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Places in Our Community

What Is a Community?

Day 3of 180
Week 1of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify important locations in a community

2

Understand how different places serve community members

3

Recognize that God helps us create helpful spaces

📖 Scripture Connection

Proverbs 3:27

“Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.”

— Proverbs 3:27 (WEB)

Shows how community places help meet people's needs

📦 Materials Needed

  • Community location pictures
  • Chart paper
  • Markers
  • Glue sticks
  • Large poster board
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Gather students in a circle and ask them to name places they visit in their community

💭 Review Question: What special places do you like to go in our community?
2Teaching (7 min)

Explain different community locations and their purposes

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Libraries help us learn and read
  • Parks are places to play and have fun
  • Churches help us worship God
  • Schools help children learn
  • Stores help us get things we need
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Why are these places important?
  • How do these places help people?
3Activity: Community Places Sorting (6 min)
picture sort

Students sort pictures of community locations into categories

📝 Instructions:
  1. Divide children into small groups
  2. Give each group community location pictures
  3. Ask them to sort pictures by type of place
  4. Discuss why each place matters
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Teacher helps sort pictures

Challenge: Children explain why each place is important

4Closing (2 min)

Recap the different places in a community

📝 Review Questions:
  • What was your favorite community place today?
  • How do these places help people?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear Jesus, thank You for creating wonderful places in our community where people can learn, play, and help each other.

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn how people work together in a community!

💎 Memory Verse

Proverbs 3:27

“Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.”

— Proverbs 3:27 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Hand motion: Make a giving motion while saying the verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Understanding community locations helps children see how different spaces serve people's needs

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Take a family walk to identify community locations
  • Discuss the purpose of different places
  • Encourage children to notice how places help people
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might have difficulty understanding abstract concepts of community service

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to name and describe different community locations

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a community map drawing
  • Take a neighborhood walk to identify locations
  • Make a collage of community places

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