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The lessons in lnstant Bible Lessons for Nursery: Giae Thanks to God include Bible stories about familiar things a young child can be thankful for, such as family, food, pets and clothes. Teachers can

tell Bible stories, say the memory verse and present activities that will appeal to a variety of nurseryaged children. If your nursery has only babies one week, use the story poster ideas and sing the verse songs many times during class. Older babies will enjoy the crafts and touchable activities.

Some of the crafts and games may seem a little old for babies, but the children will enjoy "helping" as much as they can. All the while, the teacher can repeat the story and memory verses for great one-on-one activities.

You may send story posters, song/rhyme pages and many other activities from this book home with parents so they rnay continue the lesson theme throughout the week.

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Each chapter begins with a Bible story which you may read to your class or to a child one-onone. The questions after each lesson can be used as an opportunity for you to continue telling the story. Ask and answer each question for the children. Encourage older babies to repeat some of the words of the story or memory verse with you.

Every chapter includes a bulletin board story poster with the memory verse and suggestions for using the poster as an activity. All activities are tagged with one of the icons below, so you can quickly flip through the chapter and select the projects you need. Simply cut off the teacher instructions on the pages and duplicate.

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What did Abraham and Sarah want to have? They wanted to have a child of their own. They wanted to have a family.

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5. What did Abraham and Sarah name their baby? They named their little boy Isaac.

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