hru the Bible! In the 2nd Year of this Curriculum, you and your students will travel from the book of I Samuel through the book of Malachi.

• 5th Quarter -- The fifth quarter covers I & II Samuel, I Kings, and II Chronicles. You will meet the last judge (Samuel) and the first three kings of Israel (Saul, David, and Solomon). You will also meet a special Bible character -- Buford, the Bethlehem Mule, Jesse's mule, who was with the young shepherd boy David when the lad defeated the giant Goliath at the valley of Elah.
• 6th Quarter -- The sixth quarter covers I & II Kings, I & II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. You will meet Solomon's successor, King Rehoboam, who made such a bad decision that the kingdom split in two. The Northern Kingdom, with a bunch of bad kings, was conquered by the Assyrians. The Southern Kingdom had several good kings; but eventually, the Southern Kingdom was conquered by the Babylonians. This quarter concludes with the exile of God's people in Babylon and their eventual return to Israel.
• 7th Quarter -- The seventh quarter covers Job through Song of Solomon. You will travel through the tragic but eventually triumphant story of the suffering servant Job. Then we will sing our way through the book of Psalms. The last three Books of Wisdom were written by the wisest man who ever lived -- King Solomon. Proverbs is the most famous book of wisdom in the world. Ecclesiastes is Solomon's record of tough lessons he learned after making a mess of his life. The Books of Wisdom conclude with the Song of Solomon, a tender love story.
• 8th Quarter -- The eighth quarter covers Isaiah through Malachi, the study of the Prophets of God. You will journey first through the major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel), then the minor prophets (minor only in length) (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi). Many of these writing prophets prophesied of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ, with Whom you will travel next quarter.
  

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usic-Driven! Children love lively music, and one of the best ways to teach God's Word to children is through music. "101 Songs Thru the Bible with Boot the Mule," each song written by Christian Attorney Terry Lee Hamilton, will delight as well as instruct children of all ages.

	The Curriculum Notebook for each quarter includes a CD with all of the songs accompanying the 13 lessons. The CD contains each song sung by vocalists with the accompaniment. Also on the CD is an instrumental version of each song to be used if you do not have a piano player. Here is a list of the 5th Quarter songs.
	The Curriculum also includes a bound volume of the sheet music for each year. Volume 2 for the 2nd Year (102 pages) includes 39 songs. You can view the sheet music for one of the 2nd Year songs entitled Be Nice to Bald Men!

uppet-Driven! Every week you will have a visit from Boot the Mule, Oscar the Pig, Smithfield the Swine, or Cecilia Swine. In addition, we introduce the following Bible-based critters in the 2nd Year of the Curriculum.

• Buford the Bethlehem Mule -- Jesse’s mule was there when the young shepherd defeated Goliath
• LeMule -- Perhaps the wisest mule who ever lived, LeMule was given by King David to Solomon as a sign that Solomon should be the next king of Israel

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THRU THE BIBLE with BOOT THE MULE Click below to get an overview of each year, download sample lessons, view sheet music, and more!

• Look at 1st Year Junior Church Curriculum • Look at 3rd Year Junior Church Curriculum