Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
I’ve slept better the past two nights than in the past 5 months. My aunt is home now with her 24 hour care, and the pressure I’ve been under is beginning to alleviate. I’m so grateful this all came down at the end of Seminary last year so that I could take care of the management of her home and renovation projects and other sundries when I wasn’t also saddled…
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Downloaded from: http://brosimonsays.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/1-nephi-5-6-and-9-scripture-study-is-divine/ Brass Plates, Gold Plates, and more plates… Is it really that important to understand the structure of the Book of Mormon? Yup, I think so! It demonstrates the miracle of the Book of Mormon, including its structure and prophecies concerning the various plates. I really love teaching these chapters and the principles connected to them. The resources […]
Downloaded from: http://littleldsideas.blogspot.com/2013/09/sharing-time-when-i-serve-others-i.html IDENTIFY THE DOCTRINE (memorizing a scripture): Help the children memorize the last part of Mosiah 2:17 by writing on the chalkboard, “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.” Invite the children to repeat the phrase two or three times. Ask a child to erase one or two words, and have the children repeat the phrase again. Repeat…
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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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So the 2014 has been announced (OK so it was announced a couple of weeks ago) and I am in love with it! The theme fro this year is “Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness.” (Moroni 10:32). I think that th…
Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-classroom.html I have a small room for my seminary classroom. It was manageable when we had shorter tables. BUT someone removed the short tables and I had to get the long ones that are stored under the stage. It took my son and me THREE hours of moving things around to come up with this:I am hopeful this configuration will give us the space we need to maneuver…
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Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/09/welcome-back.html Seminary starts on Sept. 9! We will be studying the Book of Mormon this year.Since this is my 5th year teaching, I thought I wouldn’t have to spend as much time preparing for lessons. I could just recycle and reteach my old lessons. THEN I learned we have a whole new curriculum! I will try to recycle a lot of my activities (not whole lessons) from years past,…
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Downloaded from: http://littleldsideas.blogspot.com/2013/09/sharing-time-prophets-apostles-show-us.html IDENTIFY THE DOCTRINE: Display pictures of Moses, King Benjamin, Joseph Smith, and Thomas S. Monson. Tell the children that these prophets, just like all prophets and apostles, show us how to serve others.ENCOURAGE UNDERSTANDING (playing a guessing game): Prepare clues about how Moses, King Benjamin, Joseph Smith, and Thomas S. Monson show us how to serve. For example, some clues about President Monson could be “I visited widows…
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Downloaded from: http://seminaryatsixam.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-did-golden-plates-look-like.html This article from the July 2007 New Era is a wonderful resource as an introduction to the Book of Mormon study.“What Did The Golden Plates Look Like?”Several of my students are very creative and artistic. Based on the descriptions given in the New Era article, I gave my students the challenge to draw, paint, sculpt, build, etc. a replica of the golden plates. Some of them are running with this…
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Downloaded from: http://brosimonsays.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/day-4-studying-the-scriptures/ This lesson was based on the resources found in the Book of Mormon Seminary Teacher Manual, Lesson 2: Studying the Scriptures and Section 2.3 of GOSPEL TEACHING AND LEARNING: A HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS IN SEMINARIES AND INSTITUTES OF RELIGION. I encourage you to use the online version of these manuals since they have more content than the […]
Downloaded from: http://seminaryatsixam.blogspot.com/2013/09/moroni-104-5-activity.html Post-it notes are this teacher’s best friend. Every word, comma, semi-colon, period, and number is on a separate post-it note. I bought the 3×5 size at the dollar store over the summer so that large words would not be crowded on a square post-it. For smaller words and punctuation, I cut them in half.I place the Post-it notes with all over the wall in random order and they…
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Downloaded from: http://seminaryatsixam.blogspot.com/2013/09/scripture-mastery-wall-and-room-set-up.html I bought the download for these Scripture Mastery Cards fromShannon at The Redheaded Hostess. It was worth every penny to havegreat color and picture clues to go with the key words.Above the Scripture Mastery Cards is the Book of Mormon timeline.In a perfect world, I would love to leave my classroom set up all the time but thisis the Relief Society Room so everything (except for these…
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