The following are lesson plans I used while teaching a preschool class about Peter. The following lessons were taught during the month:
- Jesus Calls Peter
- Peter Walks on Water
- Peter Witnesses Jesus’ Miracles
- Peter Denies Jesus
- Peter Preaches About Jesus
- Peter is Arrested
- Peter and Cornelius
This month we are talking about Peter. We will talk about Peter and Jesus and then we will talk about what Peter did after Jesus died. Our lesson today is about Peter and Andrew fishing and Jesus calling them to follow Him.
I will have a new student tomorrow (if she is willing to come in). She is nearly 3 and is moving up to my class. There is one more little boy that may move up also. He just turned 2 and is a little young, but we need the teacher in his class for another class. There should also be a 3 year old visitor tomorrow. I hope I’ve made enough pop up pages.
Peter and Andrew
My lesson plan is:
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter
Sing: Peter
Peter Flip Chart — We will just read the part that covers Jesus calling Peter and casting Peter’s net on the other side.
Pop-up Book. This will be a flip page. On one side is Andrew and Peter fishing with no fish in their nets. On the other is Andrew and Peter with a full net of fish. The kids will get to glue the fish to their net.
Attendance chart: I didn’t have time to do an attendance chart yet. Hopefully we’ll have one next week.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing. We should extra time, so we may get to sing several of our old stand bys.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline. Concentrate on the songs about the life of Christ.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
Peter Walks On Water
Our lesson tomorrow is Peter walking on the water. Last month, when we were talking about the miracles of Jesus, we learned that Jesus walked on the water. I left out the part about Peter so that we could study it this month. This is a great lesson on faith. I’ll be singing one of Glenda Schales songs (Peter Walks On The Water — I think that’s the name). This is a new one she wrote this year, I believe. It is a really good one. Try to get your hands on it if you can.
My lesson plan is:
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter — We’ll be using this same puzzle for most of the month (maybe all of it). The past 2 months we’ve had a different puzzle every lesson. These younger kids were having trouble doing them. I think just using one will help them be able to work it easier. I make the puzzles in 4 pieces, 6 pieces and 8 pieces. Throughout the month, they will probably be able to move to a harder puzzle.
Sing: Peter
Peter Flip Chart — Read about Jesus calling Peter and Peter walking on the water.
Sing Glenda Schales’ Peter song.
Pop-up Book. This page is almost identical to the one of Jesus walking on the water last month. The only difference is that Jesus is stationary and Peter is the little guy that moves up and down. If you want to see last month’s pop up book, you can view it here: Miracles of Jesus Pop up Book
Attendance chart: We finally have an attendance chart ready. It is a picture of Peter and Andrew fishing in their boat. There is netting glued to the side to be a net. Each class, the kids will get to glue a fish to their net. This should reinforce the first lesson about Peter and Andrew being called by Jesus.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing. We should extra time, so we may get to sing several of our old stand bys.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline. Concentrate on the songs about the life of Christ.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
If there is time do some activities I found while cleaning the room up this week.
Peter Witnesses Jesus’ Miracles
Our lesson tonight is about the miracles that Peter witnessed Jesus doing. That may seem like a rather odd lesson to teach, but, it stresses the fact that Peter was with Jesus while He was here. The last few lessons of the month we’ll talk about how Peter taught people about Jesus after He ascended to Heaven.
We will be going over miracles that the children are already familiar with since we studied Jesus’ miracles last month. So, I’m going to raid the “miracles of Jesus” box and use some of the activities we had last month. The only miracle that will be new to them is when Jesus raised the widow’s son.
My lesson plan is:
Before class, I’ll have some of the wooden puzzles out on the table for the kids to work.
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter
Sing: Peter
Review the last 2 lessons with the popup book they’ve been working on.
Peter Flip Chart — We’ll read the entire flip chart up to the miracles that Jesus taught.
Blacklight story —
Loaves and Fish
Attendance chart: Let the kids glue their fish to Peter and Andrew’s net.
Sing Glenda Schales’ Peter song.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline. Concentrate on the songs about the life of Christ.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
Peter Denies Jesus
Tomorrow we will learn about Peter denying Jesus. I used to love this story as a child. I think it was because it had a rooster in it. I thought that the rooster crowed 3 times. Funny the things we pick up as children. Now, this story makes me sad. Peter thought he was strong. He thought he would always stand behind Jesus. When the going got tough, he didn’t do too well.
