Our Wednesday evenings are spent reviewing the Sunday's lesson. I believe this is a wonderful way to teach the children...it makes sure they have grasped what they have learned.



This past Wednesday was the night to review the story of the 12 spies who spied out the Land of Canaan. This story is a wonderful story to use when teaching children to listen to good advice...And how listening to bad advice can send us wandering around lost for many many years.





Our Explorer Journal Activity for Wednesday Night was a picture of two spies carrying back "real" fake grapes on a pole. The kiddos loved the "real" fake grapes. (I could not find small bunches of grapes so I made these by cutting down larger bunches of grapes and gluing on a leaf.) I bought these grapes at the local Dollar Tree....so, the investment was not too great...and I was able to get two sets out of one, if I cut them apart carefully.






On Wednesday evening we review our Memory Verses....we have a song that goes with each Memory Verse, so we sing the song a few times and then have the children say their Memory Verse. They normally do a really good job with saying their Memory Verse. Of course they get to put an EXPLORER sticker on the EXPLORER'S BACKPACK.





The children LOVED this GRAPE Cluster review game. It had such an impact...both, as a visual and a review game. Putting this together was a trial and error experiment....I struggled to find a way to attach the balloons to the grape backboard....I tried velcro dots, and double stick tape...to many balloons popped. I finally figured out if I glued tiny little clothes pins onto the back board and clip the balloons on it would work easily to remove a grape. I love the way it turned out.

The Bible Story that the kiddos will be learning about this Sunday is the story of the Twelve Spies. They will learn how they went into Canaan and spied out the land....and how Ten of the spies came back and tell the Hebrews that the Land was too hard to conquer and the people there were like giants.

The children will learn how the spies brought back fruit from the land. They will learn how the bunch of grapes they brought back was so large it had to be carried on a stick between two men. The land was truly flowing with "MILK and HONEY."

The kiddos will learn how Joshua and Caleb told the people to have FAITH in God....HE would give them the land. The children will learn how the Hebrews should have listen to Joshua and Caleb...but, because they doubted God was going to punish them. Their punishment would be wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.


Our Take Home Activity is POM POM Grapes on a stick.







Our Memory Verse for the lesson.












Our review game this week is based on the grapes the spies brought back with them from Canaan....The children will pick a grape (balloon) from the cluster and answer the question that is written on the back of the grape (balloon.)




Blessings,

Ronda