Unscrambling Bible Words!

 

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Today I'm sharing something easy, challenging, and fun!

Unscrambling Words from 

our Bible Lesson!

My students love a challenge, 

and what is better than a Bible lesson challenge!

This challenge can be done before class as students arrive, 

or after the lesson so the students may be more familiar 

with the words in the lesson.

Also, once the words are unscrambled, 

it's fun to ask the students how each word was used 

in the Bible lesson.

Using my computer, 

I formatted each word of the wall title,

in upper- and lower-case letters,

"Unscramble Words from Today's Bible Lesson"

 

then the words I chose to scramble up 

from our Bible lesson I formatted

 in all capital letters to make it more challenging 

for grades 5-6. 

Each word had it's own color 

which made it easier to keep each word separated. 

Then made a key for myself so I could easily help 

anyone who may have gotten stuck. 

After printing, I cut out each letter 

and stored them in a zip-lock with the key. 

I LOVE using "Mickey" hands to draw attention 

to places around our classroom!

(The "Mickey" hands were found on the internet.) 

Because of space, I didn't use our rolling stand, 

but ended up stapling our pocket chart to the wall 

which worked out perfectly!

If you don't have a pocket chart, the table works GREAT!

The words I chose: 

ungodly, tree, water, prosper, fruit, 

righteous, chaff, stand, delight, sit, 

walk, wind, night, sinner, blessed, and godly.

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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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A Life Size Review Game!

Reviewing is Fun! 

On the last day of our 3 day Vacation Bible School, 

we played this review game!

This was made by gluing 3-4 sheets of white bulletin board paper together. 

Then I drew out the the game spaces with pencil, 

and went back over them with black marker, 

and then again in crayon to highlight each space. 

Here I am changing out specific spaces that go along with our particular Bible lesson. 

Below are pictures of spaces from different Bible themes. 

These spaces will give you an idea of what to write on spaces 

where they may go ahead, go back a space, lose a turn, etc.

And of course the goal is to reach heaven! 

My students always love this game! 

It just folds up for easy storage 

and I pull it out year after year!

Supplies and Process of Game!

1. I had review questions from each day's Bible lesson. 
2. Divided my students into 2 teams, (however many teams you may need/want).
3. We had 2 dice with 6 sides, (one for each team) bought from the Dollar Tree Store. 
4. Whichever team rolled the highest on the dice got to go first. 
5. I had one student from each team on the start space. 
6. When the question was asked to a team, they discussed the answer together quietly with their team before answering. 
7. I had a buzzer for each team, (optional). After the team discussed and settled on the answer to the question, one person of the team buzzed in when they were ready to give the answer. (With each new question a different person from the team got to buzz in.) 
8. When the team answered correctly, that team rolled their dice, and their "Pawn" person got to move that many spaces. if they landed on a colored space they had to do what it said, (lose a turn, jump ahead spaces, etc.).
9. If the question is answered incorrectly the opposing team gets a chance to answer!
10. After 2 questions for each team we switched out the "pawn" for a new one, taking the place of the one on the space before them, standing on the same space. The one replaced, went back to answer questions with their team, (you can draw names for replacement or just have the teacher or helper choose).
11. Which ever team makes it to the "heaven" space first wins!

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Golf Tees and Books of the Bible!

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The books of the Bible are AMAZINGLY INSPIRED books of Gods Word! It is our all important sword in the armor God wants us to wear; Ephesians 6:10-18. Learning how to wield our sword takes practice, practice, practice! But aren't we so very thankful that we CAN practice and help others practice as well! One Sunday morning as I was getting a few Bible games out for my early bird 3rd and 4th graders, a sweet, accomplished sister in Christ, (Renee Hunter) came into my room and wanted me to try a new Books of the Bible game she had made to see how this grade level reacted to them. Of course I would try it! 

I love games that help us teach the Word! 

Here are Renee's new Books of the Bible game!! 

You use it with golf tees!

Nice weight card stock, laminated cards!

Each card names of one book of the Bible, your choice of New or Old Testament and division!

Two golf tees per card. Put your golf tee into holes that show which testament and division we find the book.

Once you have your answers chosen by placing your tees, check yourself by turning the card around and if the golf tees are in the highlighted area you are correct!

Well they loved it! 

This age always love a challenge!!

We had so very much fun learning how to use these Books of the Bible cards!
Thank you Renee Hunter! The books of the Bible are fun to sing and to say and by time they are this age they really need to be learning them if they have not already. The Bible Divisions are another challenge which this game helps your students learn! Songs!

Books of the New Testament Books of the Old Testament Books of the Old Testament 39, 27, 66 Bible Chant A "Gold Star" Just for You! Click the gold star to order a set of these Books of the Bible Cards with Divisions for yourself!

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Aiming to Please God

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Sharing a Bible Game!

Psalm 51:1-2
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
And cleanse me from my sin.

It was a Psalm of repentance when King David penned the 51st Psalm. 

