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Ecclesiastes 5 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Guard Your Steps

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolListening to God

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenListen

HOUSE → picture 3GOD → picture 1LISTEN → picture 4SLEEP → picture 2

Grade 1Come Before God

Guard your steps at God's house. → picture 4Let your words be few. → picture 3Pay that which you vow. → picture 1He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver. → picture 5The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. → picture 2

Order:

1. Guard your steps when you go to God’s house2. Therefore let your words be few3. When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it4. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet

Grade 2God Is in Heaven

  1. Where is God? In heaven (circle)
  2. What is better than talking too much? Listening (circle)
  3. What should we do when we promise God something? Do it (circle)
  4. Who sleeps well at night? A hard worker (circle)
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Grade 3Let Your Words Be Few

  1. What is better than the sacrifice of fools? To draw near to listen
  2. Where are we, while God is in heaven? On earth
  3. What should you do with a vow? Pay it
  4. Whose sleep is sweet? A laboring man's
1: Guard your steps when you go to God’s house2: Therefore let your words be few3: When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it4: The sleep of a laboring man is sweet
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Grade 4Words, Vows, and Wealth

  1. Why should our words be few? God is in heaven, and you on earth.
  2. What does God have no pleasure in? Fools
  3. What is better than vowing and not paying? That you should not vow
  4. What will the abundance of the rich not allow him to do? Sleep
  5. What can a man take with him when he goes? Nothing

Word bank: 1. words; 2. God; 3. vow

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5The Gift of God

  1. What does verse 2 say not to be? Rash with your mouth
  2. What does reverence mean? Coming to God with humble hearts and listening ears
  3. What must you do, despite many words? Fear God
  4. What will a man take for his labor? Nothing
  5. In the New Testament, where does Jesus say not to lay up treasures? On the earth

Word bank: 1. words; 2. God; 3. vow; 4. good

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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