Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
By Kelly Davider Kelly Davider : OK this may sound like the lamest SM game ever, but the kids really like it and it takes NO prep at all and the class loves it…I made it up. They get into pairs and they speed read the SM. I set my phone for 1 min. Each gets a turn at 1 min then 45 then 30 seconds and down until there…
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From Sharra D on the LDS Seminary Teachers Facebook Group: My class did the Toilet Paper game last week and LOVED it. I got the idea from some ‘minute to win it’ post. I had two rolls of toilet paper hanging on a straight [horizontal] pole at the front of the class. I had about two feet of the tissue hanging down from each roll with a jingle bell attached…
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This great idea comes from Shauna at http://seminaryatsixam.blogspot.com/ As students arrive, each seat has 2-3 post-it notes with a word, number, or punctuation mark. When I tell them to go, they must work as a group to get their words in order to make a scripture mastery scripture. Until they see who has the name of the book and some of the numbers, they generally have no idea which scripture…
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Word strip activities can help your students become very familiar with, and memorize, the scripture mastery scriptures. Usually it is best to use word strips with the longer scripture masteries scriptures that they may have gone over already. To save you a ton of time in your preparations, I [John Bushman] have placed the text of the Old Testament scripture masteries BELOW IN THIS WORD DOCUMENT. That way you can…
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Obtain a ball (a childs smooth, bouncy, ball ~8-10 in diameterlike the ones you buy from the tall bins at discount stores). Write all 25 SM references randomly on the ball with a permanent marker. Begin by tossing the ball to a student. He catches the ball and then looks to see which references his thumbs are touching. He must then give the key words of the SM scripture (or…
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Set up – 9 chairs in the center of the class in a tic tac toe formation. XXX XXX XXX Divide into two teams (x’s and o’s). Everyone on each team gets a number (We had 8 on each team so numbered them from 1-8) Object – your team makes a tic tac toe before the other team. The teams stand to the sides, x’s on one side of the…
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Students stand in circle. One student steps out of circle and faces away from the others. He begins reading (or reciting from memory) one of the SM, while everyone else tosses the bean bag back and forth. The reader stops mid way and turns to face the group. Who ever is holding the bean bag must now become the reader and pick up where reader #1 left off. Continue repeating…
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Tape a piece of paper with the key words onto the ceiling. Give a treat to the first student to notice it and a treat to the first student who shouts out the reference. (or finds it in their scriptures).
Enlarge SM and cut into strips. Hide around the room before students arrive. On go the each hunt for a piece and then must assemble themselves into the correct order and recited the SM to you.
Give the students 2 minutes to memorize as much as possible. They all stand. The first person recites the scripture until they miss a word (or cant remember any more). That person then sits down, looks at the word they missed and tells it to the class. The next person tries to say more than the first person. And so on. People sitting down can help the person reciting, if…
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Enlarge the SM (or use the large poster once you are finished with it) and cut it into puzzle pieces.
Give each team an envelope with the SM cut up into small phrases. The students lay out the pieces onto a table. Teacher says go and they must transfer the words to a second table and put them in the correct order. The catch? They each have a straw (to suck up each piece for transit). If a word drops they must use the straw to pick it up. …
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