Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Yesterday I backtracked and did 2 Samuel 7 and 9. I had accidentally swapped Bathsheba/David/Uriah thing with today’s reading when I spoke with the class about the reading, and so I went back to do this section of scripture. It turned out to be a really good lesson. In fact, it seemed to go so well I might do it this way again if I ever teach this material again….
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I promised a friend that I’d blog about what I’m doing in Seminary for 1 Samuel, but I’ve been so busy….. Today I’m catching up, as usual. Report cards and catching up to 1 Samuel 16 This day I had a lot of material to cover because of getting back from the holiday after so many missed days. It was also report card day. Joy. I had the kids working…
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What a fantastic lesson we had in Seminary today! I’m not sure what happened to make things go so well, but wow, this was really a great lesson (from my point of view, anyway). Class started off very silly — like Monday silly — and we even got started a little late with our opening song. We started so late that I only had them sing one verse of Praise…
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I’m posting this out of order, but I taught Deuteronomy last week. Just catching up. On the easel I wrote the following for Deuteronomy 8: Blessings of REMEMBERING v 2 v3 v4 v5 Dangers of FORGETTING v11 vv12-14 v17 v19 Here’s what I had in my notes: Blessings of REMEMBERING v 2 – God led thee, proved thee v3 – God humbled thee, fed thee, taught thee v4 – clothes…
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For the 10 commandments lesson, I wrote the following chart on the board: 1 – Deuteronomy 5:1-8 2 – footnote f, D&C 68:25 3 – footnote b, Mormon 7:7, D&C 58:30 4 – Exodus 31:12-17, Deuteronomy 5: 12-15 5 – Deuteronomy 11: 8-9, 17, 21; Helaman 7:24 6 – footnote a 7 – 8 – 9 – footnote a 10 – Matthew 5:28 I had the kids list the 10…
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Here’s the lesson report for Monday – Thursday this week. Exodus 1-2 Today we began the story of Moses and the Exodus. I debated for a while whether or not to focus this lesson in on courageous women or courageous people. I went back and forth for several days trying to decide whether it would come off too feminazi to focus in on just the courageous women…. Eventually I decided…
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I collected a TON of great Arise and Shine Forth quotes when I was creating the bookmark cards. These are helpful for talks, youth conferences, standards nights, and camp themes dealing with the theme Arise and Shine Forth in Doctrine and Covenants 115:5. I got all these by using http://scriptures.byu.edu/ Arise and Shine Forth Quotes The Lord’s people are a covenant people under solemn obligation to him so to live…
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Items Needed: A feather, a large rock Lesson Idea: Place the feather on a table and ask someone to come and blow the feather off the table. Place the rock on the table and have another person come and try to blow it off the table. You may want to have several people together try to blow the rock off the table. Discussion: We must be strong. Our testimonies must…
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Items Needed: A raw egg, food coloring, hypodermic needle (see your local pharmacy), a clear bowl. Previous Preparation: Color the inside of the egg by injecting it with the needle full of food coloring. Lesson Idea: Show the egg. Put it into the clear bowl. Ask your family to tell you everything they know about an egg. Describe an egg. What is the egg’s potential? What are its uses? What…
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Items Needed: A fly swatter Lesson Idea: Show the fly swatter and ask your family what it is. What is it for? (Killing flies.) What other insects can we swat? Why do we use fly swatters? (To keep our homes cleaner and to be free from annoying insects.) What are things in our spiritual lies we can and should swat? Read Mosiah 4:30 If we allow flies to fly freely…
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Items Needed: One small sewing needle or pin. Lesson Idea: Hold the pin up in the air and tell the participants that you are going to conduct an experiment. You are going to drop the pin on the desk and would like everyone to be quiet so they can all hear it. Drop the pin and have all participants who heard it raise their hands. Repeat the experiment until each…
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Items Needed: A bowl of ice cream Delicious topping for the ice cream Ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise Lesson Idea: Begin by showing your participants a bowl of ice cream. Ask what kinds of topping they like on their ice cream. (Chocolate, caramel, whipped cream, etc.) Now place the delicious topping on the ice cream and ask who would like to eat some. (Most should.) Pull out your bottle of ketchup…
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