Day 5
The Good Shepherd invites me to know him!
Active
Learning Time
·
Encourage the kids to decorate their sheep fold
for a party. Allow the kids to hang up
streamers or other party supplies that you have brought for them. Tell them that they will be inviting some
special guests for a party later so we need to get ready! Make you’re the kids
put the invitation sign on the outside of your door for your special
guest.
·
Tell the children that while we are waiting for
our special guest we are going to play a party game. Help the children to play
pin the tail (or place the wool) on the sheep using cotton balls, tape and the sheep picture here
Carpet Learning Time
Carpet time today should begin with a knock on the door, as
you guest comes into class with the invitation on the door and engages the
children in end of their active learning time.
Your guest today will be helping with the story, so once the children
have been introduced to their guest encourage them to join you on the carpet
for a story.
Guest- Thank you all so very much for the special invitation
to your classroom today! It made me feel so special to be invited!
How many of of you have been invited to a birthday party
before? (allow for response)
Where you excited when you got the invitation? (allow for
response)
Here with me I have several invitations I want us to look at
together.
(take some time to go through and read each invitation with
the children and allow the kids to imagine how fun each invitation would be to
get each invitation is numbered so try to follow the invitations in order)
Now I have an invitation for each one of you! It is a
special invitation from Jesus the Good Shepherd! All week you have learned that
the Good Shepherd knows you, and protects you, and provides for you and loves
you! Today we are learning that the Good Shepherd invites us to know him. He
wants to be your very best friend, and live inside of you. (hand each child
their invitation and read it to them)
When we get an invitation for something now we have to
decide if we want what the invitation says. If we get a birthday invitation
then we have to decide if we are going to go to the birthday party right? Well this invitation is the same way! We all
have an invitation to be friends with Jesus the Good Shepherds, but just
because we get and invitation doesn’t mean that it’s just going to happen. We
have to decide that we want to be friends with Jesus the Good Shepherd.
Now I want you to think about it, and if you want to accept
Jesus the Good Shepherd’s invitation and be his friend then I want you to close
your eyes and pray this prayer with me okay?
Dear Jesus
I want to accept your invitation.
I want you to be my best friend.
Thank you for being my friend.
In Jesus Name
Amen
Now let’s all stand in place and review our Bible verse
again!
Behold
(pointing)
the Lamb
(cradle a baby)
of God
(pointing up)
Who
takes away
(act like your are taking something with both
your hands)
the sin
(make ‘devil’ horns with your fingers on your
head)
of the
world
(make a ‘globe’ with your hands)
John
1:29
Table Learning Time
supplies needed:
supplies needed:
- wood sheep cutout(here)
- White bulky yarn
- String for hanging sheep
- hand out for each child
- cutouts for the handout page
Hand out project:
·
Help the Children to glue and invitation next to
each sheep so that each she has his own invitation. Glue the special invitation by the children in the picture.
·
Talk about how special invitations are and how
the Good Shepherd invites us to know him.
·
Make sure you put each child’s name on their
take home page.
Craft project:
Have the children wrap yarn around a the sheep cut out and attach a string so they can hang them. link to a list of alternative crafts for day 5
Snack Time
Depending on how you have arranged to do things with the
snack department, either have snack time in your room or go to where the
watering hole is for snack.
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