God's Camping Rules

When we go camping there are rules that we must obey so that we can enjoy the area around us, where we can light a fire safely, keeping the area clean etc. God has given us instructions on how He wants us to live in the beautiful world He has given us.

Last week we learnt about Noah, God gave Noah the words to tell the people that God wasn't happy with them because they did not obey Him, but they did not listen.

God's laws are there to protect us and keep us safe, Noah obeyed God and he was safe in the ark against the flood. We learnt that God will not forget His children.

Memory verses are a way we can keep God's words in our hearts, congratulations to Lachlan, Gabby, Peter and Hayden for learning their memory verse: "God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good" Gen 1:31.

Camping on God's Land

Welcome to our Pre-School class 2011, this term our theme is 'Camping on God's Land'. Children love to go camping, it is exciting and full of things to do. We are learning about the beautiful world God has created for us to enjoy.

We have stories around the campfire and sing songs.

Please come and visit our room as the children, Sis Robin and I add to our camping theme each week.

God Bless

Sis Donna and Sis Robin

Little Sparks of Creativity

Here are some of the great and fun activities we have been doing in Sunday School lately with all our friends!

News and Current Affairs (:

We have started a new unit in Sunday School this term.
We have been talking about Noah's Ark.

The first lesson we talked about how God called Noah and God wanted Noah to build a great, big boat called an Ark. God told him this because he was going to send a BIG flood to the earth. God wasn't happy with what the people of the earth were doing so he said he would send a flood to destroy everything so they could all start again.

Then we talked about how Noah's three son's helped him with the ark. We sang some new songs about Noah and his sons and we even learned some cool actions!

Noah pleaded for all the people to come onto the ark but they wouldn't listen. They laughed and said "There hasn't been any rain so how can there be a flood?!" They made fun of Noah and wouldn't listen to him, but Noah still obeyed God's word.

Once Noah had built God's ark we learned that he had to find two of every kind of animal! Even snakes, rats and spiders! Noah had to find one girl and one boy animal of every kind and bring them onto the ark.

When all the animals were safely on the ark it started to rain. It rained and rained and rained for FORTY days and FORTY nights and the water went up and up and UP!! soon enough there was water covering the WHOLE earth!!

Noah, his wife, his three sons and their three wives and all the animals stayed on the ark for a very long time until one day the rain stopped and the sun came out. Up in the sky amongst the clouds, a beautiful rainbow filled the sky! It had many beautiful colours and it was a symbol of God's promise to man; That he would never destroy the world with a flood ever again!

We have been practicing out Bible words and our Memory Verse is;
"Do not be afraid"
Genesis 15:1

We have been doing many fun and exciting activities such as colouring in, making animal masks, making rainbows and even making animals out or play-dough!

We all can't wait to start our new topic next week! What a surprise it will be!!

God Bless,
-Brooke, Donna, Susanne

God Loves Everyone

This week we talked about our friends.

We talked about how to be nice to everyone and to love everyone and always be nice to our friends.

In our story, Jesus was going on a long trip when he and his friends stopped by a well to get a drink of water. There was a lady at the well and Jesus asked her for a drink. The lady did not know Jesus or who he was and she did not normally speak to people like Jesus but Jesus showed her how to be nice and how to love everybody. Jesus got a drink of water but the lady got a new friend.

In our activity we coloured in a piece of paper that said "You're my friend". We wrote the name of one of our friends underneath it and then glued it onto a cup so that we could give it to them and be nice friends to everyone.

We practiced our Memory Verse;
"love one another" John 15:12

Where will the Traveling Train take us next week?!

God Bless,
-Brooke, Donna, Susanne

I Show God's Love

This week we talked about showing God's love.

We talked about ways that we can show love to each other. We can show love by;
-Giving someone a hug
-Patting someone on the back
-Saying I love you
-Shaking hands
-Blowing kisses
-Waving hello
-Smiling
-Giving someone a high five
-Putting our arms around someone

There was a big new poster on the wall with lots of different faces on it. There were smiling faces, sad faces, angry faces, hurt faces, sick faces and tired faces. We looked at all the faces and thought about how we could show our love and what we could do to make every face happy again!

Because we were talking about love, our special snack was fairy bread in love heart shapes! It was very yummy!!

We practiced out Memory Verse;
"love one another" John 15:12

Where will the Traveling Train take us next week?!

God Bless,
-Brooke, Donna, Susanne

God Loves Me

In our lesson this week we learned about Children.

In our story, Jesus was talking to a BIG group of people in the market place and all the little children (just like our friends in Sunday School) ran up to meet him and to listen to what he was saying. But some of Jesus' friends told all the little children to go away! They said that children should not be near Jesus, because he needed to talk to the older people. Sometimes big people get so busy that they forget what is important. But not Jesus! Jesus told his friends to get out of the way so all the little children could com around him. "Little children are the best at loving God" Jesus told them, and after all Jesus' friends were sorry they did not let the children see Jesus. This story helped us to know that Jesus loves all the children of the world, and he especially loves us! For our first activity we got to draw on a big love heart pictures of who we love! It was so much fun and all the pictures looked great!

Then we practiced our Memory Verse;
"Love one another" John 15:12

Where will the Traveling Train take us next week?!

God Bless,
-Brooke, Donna, Susanne