Helping us Remember with Interactive Kings!

 

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Every time I write an article, I think of you and hope what is offered here will provide a useful sort of service to you and your Bible lessons. 

I love teaching with visual aids that allow my students to have some interaction during the Bible lesson. It's fun and tends to help us better recall our Bible lesson. 

Developing the Idea!

You could actually develop this idea for any Bible person, but at the time we were learning about the Kings, so I made them into Kings.

They were a thought that turned into something tangible and interactive. They took some time, but it was all worth it!

 

 

They stand at least a couple feet tall and can break down for easy flat storage if you use Velcro to hook the robe and arms together. For ideas to help make the faces click here! 

You will find a link for the Kings full instructions toward the end of this article. 

The Numbering Process!

I introduced the Kings to my students as to who they represented and began by handing out the pictures that fastened with Velcro onto the front of the robe. The first picture handed out was the letter of the Kings name. "R" was for Rehoboam, "J" for Jeroboam, and "A" was for Asa.

The back of the pictures and front of the robe have corresponding numbers for placement onto the robe. The numbers on the pictures, (#1-whatever number you go up to for however many pictures you have) need to be the order in which they are talked about within the lesson because you don't want to put up picture #8 while you are actually talking about picture #3.  I also have the numbers marked in my notes so I know when it is time for a particular picture and can ask the students, "Who has picture #1?" and so forth. When we find who has the number I am asking for, the student gets up and adds their picture onto the robe on top of the corresponding number of their picture.

A Fun Review!

My students loved meeting these Kings and getting to know them! We also referred back to the pictures for our review and I had them tell me how each picture related to the King we were reviewing.

Find instructions with the supply list of items you will need to create these adorable Kings, here!

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Jump to Learning your Memory Verses!

 

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These last 7 weeks teaching Sunday and Wednesday Bible classes of non and beginning readers has been quite a challenge for me! I have a whole new respect for those of you who teach these young hearts! I love how it has challenged my thinking and ways to present a Bible lesson. I realized a helper was one thing I needed and sent a message to one of our young women who was willing and ready to help the moment she got word. A good helper is a real treasure, and we look froward to working together again!

Speaking of helpers, from time to time, I have these wonderful phone visits with my daughter Cassy, who by the way, is a sister Bible teacher who lives and worships in Georgia with her husband (one of their elders), and 2 sons. One son is a sophomore in high school and the other is in his first year of college. It is great keeping up with family and such but one thing I have really come to appreciate about Cassy is that she is an outstanding children's Bible teacher and willing to share her ideas with me!

Before I began teaching my non-readers, I was trying to come up with a fun effective way to help them learn their Bible verses. Cassy shared one of her methods with me and was happy for me to share it with you!

Memory Verse Fun!

By the title of this article, you can imagine what the idea is about.

Yes, JUMPING!

But also, JUMPING BEANS!

Learning with movement!

Finding a bean pattern online was pretty easy.

I decided to make them different colors and even though my students are not reading a whole lot, I ended up adding a word or two of the Bible verse to each one. We began with the reference and went on to the words.

(Have you ever heard that learning a memory verse is like a train? The reference is the engine, so we say it first. The engine knows where we are going and takes us there. The cars that are pulled by the engine are like the words of the Bible verse, and we add them a few at a time, learning the Bible verse.)

I made two sets of the memory beans on 11 x 17 paper so they could hop down and back to the starting point while saying the verse with each hop. (You could actually draw a bean pattern whatever size you wanted onto a poster board, then trace around it onto any colored paper you prefer.)

The Bible verse was Ecclesiastes 12:13b Fear God and keep His commandments.

They did really well and remembered it weeks later!

It has been fun to pull out the verse from time to time and let them become those jumping beans once again! If you choose not to add the words to the beans your students can use this idea for more than one Bible verse, jumping to each word. 

Here is our game!

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