1. SonQuest Rainforest Teacher Training 2010 VBS Curriculum Teacher Training 2010 VBS Curriculum

2. “Teacher’s Discovery” -Prepare your own heart Pray, asking God to prepare your heart to receive His Word. Pray, asking God to prepare the hearts of the kids. Your own learning, experiences? As a teacher: 1.Do you live out God’s Word? 2.Have you found by Jesus? 3.Have you tried to share God’s love? 4.Have you experienced the peace and goodness from God after you’ve prayed? 5.Are you doing your best in using your gifts to serve God, because of your love to Him?

3. How to teach a Bible Story?(1) Lesson Aim Read through the Bible passages in “Bible Story Discovery” a few times. Find the lesson theme--the central point of the passage. Check with the lesson theme “Life Discovery” Lesson Aim is the objective(s) of the lesson-- ”Daily Challenge”

4. How to teach a Bible Story?(2) Hook* Book* Look* Took* *Richard O. Lawrence: Creative Bible Study

5. How to teach a Bible Story?(3) Hook A quick and fun activity to help children connect everyday life with the Bible lesson. Bible Learning Activities (centers?) (PreK/K) Story Starters (1st grade up) A short story

6. How to teach a Bible Story?(4) Book Tell the Bible story or/and ask the students to read from Bible. Story-telling Have volunteers answer quick involvement questions. A small activity to illustrate the point “Conclusion” “Bible Verse Discover” Bible Story Review activity

7. How to teach a Bible Story?(5) Look: Apply the lesson to their lives through discussion and activities Connect with Book with a reflection question “Soar”, student Magazines? Took: Practice the biblical truth in their lives. A commitment A prayer An action that will be carry out when they go home

8. Course Description Parables --> Daily Challenges Parables: “A parable compares something well- known with something hard to understand.” Daily Challenges: A central point that will change the children’s daily living.

9. Day 1: Which Soil Are You? 1.Parable of Soils 2.Which soil are you? (a reflection question) 3.Get It? Kids will understand the importance of not only hearing God’s Word, the Bible, but also doing what it says every day. 4.Strawberry Dart Frog

10. Day 2: Baa, Baa, Lost Sheep 1.Parable of Lost Sheep 2.Do you want to receive God’s forgiveness? 3.Get Found! Kids will discover what it means to be loved by Jesus (being saved) 4.Jaguar

11. Day 3: An Unlikely Neighbor 1.Parable of Good Samaritan 2.Do you love an unlikely neighbor? 3.Get God’s Love! Kids will be inspired to show God’s love to others. 4.Capuchin Monkey

12. Day 4: The Midnight Knocker 1.Parable about Prayer 2.Do you pray like the midnight knocker? 3.Get Praying! Kids will understand that anytime is the right time to pray to Jesus. 4.Toucan

13. Day 5: Use It or Lose It 1.Parable of the Talents 2.Do you use it? 3.Get Going! Kids will discover what it means to love God by doing their best work. 4.Morpho Butterfly

14. Age-Level Characteristics Setup Pre K/ K: Tropical Treehouse 1st-6th Grades: Parable Falls Learning Methods Pre K/ K: feeling, sensing more than thinking logically; playing; talking; self-center 1st-2nd: doing, and start to read and using logic; more social center 3rd and up: thinking, reading, and reasoning Teaching Methods Pre K/ K: props, blocks, posters, puppets, etc.; repeating 1st-2nd: drawing, writing, role playing, games 3rd and up: small group discussing, writing, q&a