Welcome to the Parent Portal for the Safari Kids Children's Ministry
at First Alliance Church of Port Charlotte
We hope this page will help you make the most of our curriculum and stay informed about events & activities.
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Don't forget to follow our Facebook page as well - follow the link at the bottom of this page!
Watering Hole Sunday Curriculum - Review and practice at home!
Each month, our Sunday lessons are previewed in our newsletter. To see this month's newsletter and find out what lessons your children will be covering this month, please click on the NEWSLETTER icon at the bottom of this page. Below are some additional resources for kids in the Watering Hole (K-5th) to help you reinforce the lessons at home. Please help your kids memorize our new verse before our next Bible Blitz day on June 23rd! We are beginning a new unit of 6 lessons as we follow the Israelites through the wilderness. The lessons will be broken up into two sets of 3 for the elementary kids. Our memory verse for this unit is the 10 commandments. We will memorize commandments 1-4 for Bible Blitz on the 23rd, then we will memorize commandments 5-10 starting on June 30th.
Memorize this card for the June 23rd Bible Blitz!
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Memorize the rest for Bible Blitz on July 21st!
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Play this memory verse song to help your child learn the commandments!
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Watering Hole activity sheets for June- Download at home!
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Challenge: Old Testament Books of the Bible
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Help us build your child's Bible skills!
Ms. Tracy is challenging the children in Watering Hole to learn the books of the Old Testament this summer! To help them, we will begin listening to the song "Books of the Bible" posted here. Click on the YouTube video, or on the amazon music (#3 - hit the play button) to help your child learn the song - and the books of the Bible! |
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Little Explorers Sunday Curriculum
In general, the Little Explorers (ages 2 - PreK) follow along the same stories as Watering Hole so that kids of different ages in the same family are all learning the same thing, on their age level! However, some complex stories are broken up into 2 Sundays for our little ones, and when the Watering Hole kids stop and review several lessons on Bible Blitz days, the Little Explorers usually review a specific story. Click on our newsletter to see what their lessons will be each Sunday in June. Meanwhile, here are some extra resources to help your "little explorer" review the lessons from Sundays!
Little Explorer activity sheets for June - download and enjoy at home!
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Keep scrolling for kid-related ACTIVITIES & EVENTS!
What's happening in June? Films & Fountains!
Ms. Tracy & Ms. Kelli hope you will meet them on TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS during June for free films & water fountain play time! Click on the file at the end of this section for a PDF flier you can share, or click on the Facebook icons to see and share our Facebook Events. Bring some friends, and meet us for films and fountains!
Join us for a FREE film on Tuesdays at 10:00 amRegal's Summer Movie Express offers $1 family movies every Tuesday & Wednesday during the summer. Every Tuesday morning in June, Ms. Tracy & Ms. Kelli will head down to our Port Charlotte Regal Cinema & give away *50 tickets to that morning's movies! (The ticket allows you to choose either movie - click on the image to see the complete list.) Why don't you bring some friends and come join us?
We have sent flyers home at Peace River & Neil Armstrong Elementary schools, so it is first come, first serve! We hope we'll see you at the movies on Tuesdays! *Regal does not allow pre-purchase on these movies, so we will attempt to buy up to 50 tickets on each day listed, but it depends on the amount of tickets available that morning. |
June 4 - Croods/Puss n Boots
June 11 - Turbo/Despicable Me June 18 - Lego Batman Movie/House with a Clock in its Walls June 25 - Paddington 2/Teen Titans Go to the Movies All showings are at 10:00 am! |
Join us for popsicles at the park Thursdays at 2:30 pmOn Thursdays in June, Ms. Tracy and Ms. Kelli will meet you at the McGuire Park splash pad! They will bring some containers for water play, some extra waters and sunscreen, and at 2:30 ... they will give out popsicles to everyone there, while supplies last! McGuire Park is located at 21125 McGuire Avenue, which is right off of Elkcam Blvd (see the Google Map link).
We hope to see you there on these dates, weather permitting:
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When is Vacation Bible School?
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This past spring, after much prayer and discussion, we decided not to host a Vacation Bible School this summer. Please know that this was not an easy decision, but it is one we felt God lead us to. We have some fun outreach activities planned for June that we hope you'll join us in!
For July, we encourage you to sign your child up for one of our camps! See information for those events further down on this page. We'd also love to see you at WinShape! Click the button below to sign up for whatever days/times fit your schedule. WinShape is July 1st - 5th, volunteers can be completed 9th graders - adults! |
A message about VBS from Ms. Tracy & Ms. Kelli:
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Summer Camp 2019 Opportunities - Register NOW
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Winshape Camp Port Charlotte: July 1-5
First Alliance works with 4 other local churches and our Chick-fil-A operators to bring this amazing camp to Port Charlotte. Click on the image to find out more about the week, or visit our WinShape Facebook page HERE. This year, the grade level has extended down to Kindergarten! Registration begins in March, and there is already a wait list for Kindergarten, but all other grades are open. Needs-based scholarships are offered through our leadership team and you can download that application by clicking on the "Needs Based Scholarship" file icon. For this summer, Ms. Kelli and Ms. Tracy are also offering a $50 off scholarship to regular attenders and members at First Alliance. You can also download that application by clicking on the "First Alliance Scholarship" file icon. Please use this scholarship to help pay for camp! | ||||
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Word of Life Camp: July 7-12
This year, junior weeks of camps (elementary aged kids) are only offered in July. We realize WinShape & Word of Life will be back-to-back for us, but for various reasons, it's the best scenario for this year. We will be offering fundraising opportunities and scholarship help for both camps, so do not let cost influence your decision to send your child to camp! We bring kids who have completed 2nd - 5th grade (yes, completed 5th graders go with us, not the youth). Click on the image to find out more about this awesome camp! We will begin accepting sign-ups on March 3rd. You can download the form to the left (on a mobile device? It's under the Word of Life icon). This year, your early bird discount ($30 off) is good if you pay your deposit by April 6th - but we will MATCH that discount with another $30 off if you pay your deposit and sign up by March 31st! Download the sign up form or pick one up in our check-in room! | ||
Already turned in your sign-up sheet for Word of Life? Click HERE for our WOL Parent Page.
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New Safari Kids Ministry System - SLLRP!
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The 1st - 5th grades just finished a challenge to earn a hot chocolate to SLURP down by following the SLLRP rules. Our next challenge is coming soon!
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Beginning February 10th, we introduced a brand new system in Safari Kids that will help our children be better prepared to receive the lesson God has for them. This system is called SLLRP (pronounced slurp). Each letter in SLLRP stands for a different “I Can” statement that helps children take ownership of their time and behavior at church each week.
Our hope and prayer is that you’ll join us in talking about these expectations with your children at home as we talk about them at church. Psalm 42:1-2 (NIrV) says, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” We want kids to thirst for God just like the psalmist, and when they SLLRP it up, it allows them to soak up everything God wants to teach them! Take a moment and scroll through each "I Can" statement, and let us know if you have questions! |
