they are able to explain this is their “understanding” of what that knowledge means. Discuss what is important about knowledge, and why it is important to understand what we know.
Activity:
Using your own skill base, teach the children something practical that you know. This could be something to make such as a handcraft project, or write such as a poem, or musical such as a song, or even plant if you enjoy gardening. Demonstrate your knowledge by showing the class how to do this project, and make sure they understand the instructions before they start.
Discussion 2:
Why are teachers important? Why is learning important? Why is understanding important. What have the children learned from today’s class? Is there anything they have been taught that they don’t understand? Finish with a small bible reading: Proverbs 3: 19-20.
“By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations,
by understanding he set the heavens in place,
by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.”
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