Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Well, after failing to get any sleep last night, I’m finished with the very first day of my new humongus class of Seminary students. I lost only one senior and gained 7 Freshmen plus a transfer student and an investigator for a total of 23 kids. It was crazy. We started out with an introduction to our theme scripture for the year: Helaman 5:12 and the same activity I did…
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I nearly cried from exhaustion yesterday. It has been a long summer. I can’t wait for it to be over. School started for the kids on Tuesday, but Seminary doesn’t start until the first Monday. It’s a good thing, too, because what with volleyball tryouts and my ill relative and interviewing/coordinating/training caregivers and managing two houses and subbing at church and and EFY and camp and volleyball camp and band…
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Here are some links to Book of Mormon Scripture Mastery songs that you may like to use in your Seminary class. The following links DO NOT include the newest verses from the recent 2013 change: http://lds.about.com/od/seminary/a/scripture_songs_2.htm http://www.ldsscripturerock.com/ http://emp.byui.edu/kunzko/SMS4BOM.htm The following sets are underconstruction or complete and DO include the 2013 passages: http://scripturemasterysongs.overblog.com/ http://www.scripturemasterysongs.com/ http://www.sugardoodle.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10217 Please comment below if you know of others.
Our unit has a number of challenges that make it very difficult to organize Seminary. Our boundaries have resulted in a unit that covers parts of the boundaries of three high schools. Additionally, one family of three Seminary-aged children attends a fourth high school. Two students are enrolled in college courses. Four or five more are home schooled. The building to which we are assigned is far outside our ward…
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The 2014 Primary theme is Families are Forever. Check out these Families are Forever items: http://www.mormonshare.com/lds-clipart/families-are-forever-with-temple – logo with temple image http://www.mormonshare.com/lds-clipart/families-are-forever-simple – simpler verson of Families are Forever logo More coming soon…. Related pages
Students hate Seminary for many of the same reasons they hate school. I know I hated school, and there were times I didn’t like Seminary, either. Below are three reasons students might hate Seminary: Seminary has no point. Students show up to a class where a teacher makes them memorize obscure scripture passages, sing silly songs made up from the books of the Bible, reads crazy long charts aloud, asks…
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This hilarious video from the Los Angeles Young Adults parodies Relief Society and Priesthood lessons. So funny!
I’ve been looking for ideas for how to teach about keystones during Seminary next year, and it seems I’m not the only one. The interest stems from a quote by Joseph Smith that says: I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its…
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My son helped me make a set of online scrpture mastery flash cards using Quzlet. Before you ask, yes, these include the updated 2013 scripture mastery passages. Each phrase is an actual quote from the scripture so that students can learn actual scripture phrasing. Scripture Mastery Keyphrases 1 Nephi 3:7 – “I will go and do” 2 Nephi 2:25 ‘Adam fell that” 2 Nephi 2:27 – “Men are free ……
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UPDATE: Below is the work-in-progress. Here is a link to the final version created with help from user comments you see below: http://www.mormonshare.com/lds-clipart/book-of-mormon-scripture-mastery-… UPDATE 2 – If you are looking for strict magic squares style rhymes (without the verses) follow this link: http://www.mormonshare.com/lds-clipart/book-of-mormon-magic-squares-upda… ================== I have decided to remake Janice Tate’s Magic Squares for the new scripture mastery passages. What a job! There are several passages from the same chapter,…
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I emailed John Bushman, from NW Seminary Share to see if I could do a book review of the book he recently co-authored titled Teaching the Book of Mormon, Part 1 (1 Nephi – Alma 16) by Bushman, Romney, Manis, and Wakefield. The publisher, Cedar Fort, was kind enough to send me out a copy to review. Though the dirty brown cover was a little disappointing, I was impressed when…
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Today I am home from church with a sick kid, so I thought I’d begin my collection of information on how to teach Jacob 5 next year. I am hoping to do it in two parts, with one an introductory section with explanations of the symbols and olive tree horticulture and a second one blowing through the history of the House of Israel. It is quite a feat to read…
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