4 Word Club: List of Stories (New Testament) already available

 A.     N.T. Four Word Clubs already available

B.     Possible Story Sets (see below)

 

Available 4 Word Clubs New Testament (April 2025)

Mt 1:18-25 – Joseph dreams

Matthew 6:7-13  Do not worry

Matthew      Lord’s Prayer

If you are thirsty, come to me

Matthew 7  The foundation of your life (house on sand or on rock)

Matthew 7:7 Ask, seek, knock

Matthew 7:13-14  The broad and the narrow way

Matthew 18:1-5 Who is Greatest in God’s Kingdom?

 

 

Mark 1:16-20 The First Disciples

Mark 1:20    Healing in Simon Peter’s house

Mark 1:        Healing outside Simon Peter’s house

Mark 1:        Why I’ve Come (Jesus’ mission)

Mark 2:3-11 Jesus heals & forgives the paralyzed man

Mark 2         Jesus calls Levi/Matthew

Mark 4:35-41           Jesus calms the storm (also Matthew 8:18,23-27 and Luke 8:22-25)

Mark 10:13-16         Let the little children come

Mark 12:41-44         Widow’s gift (see Lk 21:1-4)

 

Lk 2:6-16 (Mary has a visitor, in Dutch)

Lk 5:17-26 Paralyzed man

Luke 10:25-37   The Good Samaritan(who is my neighbor?)

Lk 10:38-42 Mary & Martha

Lk 15:8-10  Lost Coin

Lk 18:15-19  Jesus blesses the children

Lk 19:1-10  Zacchaeus

Lk 21:1-4 A Widow gives

 

 

John 3:16

John 4:1-42 Woman at well (Samaritan)

John 6:  Jesus feeds 5000 (5 loaves, 2 fish)

John 10:1-10 Jesus the Good Shepherd

John 11 Lazarus

John 13  Jesus washes disciples’ feet

 

Acts 1:1-11 Jesus returns to Heaven

Acts 2:1-ff The Holy Spirit Comes

Acts 2:14-37  Peter preaches

Acts 2:37-47  What must we do? (people respond)

Acts 3:1-16 Petru & John meets lame man by Temple

Acts 5:17-42 Apostles and the temple leaders (in Dutch)

Acts 8:26-40 Philip & the Ethiopian

Acts 10:1-47 Peter & Cornelius

 

 

Possible Story Sets

 

Jesus and the Upside-down Kingdom

Let the little children come   Mk 10:13-16 (Done)

Who is greatest in Kingdom of Heaven   Mt 18:1-5 (done)

Widow’s Gift.          Mk 12:41-44 (done)

Mary & Martha   Lk 10:38-42 (done)

Good Samaritan      Luke 10:25-37

Jesus washes feet    John 13: 1-17

OR Jesus heals Lazarus  John 11:1-44 (done)

OR Jesus enters Jerusalem (on a donkey; children praise him) Mt 21:1-11; Mk 11:1-11; Lk 19:28-40

OR

 

Jesus and His Friends

Mary & Martha (done)

Lazarus healed

Jesus anointed at Bethany by Mary (John 12:1-7; Mt 26:6-13; Mk 14:3-9)

+

Calling of Disciples (Mk 1:16-20)

Healing Peter’s mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-34 OR Matt. 8:14-17)

Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-12)

Zaccheaus (Lk 19:1-10)

. . . .

A New Commandment: Love one another (John 15:11-17)?

 

Jesus begins (Gospel of Mark; not yet translated from Dutch to English)

Mark 1:16-20: The First Disciples

Mark 1:20  Healing in Simon Peter’s house

Mark 1:   Healing outside Simon Peter’s house

Mark 1:  Why I’ve Come (Jesus’ mission)

Mark 2:3-11 Jesus heals & forgives the paralyzed man

Mark 2   Jesus calls Levi/Matthew

 

Living with Jesus (most in NL; not yet translated to ENG)

   Matthew 6:7-13  Do not worry

   Matthew      Lord’s Prayer

            If you are thirsty, come to me

   Matthew 7  The foundation of your life (house on sand or on rock)

   Matthew 7:7

   Matthew 7:13-14  The broad and the narrow way

 

 

 

4 Words: Elisha

 Elisha – 4 words

 

2 Kings 4:1-7 Elisha helps a widow and her two sons

 A Bad Situation: 

v  Everyone draws a bad situation and thinks of two sentence that go with it.
For example:
--a house on fire. Our house burned down. Now I don’t know where I will sleep.
--wounded in the forest. We were in the forest when a bear attacked us. Our friend is hurt, and we can’t carry him home.
--almost drowned. We were swimming in the river. Jane/John was caught in the current.

 

How can I help you?

v  Start Game A8 Guess What I Do.
Take turns thinking of and acting out situations and where someone helps another person (help mom in the house; help dad with something or other; going to the doctor; going to get a haircut; riding the bus).
The rest of the group guesses what the situation is.

v  Circle discussion:  how could you help in “bad situations.” (Consider showing the children some basic first aid or teaching them to call the national emergency line.)

