Producers and Consumers
Understand how producers and consumers depend on each other
Recognize that God designed people to work together
Identify ways different jobs help the community
“For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.”
— 1 Corinthians 12:12 (WEB)Shows how different people have different roles but work together
Gather children in a circle. Ask them to think about different jobs they've seen people do.
Explain how different jobs help each other. A farmer grows food, a truck driver delivers it, a grocery worker sells it, and a family eats it.
Create a web showing how different jobs connect
Simpler: Use pre-drawn job cards
Challenge: Children draw their own job connections
Recap how God designed people to help each other
Dear Jesus, thank you for giving everyone special talents to help others. Show us how to work together. Amen.
Coming up: Next week, we'll learn more about how people use money
“Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
— Galatians 6:2 (WEB)🎯 Activity: Pass the Verse - Children pass a ball and whoever catches it says the next word
First-grade children are beginning to understand community roles
Understanding abstract connections between jobs
Child's ability to describe how different jobs help each other
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