Fall 2010

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The following items are included in your Teaching Essentials to provide you with some extra options and features for some of the lessons. From time to time an item is referenced in the lesson text for the teacher. The ideas and suggestions listed below are in addition to those and are meant to be a springboard for your own creativity in the classroom. Please give us some feedback as to how you use these items in your lessons. We want to hear from you. Happy teaching!

Attendance Chart

Use this chart to help track attendance in your class. Encourage the students to come every week and even bring a friend. Mark the chart and consider rewarding the students for every five marks by their names.

Foam Globe

One of these is included in each kit. Pass around the globe while waiting for class to begin and talk about the different things in the world that God created. Another option is to pass it as each student says a word of the memory verse, like the popcorn game.

Plastic Gold Medal

Choose a different student to be a helper each Sunday. Let him or her wear the medal to indicate that he or she is the helper. Let students write their names on small slips of paper for attendance, good behavior, good participation, etc. and place it in a bag or basket. At the end of the quarter, draw a name from the bag or basket and let that person take the

Zoo Animal Shaped Notepad

Give each student a sheet and allow him or her to write prayer requests on the sheet. At the end of the quarter, give students another sheet and have them write down their favorite part of this quarter. You may learn something to use again!

Ark Animal Micro-Mini Stickers

Use these stickers on the attendance chart or to mark a special effort on Discovery Sheets.

Vinyl Dinosaurs

Use the dinosaurs when talking about the animals on the ark.

Allow the students to play with the dinosaurs before class starts.

Music CD

The CD provides music that correlates with every lesson’s theme or memory verse.  Use it to add interest and activity to the lesson times.

Play the music while the students enter the room and wait for class to begin.

Fall 2010

• Download – Preschool Bonus Items in (.doc) format
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The following items are included in your Teaching Essentials to provide you with some extra options and features for some of the lessons.  From time to time an item is referenced in the lesson text for the teacher.  The ideas and suggestions listed below are in addition to those and are meant to be a springboard for your own creativity in the classroom.  Please give us some feedback as to how you use these items in your lessons.  We want to hear from you.  Happy teaching!

Attendance Chart

Use this chart to help track attendance in your class.  Encourage the children to come every week and even bring a friend.  Mark the chart and consider rewarding the children for every five marks by their names.

Foam Globe

One of these is included in each kit. Pass around the globe while waiting for class to begin. Allow children to investigate the globe, while explaining the green color represents the land and the blue color represents the water in the world.

Rainbow Crayon

Use the rainbow crayon to draw a rainbow for your children. Let each child use the crayon to draw a rainbow on his or her own sheet of paper. Using the rainbow crayon, write each child’s name on a piece of white paper.

Vinyl Snake

Let the children stretch and play with the snake before class starts. Use the snake to represent the serpent when teaching Unit 2.

Ark Animal Stickers

Use these stickers on the attendance chart.

Use to reward special effort, good behavior, or participation in an activity or project.

Use to mark special effort on Take ‘n Talk sheets or other projects.

God Made Families Stickers

Place each sticker on a separate index card. Write underneath who each person is. Spread them on a table and ask the children to find the mother, father, grandparent, etc.

Music CD

The CD provides music to correlate with each lesson’s theme or memory verse.  Use it to add interest and activity to the lesson times.

Play the music while the students enter the room and wait for class to begin.

Fall 2010

Elementary Teaching Essentials Song Lyrics

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Fall 2010

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Early and Upper Elementary Teacher Tips:

1. Take a picture of each student’s face and print it out. Print a ribbon for each student on white cardstock and write each students name on one. Cut out the picture and glue it to the center of the student’s ribbon. Use the ribbons to decorate your bulletin board or front door.
2. Notice the new Walk the Talk section on the Discovery Sheets. Encourage the students to complete the weekly challenge given. Allow time each week to let them share their “Walk the Talk.”
3. The beginning of the quarter is a great time to check your supply closet. Take advantage of the many back-to-school specials to stock up on items often used (pencils, markers, scissors, etc.)
4. Come up with your own list of “firsts” to share with your class. Bring a picture of your first day of school and encourage them to do the same. Share a different personal “first” each week. Take a class picture of the first Sunday of the quarter. For many churches, it may be promotion Sunday and what a great keepsake for your class.
5. Check out the Livin’ UR Life/Take Action spread in the Explorer’s Guide and Adventure Guide. Consider creating an Operation Christmas Child box (or two) as a class project. Enlist a parent to help you with this.