As much as this man, (a man after God’s own heart) tried to please God, sadly, he failed. He stumbled. He sinned. He missed God’s mark. Thankfully Nathan the prophet helped him realize his way to turn again to God. James 5:19-20

“Repent!” said a young man sitting in the chair next to the game board. He was watching to see if they missed the mark.

In my Bible class, we are studying the 5 Books of Poetry – Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon.

The book of Psalms has been most interesting, especially when one of my favorite games was introduced with our lesson about repentance. Aiming to Please God! It’s about preparing ourselves for battle, aiming to please God, missing the mark, Satan’s darts, and repentance! 

Important Pieces to the Game!

Ephesians 6 speaks of arming ourselves to stand against the Devil’s schemes. Taking up the shield of faith to be able to extinguish the flaming arrows/darts of the evil/wicked one. But what do we do when a dart gets through?

(A), The first step in the game is where the students must choose a ball that has a positive word and number on it, (ours are wads of brown crumpled up paper, “coconuts” used in The Jungle Journey VBS class one year. Real balls would work very nice and you could use a marker instead of taped on words).

(B), They had to find a scripture with the corresponding word/number that is on their ball to arm themselves with as they aimed to please God. (They have a choice, they can find the corresponding card on the poster and look up one of the verses on the card, or for time sake, find the word/number with a verse already typed out. I think they all chose to read the typed one.) 

Arming themselves with scripture against the Devil’s darts!

(C), They stand in line, then aim to “please/obey” God when it is their turn, by aiming their ball to go through the hole in the stand-up board game. If it goes through they pleased/obeyed God! Then they choose a new ball and begin the process again. If they miss, they missed God’s mark/gave in to temptation/sinned and one of the Devil’s darts found a chink in their armor. They must pick up and hold onto the ball they missed with. 

Aiming to Please/Obey God!

(D) Then they must find the dart that is laying on the table, with the corresponding number and opposite/negative corresponding word of their ball and scripture and stick the dart on Satan’s Dart Board! 

We are Satan's Target!!

(E) Then go and read a Bible verse about repentance – Acts 17:30, then try again. 

Aim to please God again with the same ball. If their ball makes it through they pleased/obeyed God and get to take their dart off the board and get a new ball, but if their ball doesn’t make it again, their dart stays up and they must read the repentance verse again and try to aim to please God once again with the same ball. 

(Repeat if keep missing the mark. They only get a new ball if they overcome this temptation/ball goes through the hole.)

The game in process.

Please God or Repent!

This process just keeps going and going! We don’t keep score it is just if they please God or not. These students loved it and learned a whole lot about arming themselves with scripture, aiming to please God, Devil’s fiery darts, and repentance.

When King David realized what he had done he was very sorry and asked forgiveness. 

Godly sorrow produces repentance, 2 Corinthians 7:8-10.

You will find two repentance charts I use in Bible class that help us understand the concept of repentance in our “Gold Star” visual aids!

This month they include directions to the Aiming to please God game, pictures of my two repentance posters, pleasing words for the balls, corresponding scriptures to arm yourself with, the opposite negative words for the darts, and cards for each pleasing word with more scripture to choose from.

A "Gold Star" Just for You! Click on it! 

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Joseph Folder Game!

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I have always thought Bible question matching games are fun! 

Here is a picture of the game pieces 

that my friend and sister in Christ, Kathy Petrillo, 

made into a printable version just for us!! 

Thank you Kathy!! 

You may want to enlarge this game. I did, and my Bible class students are going to love it!! I made 2 sets so we can use them as teams!

In the image below you can see they easily enlarge 260% when printed onto 11x17 white paper. 

Laminating this game will allow you to use it for years to come! 

Enlarged, printed, laminated, trimmed, and sticky Velcro added. 

Ready to play! 

A "Gold Star" just for you! 

Click on the gold star to find this game ready to print! 

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Books of the Bible Cards!

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Leaning Books of the Bible!

Helping my students learn and recite 

the books of the Bible makes me smile! 

We say them aloud together aloud, and then I ask, "Who wants to say them on their own?"  Normally 2 or 3 want to show what they have learned!

These little Books of the Bible cards are something I have used in Bible class for several years as an "early bird" activity. I like how they can also be used as a team game for those who can read. No matter how many times I use these little cards it is a challenge for each new class.

For myself, I have made the New and Old Testaments different colors.

Each card has a book of the Bible on it and a number on the back so once they feel like they have all the books in the correct order, they turn each card over to check and see if all the numbers are in the correct order and if they are not they turn the card back over to see which ones they got wrong.

Each student also gets a whole set of cards to take home to practice!

I also like for my students to write the books of the Bible! They are given a paper with the first letter of each book of the Bible in order. I don't care if the spelling is correct, I just want them to try. This is also great to do before class actually begins and may also take up about 5 minutes of actual class time.

Bookmarks are also good for them to have a ready list of the books to familiarize themselves with reading and saying them in order.

Find the printable Books of the Bible cards, papers to write out each book of the Bible with the first letter given, and Books of the Bible bookmark by clicking on the gold star below! 

I hope you find these cards good for Bible class or home use!

 

A "Gold Star" just for you!

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