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WEEK FOLLOWS WEEK
Truth to Teach (Source)

Genesis 8: 22 God has established and faithfully maintains the rhythm of time in

creation for our good.

The days of the week

Days of the week are proper nouns/names.

Way to Work (Means)

1. Engage children’s attention by looking at a picture of nocturnal animals. Discuss why
these creatures come out at night. It’s different with people; they are awake in the
day and asleep at night.

Ask if everybody sleeps at night. (Shift workers, eg some doctors and nurses.) but
everybody needs to sleep. This is a rhythm of work and rest that God has
established in the world. He even demonstrated it in the first week of the world. He
finished his work of creating the world in six days, and he rested the seventh day.

2. Ask why the children think God made the night dark. Pretend it is night now and the
children are in bed. Then gradually it gets lighter.... Talk the children through a day
making sure they understand terms like morning, afternoon, evening and night.

3. While we are sleeping one day ends and a new day begins. When does this happen?
(Midnight) One day follows after another day in the week. Go through the names of
the days of the week. Why do they think the days of the week have names?! How
do we know when a particular day will come? (They always come in the same order.)

This is a rhythm God has established too. Do we ever get a week with only a few
days in it? God faithfully keeps the rhythm going.

Remind the children of proper names and explain that the days have proper names

so they need to have capital letters whenever we write them.

4. Ask how well the children know the rhythm of the days of the week. Use flashcards
to ask questions, eg which day follows which. Establish the need to memorise the
rhythm of a week.

5. Let the children complete some or all of the worksheets.

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