Saturday, August 15, 2015

Jesus Storybook Bible Lesson Plans

I haven't blogged here in years but I've decided to come back so that I can get back to sharing and keeping a record of our homeschool adventures. A lot has happened over the past 4 years to keep me super busy- one child grew up and moved away, then we adopted our youngest daughter from China. As I type this, my oldest daughter is preparing to move back home in one week so I'll have all 5 of my children under one roof for the first time ever. 

Something new this year- we'll be getting together with some other homeschool friends for some group learning time. I'll be in charge of the younger children, and I've decided to use The Jesus Storybook Bible as the spine for our lessons. As I was typing out my lesson plans, I realized that I would have loved to find a weekly lesson plan already planned out and ready to go so I  decided to type out my plans here rather than a private Word document just in case anyone out there is looking for ideas.

Disclaimer- I will be skipping some lessons. Our first semester is 15 weeks long, ending just before Christmas. I timed our first semester so that we'll be reading the Christmas chapters around November/December and in order to do that, some of the chapters needed to be skipped. I haven't planned beyond Christmas.

Week 1

Reading: The Beginning: A Perfect Home (Jesus Storybook Bible)

Craft: Days of Creation Poster

Song: The Creation Song

Science project:  Ocean in a Bottle

Materials needed: 

Poster board for each child
cut outs of numbers
glue sticks
stickers or crayons to decorate each number (cotton balls, flower or plant stickers, star stickers, birds and fish, land animals)
water
cooking oil
blue food coloring
empty soda bottle
funnel