Rahab, Joshua 2

Digital Resources - YouTube

Rahab and the Spies Saddleback Kids YouTube

Digital Resources - Apps

• The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  Joshua and the Spies (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)

• Bible for Kids App Stories:  No story

Print Resources

• Beginner's Bible, "Joshua and the Spies," page128
• The Wall That Did Not Fall, The Story of Rahab's Faith by Marilyn Lashbrook
• Online free source from Lambsongs that can be printed. 
• 1985 A Beka Book Publications large picture cards from Joshua series, J-3 - J-7.  Read Joshua 2 and write your own explanation of the story by scene.

Prop Resources

• scarlet (red) rope

Song(s)

Rahab Song,*

Joshua 2:1-21; 6:25

(Tune:  This Old Man)

Two Spies came

 to Jericho.

Soldiers looked both high and low.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of Scarlet red

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

Two spies hid

In the straw.

Soldiers looked and never saw.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of scarlet red,

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

Two spies left.

They climbed down.

Out the window, out of town.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of Scarlet red

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

God’s people came

To the wall.

Rahab’s family stayed safe in the fall.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of Scarlet red

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

*I found this song in my files, but I don’t know the origin of this song. Also, I changed the last line of the chorus from "Rahab showed how brave she was" to "Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God."

Vocabulary

• scarlet
• straw
• spies 

General Resources

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Digital Resources - Apps

• The Beginner's Bible App (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App    This app doesn't have as many stories.  (There is a print Bible version.  I don't like the pictures as well. )  The app doesn't highlight each word as it is read, but there is more interaction opportunities.

  Digital Resources - YouTube

• Saddleback Kids   There are 148 different stories.  Search YouTube for Saddleback Kids and the Bible person or story you want.  This is just a link to one.
• JellyTelly   Search YouTube for JellyTelly and the Bible person or story you want.  This is just a link to one.  There is an app too that is not free.  So far, this is free through YouTube.

Video Resources - DVD's

Read and Share DVD Bible, Volumes 1-4 - This is the same as the app and Bible except it's animated.  These are my favorite DVD's because the kids like them, they are short, and include most of the stories we learn.

Print Resources

• The Beginner's Bible
• Read-Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 1.  by Ella K. Lindvall
• Read-Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 2.  by Ella K. Lindvall 
• Read-Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 3, by Ella K. Lindvall
• Read-Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 4, by Ella K. Lindvall
• Read-Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 5, by Ella K. Lindvall  - This used to be called Parables Jesus Told.
• Lambsongs Illustrated Stories is Online, but you can print the stories.  I print them on cardstock and make flipcharts.  Once you are on the website, the easiest way to navigate to find the story you want is to hit CTRL + F and then type in the character or story you are looking for. 
• New Testament Stories from Lambsongs
• Old Testament Stories from Lambsongs

 

Joshua and Caleb

Digital Resources

• Joshua and Caleb YouTube
• 12 Spies YouTube  by Kids Bible
•  The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  Twelve Spies (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App Stories:  No story

Video Resources -

Print Resources

• Beginner's Bible, "Twelve Spies", page 124
• Available and free to print Lambsongs

Prop Resources

• bunches of artificial grapes with stick for toy people to carry
• real grapes
• 12 toy people

Song(s)

My God is so Great

Before singing, say, Caleb and Joshua knew that . . .

My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are his, the rivers are his, the stars are His handiwork, too.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do, for you!

After singing it once, say, The other 10 spies didn't even know that . . .

My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are his, the rivers are his, the stars are His handiwork, too.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do, for you!

 

Vocabulary

•  spies
• Canaan

Easter

  Easter

The Empty Tomb

People were mean to Jesus and made fun of him before he was crucified.  They dressed him in a  purple robe and put a crown of thrones on his head.  They called him THE KING OF THE JEWS.

  

The mean people put a crown made out of thorns like this one on Jesus’ head.  The thorns hurt his head.  We looked at this crown and talked about it.  We wore our other crown though because we didn’t want our heads to bleed!

Digital Resources

• Saddleback Kids Videos (on YouTube):  
• Triumphal Entry
• The Last Supper
• Jesus Washes the Apostles' Feet 
• Jesus Prays  
• Jesus' Sacrifice
• God is with Us
• Jesus' Ascension

•  The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  "Washing the Feet", "The Last Supper", "Arrested & Crucified", "Jesus is Risen!"  (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book f, or kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App Stories:  "The Donkey and the King", "A Goodbye Meal", "In the Garden", "It is Finished", "A Happy Sunday", "Into the Clouds"

Video Resources - DVD Read and Share Bible, Volume 2:

• Story 11:  The First Lord's Supper - "Jesus Borrows a Donkey"; "Jesus Rides Like a King"; "How to Serve"
• Story 12: Jesus' Resurrection - "Jesus s Alive!"; "Jesus with Two Friends"; "Jesus Goes to Heaven"

Print Resources

• Where is Jesus? by Mary Manz Simon
• The Story of Easter (a Little Golden Book) by Jean Miller
• Read Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 2 by Ella K. Lindvall, page 131, "A Sad Day and a Happy Day"
• The Story of Easter by Gwen Ellis, Read and Share Series 
• God Gave us Easter by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Scholastic 
• The Easter Story, The Beginner's Bible
• The Easter Story by Tracy Harrast, Peek-a-Bible Lift-a-Flap Book
• Large pictures of Jesus on the cross with King of the Jews sign above his head, Jesus riding a donkey into town on Palm Sunday, Jesus holding the cup at the Last Supper, Jesus Praying

Prop Resources

• 2 crowns - a toy crown to wear and a real thorn crown to see
• Purple fabric to use for the robe they put on Jesus
• BIG nails to use with picture of Jesus on the cross to see where they were used.  Discuss that Jesus didn't have any broken bones.
• 30 pieces of silver
•  Resurrection Eggs from FamilyLife.com  These are expensive.  You can make your own.  Use your own resources to note events in the stories.
• Tomb, rock, guards, and angel figures (from Tales of Glory maybe)

Song(s)

 Use flip chart for Apostles song.  Find Judas.  

Vocabulary

• cross
• nails
• tomb
• resurrection
• sin
• crucifixion 
• silver color
• Easter
• Ascension