Echoes | Early Elementary Teacher's Commentary | Fall 2026

Echoes provides African-American children in kindergarten and first grade with a Sunday school experience that is vibrant and new, filled with activities that open their hearts and minds to God's Word and the love of Jesus as they form a foundation of faith.

Each of the 13 lessons contains step-by-step instructions to help prepare and teach. Tips help teachers understand kindergartners and first graders, with helpful suggestions for enhancing their Sunday school experience. The lessons guide pre-session and post-session activities and walk through a four-step lesson plan. Bible background articles provide further interesting information.

Need one per teacher.

View the Echoes Scope & Sequence 

Features:

• Understanding the Bible section helps the teacher prepare for the class
• Understanding Your Students section shares on age level and offers classroom tips the teacher can incorporate
• Easy four-step lesson plan:
• Life Need: an activity and a time of sharing to help kids actively participate in the classroom, build relationships with each other and the teacher, and prepare for the Bible story
• Bible Learning: includes the Bible Story and Bible Story Review questions and activity to present and review the Bible passage
• Bible Application: incorporates Bible Memory Verse Practice and a craft that reinforces the Bible story and how it applies to the student
• Life Response: an application step to help kindergartners and first graders take what they have learned into the rest of the week at home
• Quarterly supply list
• Ideas for early arrivers and when you have extra time
• Link to Last Week helps the teacher discuss with students how they applied the lesson throughout the week at home, and support and encourage them

Additional resources for Echoes Preschool Sunday school lessons:

• Creative Teaching Aids 
• Make-It Take-It (Activity Book)
• Storytime Take-Home

 

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About Echoes Sunday School Curriculum

Lessons for today. Faith for a lifetime. With a comprehensive catalog of flexible materials, Bible-in-Life lets you build a children’s ministry program that fits your budget and your church. Because every day is different, Bible-in-Life uses real-world applications to reveal God’s Word in everyday moments.

All ages levels of Echoes curriculum feature:

• Easy teacher prep along teaching insights and weekly lesson tips
• Original songs that follow each unit theme –3 themes and songs per quarter
• A variety of activities choose from in every lesson
• Creative Teaching Aids packed with posters, games Bible characters and more
• Weekly take-home resources for kids and parents

Order the print edition, and you'll get:

• The printed book (8 3/8" x 10 7/8") shipped from our distribution center

Order either PDF download edition, and you'll get access to the following for 6 months:

• The Teacher Guide PDF Edition in PDF format making it easy to use on any digital device. You'll need Adobe® Reader® to open the files.

This product license is good for 6 months. After 6 months, you must purchase another license.

The single-use download edition is limited to use for 1 teacher at a single site. If you have more than 1 teacher, please order the multi-use use edition.

The multi-use download edition is for multiple teachers at a single site.