Seminary was canceled on Thursday due to the extreme flooding in the area. Since I do my lessons based on the reading that the kids are doing, we ended up skipping Exodus 29. Leviticus 1, 3, 4:1-22 Friday's lesson was on the symbolism of animal sacrifice in the Old Testament. The lessons in the manual […]

After this blog entry I'll be all caught up! Monday and Tuesday we spent reviewing what we've learned so far on Moses and making movies. The kids wrote out their scriptures which had to include: some scripture languagea power phrase (pretty much all of them forgot this) and had to be finished TODAY Last time […]

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 - […]

I realized I was behind but wow..... 2 weeks! It's been so long now that I can barely remember what I did for Exodus 14-15. My lesson outline literally has 2 sentences and two scripture references written down. That's it. I know we started with having the kids write down something that was new or […]

The Thursday and Friday before Thanksgiving we covered the Passover in our Old Testament reading. I elected to put on an abbreviated Passover meal during Seminary to cement in my students' minds the symbols in the passover meal and meaning behind them, since we'll be referring back to them often during the next several weeks […]

The quarter is over -- report cards passed out, new reading charts distributed. I can't believe it's gone by so fast! I was talking about how much we've done so far, when Jared pointed out that I have only 3 quarters left. :-/ This week has been a short week because of Veteran's day and […]

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 […]

My aunt went into the hospital on Friday, so I was with her until about 9 PM Friday night. On Saturday I spent most of the day making ear rings and other jewelry to sell at the craft fair for our Indian tribe this weekend. Sunday I goofed off in the morning and then went […]

We started off by singing "Happy Family" from the Primary song book. I drew names out of the prayer bucket for us to use in singing until everyone's name had been sung. It was silly, but Happy Family fit in with our lesson pretty well. In today's Seminary lesson, Jacob and Esau reunite. We did […]

This month's National Geographic magazine has an article in it on the teenage brain. As the mother of a teenager and a Seminary teacher, I was interested to read what they said. Much of the information was not particularly new to me -- this information on the developing teenage brain has been available for a […]