Alternative Theme Titles:

• Back To School
• Study To Show Thyself Approved
• Get On The Bus!
• God's Teaching Me Everyday
• A Well Taught Woman In Christ
• What To Know
• Back To The Book
• Learning At The Feet of Jesus
  
  Theme Verse Suggestions:
  
• "Study to show thyself approved unto God..."    2 Timothy 2:15
• "To know wisdom and instruction..."    Proverbs 1:2a
  
  Devotional:
  
• Back To School For The Christian by Julia
• What To Know by Julia
  
  Decorating Suggestions:
  
  Color Scheme
  Primary Colors (Basic Crayon Colors)
  
  General Decorations
  
• Decorate using school supplies.
• Apples, backpacks, crayons, scissors, containers of pencils, glue bottles, etc.
• Bulletin boards, charts, large calendar, school signs.
• See your local party store for school cut outs such as school buses, apples, etc.
• Make decorations from online printables.
  Teaching Extras (Includes Name Tags and lots of extras - ABC Teach)
  School Printables (Parenting Lee Hansen)
  School Coloring Pages (Kids Domain)
  School Alphabet Pages (Learning Planet)
  
  For The Tables
  
• Baskets of Crayons and school supplies.
• Apples
• Use desk name plates.
  Desk Tags (ABC Teach)
  Hedgie Name Plate (Jan Brett)
• Use alphabet strips.
  Printable Alphabet Strips (abc teach)
  
  See Centerpiece and Table Arrangements
  
  Games and Ice-breakers:
  PDF File - Bible Numbers Quiz
  PDF File - Bible Numbers Answer Key
  
  See the Icebreakers Index for more ideas.
  
  Music:
  
• Sing some songs that you sang in grade school such as "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain", "Oh, Susannah", etc.
  Resource Link for Elementary Songs
  Folk Songs For Teaching (Songs For Teaching)
  
• Sing some chorus' such as "The B-I-B-L-E" and "The Crayon Box Song"
  Click Here for Words or to hear the midi for "The Crayon Box Song" (Child Bible Songs).
• Children's Bible Songs (Child Bible Songs).
  
  Favors:
  
• Any school supply such as pens, ruler, etc. with your theme or verse attached.
  
• Small pretty spiral notebooks for taking notes. Sometimes you can get these rather inexpensively and they make some really sweet feminine ones nowadays.
• Make Pocket Prizes (Bright Ideas)
  
  See the Favor Index.
  
  Just For Fun:
  
• Have time slots for different school subjects and allow so many minutes for each. You could make stations or areas in which to do each.
  Jan Brett has some printable school "Area" signs on her website.
  Classroom Signs (Jan Brett)
  Orientation - Greet everyone and let them know that you'll being going "Back to School" for the night. Give any instructions or announcements.
  Spelling - Give a Spelling Pop Quiz or have a game time with a Spelling Bee and use hard to spell words or names from the bible such as Nebuchadnezzar, Bildad the Shuhite, Malachi etc.
  Art - Have a craft project.
  Music - Have someone teach a new chorus. Have some hymn histories of various hymns typed out for your ladies to take home.
  Math - Give a Math Pop Quiz. Have a game time with a quiz of biblical number questions.
  See above link under "Games and Icebreakers".
  Science - Share something special or something unique about one of God's creations.
  Geography - Have a Missionary display featuring the missionaries that your church supports. Use maps, a globe, missionary cards, etc. Have someone read a few highlights from recent missionary letters.
  Reading - Have your devotional time. Make sure you "read" from your bible.
• Give out "homework". Bible verses to memorize, chapter to read, someone specific to pray for, etc.
• Make a Classroom Helper Chart:
  Fill in names from your group with a job for the evening such as serving coffee, passing out handouts, taking attendance, refreshment duty, etc.
• Have everyone bring in their high school or college yearbooks or old school photos for a sharing time.
• Conversation Starter:
  Ask your ladies to share about a specific teacher that impacted them in some way.
  
  Doorprizes:
  
• Backpack
• Christian Books
• Study Bible
• Pen/Pencil Set
• Notebook/Journal
• Pocket Calendar
  
  See the Doorprize page
  
  Skits:
  See the CLM Skit Links
  
  Food Suggestions:
  
• For a snack serve Milk and cookies:)
• Apple Cookies (Bright Ideas)
• Open House Cookies (Bright Ideas)
• Book Cake (Bright Ideas)
  
  See the Recipe Resource Page

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