Leader Bible Study

LIFE POINT God is with us.

Miriam and LEADER BIBLE STUDY Moses “Congratulations! Say hello to your new Moses’ sister, Miriam, had followed BIBLE PASSAGE son,” the nurse said as she placed the the basket and saw the rescue. She Exodus 1:8–2:10 infant into the waiting arms of his teary- suggested that a Hebrew woman be LIFE VERSE eyed adoptive mother. It was love at found to nurse him. So it was the baby’s You are saved. first sight. Many adoptive parents have biological mother who nurtured him until Ephesians 2:5 had the opportunity to experience the he was old enough to live as the adopted WEEKLY BIBLE VERSE joy of holding their newborn babies. son of Pharaoh’s daughter. She named God will help you. Though they did not physically birth the him Moses. Isaiah 41:10 child, the adoptive parents’ love and How does the story of baby Moses gratitude equals that of birth parents. demonstrate the providence of God? Christian adoptive parents recognize the providence of God in the adoption process, knowing this is the special child He has for them. One of the Bible’s most In what ways does the story show that Print the One Conversation™ Place important men was an adopted child. God cares for all people? Mat and give one to To give you a little backstory, fearful every child (www. the Israelites might rebel, Egypt’s Pharaoh biblestudiesforlife.com/ ordered two Hebrew midwives to kill any extra). boys born to Hebrew mothers. Because these midwives feared God, they did not LEVEL OF BIBLICAL LEARNING follow through. I am special because God made me. One clever Hebrew woman named Jochebed placed her baby in a basket and placed it in the reeds by the bank of the Additional training for Bible Studies for Nile River. Pharaoh’s daughter spotted Life: Kids available at ministrygrid.com/ the basket and sent one of her servants web/biblestudiesforlife. to get it. When she discovered the baby inside, she felt sorry for him.

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10 Unit 1, Session 1 Plan group time; then select learning centers CHOOSE that will work best for your preschoolers. Your Own BIBLE STORY Adapt the Bible story for 1s & 2s by telling the SCHEDULE bold points in your own words. MIRIAM AND MOSES —Based on Exodus 1:8–2:10 The Hebrews lived in the land of Egypt. Pharaoh (the king of Egypt) did not like these people. He thought there were too many of them. He wanted to harm the Hebrew baby boys. One mother wanted to protect her baby boy. She hid him for three months. But he grew, and she could not hide him any longer. She made a basket from reeds that grew near the river. She coated the inside and outside of the basket with tar to keep the water out. Then she put her baby in the basket and set the basket in the reeds by the bank of the river. The mother told the baby’s sister, a girl named Miriam, to watch what would happen to the baby. In a short while Pharaoh’s daughter came to the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent a servant to get the basket. When she saw the baby in the basket, he was crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.” Miriam said, “Should I go and call one of the Hebrew women to take care of the baby?” “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter said. Miriam brought her mother. Pharaoh’s daughter told Miriam’s mother, “I will pay you to take care of this baby.” So the baby’s mother took him home and cared for him. When the baby was older the mother took him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses.

GROUP TIME Notes ►►Pack Items 14, 38: “Life ►Move to music. Play “I Know That God Is with Us” (track 2). Lead the kids to move to Verse Markers,” “Weekly the music. Bible Verse Markers” ►Tell the Bible story. Ask the kids if they have ever been to a river. Tell them to listen ►►Teaching Picture 1 and find out what happened at the river in the story. Open the Bible to Exodus 2. ►►CD Explain that the king of Egypt was called Pharaoh. Tell the story in your own words. ►►DVD Recall the Bible story. Place a few prompts (a basket, a doll, the Teaching Picture) ► ►►Basket, baby doll, heart in front of the children. Invite them to tell what comes to mind about the Bible story. stickers ►Review the Bible Verses and Life Point. Show children this week’s Life Verse marker. Say the verse while clapping a rhythm. Ask about how God saved Moses. Show children the Weekly Bible Verse marker for this session. Say the verse with the LIFE POINT children as they pretend to rock a baby. Ask how God helped Moses’ mother. God is with us. ►Wrap it up. Pray, thanking God for keeping each child safe and protected. Place a heart-shaped sticker on each child to remind him that God saves and helps him. Option: Show the “Miriam and Moses: Life Action” video.

BIBLE STUDIES FOR LIFE BABIES–5s 11 Notes LEARNING CENTERS ►Bible Focus: God kept Moses safe.

