November 17, 2013

Fruit of the Spirit

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Every Monday morning we start our week off with a Bible class taught by a good friend of mine. She graciously comes and teaches a 45 minute Bible lesson and I try and reinforce the lesson all week. This week she told me she was teaching the Fruit of the Sprit. I started searching for some kid-friendly activities. I found several.. but they were not as “cute” as I wanted them to be. .. so I made my own.


My Fruit of the Spirit unit includes:

*Posters for the 9 Fruit of the Spirit
*Art Project/ Craftivity
*Coloring Sheet
*Cut and Paste the Fruit of the Spirit in Order
* Write the Fruit of the Spirit in order
*Sequencing Cards
*Book with each Fruit explained in easy, kid friendly text (black and white version)
*Book with each Fruit explained in easy, kid friendly text (colored version)


We used these posters everyday this week. I would mix them up and pick two students to come to the pocket chart and put them in order each morning while we were on the mat.

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Cut and glue the words in order.

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All week I told them we were going to make something on Friday using the Fruit of the Spirit. I put my “sample” picture up on Friday morning.. and they were so excited!

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I put them in groups and they made their “fruit trees” using the patterns included in the unit. They made their own tree and did a fabulous job!004002

Here are some of the finished trees..

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I am pretty proud of these kids.. they can quote Galatians 5:22 without hesitation and after a week of discussing the Fruit of the Spirit they understand.

I teach in a private, Christian school. I know most of you cannot use this.. but I hope a few can! It was a fun week in our class and my first graders really enjoyed it and they have a real understanding of each of the Fruit of the Spirit.

 

To purchase: Fruit of the Spirit Unit

 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23

7 comments:

  1. I love your Fruit of the Spirit activities! You mentioned "...most of you cant use this particular activity" in secular classrooms. That reminded me of how much I loved teaching at a private Christian school many years ago.I teach in a public school in FL now. Last year, I wanted to do a unit on just this...the Fruits of the Spirit. The character traits (joy, love, peace, etc) are all important to children from Christian households and those that are not. So I decided to write (and refer to) the traits as
    Fruits of the Heart :)
    Well, we dove head first into all that is pure, all that is good! (I , did, leave out Faithfulness, begrudgingly) I even put our Fruits of the Heart drawings/writings out on the hallway BB. Don't you know, the principal promptly entered my classroom and was stumbling around her words....
    "ummm...you know you cannot teach religious subject matter here. " "I know, of course not. Those are all part of the positive character traits unit. " I then shifted the cionversation to the children, asking them to tell Mrs. *** about being a caring person, a kind friend, etc. (I was able to leave it up outside on my board! :) I(Thank you, God :)

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  2. Love it! I have it on my wish list! I teach in public school but I work in the Children's Ministry in church and I sure can use this! Thanks for sharing Jessica @ http://jessicaywinston.blogspot.com/

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  3. Hi Kacey,

    I teach in a private, Christian school here in Australia, too. Thanks for making this unit! When I went looking for Nativity activities for Christmas, your free Jesus craft was one of the only things I found. We made it last week (we finish up school in 2 weeks so do Christmas stuff quite early!) and it is just so cute.

    Lauren
    Love, Laughter and Learning in Prep!

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  4. Love this for the Sunday School class at my church!!
    Vickie

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  5. LOVE these!!! I am a teacher but also a kids church director so these are perfect! Keep em coming!! Good Christian education resources are hard to find!! Love it! THANKS for sharing!!!

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  6. We study the Fruit of the Spirit all year. We take one fruit a month. This month it's kindness! I made a fun art project today that I mentioned in my Five for Friday! I love your unit..I'll have to go check it out! Thanks for sharing.

    http://freetoteachschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/five-for-friday-1122.html

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  7. I teach at a public school, so I can't use this. But I just wanted to tell you how cute I think it is! Great job :)

    Danielle
    Carolina Teacher

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