Cycle 11 (Unit 12 - THANKSGIVING intro)
Topic: Thanksgiving
Goal: Students will understand the importance of expressing thankfulness to God.
APK:
Display a basket full of real or plastic fruits and vegetables. Let’s name what we see. Remind students how these foods are a reminder on how God provides our needs and how thankful we need to be.
Let’s sing “God is so good”
Let’s learn the memory verse “Oh, give thanks to the Lord because He is good! (1 Chronicles 16:34a)
New Information:
Read the book “Felipe learns to pray”.
Teacher will have a big paper heart (it can be written on the board), and will write lots of things on why we are thankful. Then, the teacher will explain that when your heart is full of gratitude there is no space for anything other than that.
Application:
As a class let’s create a thankfulness box, we will decorate it together and each week we will add a drawing from the children that symbolizes something they are thankful for.
Let’s play “Duck Duck Goose”, but “Healed, Healed, Thankful.”
Print Page 45 of the Student book.
Generalization: Let’s sing, recite 1 Chronicles 16:34a and pray.