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

 

 

4 Word Club: Joseph

4 Words:  Joseph

Genesis 37:1-12 (Joseph & His Brothers)

 

Family:

·       Discussion: How many people live in your house? Name brother/sister/father/ mother/ uncle/ aunt/ nephew/ niece/ grandfather/ grandmother/ son/ daughter/ brother-in-law/sister-in-law/ in school language and home language. 
(ADDITIONAL NOTE:  there might not be direct translations for terms for family from one language to another. For example, the English word "cousin" includes male and female cousins; Spanish has two separate words. Some languages have separate words for elder brother or senior sister and younger brother or junior sister; Dutch has no separate word for "nephew" and "male cousin" or "niece" and "female cousin." Pay attention to these differences. They point to cultural differences in family relationships.)

 

Colourful coat: 

·       DG b4b variation Coloured pencils--teach the name of colours in both languages

·       Different texture: show different pieces of fabric and name words for the texture: smooth/ rough/ hairy/ knitted in both languages.
Take turns feeling the fabric and naming the color. Gently correct or ask the group to correct?

·       Handwork. Children draw a coat and color it. Or children get a coloring sheet and color the coat.

·       Color-coded. Go over the names of basic colors. Then play a running game or an instruction game. Give instructions like:  Everyone with red on, jump up and down.
Everyone with blue on, run to the other side of the room. Everyone with green on, sit down.

 

Dreams:

v Circle time/discussion. The group takes turns sharing what they recently dreamt about.

v Start Game F1. Who bows the nicest?

v Start Game A8 Guess What I Do. Children take turns acting out something from the Bible story. Others guess what they are doing.

May do this as teams. Each team takes a turn. If they guess what their teammate is doing, they get 2 points. If they can’t guess but the other team can, the other team gets one point.

 

High:

v See FUNdament 21 High. Choose one or more of these activities.

v Sing “Head & shoulders, knees & toes.” The head is high. The toes are low.

Low:

v Low—if there is a sandbox in a playground nearby, give the children plastic shovels. Have them dig pits in the sandbox. The pits are low.

v See FUNdament 23 Under. Adapt activities to “low” rather than “under”

 

 

Genesis 37: 12-36 Joseph Goes to Egypt

 

Search (Joseph was sent to find his brothers)

Shove or throw (Joseph thrown into a well) OR Low  (see “low” in previous lesson)

Sold:

v Preventing  Human Trafficking. Use online resource to give children safety tips to avoid being “sold.”

v Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver. If the children are old enough, do a Math Game involving 20. (Darts without Darts) Or teach them to count up to ten (youngest) and twenty (older) using their fingers & toes (Math Game 15)

Lie/dye (brothers lied to Jacob; dyed coat in goat’s blood) Might tie-dye something.

 

Genesis 39 (Joseph, Potiphar, Potiphar’s wife)

Serve:

v At snack time, take turns serving each other. Pass the snacks around, from hand-to-hand, and give one snack to the person next to you who gives one snack to the person next to them . . . .

v Clean up the meeting room together.

v Serve the neighborhood. Give every group of 5 children a trash bag and cheap plastic gloves. Go pick up litter. Blow a whistle or use some other signal to get everyone to come back. The group with the most trash in their bag gets a prize.
OR make greeting cards. Send them to sick people or old people in the neighborhood or in the church.

All:

Care for:

Lie or Mad:

 

 

Slave   f2 and do run

All

 

Genesis 40 (Joseph in prison; dreams of baker & cup bearer)

Mad:  d3 use both languages

Long time:  discussion about waiting

Three:  Start Game f 10 tag trio

Vine (grapes)/bread:  f1 remember the dream ( use word/drawings/clay)

 

Genesis 41 (Pharaoh’s dreams; Joseph explains)

Thick/thin:   

Start Game E1 My Stick. Have some thick and some thin

Raise/save:

Much:

show sand under the microscope, fill a  jar with sand, how many grains of sand are there? Introduce the word infinite (uncountable)

Hunger:

 

Genesis 42 (Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt)

 

Grain:

Letter Game 3 Using a Recipe. Make some sort of bread

Spy: 

Play hide and seek

Youngest:

Letter Game b4a with ages

Name:

Letter Game b1 or b2…. Use all names of the twelve tribes

 

 

Educative: lesson about ancient Egypt--cats, pyramids, irrigation, hieroglyphics

Bible: lesson about  blessings, God's plan

 

 

Bible theme:  Down & Up

First story—Joseph’s brothers bow down to him in a dream

2^nd story—they throw him in a well (down further than bowing)

3^rd story—he gets thrown into prison (further down than a well)

5^th story—Raised up to speak to Pharaoh; becomes 2^nd in Egypt

6^th story—Brothers bow down to him, but Joseph raises them up.