Joshua’s House

Today your assignment for the New/Old Testament Gazette is to write about everything that has been happening. What are the events? What are the prophets saying? What is Paul writing about?  You might want to review what you read to make sure you don’t leave anything out.

You can download your very own newsprint to use here.  Draw an image for your story too and don’t forget to include a caption!
Have fun.

Modifications

Want something easier for younger children?

Make sections on a piece of paper and let your child draw a picture and write a sentence or two about each part. (If she is not old enough to write, you can just let your child draw the pictures.) You may choose only a few of these questions and tailor them slightly to the story your child is reading.

1. Who was in this story?
2. Where did it happen?
3. What happened?
4. When did it happen?
5. Why did it happen?
6. How did it happen?

Want something harder for older children?

Encourage your child to be a real detective.  All good news articles answer the important questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how.  Encourge your child to use all six in his article.

Think of all of the people you heard about as you studied the Bible this week (or even just today).  Choose one - any one - but once you pick a character you can’t change your mind.  Write that person’s name down on the top of a piece of paper.  On that same paper, answer all 20 questions about the person you chose.

1. Why did you choose this character?
2. Where is this person mentioned in the Bible (what verses)?
3. Is this a major character or a minor character?
4. Is this person a man or a woman?
5. Was this person rich or poor?
6. Was the person young or old in the story?
7. What role did this person play in the story?
8. How are you like this person?
9. How are you different?
10. What do you think he/she did right or wrong?
11. Was he/she faithful to God?
12. Would you have acted the same or differently than this person?
13. How?
14. How did this person respond to those around him/her?
15. Why do you think this person was included in the Bible?
16. Did this person allow the Holy Spirit to work through him/her?
17. What questions do you have about this person?
18. What questions do you have about what this person did?
19. What lessons did this person learn or teach someone else?
20. What can you learn from this person?

Modifications

Want something easier for younger children?

Choose just a few of the questions that are appropriate for your child’s age.

Want something harder for older children?

For a bigger challenge, have your child write a book about the character they choose for 20 questions.  He can make a story book and illustrate it, using one page for each question.  (This activity might work nicely for a pre-writing exercise).

They say a picture says 1,000 words.  What about eight pictures?

For this activity you will need a pencil and colored pencils,
markers or crayons.

Look through the chapter(s) you read in the Bible, and write down the 8 most important parts of the story in order.

Draw the eight scenes one by one in the storyboard boxes on the template you can find here.

Remember to include a short description of the pictures you draw under each box.

Modifications

Want something easier for younger children?

Use this page to have your child draw pictures of what happened first, second, and last.

Do you ever have to take a quiz in school?  How do you usually feel about them?  Are they too hard? Too easy? Do they ask all the wrong questions?

Well, now you can change all that.  It’s your turn to write a quiz.

You’ll want to pull out your Bible and turn to the chapter(s) you just read to find some good ideas for questions.

Try and make the questions hard enough to stump your friends and family.

You can add your quiz to your Bible Study notebook.  You can even put the scores people got when they took your quiz.

Modifications

Want something easier for younger children?

After reading with your child ask them basic questions.  Here are a few ideas for questions you can ask them:

• Who was the story about?
• What happened?
• How many loaves and fishes did the boy start with?
• How many loaves and fishes did Jesus make?

Want something harder for older children?

Encourage your child to make a really hard quiz that could stump the whole family, then have your child (and your whole family) take the quiz without a Bible open.  See how many you can get right.