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Psalms 90 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Teach Us to Count Our Days

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.

PreschoolGod Is Forever

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

KindergartenGod Is Our Home

HOME → picture 4MOUNTAIN → picture 3GRASS → picture 2MORNING → picture 1

Grade 1Count Our Days

You are our home. → picture 3You were before the mountains. → picture 5We grow like grass. → picture 2Teach us to count our days. → picture 4Fill us with love in the morning. → picture 1

Order:

1. You have been our dwelling place for all generations2. Before the mountains were born3. In the morning they sprout like new grass4. So teach us to count our days

Grade 2God Is Forever

  1. Who prayed this prayer? Moses (circle)
  2. What is God to us? Our home (circle)
  3. What was God here before? The mountains (circle)
  4. What are people like? Grass (circle)
  5. What did Moses ask God to teach us? To count our days (circle)
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Grade 3A Heart of Wisdom

  1. What does the title call Moses? The man of God
  2. What has the Lord been for all generations? Our dwelling place
  3. How are a thousand years in God's sight? Like yesterday when it is past
  4. Why should we count our days? To gain a heart of wisdom
  5. What does Moses ask God to establish? The work of our hands
1: You have been our dwelling place for all generations2: Before the mountains were born3: In the morning they sprout like new grass4: So teach us to count our days

Grade 4From Everlasting to Everlasting

  1. What part of the Psalms does Psalm 90 open? Book IV
  2. How long does the psalm say people usually live? Seventy or even eighty years
  3. Which New Testament writer echoes verse 4? Peter (2 Peter 3:8)
  4. What does counting our days lead to? A heart of wisdom

Word bank: 1. God; 2. mountains; 3. thousand; 4. grass; 5. years

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

Grade 5Establish the Work of Our Hands

  1. What two things does the psalm contrast? God's eternity and human frailty
  2. How does Peter apply verse 4? To the timing of the Lord's return (2 Peter 3:8)
  3. What does Moses connect human frailty with? Sin, our secret sins in the light of God's presence
  4. How can short lives gain lasting meaning? By God's favor establishing the work of our hands
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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