Ideas for multi-age, multi-grade, one classroom Sunday school?

Question

I attend a small (less than 100 members) non-denominational Christian church. I help once a month with the Sunday school program. The lady who organized the curriculum and united all the teachers has recently left. Any ideas on good curriculum and/or other ideas when you're working with anyone from 3 years up to 5th grade in one room at the same time? There's no consistent behaviors and/or discipline policies between volunteer teachers. There aren't many resources and no copier on site. Thanks. I appreciate all suggestions.

Answer 1

I am in the same perdicament at my church. One lesson plan that i did was pretty simple but it might take some time depending on how many are in your classroom. You can do the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors. Go through and tell a little story about it and then you can make a coat. What i did for this was that i went to the grocerie store and got paper bags. I cut them to have little holes in them and a neck, and also cut them down the middle. Now if you dont have that much time you can have the older students cut the coats themselves, and you can cut them for the little ones. It sounds pretty detailed but its not it only takes about 15 minutes and then they can color and wear their own coat. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

I used to attend a very small church and we didn't have that many older children. (We had a lot of younger ones, but not older). What we did was divide the students into two groups: 9-13 and high school. I was in charge o the 9-13 group. We divided the boys and girls and had competitions such as how many brought their bibles and how many brought a friend. We had a lesson that was presented whole group which usually included some type of drama or acting out the story. Then, we had a game time which usually involved a big game between the boys and the girls that somehow illustrated the lesson. At the end, we had prayer where the students divided into smaller groups to pray. At the end, the points were totaled and either the boys or the girls won and got some type of prize at the end. It was very high energy and the kids loved it. We, the helpers, were like cheerleaders and helped to herd the kids and we prayed with the kids at the end.

Answer 3

Sunday School Classroom Ideas

Answer 4

This is a tough situation. When I was in high school, I had to teach a Sunday school class for ages 4-11, so I have some idea where you are coming from:

My ideas:
-- Meet with the other volunteer teachers to come up with some consistent class procedures. It can be as simple as deciding you are going to sing songs, tell a bible story, complete a worksheet, and then do a craft each Sunday. The consistency will help the students and minimize behavior problems.

-- Find or make a basic Sunday school curriculum. Perhaps you can ask a larger church nearby if they can donate several used teachers' manuals from the Sunday school curriculum for previous quarters. You will have to come up with all the student worksheets and visuals on your own, but then you will at least have a basic outline for what lessons to teach. If you cannot do this, then get together with the other teachers and make a Sunday school lesson schedule. You should only have to do this a few times a year. For example, first you can teach the book of Genesis, the parables of Christ, or the life of David. Decide what chapters should be covered each week, and distribute a schedule to all the teachers. This will provide consistency and make sure each lesson builds on the next.

-- Find a CD of children's praise songs to use each week. It would be best to find one that has simple versions of praise choruses or easy songs geared toward grades 3-5. Little kids like the more grown-up, cool songs, too. If you choose prototypical children's songs, you run the risk of boring the older kids. A few well-placed actions and hand-motions are great for all kids ages 3-14, so you may want to go through the CD a few times with the other volunteers to agree on hand motions. Or you can just have one teacher make up hand motions and the older kids can lead them when a different volunteer is teaching.

-- Make story time an important part of the class. Tell the story in simple but not babyish terms. Using a lot of visuals will help the preschoolers to pay attention even when the lesson is being taught at a slightly higher level. You can easily make simple puppet people (out of paper and popsicle sticks) to go along with your story. Or you can use quick hand-drawn pictures. Or you can bring in a sack of items to use to tell your story. (For example, for the story of Adam and Eve, bring in a piece of fruit, a rubber snake, and a leaf.)

-- Print worksheets or coloring pages online. You can have three different pages each week appropriate to different age levels.

-- While the students are working on worksheets at the table, you can meet with groups at the story circle to work on application questions, role playing, or memory verses. That way you can divide them up by age for a few minutes while keeping all students occupied.

-- If memory verses are a part of your program, use the same memory verse for all the students, but shorten it for the younger ones. Romans 3:23 for the older ones would be, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23." The younger ones could just memorize, "All have sinned. Romans 3:23."

-- Do a simple craft each week using construction paper, paper bags, markers, cotton balls, Q-tips, craft sticks, etc. Pair each younger child with an older child "helper." That way you can do a more complicated craft to keep the older ones interested, but the little ones won't get frustrated.

I will post some internet resources as I find them. God sees the hard work you are doing and will reward it!

Complete lesson plans:
http://gardenofpraise.com/bibleles.htm

Complete lesson plans, crafts, and activities (really good):
http://www.mssscrafts.com/

A full year of lesson plans:
http://www.dltk-bible.com/guides/index.htm

Worksheets for older kids:
http://sewhttkr.home.comcast.net/~sewhttkr/bibleWS/bibleWS.htm

Coloring pages for younger kids:
http://www.coloring.ws/christian.htm

Craft ideas:
http://www.dltk-bible.com/craft-index.htm

Lesson plans, curriculum schedule, crafts, etc.:
http://www.kidssundayschool.com/Main/Resources/resourceindex.php

A bunch of activities organized alphabetically by topic:
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/bible_lessons.html

Answer 5

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Answer 7

Each month take one morality lesson. There are good library books on it, like *Lincoln:Honest Man* (things like that). Read the book aloud to the group, and then as the younger ones color a picture have a discussion with the older ones about honesty--times you have to tell "white lies", when you must be honest, etc.

Answer 8

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