Sunday School Curriculum - Initial Preparation
updated September 14, 2015

*NEW* Substitute Teacher Lesson Plans - 101 Favorite Stories from the Bible by Ura Miller

(I've found my plans are too intimidating for my subs so this is more user-friendly. It's not a bad little book, actually. I'm quite pleased with it.)

Resources for my ADHD student:

A Guide for Bringing Knitting and Spinning into Elementary through High School Classrooms by Cat Bordhi
(a wonderful article to put in my curriculum package to help convince my supervisors)

Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual by Association for a Healing Education

The "Write" Approach: Form Drawing for Better Handwriting (Book 1 & 2)
by Joen Gladich and Paula Sassi

I'm going to try to get his mother to let me work with him on his handwriting -- his letters are so large that he literally can't use a main lesson book. One word takes up an entire quarter of the page. This book series is set up as nice photocopy-friendly worksheets for independent work, which we can do before Sunday School starts.

Favorite websites for learning about the Bible:

Old Testament Books - listing of the 39 books of the Protestant OT and short summary of each

Here's the entire text of the Bible, verse by verse (with nice navigational up and down arrows so you can find your way around) and including international translations.

For different interpretations and commentary about each verse, try bibletools.org. They do a good job of referring you to other places in the Bible that talk about the same topic, so you can get a sense of the larger picture.

Setting up the classroom:

Cabinet labels

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Posters for the inside of each cabinet door

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Posters for each month's blessing

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Things I need to buy:

• angel candleholder
• clipboard
• beeswax crayons (one box per two children)
• modeling beeswax (one box per four children)
• main lesson books (one per child)
• * baskets for student work -- 2nd quarter knitting projects
• self-drying clay
• watercolor paints
• watercolor paper (small sheets, perforated)
• paint brushes
• smocks
• dry sponges
• small jars
• paper towels
• spray bottle of water
• potting soil
• seeds (wheat grass kit from Nova Natural)
• small greenhouse
• small pots
• dry erase markers
• cursive handwriting poster
• large graphing charts
• small red and yellow silks

Things I need to make:

• job chart
• Out of the Room sign
  

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• sticks for mug
• clothespins for job chart
• posters for Bible verses to be assigned (HW)
• candles
• index card for each child with student information & address
• * tags for labeling student work baskets -- 2nd quarter
• sign for classroom door with group name and motto
• labels for each cabinet and drawer