Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."   Matt. 19:14

             Wanted by God - Lessons


    Our lessons are not designed to be read to each class.   We encourage our teachers to study and spend time praying about each lesson, asking God to show them how to present the material effectively for their particular age group.   Obviously, K-1st graders get a much shorter, more simplified version of the lesson than the high school group does.   We encourage the teachers of the younger group to spend extra time asking review questions, explaining the memory verse and helping the children learn their verses.   If there’s extra time in class, we make up activity sheets to help the children do their memory work.   If time is out, we send the activity sheets home with them.   We know God can and does use His Word, so we offer prizes at the end of the week to every child who memorizes the verses.   Here again, we expect the two older groups to learn all the memory verses for the prize, while the K-1st graders are expected to learn only 1 or 2 of the verses (we choose which ones) and the middle groups learn 2 or 3 verses.   We send home copies of the verses to be memorized with each child.
    We really like to have two teachers for each group.   While one teaches, the other one can help control, answer questions and just jump in whenever and however needed.   Sometimes the two workers split the days of teaching to help ease the work load.   Other times it might be good training for someone who would like to start teaching.   If teachers are in short supply, there is the option to have one or two people do all the teaching for the different levels.   When we’ve done this, we still like to have one or two people in charge of each group, bringing the children around to each “station” and seeking to interact and get to know each child.
One last note, we usually use “A Beka Flash-a-Cards” for our visual aids, as they are fairly inexpensive and are easy for teachers to use.   Children also seem to like the pictures.   We have listed them as one of our links.

Click on each day's lesson to open it.        Next to it we listed the ABeka Flash-a-Cards we used  with it.
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  -  Lesson 1                 ABeka Flash-a-Cards   Life of Paul Series 1  Cards:   2-4, 2-5, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3

  -  Lesson 2                ABeka Flash-a-Cards    Life of Paul Series 1  Cards:   3-4, 3-5,
                                                                                                                    Life of Christ Series 5  Cards:   2-2, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 8.3

  -  Lesson 3                ABeka Flash-a-Cards    Life of Paul Series 1  Cards:   3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 4-1  

  -  Lesson 4                ABeka Flash-a-Cards    Life of Paul Series 1  Cards:   4-4, 5-5,   
                                                                                                                   Life of Paul Series 2  Cards:   2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5   
  -  Lesson 5




               Our Memory verses for the week:

    For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
         Romans 3:23

    But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
         Romans 5:8

    But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.
         Romans 4:5

    … I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him.
         Romans 12:1
 

    K-1 learned   Romans 4:5
    2-3 learned   Romans 5:8 and Romans 4:5
    4-6 learned   Romans 2:3, Romans 5:8 and Romans 4:5
    7-9 learned   Romans 2:3, Romans 5:8, Romans 4:5 and Romans 12:1