Grade 3 Bible, the whole Old Testament

Can a third grader work through the whole Old Testament in one year?

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Thirty-nine books in thirty-six weeks sounds like too much for an eight-year-old, and the guide says as much. Bible: The Old Testament, a Third Grade Survey answers with a paper timeline on your wall from week 1. It is four units, 60+ hours, and your child now reads some of the King James passage aloud.

The four units

The Law. The History. The Poetry and Wisdom. The Prophets. Each is nine weeks, about 100 minutes a week, in the Bible's own order except for one move.

Poetry in the middle on purpose

Job, Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes sit in the middle of the year rather than at their dates. The guide's reason is that Job and the complaint psalms should arrive before the prophets announce disasters, so a child has words for grief before the year needs them.

Weeks you can name now

Unit 1 runs from 'In the beginning' through 'The bush that would not burn up' and 'The law, and forty years of walking.' Unit 2 includes Ruth, 'Samuel hears his name,' David and Goliath, and 'Taken away, and coming home.' Unit 4 ends on 'The last page, and a long wait,' four hundred years of silence marked on the wall.

The wall strip is the assessment

In week 36 your child walks the whole strip from creation to Malachi and tells the story out loud, start to finish. There is no quiz and nothing to mark. The guide says to put the strip up before week 1 and give it more wall than you think it needs.

Five hard weeks, named in advance

Egypt's firstborn in week 8, Jericho in week 10, Job in week 19, the psalms that ask God to destroy enemies in week 23, and Daniel rescued in week 32 while other faithful people in the Bible are not. The guide expects an eight-year-old to say something about fairness and tells you to work out what you think first.

What this is not

It is not an easy year. Four sittings a week of about twenty-five minutes, with written work most weeks: a list, two columns, a copied verse, a map or a letter.
It is not a settled answer to every hard question. Each hard week gives you what the text says and where Christians genuinely disagree, and leaves the rest to you.
It is not a read-it-yourself course. You read the passage from the King James, hand your child a few verses to read aloud, and say the background lines in your own words.

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Questions parents ask

Is the whole Old Testament really in here?

All thirty-nine books are placed on the timeline, but some units compress heavily. The guide calls Unit 2 twelve books in nine weeks, so some are covered in a single week.

What do I need to gather?

A King James Bible, a long paper strip taped along a wall, index cards for the timeline and a folder for pages reused later. Two weeks call for a tape measure. The guide says there is nothing to buy.

How do I know it is working?

Your child starts joining weeks together unprompted, such as seeing that the taxes Samuel warned about are the ones that split the kingdom. The guide also counts a child who says a passage seems unfair as someone who is reading it, not rejecting it.

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