Food is Good(From Here we Go but suitable for Infants-2nd class)

This week’s lesson is all about food. I don’t know about your home but there seems to be a lot of chatting about food at the moment and cooking and baking going on. Have you baked or cooked anything?

There are lots of Bible stories that talk about food and there are two Bible stories to watch and chat about this week. One is about a man in the Old Testament who was really hungry and needed food and the other is when Jesus fed lots of people. Saying thank you to God for food is important and there are a number of prayers you can say with your child. You might even make up your own special prayer or ‘grace’ to say at mealtimes. Activities:Session 1Song: Thank you Lord for this new day The song is found here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njsdfxK9FcQ

Discuss: What do you most like to eat?Why do you like that food? When do you eat it?What’s your favourite breakfast food?What’s your favourite lunch?What’s your favourite dinner?

Activity

Draw your favourite foods on a piece of paper or make them from playdoh. Write a title or sign – Thank you God for my favourite foods.PrayerTake it in turns to add a food to the prayer:Thank you God for ….Thank you God for ….. and ……Thank you God for ….. and ….. and….. (continue for a few more items)Thank you God for all the food we eat. Amen.

Day 2. The picture from the book is pasted below. What would you like to eat and what would you not like to eat?

Discuss:

Do you like bread? Where do we get our bread from?Discuss the process of bread from farm to shop. Here’s a video clip (cartoon and simple) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWY7W-lw5X8

and here is a clip describing the process in more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vLjPctrcU

The presenter of the second video said that since earliest times the process of making bread is still the same. Even in Bible times the wheat was gathered, ground into flour and mixed with yeast/oil/ water to make bread. This story is from the Old

Testament so it is a story Jesus would have heard being read in the synagogue. You can read it to your child/ren here or watch a version of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCakjL8eeIM

Elijah was really, really hungry and thirsty. Have you ever been so hungry that your tummy has rumbled? Elijah had been hiding for a long time. The king was out to catch him and Elijah had to escape into the countryside. He lived beside a river for a little while, but then the river dried up because there was no rain. Now he was starving and thirsty. But God was taking care of Elijah because Elijah loved God. ‘I’ll tell you where to go’ said God. So Elijah set off walking.He was almost going to faint with the hunger when he met a poor woman collecting sticks for her fire. ‘I’m very thirsty’, Elijah said and she went to fetch him some water. ‘I’m really hungry too’, Elijah called after her.‘We have nothing left except a handful of flour and a drop of oil’, the woman answered. ‘My boy is so hungry I am going to make him some bread and then we will starve because I have nothing left.’

‘Don’t worry’, Elijah said. ‘If you bake me a loaf of bread first and then bake yourself and your son a loaf, I promise that you won’t go hungry. The flour and oil won’t run out until the rain comes and there is more food. God will take care of you’.So she did what Elijah said. They had bread to eat every day, some for Elijah and some for the woman and her son. God was looking after them. ( 1 Kings 17. Here we Go p. 120)What do you think was the key moment in that story?……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………How do you think the woman felt when Elijah asked her for bread?

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Imagine the boy was telling his friends what happened that day. What would he have said?……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Don’t forget to say thank you to God for bread when you next have it.

Day 3. Discuss: Have you had a picnic with your family in the garden or on the floor in your house?

What is your favourite food for a picnic?Did you ever have a teddy bear’s picnic? There’s a story in the Bible about a very big picnic with lots of people. It’s usually known as the Feeding of the Five Thousand.Watch the story here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCA4oivfSYk

If you had been there at that picnic would you have been surprised?Tell the story of what happened to someone in your family. There are pictures at the end of these pages taken from ©Twinkl and you could cut them out and put them on lollipop sticks or just hold them to tell the story.ActivityImagine you were there that day with all the crowds. Draw a picture of your favourite moment from the story and include yourself in the picture.PrayerHere are some Graces (prayers said before meals). You could use one of these before your next meal or you could make up your own prayer.(Here we Go p. 117)God is greatGod is goodThank you GodFor our food, Amen

Bless us O God as we sit togetherBless the food we eat todayBless the hands that made the foodBless us O God, Amen.

© JW 2020