Welcome to Grace Montreal Church's website for Children's Ministry. This blog is to be a resource to the teachers for GMC Sunday school as well as for the parents of GMCKidz.

Currently, we are looking into how to best teach God's children through curricula. Please be praying for us during this discernment process.

We are always looking for more volunteers. Please keep this need in prayer, and read the information on the role on our blog to consider serving our community in this way!

Church website: gracemontreal.com

Please contact: Rebecca Hall - gmckidz@gmail.com

Saturday, October 31, 2009

An overview of the My Great Big God curriculum

Purpose of this Curriculum:
- to help them grow more aware of God's love, care and help in their everyday lives.
- embrace their most effective method of learning is through play!
- actively explore bible truths in ways that involve the whole child.
- to help them to discover ways to do what they have learned in class.

Special Features:
- every lesson includes a colourful Bible Story poster to help them focus on the story. Older children's story is on the back.
- Each session has several different active learning experiences related to "God's Word and Me" to help change the pace at the rate of their attention spans.
- Activities meet the needs and abilities of preschoolers with options for the younger and older age brackets.
- The Read-Aloud Story and Activity Centre features a contemporary story and activity page related to the sessions' lesson focus. The Instant Activities can be used at any time in the session to provide a change of pace, to extend the session or to allow for transitions at the beginning or end of the session.
- This curriculum is easy to use. Every lesson opens with a Teacher's Devotional to give teachers insight and background in understanding how the lesson's focus applies to their own lives. The Leader's Guide is REPRODUCIBLE.

Prayerful preparation:
-if you are full of eagerness and understanding of the lesson at hand, your children will be eager to learn, too!
- As you pray and organize this course to meet the needs of your group, as God what He wants to do during this time.
- Invite Him to make you sensitive to ways you can be part of what He wants to accomplish.
- Although these children are young, the foundations for understanding that you lay will make an eternal difference as they grow to understand our great big God!