connect b2 infants teachers manual

connectInfants B2

T e a c h e r ' s m a n u a l

a christian education curriculum for children aged 5 to 7 years.

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For the teacherWhat you will fi nd in each lesson 4Music and drama CD and CD-ROM 6Curriculum stance 7Training and support 7Five circles of learning 8Connect icons 9

Introduction—God keeps his promises 10Lesson 1 Wanted: rescuer Exodus 1:1—2:10 12Lesson 2 Saviour to the rescue! Exodus 3:1—4:17 24Lesson 3 Rescue resisted Exodus 7:1—10:29 34Lesson 4 Rescue complete Exodus 11–14 46Lesson 5 God teaches his people Exodus 19–20 58Lesson 6 God lives with his people Exodus 25–40 68Lesson 7 God’s people rebel Numbers 13–14 78Lesson 8 Remember the rescue Deuteronomy 4–11; 28–29; 30:11–20 86Lesson 9 Into the Promised Land! Joshua 1–6 98Lesson 10 Jesus the rescuer Various 106

Introduction—God’s promise for the world 114Lesson 11 The gospel: then and now Genesis 12:1–9; Romans 1:1–17 116Lesson 12 The good news about the gospel! Romans 1:18—3:31 126Lesson 13 The response to the gospel Romans 4:1–15 134Lesson 14 Gospel obedience Romans 6–7 144Lesson 15 The Spirit of the gospel Romans 8:1–17 152Lesson 16 The hope of the gospel Romans 8:18–39 160Lesson 17 Children of the gospel have a job to do Romans 10:1, 9–15; 12:1–8 168Lesson 18 The gospel is our strength Romans 16:25a 178Lesson 19 Christmas: God’s promise fulfi lled in Jesus Matthew 1; Luke 1; 2 Corinthians 1:20 190Lesson 20 The Lovell family in Spain Various 198

Christmas assembly Matthew 1; Luke 1:68–79 204

Special lesson—The environment Genesis 1–2; 2 Peter 3:13 210

Teaching ideas Help with classroom management 217Helpful teaching techniques 219Teaching Memory verses 222Is your class different? 225The special needs of indigenous students 227Understanding the student: the learning theory undergirding Connect 228Using appropriate language in the (S)RE class 230When a student wants to make a response 231Christian Education outcomes 232

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For information about what is included on your Music and drama CD and CD-ROM, refer to page 6.

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2God heard their cry and remembered his promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The time had come for God to act (Genesis 15:13–16) and so he called the one through whom he would deliver his people: Moses!

Moses was tending his father-in-law’s flocks as usual, and decided to take the flocks to the far side of the desert, to a place near Horeb. It was at Horeb, the mountain of God, that Moses encountered God.

This encounter is usually called ‘Moses and the burning bush’. However, the interesting thing is that this bush didn't burn away; it was never consumed. This was the strange sight that Moses decided to investigate (Exodus 3:2). It was from within this bush that God called Moses. God told Moses that he had heard the cries of his people and had come down to rescue them. God would take them from their land of oppression to a land flowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:7–9). What’s more, God was going to use Moses to bring his people out of Egypt (Exodus 3:10). God asked Moses to remove his shoes, because he was standing on ground made holy by God’s presence. Here we see a perfect and holy God willing to meet with imperfect humanity. Because of God’s love and divine purposes, Moses was not consumed by the fire. Rather, he was befriended by God.

From all we know about Moses in the Bible, there’s a part of us that expects to see a bold and confident man, ready and willing to serve God at every turn. This is not the case. Moses was reluctant, fearful and lacking confidence, questioning God at every turn. He lacked faith in the God of his forefathers and attempted to pass the job to someone else. But God chose Moses and Moses he would use!

LESSON AIM ■ To help students to understand that everything

that happens is according to God’s plan and that he works for the good of his people.

LESSON OUTCOMESStudents will learn about:

■ how God heard his people’s cry for help ■ how everything that happens is according to

God’s plan.

Students will learn to: ■ begin to see how God worked through his

people to fulfil his plan ■ state how God speaks to us today.

MEMORY VERSEI will prove to you that I will keep my promise. Isaiah 38:7 (CEV)

» Bible backgroundAt this point in the narrative, Moses had grown up in the palace of the pharaoh but his heart ached because of the oppression of his people. We see in this Bible passage how Moses took matters into his own hands and killed an Egyptian slave driver. This event caused him to flee Egypt for fear of losing his life (Exodus 2:11–15). He ended up settling in Midian and became a shepherd of his new father-in-law’s flocks (Exodus 2:16–22).