►►Bible CARE FOR A BABY (Dramatic Play) ►►Baby dolls, doll clothes, ••Guide the kids to use the materials to care for the dolls. As girls and boys rock or pretend baby care feed the dolls, talk about ways they are caring for the babies. Comment that Miriam items, rocking chair, doll and her mother cared for Moses. crib, blankets, rattles and ••Mention that the baby was Moses, who was called by God to do important things. other baby toys Point out that the baby grew and that the girls and boys are growing as God planned for them to grow. ►►Pack Items 18–20: “Giant Alphabet Letters” SPELL AND SNACK (Puzzles and Games) ►►“Allergy Alert” (CD) ••Print an M on each child’s paper. Mention that God helped people keep Moses ►►Paper, marker, bowls, safe. Review the Bible story and talk about how God helped the people in the cereal story. Mention that God helped Moses (by using his mother, his sister, and Pharaoh’s ►►Post the allergy alert. daughter). Emphasize that God helps us. Print a large letter M on ••Place bowls of dry cereal on the table. Guide each child to cover the lines of the M a piece of paper (one per child). with cereal pieces. Tell younger preschoolers that Moses begins with the letter M. ••Before the children eat their snack, pray thanking God for the ways He helps us. ••Help older preschoolers use the giant letters to spell Help. Review the Weekly Bible Verse, “God will help you. Isaiah 41:10.” ►►Pack Item 17: “Dramatic Play Props” MAKE A RIVER SCENE (Blocks) ••Display the Teaching Picture and talk about the Bible story. Review the Weekly Bible Teaching Picture 1 ►► Verse: “God will help you. Isaiah 41:10.” Blue towels or paper ►► ••Guide the kids to use blue towels or paper to create a Nile River scene. Allow kids to Option: green and ►► use the props to re-create the Teaching Picture. Option: Help older preschoolers brown paper, scissors, tape cut strips of paper and tape them to blocks to line the river with grass and other plants. Ask a child to draw and cut out a basket to place among the grass.

PAINT AND DISCOVER A PICTURE (Art) ►►Teaching Picture 1 ••On white sheets of paper, use a white crayon to draw the shape of a basket. Press ►►“Miriam and Moses” Coloring Page (CD) firmly. Give a sheet to each child. ►►White paper, white ••Guide the preschoolers to paint the paper with blue watercolors. Ask them to guess crayons, blue watercolor the picture that appears. paint, paintbrushes, ••Refer to the Teaching Picture and briefly tell the Bible story. cups of water, smocks ••Option: Allow preschoolers to complete the “Miriam and Moses” Coloring Page.

12 Unit 1, Session 1 LIFE POINT God is with us.

EXAMINE AND DRAW GRASS (Nature and Science) ••Guide the kids to complete the Kids Activity Page. Notes ••As they work, invite the children to take turns looking at each type of grass through a magnifying glass. Younger preschoolers may touch various types of grasses. Kids Activity Page Review the Bible story as the children look at the grass. Say the Life Point. ►► ••Provide a piece of paper for any interested kids to draw what they see. Younger ►►“Allergy Alert” (CD) preschoolers will be able to make green lines with a crayon. Invite older ►►Grass samples, preschoolers to draw Moses’ sister next to the grass. crayons, markers, paper, nonbreakable magnifying glasses MEET TWO MISSIONARIES (Missions) ••Show the children the picture of Martha Moore and Abraham. Explain that Martha ►►Options: A book and Abraham work with students in Seville, Spain. They are missionaries. Explain about grass, pictures of different kinds of that missionaries are people who teach others about Jesus and God. grasses, grass seeds ••Make the connection that God is with Martha and Abraham as they share the good news of Jesus in Spain, and He’s with us, too. Pray, thanking God for Martha and ►►Post the allergy alert. Abraham and their ministry in Spain. ►►“Missionary Pictures” (CD) BABIES ACTIVITIES

TOUCH WATER Place a small amount of water in a dishpan. Lay several towels nearby with Teaching Picture 1. Stay near the water at all times. Put a towel in your lap and hold a baby so he can splash the water. Show the picture to the baby. Use the bold Bible story sentences to talk about Moses. Talk to baby: “God helped Moses and his family. God helps Ben’s ►Teaching Picture 1 family. Ben is special to God.” ► ►►Shallow pan, water, PLAY PEEK-A-BOO towels Show a baby the doll, then hide the doll under a blanket. Lead the baby to lift the ►►Doll, blanket blanket to reveal the doll, and say, “Peek-a-boo!” Repeat the activity a few times. As you play with the baby, use the bold Bible story sentences to talk about Moses. Talk to baby: “God helped keep baby Moses safe. God loves and helps Sophie stay safe, too.” LIFE VERSE You are saved. Ephesians 2:5

WEEKLY BIBLE VERSE God will help you. Isaiah 41:10

BIBLE STUDIES FOR LIFE BABIES–5s 13 Image Credit: shutterstock not match. Count the baskets. Print that number somewhere on the page. Circle the baskets in each row that are the same. Put an Moses’ mother put him in abasket that she had waterproofed. Look at the baskets. UNIT 1.UNIT 1 SESSION Match theBaskets Miriam Moses and X on the basket that does BIBLE STUDIES FOR LIFE BABIES–5 LIFE FOR STUDIES BIBLE You have called been by God. —EPHESIANS 4:1—EPHESIANS LIFE VERSE s

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® THE BIBLE MEETS LIFE: Parents, help your child understand that Moses was a valuable part of God’s plan. All people matter to God. Emphasize that God helps us.

