Scripture Reference
Exodus 2:1-10
"Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. 'This is one of the Hebrew babies,' she said.
Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?'
'Yes, go,' she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you,' So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, 'I drew him out of the water'."
Memory Verse
Exodus 15:2
"The Lord is my strength and my song, he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him..."
Activity
I'd planned to play a game for our activity tonight. I was going to hide a baby-doll somewhere in the room, we were going to take turns hiding/searching for the doll (Moses). I was going to have the kids search for him just as the Egyptians searched for the baby boys of Moses' time and maybe as the servant girl searched for the basket among the reeds.
*If you're teaching in a classroom where hiding places are scarce, consider cutting a smaller circle out of construction paper and drawing in a baby-ish face (possibly even adding in some yarn hair) and using this "baby" in place of a doll.
How It Went
We did not do our Bible Study today. The kids wanted to play outside when Kiera got home from school, then we had someplace we had to go. Andrew spent most of the afternoon in tears and fits; even after his nap, he was overly tired from a busy week and a night filled with wake-ups. Kiera spent a good portion of her night in fits too because she was also overly tired. She was upset to a large degree because she wanted to buy items to give to a missions project at church. After quite a lot of tears, we decided that I would pay her a quarter for every toy that she decided to give to our garage sale boxes. She earned a little over $6, but since she doesn't have a real grasp on money yet, she didn't think she could get many items with that amount. In then end, we decide that I would make a sort of store where she could buy things off the "needed items" list. I had lots of items in my stockpile that were on the list, so I'll mark prices on each item and she'll be able to "shop" with her money in my store tomorrow. ~ We're going to have a very relaxing weekend and next week's schedule is going to be extremely reduced for us!
