Matthias Media has recently released the final three CD-Roms in the Teaching Little Ones series of Sunday School lessons.
The Teaching Little Ones syllabus is a six-year curriculum designed for children from ages 2 to 8. It provides everything Sunday School teachers need each week: lesson plans, story scripts, prayers, activities and craft ideas. The six CD-Roms each contain one year’s worth of material (40 lessons per year):
1   First Steps (for ages 2-3)
2   Learning about God (for ages 3-5)
3   Introducing the Bible (for ages 3-5)
4   Promises (for ages 5-8)
5   Kingship (for ages 5-8)
6   Salvation (for ages 5-8)
The new CD-Roms (4-6) represent a unique approach to teaching the Bible to young children, relying heavily on biblical theology to show the development of key themes—promise and fulfilment, kingship, and God’s salvation of his people—in both the Old and New Testaments. Full details of the syllabus (and sample lessons) can be found at the Matthias Media web site.
The material is provided in electronic form, which has two significant
advantages: (a) lessons can be easily distributed to teachers by email, and
(b) for each lesson teachers can choose from a selection of activity ideas, and need only print off activities they are using. In other words, the electronic format gives users much greater flexibility than would be achievable through paper-based curriculum distribution. (In total there are over 3,000 A4 pages of material on the six CD-Roms—which would never be viable for traditional paper publishing.)
Written by Stephanie Carmichael (author of “Their God is so BIG”, a guide to teaching Sunday School to young children) and illustrated by several talented artists, it offers biblically sound and age-appropriate lessons based on the following principles:
* that Sunday School ministry is fundamentally about teaching children the Word of God, and modelling godliness to them;

* that God’s Word can be taught in a meaningful and relevant way to young children;

* that the developmental differences across this age group require significant differences in the way they are taught the truths of Scripture from year to year;

* that Sunday School teachers need to put some preparation into a lesson in order to ensure they themselves have a good understanding of the passage or theme, but that they often need help in knowing how to present the material in a meaningful, memorable and age-appropriate way;

* that teachers need several easy to implement Œactivity¹ ideas to choose from for each lesson;

* that the material should be as affordable as possible to local churches, big or small.
Purchase of the CD-Roms allows the purchaser to print off multiple copies of lessons for use in their church, without any licensing fees. The material can be used year after year, and is therefore very cost-effective.