Nursery Lesson Plan 2: Jesus was born - 4th September

Dear Parents,

Praise the Lord for it has been very encouraging to see your children on Sunday 4 September 2011!

I hope that the children can continuously be reminded in this coming week about Jesus was born. Please remind your children about an angel came to Marry and announced to her that Jesus would be born. Joseph and Mary were in the stable in Bethlehem when Jesus was born. The shepherds came to visit Jesus and the shepherds sent the good news to everyone at Bethlehem.

Please find a brief summary below about the concept area and the activities we introduced to the children yesterday:

Concept Area:
Jesus

Theme:
Angels told Mary that Jesus would be born and Jesus was born.

Bible Story:
Luke 1: 26-38 Jesus' birth was announced to Marry. Luke 2:1-7 The baby Jesus was born.

Bible Verse:
Matthew 2:1 Jesus was born

Activities:
We introduced to the children about Jesus was born. We set up 4 activities stations, one of them is the pictures pasting activity. Through this activity, we introduced to the children the important characters and elements when Jesus was born. For example, the stable, the shepherds, angels, Marry, Joseph and the manger. The 2nd activity station was building a Nativity model with pasting the Nativity characters and elements. By building the model, we have a good conversation moment with the kids to tell them about the important things at the moment when Jesus was born. The 3rd activity is a bible puzzle activity with the picture of Jesus was born. The last activity station is a simple picture of Bethlehem when Jesus was born. We talked about Bethlehem at the time of Jesus was born.

During the Bible story telling time, in order to help the children to visualize the moment when Jesus was born, we introduced them a Nativity model with a stable. Letting each child has a chance to put an important character or element like sheep, donkey, cow, Joseph, Marry, shepherd, angel, manger and the little baby Jesus onto the Nativity model. The children really enjoyed this part of the activities. Before we closed the Bible story, we also let the children have a chance to dress up like Joseph, Marry and shepherds to experience the moment when Jesus was born.

The children enjoyed a singing session right after a snack time before we wrapped up the lesson.

I urge and encourage you as a parent to continue the learning aim at home on what the children have learned at the Sunday Preschool.

I hope to see you all again at church on Sunday!

Blessings,
VK