Expanded instructional edition | Grade 1 | Week 32 of 36
Read the cited Scripture with the learner. Family-led study guide, not an accredited complete Grade 1 curriculum. Adults should explain the arrest and death of Yahusha gently and age-appropriately.
Learning targets and routine
Identify people and events, explain vocabulary, retell a passage, answer with evidence, and draw or write a response. Read 5 minutes, discuss 5–8, practice 5–10, check 5.
Day 156: A promise of power
Read: Acts 1:1-11. Focus: Yahusha tells the apostles they will receive power and be witnesses.
Model: Read the passage in short sections, name who is involved, retell the main action, and reread the key verse.
Vocabulary: Select a key word from the passage. Explain it using the verse, then use it in a sentence.
Question: What are the apostles told they will be? Teacher answer: Witnesses (Acts 1:8).
Guided activity: Draw a map with Jerusalem at its center and arrows outward. Read Acts 1:4–8 and explain what Yahusha promised the apostles.
Student work: Draw and label one true detail. Write or dictate one sentence and identify the supporting verse.
Check: Tell one accurate fact and point to its verse.
Day 157: Waiting together
Read: Acts 1:12-14. Focus: The apostles return to Jerusalem and continue together in prayer.
Model: Read the passage in short sections, name who is involved, retell the main action, and reread the key verse.
Vocabulary: Select a key word from the passage. Explain it using the verse, then use it in a sentence.
Question: What did the group continue doing? Teacher answer: Prayer and supplication (Acts 1:14).
Guided activity: Draw people gathered in a room. Read Acts 1:12–14 and name one thing they continued doing together.
Student work: Draw and label one true detail. Write or dictate one sentence and identify the supporting verse.
Check: Tell one accurate fact and point to its verse.
Day 158: Speaking to the crowd
Read: Acts 2:1-13. Focus: The disciples speak in other languages and visitors hear them.
Model: Read the passage in short sections, name who is involved, retell the main action, and reread the key verse.
Vocabulary: Select a key word from the passage. Explain it using the verse, then use it in a sentence.
Question: What surprised the visitors? Teacher answer: Hearing the disciples speak in their own languages (Acts 2:6-11).
Guided activity: Draw speech bubbles with different languages. Read Acts 2:1–13 and explain what visitors heard.
Student work: Draw and label one true detail. Write or dictate one sentence and identify the supporting verse.
Check: Tell one accurate fact and point to its verse.
Day 159: Peter explains
Read: Acts 2:14-36. Focus: Peter speaks to the crowd about Yahusha and the Scriptures.
Model: Read the passage in short sections, name who is involved, retell the main action, and reread the key verse.
Vocabulary: Select a key word from the passage. Explain it using the verse, then use it in a sentence.
Question: Who addressed the crowd? Teacher answer: Peter (Acts 2:14).
Guided activity: Draw Peter speaking to a crowd. Read Acts 2:14–36 and identify whom Peter said Elohim raised up.
Student work: Draw and label one true detail. Write or dictate one sentence and identify the supporting verse.
Check: Tell one accurate fact and point to its verse.
Day 160: A growing community
Read: Acts 2:37-47. Focus: People respond, learn, share, pray, and gather together.
Model: Read the passage in short sections, name who is involved, retell the main action, and reread the key verse.
Vocabulary: Select a key word from the passage. Explain it using the verse, then use it in a sentence.
Question: Name one thing the believers continued doing? Teacher answer: Apostles’ doctrine, fellowship, breaking bread, or prayers (Acts 2:42).
Guided activity: Make three picture cards: LEARN, SHARE, PRAY. Read Acts 2:37–47 and match each to a practice of the early believers.
Student work: Draw and label one true detail. Write or dictate one sentence and identify the supporting verse.
Check: Tell one accurate fact and point to its verse.
Weekly assessment
Identify a person or group, retell one event or instruction, explain a word, locate a verse, and draw or write one true detail. Score one point per skill. Reteach weak areas. Allow oral answers and dictation.