PRESCHOOL TIPS

1. Look for a plastic ark to use during Unit 3. If one is not available, create one from a shoebox to use. Consider creating a large one from a refrigerator box, if available.
2. The beginning of the quarter is a great time to check your supply closet. Take advantage of the many back-to-school specials to stock up on items often used (pencils, markers, scissors, etc.)
3. Visit your local library and find children’s picture books that show real-life pictures of plants, animals, fish, the sun, moon, and stars for the children to look through. Remind them God created all of these items.
4. Be sure to send home Take ’n Talk sheets with the children. Encourage families to do the activities on the back as a way of reinforcing the lessons their children have learned. Mail or send home the Kids’ Cards as well. Encourage parents to let their child tell them about the picture and use it as a way to review each week’s lesson.
5. Use the Kids’ Cards at the beginning of the lesson to review the previous week’s lesson. Let the children take turns sharing what is happening in the picture. Another option is to place them in a child-safe photo album to let children look through. Encourage them to find a partner with whom to “share” the lesson.

If this is your first time using the D6 curriculum, we welcome you into our family. Here are a few helpful hints and ideas to help you get started.

1. Read pages 2 and 3 of the teaching guide to learn what the CLEAR Learning System is all about and how to use it.
2. Read page 4 to gain a better understanding of the products used with this age group. Look through your teaching guide, the Teaching Essentials packet, the Take ‘n Talk sheets, and the Kids’ Cards together to understand how each part is used.
3. Page 5 has some helpful classroom tips as well as characteristics specific to each age group.
4. Cut apart just the Teaching Pictures for the first month in the Teaching Essentials packet or cut out all the Teaching Pictures and divide them by months (two-gallon plastic bags work well for this). Make a list of all supplies you will need for the month on a large post it and attach it to the front of the teaching guide before the first Sunday of each month. Be sure you have them all and know where they are so they will be easily accessible when you need them.
5. Make a copy of all the reproducibles at the beginning of the month. Place them in the plastic bag or a file folder. Be sure to always have a few extras for visitors.
6. Read through all the lessons for each unit at the beginning of the month. Then review the lesson at the beginning of each week. Begin the week off by gathering items for any of the CONNECT, Craft, and Bible Activities you will need for that week. Do NOT wait until Saturday to begin preparing.
7. Ask a parent who does not feel comfortable helping in the classroom to cut out projects, help gather supplies together, or tear out the Take ‘n Talk sheets at the beginning of each month.
8. Have copies of the coloring pages from the preschool tips on hand for those times when church may run long or you need additional activities for the children.
9. Choose Craft and Bible activities that best fit the needs of your classroom. You know your children best. Feel free to adapt any of these to the personalities of your children.
10. Pray each day for your students and that God will use you to teach His Word.

Summer 2010

Download – Preschool Bonus Items in (.doc) format

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The following items are included in your Teaching Essentials to provide you with some extra options and features for some of the lessons.  From time to time an item is referenced in the lesson text for the teacher.  The ideas and suggestions listed below are in addition to those and are meant to be a springboard for your own creativity in the classroom.  Please give us some feedback as to how you use these items in your lessons.  We want to hear from you.  Happy teaching!

Attendance Chart
Use this chart to help track attendance in your class.  Encourage the students to come every week and even bring a friend.  Mark the chart and consider rewarding the students for every five marks by their names.

Make a Good Patient Sheet
Allow the children to help you take care of the bear during the first unit to remind them of the Good Samaritan. Place the bear sticker on a large index card and allow them to help you place the first aid stickers on the bear. Write the Heartprint: We Should Love Others at the top of the large index card. Pass the card around and have the children repeat the Heartprint to you.

