Aim

To know what happens at Sunday school.
To become familiar with the words of the Lord's Prayer.

Preparation

Before the lesson write words of the Lord's Prayer on large sheet of paper.

Lesson

Begin by asking children to write/draw or talk about how they spend their Sundays.

Invite volunteers to share their Sundays with the rest of the class. Do any of them attend Sunday school? If so, ask them to explain what it is. If not, ask the children how they would feel about going to school on a Sunday?

Inform the children that when Christians meet together on Sunday, many of their children have their own classes in different rooms within the church building. These classes are called Sunday school.

What do the children think Christian children do at Sunday school?

Tell them that almost everything that Christian children learn at Sunday school comes from the Bible. Show them a Bible and read from it the words of the Lord's Prayer, as an example of a passage from the Bible which children at Sunday school might learn about.

Have the children ever heard these words before? Do they know who first said them?

At Sunday school, Christian children might learn some (or all) of the words of the Lord's Prayer and think about what they mean. Challenge children to learn the opening phrases of the Lord's Prayer. What do they think these mean?

Conclusion

Conclude by telling children that when Christian children are in Sunday school, their parents and other adults are also learning about Jesus and the Bible.

Notes

If children are already familiar with the words of the Lord's Prayer, you may wish to introduce them to some of Jesus' more famous sayings, for example: 'Love the Lord God with all your heart and soul and with all your strength and all your mind. Love your neighbour as yourself' or 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of Heaven'.