Meanwhile, back in Egypt (Exodus 2:23–25), Pharaoh died but God’s people were still groaning under their oppression and cried out to God.

saviour to the rescue!Exodus 3:1—4:17

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» You will need ✔ Visual aids on pages 30–33 of Israelite

slaves working in Egypt, Moses in the desert, People praying and Cut-outs (see Before you start)

✔ Blu-Tack ✔ ‘The Big Rescue Adventure’ scrapbook ✔ Glue stick ✔ A CEV Bible marked at Exodus 2:23–25;

3:7–10, 12 ✔ Activity books ✔ Lesson 2 end play (track 13) on CEP's

Infants CD ✔ Good or bad (track 11) on Johnny Burns’

Unreal banana peel CD (see Introduction to Lessons 1–10)

✔ CD player or MP3 player and portable speakers

✔ Materials for Taking it further (optional) ✔ Israelite slaves working in Egypt, The

burning bush, Moses and Aaron from the Coloured Visual aid pack

✔ The CD-ROM from this manual if you intend to use an interactive whiteboard to display the PowerPoints of either the lessons, song words or prayers.

OTHER RESOURCESIf your lessons are longer than the standard, you may fi nd the following resources useful.

■ Made by God 4 God alone (track 21) on Colin Buchanan’s Follow the Saviour CD.

■ God loves his people (track 5) on CEP's Infants CD.

BEFORE YOU START ■ If you intend to use an interactive whiteboard,

review the PowerPoint slide(s) for this lesson on the CD-ROM that comes with this manual.

■ Photocopy and colour the Visual aids from pages 30–33 of Israelite slaves working in Egypt, Moses in the desert, People praying and Cut-outs.

■ When using the CEP's Infants CD, make sure the dramas or songs are ready to play. Adjust the volume of your CD player before the lesson.

■ In this lesson we do not give full details about the reason why Moses fl ed into the desert. It is enough to say that Moses was afraid of the king.

» teacher’s prayerPray that the students will understand that God has acted in his mercy to save people.

Pray that the students will come to know Jesus as Saviour and Lord.

Thank God for each student in your class.

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But someone knew all along what would happen.

■ Who knows everything that is going to happen? (God.)

God knew his people, the Hebrews, were in danger from the King of Egypt. He knew how he was going to help them.

Let’s find out more about how God kept his promise to give Abraham’s family a land of their own.

God kept Moses safe. He was even looked after by his own mother until he was old enough to live with the king’s daughter in the palace.

But even though Moses lived like a prince in the palace he never forgot that he was a member of the family of Abraham, one of God’s people.

Meanwhile, God’s special people, the Hebrews, were still being treated very badly by the king.

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Display the Visual aid on page 30 or the Coloured Visual aid of the Israelite slaves working in Egypt.

They had to work hard making bricks. The bricks were used to build palaces, houses and sheds for storing food. Every day the Egyptians were cruel to the Hebrew people. They wouldn’t let them rest. It was very hard working in the hot sun but they had to keep on working or they would be hit with sticks and whips.

Working, working, working In the hot sun.Nothing more than working,No rest or play or fun. Bricks, bricks, bricks,This job is pretty rough.Can somebody please help us?We’ve really had enough!

■ How do you think the Hebrew people felt? (Accept responses. Tired, angry, sad, helpless.)

The Hebrew people longed to live under God’s rule in the land he had promised Abraham so long ago. Things would be much better in the Promised Land.

» Way in ■ Can you think of some important people in

our country? (Allow a few responses. You may need to prompt: prime minister, community leaders, well-known government officials, sportspeople and so on.)

Those people are all very important, and I’m sure they’re very busy!

Imagine if, one day, you were asked to be a messenger and take one of these very important people a very special message. Now wouldn’t that be an adventure!

■ How would you feel about doing that? (Accept responses.)

■ Would you do anything special to get ready to be the messenger? (Accept responses.)

■ What might you wear? (Accept responses.)

■ What would you like to say to this person? (Accept responses.)

Today we’ll hear about someone who was chosen in a very surprising way to give a special message to an important person! It really was quite an adventure!

» Bible focusLast lesson we heard about a baby.

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Display the Visual aid on page 21 of Baby Moses in your ‘Big Rescue Adventure’ scrapbook.

■ What was the baby’s name? (Accept responses. Moses)

When Moses’ mother put him in the basket and then into the river, she didn’t know what would happen to her baby.

When the king’s daughter came down to bathe in the river, she didn’t know that she would find a baby.

Miriam, Moses’ sister, didn’t know that the king’s daughter would adopt the baby.


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Then Moses heard a voice. Someone called his name. ‘Moses, Moses, listen to me. I am the God of your people.’

‘Oh wow!’ thought Moses. He started to shake and tremble. He knew that God was right there with him.

Action: Place your hands over your face.

He covered his face with his hands and listened to what God said.

Action: Remove your hands from your face.

Listen to what the Bible says happened next.

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Read Exodus 3:7–10 from a CEV Bible.

Moses was still scared and wondered if he would be able to go to Egypt and help God’s people. He thought of lots of excuses to explain why he couldn’t go.

God knew how he felt, and spoke to Moses.

