Learning about God's Word

The kids asked, "What are we going to be learning about this time?"... I said, "The Bible"... they said, "Duh!... what part?"... I said, "Exactly!"... and so we have begun a study about the Bible!

Some of the concepts that we have talked about in the past few weeks....

* The Bible is God's word to us! It is a special book that tells us about who God is and what He wants for us to be.

* The Bible has 2 major divisions... The Old Testament and the New Testament. We discussed what each part contains and the types of materials found in each. We talked about the different types of writings that are found in the bible: Stories, poetry, songs, "how to's" (laws and instructions), history and prophecy.

We made rainbow bookmarks and have practiced finding different scriptures in the bible and marking them with our bookmark. Did you know that if you open your Bible directly in the middle, you are in the book of Psalms? Did you know that if you find the half-way point between the middle of your bible and the end of your bible you are in the book of Matthew?

The kids did an exercise to illustrate the concept of grouping things together to make a task easier. They each got a handful of skittles and were required to work as a team to count the number of each color of skittles they had. They all quickly discovered it was much easier to separate and group the colors together before counting. We applied that to the way that the Bible is organized and grouped. We discussed the major groupings of both the Old Testament - Law, History, Poetry & Prophecy - and the New Testament - Gospels, History, Letters & Prophecy. We are working to identify each book of the Bible and what group it belongs to.... And, of course, we got to eat skittles in class!

Our Memory Verse is from Psalms 109:105a...

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path"