Category: Bible

  • Battle of Jericho

    Battle of Jericho

    I made the mistake of telling my kids that in a few days, we’d be building the city of Jericho as part of our homeschool history lessons and then destroying it (I’d never do this as a Sunday School lesson because too much chaos for our class of 30). As you can imagine, that immediately led to…

  • Teaching your kids about giving

    Teaching your kids about giving

    As a Christian, there are some pretty clear things God tells us to do, and what starts in Sunday School needs to continue at home as family discipleship.  One of those is to care for those who are less fortunate than us, and being in the United States makes us pretty much better off than…

  • We are beautiful

    We are beautiful

    First let me start off by explaining this post, Kim over at Mom Tried It (now defunct blog) is sponsoring a blog hop of sorts.  It’s not about gaining readers or getting compliments, it’s a celebration of the fact that we are beautiful (start playing sappy music now).  There is so much in our culture…

  • Teaching giving through buying Christmas presents for our siblings

    Teaching giving through buying Christmas presents for our siblings

    One of our goals is teaching giving as part of our family discipleship, which is a sort of Bible lesson.  One easy way to start is giving Christmas presents.  Each year the kids go out and buy presents for their siblings and for their parents. We split up the kids, one per adult (drafting my Mom…

  • Creation book for preschool

    Creation book for preschool

    If you are a very brave Sunday School teacher you can complete this Days of Creation Book with your preschoolers.  I’ll admit I wouldn’t be that brave. Instead, this was part of our Kindergarten curriculum, though it would make a great homeschool preschool lesson. Future Ticia 2023, I ended up combining all of the posts…