Inflatable Microphone
Allow the children to use this during Unit 2. Pass it around and allow them to say the Heartprint or memory verse into the microphone. Let children take turns holding the microphone and leading the other children in worshiping God. Use it to “ask” children questions about the lesson and allow them to “answer” in the microphone.

Smile Face Spiral Notepad
Show children the happy face on the front of the notepad. Remind them when we get to heaven, we will be happy. Let older children practice writing their names on a sheet of paper or write their names and let them flip through looking for it.
Write a special note to each student in the notepad during the last unit. Be sure to draw a happy face on the note. As the child leaves class, give it to his or her parent to read to the child later.
Write the Heartprint: Heaven Is the Real Happily Ever After on a sheet so that each child will have one. Give one to each child as he or she leaves class. Encourage the children to say the Heartprint everyday.

Heart Stickers

Use these stickers during Unit 1 to remind the children We Should Love One Another.

Write the Heartprint on index cards and allow children to add a heart sticker to each one. Encourage them to give the index card to someone and tell them the Heartprint.

Cross Miniature Stickers
Use these stickers on the attendance chart.
Use to reward special effort, good behavior, or participation in an activity or project.
Use to mark special effort on Take ‘n Talk sheets or other projects.

Poster Putty
Use the putty to attach individual pieces to the poster or board as needed.  Encourage the students to help place the pieces.  It only takes a little bit of putty to attach each piece.  The more you “knead” it, the stickier it becomes.

Enough putty is provided to help hang posters in the classroom.  Use the unit posters and teaching cards as decorations in the room and review centers with which the students can interact.

Music CD
The CD provides music to correlate with each lesson’s theme or memory verse.  Use it to add interest and activity to the lesson times.

Play the music while the students enter the room and wait for class to begin.

Summer 2010

Elementary Teaching Essentials Bonus Items

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The following items are included in your Teaching Essentials to provide you with some extra options and features for some of the lessons. From time to time an item is referenced in the lesson text for the teacher. The ideas and suggestions listed below are in addition to those and are meant to be a springboard for your own creativity in the classroom. Please give us some feedback as to how you use these items in your lessons. We want to hear from you. Happy teaching!

Attendance Chart

Use this chart to help track attendance in your class. Encourage the students to come every week and even bring a friend. Mark the chart and consider rewarding the students for every five marks by their names.

Foam Mini Flyer

Two of these are included in each kit. Allow the students to take turns shooting them at the same time. Allow the one whose flyer went the shortest distance say the memory verse or tell you one fact about the lesson. Another option is to use the flyers along with a hula-hoop or basket. Divide the students into two teams and have them take turns shooting it into the hula-hoop or basket. If the flyer makes it in there, the shooter would retrieve it from there and give it to the next person on the team. The team who finishes first wins. Have older students write the words to the memory verse on a white board after every successful shot as an additional step.

Design your own puzzle

Give each student a piece of the puzzle to write his or her name on and decorate. If you have extra pieces, write the quarter and year on them along with words describing heaven or the reference of the memory verse,

Distribute tickets for attendance and participation for a chance to win a drawing to be held at the end of the quarter. The prize can be the “class puzzle” they decorated earlier in the quarter.

Keep the decorated puzzle in your room as something for the students to do when they arrive early and as a reminder of the lessons learned this quarter.

Inflatable Beach Ball

Use the beach ball in lesson 6 as a memory verse review. Consider this option: Write the words to any of the verses on masking tape. Tape the words to the beach ball and remove them after learning the verses.

If your students are losing interest with the Bible lesson, surprise them by quickly throwing the beach ball to one of them and instructing the student to tell you one thing he or she has learned from the lesson. That student then throws it back to you and you throw it to another student, continuing until you have everyone’s interest again.

At the end of the quarter, use a laundry basket or a clean trashcan to play a “basketball” game with your students to review the memory verses. Line students up, but before they can shoot, they must say one of the memory verses from the quarter. But the same memory verse cannot be repeated back-to-back.

Bible Miniature Stickers

Use these stickers on the attendance chart.