Full

v  Experience “full” by filling something.
Pour lemonade or some other drink into cups
Give everyone a water bottle which they may fill

v  Guess how much makes “full”. Have a jar filled with something like small candies, marbles, nuts, or beads. Guess how many are in the jar.

v  Relay. Each team has a jar to fill (with stones, marbles, crumpled balls of paper . . . ). The first team to fill their jar wins.

 

(Left)over

v  Math Game 11 Triangle Dance. When is the triangle full?
How many fit in the triangle then? And how many are left over?

v  How many children fit on one chair? How many are left over?

v  Math Game 6. How many fit? And how many are left over?

 

Alternate 4 words for this story:

•   debt
•  jar (of oil)
•  borrow (or neighbors)
•  full/fill/plenty 

• Two (sons)
• Help
• Jar
• Full

 

2 Kon. 4 :8-17

Bed  

v  kringgesprek waar slaap je?

v  tekenen

Jongen

v  familiestamboom maken

Verdriet

v  gemoestoestanden uitbeelden, anderen moeten raden,

v  plaatjes van een blij, boos, bang mens tekenze en schrijf het woord erbij

Ging

v  Davar Letter Game f2

 

4 Word Club: Jeremia/Jeremiah

 JEREMIA 4-WOORDEN

Veel activiteiten zijn op Davar: Bridging to Literacy (https://davar-education.eu/).

     Geschreven door Marleen Schönthaler, bewerkt door Mary van Rheenen (holmesvr@online.nl).

 

Jeremia 1

 

Zend

·       Letter Game F2. Schrijf een beetje aparte opdracht op een papiertje. Maak zulke papiertjes voor het aantal kinderen +5. Bespreek de opdrachten. Doe ze in een doos en lat de kinderen er random een uit pakken en uitvoeren. Bijv: ga op het klimrek zitten en doe een vogel na, ga op de rand van de zandbak staan en maak het geluid van een trompet, ga onder de tafel zitten…

Zie  

·       Start Games B Kies iets

 

Zeg

·       Telephone,  verschil

·       Start Games A, kies iets tweemaal

 

Verslaan

     Doe een sport waarbij je kan winnen of verliezen, b.v.b. tikkertje of Cijferspelletje 19 Darts zonder darts.

 

Jeremia 36 :1-32

 

Schrijven

·       FUNdament 12.1: WAAR ga je staan? Maak losse kaartjes met een opdracht erop . . .

·       Start Games H1: Hoe loopt het verhaal af?

 

Voorlezen

·       Start Games H1: Hoe loopt het verhaal af?  

·       Lees iets voor

 

Boekrol

·       Handenarbeid: maak een boekrol.

·       Letterspel B9. Bak een rolmops. Maak een sliert deeg, rol het op en bak het.

OF gebruik bladerdeeg. Elk kind krijgt een stuk, doet er iets lekkers op en rolt het op zodat het op een boekrol lijkt. (Goede gelegenheid om handhygiëne te oefenen. Was uw handen grondig voordat u gaat koken of bakken.)

·       FUNdament Om 18.1: doen een draadje om een boekrol.

Jeremiah (4 Word Club)

 

Jeremiah 1

 

Send

·     Letter Game F2           

·     Go and do. Have as many small pieces of paper as children in the group + 5 extra. Write a strange task on each piece of paper. Discuss the tasks. Put them all in a box & have the children each choose one and do it. Examples might be:  Sit on the desk and act like a bird; stand on the edge of the sandbox and make the sound of a trumpet; go under the table and . . . .

See

·     Start Games B, choose one

Say

·     Telephone

·     Differences (Start Games A; something twice)

Win

·     Math Game 19 Darts without Darts

·     A game like tag where there are winners & losers.

Marleen Schönthaler

 

Jeremiah 36 :1-32

 

Write              

·       FUNdament 12.1: Write where

·       Start Games H1: Finish the story.

 

Read (out loud)

·       Start Games H1: Finish the Story. The group writes their own story, then reads it out loud.

·       Read something out loud to the group

 

Scroll

·     Craft:  make a scroll. Glue sticks (or old pencils or any long, round object) to either end of long pieces of paper. Roll the paper up to make a scroll. OR roll the paper without any sticks.

    You might have something printed on the paper or you might have the children write/draw a message on their own scroll.

·     FUNdament 18.1. A scroll usually has something tied around it. Tie a string around a scroll which the children have made or which you have made to illustrate the story. Then do FUNdament 18.1.

·     Letter Game B9. Make a dough that can be rolled up, either sweet (cookies) or bread.

OR Use squares of puff pastry dough. Give each child a square, have them sprinkle something tasty on the square, then roll it up like a scroll. Bake and eat. (NOTE:  Good opportunity to practice washing hands. Hands must all be washed nicely before baking begins.)

 

Fire

·       Make a camp fire. Burn a piece of paper in it. OR if the room where you meet is heated by fire, carefully burn a piece of paper in the heating stove.

·       Fire safety. Carefully burn a piece of paper. Then discuss fire safety. Why shouldn’t children “play with fire”?

·       Warm and Cold stones, Start Game C5

Marleen Schönthaler