Tomorrow our gospel meeting starts. We are having a lectureship with men from the area and a little beyond. We’ll be studying the church The actual title of the series is: Christ’s Church — Being Distinct in an Indistinct World. We would love to see you there.
My lesson plan is:
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter
Sing: Peter
Review the last 2 lessons with the popup book they’ve been working on. We didn’t have a pop up page Wed PM due to computer problems at home. We’ll have to review that lesson with the flip chart.
Peter Flip Chart — We’ll read the entire flip chart up to Peter denying Jesus. I may take a couple of the miracles out of the flip chart. It is getting rather long. I want to read it every week, but I don’t want the kids to have to sit still too long.
Pop up book — Our pop up page is actually a little book glued into the big book. On each page of the little book is a picture of Peter denying Jesus. Each time he denies Jesus, he gets more and more upset. The last page is of Peter being very sad. There’s also a picture of a rooster crowing. The children will get to stick a 1, 2 or 3 sticker on the appropriate page corresponding to Peter’s denial.
Attendance chart: Let the kids glue their fish to Peter and Andrew’s net.
Glenda Schales’ Peter song.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline. Concentrate on the songs about the life of Christ.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
Peter Preaches About Jesus
Today’s lesson is about the apostles receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The apostles were able to speak different languages. They were able to teach the people in Jerusalem (and there were people from all over), each one in his own language. They taught the people about Jesus and that He was the messiah, the savior. They told the people to repent and be baptized. That day, there were 3000 baptized. God added them to His church.
This is definitely a turning point in the Bible. Before this day, the Jews lived under the law of Moses. Now they would be living under the new law. The law of Christ. Not only the Jews, but eventually, all men would have the opportunity to obey Christ and be saved to live eternally.
My lesson plan is:
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter
Sing: Peter
Review the previous lessons with the popup book they’ve been working on.
Peter Flip Chart — The flip chart is now 29 pages long. Although, going through the miracles of Jesus goes pretty quickly.
Attendance chart: Let the kids glue their fish to Peter and Andrew’s net.
Sing Glenda Schales’ Peter song.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline. Concentrate on the songs about the life of Christ.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
Peter is Arrested
Okay, somewhere along the line I lost a week. I thought I had more class sessions this month. I guess the meeting through me off. I was going to teach about miracles that Peter did tonight, but since I just have tonight and Sunday to teach Peter, I’m going to teach about Peter being arrested.
Peter was arrested 3 times. We will be talking specifically about when he was arrested in Acts 12. I don’t know how many of you have memorized what’s in the each chapter of Acts, but Danny did growing up. He learned that in chapter 12 — 10 + 2 Rhoda goes cuckoo. I was reading this chapter to my boys the other day. My 13 year old remembered that little rhyme. When we read the passage, he realized that Rhoda didn’t go as cuckoo as his mind had lead him to believe. He remembers a picture of Rhoda (that his dad drew) where she was in a straight jacket. Well, that obviously was an exaggeration trying to help the kids remember what was in that chapter. Rhoda didn’t go cuckoo, she was just very surprised.
That has nothing to do with my lesson, but it was on my mind, and you got to hear it. :-)
My lesson plan is:
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter
Sing: Peter
Review the previous lessons with the popup book they’ve been working on.
Peter Flip Chart —
Attendance chart: Let the kids glue their fish to Peter and Andrew’s net.
Sing Glenda Schales’ Peter song.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline. We’ll try to sing several of these tonight.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
Peter and Cornelius
Today is our last lesson on Peter. We will be talking about Peter’s vision and Cornelius’ conversion. I remember this story so well from my childhood. It was one of my favorite.
My lesson plan is:
Sing: Jesus Loves Me and The B-I-B-L-E with sign language. Also sing My God Is So Big. My 3 year old was “helping” me in the resource room this evening. He found a big cloth sun and cloud. He wanted me to sing a song about it. It made me remember a song I used to sing all the time in class — God Made The Round Round Sun. We’ll give it a try in class today.
Magnetic Puzzle — Peter
Sing: Peter
Peter Flip Chart
Review lesson with the pop-up book.
Attendance chart: Let the kids glue their fish to Peter and Andrew’s net.
Sing Glenda Schales’ Peter song.
Sing songs: The Bright Red Crab and Bumbling Bumble Bee or others of their choosing.
Review previous lessons with the Song Timeline.
End class with a prayer. Let each child that wants to say a prayer.
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great ideas thank you.
Thank you, Amber.