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Read Exodus 3:12 from a CEV Bible.

God told Moses all the things that would happen when he went back to Egypt.

Moses had been specially chosen by God to be his messenger. God wanted Moses to go to the king and tell him to let the Hebrew people go so they could live in the land that God had promised to Abraham many years before.

But Moses was still nervous about being God’s messenger and he thought up more excuses.

‘I can’t! I’m scared!’ said Moses.'Can’t you choose another?'God was kind,And so he also chose his brother.

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Display the Coloured Visual aids of Moses and Aaron if you have them.

God sent his brother Aaron with him to help him.

Moses knew that God was with him and he knew that he should obey God. It was time for him to leave the desert and go back to the palace.

I wonder if, when he gets there, the people will listen to God’s message?

One day, when he was grown up, Moses went outside to where his own people, the Hebrews, were hard at work. He saw something terrible. An Egyptian was hurting one of his people. This made Moses so angry that he had a terrible fi ght with the Egyptian.

The king soon found out and he became very angry. He wanted to harm Moses, so Moses ran for his life! He escaped to the desert where he knew he could live in safety.

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Ask a student to come out and display the Visual aid on page 31 of Moses in the desert.

The Hebrew people were still working hard and being hurt by the Egyptians. They were frightened of the king and the men who whipped them. But they were slaves and weren’t able to leave Egypt, so they cried out to God.

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Ask a student to come out and display the Visual aid on page 32 of People praying.

Listen to what the Bible tells us.

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Read Exodus 2:23–25 from ‘They cried out …’ up to the end of verse 25 from a CEV Bible.

Thank your student volunteers and ask them to sit down again.

I wonder what God will do to show he will keep his promise to his people?

One day Moses was out in the desert looking after some sheep.

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Blu-Tack the sheep Cut-out on page 33 to the Moses in the desert Visual aid.

Suddenly Moses saw a very strange thing. He saw a fi re in a bush.

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Blu-Tack the burning bush Cut-out on page 33 to the Moses in the desert Visual aid.

But Moses took a closer look, because there was something very strange about that fi re. Even though the fi re was blazing away, the bush wasn’t burning! It wasn’t going black at all! Moses couldn’t believe his eyes! ‘What’s going on?’ he wondered.

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Display the Coloured Visual aid of The burning bush if you have it.

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SINGING

Welcome song (track 3) on CEP's Infants CD.

Supplementary songs are also included in Other resources at the start of the lesson.

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Ask the students to draw a picture of Moses living in the palace, then a picture of Moses living in the desert.

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BARE BONES ACTIVITY

Give the students the ‘bare bones’ of the lesson and ask them to retell the story, giving further details. This may be done as a verbal or written activity. The ‘bare bones’ could be:

The Hebrew people weren’t happy.

Moses went out to live in the desert.

Moses saw a bush on fire.

God wanted Moses to be his messenger.

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QUESTIONS FOR MOSES

Ask the students to write down three questions they would like to ask Moses. Invite volunteers to share their questions with the rest of the class.

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IMAGINE ...

Invite the students to imagine they are a Hebrew slave being badly treated. Discuss what they would say when they prayed to God.

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SIMILAR AND DIFFERENT

Ask the students to write down the things that would have been similar and different about Moses’ life in the palace and his life in the desert.

» ConnectionsMoses’ life is certainly full of adventure! It’s like a big rescue adventure!

Hold up the scrapbook, showing the front cover.

God used Moses to keep his promises to Abraham.

■ What do you think you might do if God spoke to you from a burning bush? (Accept responses.)

■ How does God speak to us today? (Accept responses. Through his word, the Bible.)

God’s plan for his people was that they would leave Egypt to go to the country he had given them in order to live as his people under his rule.

The big rescue adventure continues in our next lesson. I wonder what God will have in store for Moses then!

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Glue the Visual aids on pages 30–33 of Israelite slaves working in Egypt, Moses in the desert (with Cut-outs), and People

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Distribute the Activity books and direct the students to Lesson 2. Ask them to complete the activities. Give assistance

with reading if necessary.

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Play the Lesson 2 end play (track 13) on CEP's Infants CD. In this play, Joshua and Naomi remind the students that God

speaks to us today through his word, the Bible.

Ask students to open their Activity books to page 26 so they can follow along with the lyrics while you play Good or bad (track 11) on Johnny Burns’ Unreal banana peel CD.

» Concluding prayerDear God, thank you that you know what we need. Thank you that you protected Moses so that he could help your people. Help us to learn more about your love and to cooperate with you in your plan for our lives. Amen.



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» For next lesson ■ You will need a clear plastic tumbler,

a table-tennis ball, a bowl, a plastic bottle fi lled with water and paper towel.

■ There are Visual aids to prepare.

» teacher refl ections ■ Did the students listen attentively during

the lesson?

■ Can they remember details from one lesson to the next?

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Documents

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rescue complete exodus

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