Give each student one to place on the bookmarks created in lesson ?? on the Discovery Sheets.

Poster putty

Use the putty to attach individual pieces to the poster or board as needed.  Encourage the students to help place the pieces.  It only takes a little bit of putty to attach each piece.  The more you “knead” it, the stickier it becomes.

Enough putty is provided to help hang posters in the classroom.  Use the unit posters and teaching cards as decorations in the room and review centers with which the students may interact.

Music CD

The CD provides music that correlates with every lesson’s theme or memory verse.  Use it to add interest and activity to the lesson times.

Play the music while the students enter the room and wait for class to begin.

Summer 2010

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1. YEAH! WE CAN CLEAN UP (Additional lyrics)

To the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel

We can clean up every day

We can help put things away.

I can help,

Can you help, too?

Yeah, we can clean up.

2. THE B-I-B-L-E

The B-I-B-L-E

Yes, that’s the book for me

I stand alone on the Word of God

The B-I-B-L-E

3. THE BIBLE IS GOD’S SPECIAL BOOK (Track Only)

4. GOD IS SO GOOD (Track Only)

5. WHERE IS THUMBKIN’? (Track Only)

6. LONDON BRIDGE (Track Only)

7. IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT (Track Only)

8. JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN (Track Only)

9. OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM (Track Only)

10. HEAD AND SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES

Head and shoulders, knees and toes
Knees and toes, knees and toes
Head and shoulders, knees and toes

It’s my body.

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose

Mouth and nose, mouth and nose

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose

It’s my body.

Ankles, elbows, feet and seat

Ankles, elbows, feet and seat

Feet and seat, feet and seat

It’s my body.

Repeat

11. MY GOD IS SO BIG

My God is so big,

So strong and so mighty

There’s nothing

My God cannot do

My God is so great,

So strong and so mighty

There’s nothing

My God cannot do

The mountains are His

The rivers are His

The stars are His

Handiwork too

Repeat

12. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

Chorus
Love, love la-la-la-la-la love
Your neighbor as yourself
Love, love la-la-la-la-la love
Your neighbor as yourself

We gotta show a little kindness
(show a little kindness)
Show the world we really care
Let the love of Jesus find us
(love of Jesus find us)
Singing his love everywhere

Repeat chorus

We gotta share the love of Jesus
(share the love of Jesus)
Share it with everyone
And may everyone who sees us
(everyone who sees us)
Open their hearts and love the Son

Repeat chorus

13. LITTLE DAVID PLAY ON YOUR HARP

Chorus
Little David, play on your harp
Hallelu, hallelu
Little David, play on your harp
Hallelu
Little David, play on your harp
Hallelu, hallelu
Little David, play on your harp
Hallelu

Little David was a shepherd boy
He killed Goliath and shouted for joy

Chorus
Repeat

14. PRAISE HIM ALL YE LITTLE CHILDREN

Praise Him, praise Him
All ye little children
God is love, God is love
Praise Him, praise Him
All ye little children
God is love, God is love

Verse 2: Thank Him, thank Him

Verse 3: Serve Him, serve Him

He’s got everybody here

In His hands

He’s got everybody here

In His hands

He’s got everybody here

In His hands

He’s got the whole world

In His hands

He’s got the whole world

In His hands

He’s got the whole world

In His hands

15. PRAISE YE THE LORD, HALLELUJAH

Chorus

Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah
Praise ye the Lord
Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah
Praise ye the Lord

Praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah
Praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah
Praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah
Praise ye the Lord

Repeat twice

16. WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN
Sing the wondrous love of Jesus
Sing His mercy and His grace
In the mansions bright and blessed
He’ll prepare for us a place

Chorus
When we all get to heaven
What a day of rejoicing that will be
When we all see Jesus
We’ll sing and shout the victory

While we walk the pilgrim pathway
Clouds will overspread the sky
But when traveling days are over
Not a shadow, not a sigh

Repeat chorus 2x

Let us then be true and faithful
Trusting, serving every day
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay

Repeat chorus