Our lesson plans are also 50 minutes long. The Sunday lessons run approximately like this:

5 min. - Opening prayer, attendance, offering, welcome (held in the classroom. We don't have a "gathering place" because we thought it would take up too much of our valuable time).

10-15 min. - Bible story. We read and discuss our Bible stories via piecemeal (i.e. a small portion each Sunday). This gives us a chance to review last week's portion, learn this week's portion, and have the students discuss what they think MIGHT happen in next week's portion.

25 min. - Lesson activities. This time is set aside for the main student's "hands-on" activity (i.e. cooking, craft, movie, etc.).

5 min. - Wrap-up. During this time, we reflect, discuss, clean-up, and have our closing prayer. Instead of using journals, our wrap-up time is visual and oral based.

Hope this helps.

Brenda V.