LEVEL OF BIBLICAL LEARNING: I am special because God PRESCHOOL made me.

MIRIAM AND MOSES

EXODUS 1:8–2:10

BIBLE VERSE: God will help you. Isaiah 41:10 LIFE POINT: God is with us.

Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, did not like the Hebrews. He thought there were too many of them. He wanted to harm the Hebrew baby boys. One mother wanted to protect her baby boy. She hid him for three months. But he grew, and she could not hide him any longer. She made LIVE IT OUT: Talk with your child about times when he might feel alone a basket from reeds that grew near the river. She coated the inside and and frightened. Help him thank God outside of the basket to keep the water out. Then she put her baby in the for parents and other family members basket and set the basket in the reeds by the river. The mother told the who can help him feel better during those times. Remind him that God has baby’s sister, Miriam, to watch what would happen to the baby. promised He will always be with us. In a short while Pharaoh’s daughter came to the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent a servant to get the basket. When she saw the baby in the basket, he was crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is BIBLE AND ME: Read these verses one of the Hebrew boys.” each day with your kids. Miriam said, “Should I go and call one of the Hebrew women to take care Sunday: Exodus 20:7 of the baby?” Pharaoh’s daughter said yes. Miriam brought her mother. Monday: Psalm 25:5 Tuesday: John 4:42 When the baby was older, the mother took him to Pharaoh’s Wednesday: Exodus 20:8 daughter, and he became her Thursday: Psalm 37:31 son. She named him Moses. Friday: John 6:40 TAKE Saturday: Exodus 20:12 IT FURTHER: Check out the Miriam and Moses section of the Bible Studies for Life: Kids Family App.

4 You have been called by God. Ephesians 4:1

Understand what the Lord wants you to do. Ephesians 5:17

God will keep you safe. Isaiah 8:14

Never get tired of doing good. Galatians 6:9

BIBLE MARKERS Instructions: Cut apart the Bible markers and use to teach the Life Verse in each session. 14 Unit 1, Unit 2, Special Focus Bible Studies for Life Babies–5s Leader Pack, Fall 2014 DRAMATIC PLAY PROPS Instructions: Cut out the grass and tape it to the side of standing blocks. 17 Unit 1, Session 1 Cut out the baby Moses figure and lead the kids to hide “baby Moses” in Leader Pack, Fall 2014 the grass. Offer to tell the Bible story as the children role-play it. a b c d e f g h

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u v w xImage Credit: shutterstock GIANT ALPHABET LETTERS Instructions: Cut apart the alphabet letters and use with 19 Unit 1, Session 1 pre-kindergartners as directed in the Leader Guide. Leader Pack, Fall 2014 20 33 Leader Pack, Fall Pack, 2014Leader 1,Unit 1 Session Leader Pack, Fall Pack, 2014Leader 1,Unit 5 Session GIANT ALPHABET LETTERS ALPHABET GIANT BOOKMARK PATTERN line. Use the pattern for the kids to make bookmarks. kids the for pattern Use the line. Instructions: Cut along pattern the the bookmark cutting

y z We will Honor God God will help worship and God is with with your you. obey God. us. money. Isaiah 41:10 Joshua 24:24 Psalm 46:7 Proverbs 3:9 Forgive each other. Obey your Ephesians 4:32 God can do father and God is near. all things. mother. Psalm 145:18 Job 42:2 Ephesians 6:2 Be kind. Ephesians 4:32 God is God hears See how with you me when I God will help wherever talk to Him. you today. Give thanks you go. Psalm 5:3 Exodus 14:13 to God. Joshua 1:9 1 Chronicles 16:8

WEEKLY BIBLE VERSE MARKERS Instructions: Cut apart each weekly Bible verse. Use as directed in the Leader Guide. 38 Unit 1, Unit 2, Special Focus Leader Pack, Fall 2014 Today your child will be tasting, smelling, or handling the following: ______

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Bible Studies For Life 3s–Pre-K, Fall 2014 Instructions: Print and post the allergy alert. Refer to the Leader Guide © 2014 LifeWay. Printed in the United States of America. for suggested activities that require an allergy alert. This item may be reproduced. Miriam and Moses God will help you. Isaiah 41:10

MARTHA MOORE AND ABRAHAM

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Bible Studies For Life 3s–Pre-K, Fall 2014 Instructions: Print the missionary picture for use during the session as © 2014 LifeWay. Printed in the United States of America. you talk about the missionaries in Unit 1 and Unit 2. This item may be reproduced.