I was positively giddy when the kids left this morning after our very last official class of the year, but now I'm feeling a little sad. I can now understand when teachers say how hard it is when you get released from Seminary teaching. I can honestly say I've never felt sad about having a […]

It's the last full week of Seminary, but who's counting? ME!!!!! *I* am totally counting down! Jonah 1-4 For our lesson opener I used the manual idea and had the kids write on a apiece of paper the last place they'd ever want to visit. I told the students it had to be a geographical […]

Here's my lessons up to today. I will post pictures and handouts as soon as I can. Hosea 1-3 Lesson objective: Students will learn that God loves his people and desires them to enter into his covenant. He is willing to "pay" to have them. On the board I wrote, "What are you worth to […]

So, the last entry was about me failing to journal. On April 23. 🙂 It's really not my fault tho -- the website has been down even worse since Jared started tinkering with it. Dies about every 15 hours, and I don't have the will to fight with it when we are close to moving […]

I was doing some research on a quote I found about Gog and Magog in the History of the Church, when I read Joseph rip on Willard Richards for not noting weather and stuff in the record. It got me to thinking about my lack of journaling. I am pretty lame about it, no lie. […]

I spent a bunch of time at the library reading Psalms and trying to decide what was the best way to teach the kids the Psalms. I've mentioned before that I didn't like how little time the Seminary manual spends in the Psalms. The lesson schedule gives 4 lessons to cover the ENTIRE books of […]

I admit it. I totally faked the Job lesson. Maybe not *totally*, seeing as I did read the text and had kind of an idea what I'd do if the lesson went short. A student, impressed with the "One Small Voice" video from Josiah movie asked to see the Esther music video today. I showed […]

On the weeks that we meet 5 times, I plan in a free day. Sometimes we watch a movie. Most of the time it's scripture mastery. This week, our activity fell on (fabulous) Friday. I usually prepare my lessons for the upcoming week on Thursday, and Thursday I had discovered that there was a really […]

Today's lesson objective was "students will learn what a great blessing it is to have the words of the law available to them." In order to keep the kids on track with this lesson, I had to help them understand the context. I explained the setting using the Bible dictionary entry we read the day […]

It's getting easier to get up for Seminary now that the days are getting longer again. It's such a relief to send the kids out in actual sunlight instead of in the dark like we did during December and the start of January. They still arrive in the dark, but sunrise is just 30 minutes […]