Joshua, Battle of Jericho, Joshua 5-6

Digital Resources

• The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  "The Battle of Jericho" (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App Stories:  "Waters Part and Walls Fall, Entering The Promised Land"

Video Resources - 

•  The Walls of Jericho, Joshua 5, Saddleback Kids, YouTube

Print Resources

• Beginner's Bible, "The Battle of Jericho", page 132
• Toot! Toot! (The Fall of Jericho) by Mary Manz Simon 
• Bible Flip-Stix (Flipbook), The Walls of Jericho
• Joshua and the Battle of Jericho by Lambsongs that can be printed
  

 

Prop Resources


Activities 

• March
• Toot horns -- 1) You can take the bottom out of some paper cups and use them or 2) roll up some paper and tape in place, or make a party horn.
  

Song(s)

Bible Songs, "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho" Audio

Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho Lyrics

Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho.
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho,
and the walls came a-tumbling down.
You may talk about your men of Gideon.
You may talk about the men of Saul;
but there's none like good old Joshua
at the battle of Jericho (that mornin').

Up to the walls of Jericho
they marched with spears in hand.
"Come blow them ram horns, " Joshua said
"'Cause the battle is in *God’s hands."

Then the lamb ram sheep horns began to blow.
The trumpets began to sound.
Joshua commanded the children to shout
And the walls came a-tumbling down.

 *I changed Our to God’s

Vocabulary

• Rams' horns
• Promised Land 
• Tumbling down

Rahab, Joshua 2

Digital Resources - YouTube

Rahab and the Spies Saddleback Kids YouTube

Digital Resources - Apps

• The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  Joshua and the Spies (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)

• Bible for Kids App Stories:  No story

Print Resources

• Beginner's Bible, "Joshua and the Spies," page128
• The Wall That Did Not Fall, The Story of Rahab's Faith by Marilyn Lashbrook
• Online free source from Lambsongs that can be printed. 
• 1985 A Beka Book Publications large picture cards from Joshua series, J-3 - J-7.  Read Joshua 2 and write your own explanation of the story by scene.

Prop Resources

• scarlet (red) rope

Song(s)

Rahab Song,*

Joshua 2:1-21; 6:25

(Tune:  This Old Man)

Two Spies came

 to Jericho.

Soldiers looked both high and low.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of Scarlet red

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

Two spies hid

In the straw.

Soldiers looked and never saw.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of scarlet red,

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

Two spies left.

They climbed down.

Out the window, out of town.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of Scarlet red

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

God’s people came

To the wall.

Rahab’s family stayed safe in the fall.

With a pile of straw

And a cord of Scarlet red

Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God.

*I found this song in my files, but I don’t know the origin of this song. Also, I changed the last line of the chorus from "Rahab showed how brave she was" to "Rahab hid the men to show her trust in God."

Vocabulary

• scarlet
• straw
• spies 

Joshua and Caleb

Digital Resources

• Joshua and Caleb YouTube
• 12 Spies YouTube  by Kids Bible
•  The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  Twelve Spies (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App Stories:  No story

Video Resources -

Print Resources

• Beginner's Bible, "Twelve Spies", page 124
• Available and free to print Lambsongs

Prop Resources

• bunches of artificial grapes with stick for toy people to carry
• real grapes
• 12 toy people

Song(s)

My God is so Great

Before singing, say, Caleb and Joshua knew that . . .

My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are his, the rivers are his, the stars are His handiwork, too.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do, for you!

After singing it once, say, The other 10 spies didn't even know that . . .

My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are his, the rivers are his, the stars are His handiwork, too.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do, for you!

 

Vocabulary

•  spies
• Canaan