A Companion to the

YEA Bible Heroes Series

Beginner Book Three
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which
the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go to possess it. . . And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou riseth up (Deuteronomy 6:1, 7).

What could be more important than teaching children the way of God and anchoring them to
Jesus Christ? As the Scripture above shows, once a week is not nearly enough. Youth Educational
Adventures (YEA) offers an ongoing series of lesson books for five age groups between the ages
of three and 20 to be used at home or in Sabbath School. Each book has an easy-to-use Teachers
Guide available to show you step-by-step how to make each lesson come alive and reach the
minds and hearts of those you teach. For your child(ren) to benefit to the fullest, we recommend
that you order these books to use along with the daily activities that follow:

The purpose or objective of this daily outline for Beginners is:

To provide short activities which capitalize on young childrens limited attention span.
To use a phonics-based approach as an aid to comprehension and retention of the YEA
lessons.
To make the current YEA curriculum more easily adaptable to the unique needs of:
1. Homeschooling parents who need a daily lesson/activity.
2. Parents who wish to extend or enrich the lesson on a daily basis.
3. Sabbath School Teachers who would benefit from a supplementary activity.

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 Suggested Outline for
Daily Activities

Day One: Read the lesson in the YEA book.

Introduce the memory verse to the child.
Have the child repeat the memory verse two
times. Then read the Daily Devotional from a youth or modern
translation of the Bible.

Day Two: Review the memory verse by saying it and having the
child repeat it. Do this a couple of times. Then show the child the
letter for the lesson. Example: Say: This is a B. It says buh, B, B, baby. B, B,
born, B, B, Bethlehem. Go through all of the B words having the child repeat after you.
Then read the Daily Devotional.

Day Three: Review the letter and the words, having the child repeat them after you.
Review the memory verse. Do the activity in the YEA Students book. Read the Daily
Devotional.

Day Four: Have the child color the bubble letter for the lessson (see pages 7-16). Review
the memory verse. Read the Daily Devotional.

Day Five: Review the memory verse. Then read the sentence to the child. Help the child
find and circle the letter of the lesson in the sentence. Read the Daily Devotional.

Day Six: Review the memory verse. Sing the song from the lesson in the Kids Classics
Collection. Read the Daily Devotional.

Phonics note: Add other words to the list as you think of them, but be careful to add
words that truly begin with the sound. For example, when doing the letter G, the words will
be good, God, going, garden. These all have the G sound. Do not add words that start with
G but make the J sound such as giant. Likewise, when doing the letter C, the words will be
come, color, catch, coat. These all have the K sound. Do not add words that start with C,
but make the S sound. Most phonics curriculums introduce this idea a little later. Mixing
these beginning sounds can confuse a little one and sabotage the phonics work you are
doing.

Sentence note: The sentence for the beginners activity on Day 5 is to be read to the
child. Many children this age are non-readers. But they are beginning to acquire
the ability to identify letters. The teacher or parent should read the sentence
and help the child find the letter in the sentence. The goal is letter discrimi-
nation, not actual reading of the sentence.

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 Daily Activities
(See pages 7-16 for
bubble letters to color)

Lesson One: Quiet Prayer

Song: Standin In The Need Of Prayer is on page 53 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: Q
Words: quite, quit, quiet
Sentence:

HANNAH WAS NOT READY TO

QUIT HER QUIET PRAYER.
Lesson Two: Here I Am!
Song: Jesus Loves The Little Ones is on page 42 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: L
Words: loves, live, little, lamp, last, Lord, listen, like
Sentence:

LISTEN TO THE LORD BECAUSE HE

LOVES YOU.

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Lesson Three: Wait For The Lord
Song: O Be Careful Little Eyes is on page 39 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: S
Words: Samuel, serving, said, sons, saw, Saul, sea, sometimes, so, says
Sentence:

SAMUEL SERVED GOD BUT SAMUELS

SONS DID BAD THINGS.
Lesson Four: Shepherd Boy
Song: Little David is on page 3 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: D
Words: David, do, down, dead
Sentence:

DAVID WATCHED GOLIATH GO DOWN,

DOWN, DOWN.
Lesson Five: A Shepherds Song
Song: The Lord Is My Shepherd is on page 81 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: SH (Teach the SH blend as one unit, one sound.)
Words: sheep, shepherd, should, show
Sentence:

DAVID THE SHEPHERD SHOWED THE

SHEEP WHERE TO LIE DOWN.
Lesson Six: Best Friends
Song: Jesus Loves The Little Ones is on page 42 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: J
Words: Jonathan, job, Jesus
Sentence:

JONATHAN SHOULD HAVE HAD

DAVIDS JOB.

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Lesson Seven: Wise Solomon
Song: My God Is So Big is on page 14 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: W
Words: wise, wisdom, wanted, would, wish, way
Sentence:

SOLOMON WANTED TO DO THINGS

GODS WAY, SO HE ASKED GOD FOR
WISDOM.
Lesson Eight: Fed By Birds
Song: Hes Got The Whole World In His Hands is on page 54 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: E (Note: Use the long e sound; avoid words like eight and ever)
Words: Elijah, eat, enough, even
Sentence:

THE BIRDS BROUGHT ENOUGH FOOD

FOR ELIJAH TO EAT.
Lesson Nine: A Jar And Jug
Song: My God Is So Big is on page 14 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: F
Words: food, from, for, flour, fire, first, favorite
Sentence:

THE WOMAN MADE FOOD FOR HIM

FROM OIL AND FLOUR.

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Lesson Ten: The True God
Song: Praise Him, Praise Him is on page 76 of Kids Classics Collection.
Letter: B
Words: Baal, bad, built, bull, burn, but, bowed
Sentence:

THE BAD KING WANTED

THE PEOPLE TO WORSHIP
BAAL AND BUILD ALTARS
TO OFFER SACRIFICES.

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Lesson 1 Letter

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Lesson 2 Letter

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Lesson 6 Letter

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