Days with Daisy

• Thursday, May 3, 2007 - What a Bible!

This is the latest novelty in our house. It's a huge old church Bible given to us by someone in town. They found it in their shed and had no use for it so gave it to us. Dh put it in the shed for a while and brought it out the other day. You should see the children crowd around when it's out on the table:

This Bible is at least 183 years old!! Ds12 wanted to get it out to read for our Bible study today, he enjoys the King James language- it's a novelty because we don't use KJV.

We have been reading through Proverbs in our homeschool time Bible study lately- a chapter a day. Most of us have a copy of the New Living Translation so we were all using that version for study, however yesterday a couple of the children couldn't find their Bibles so I grabbed a pile of different versions of the Bible off the shelf and handed them out- giving each person a different version. We went through each proverb in the chapter, reading it in 5 different versions, around the table. It was such a valuable exercise we did it again today, only they had to choose a different version to the one they had yesterday.

Benefits: *realising there are different ways of saying the same thing.
*Vocabulary building- synonyms. Eg mocker / scoffer / scorner / arrogant person.
*Everyone reads the entire chapter and gets practice reading aloud.
*Without knowing Greek and Hebrew, this is the best way of looking at what the original meaning might have been.
*Each person is looking at each verse in the Bible in front of them, and can't "zone out" whilst it's not their turn to read.

At the end of each chapter we each choose which was our favourite Proverb and explain why. During the reading we discuss what the proverbs mean and how they apply, thinking of examples sometimes. It takes quite a while to go through a chapter this way!

I think at least some of it is sinking in because I often hear "Daddy this morning in our Bible Study we read in Proverbs..."

A funny: We had just read this Proverb: "Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach." (19:26) I asked "Who would do violence to their father and chase away their mother?" And 19 month old Zoë put her hand in the air and said "ME!" She had no idea what I was asking, she just recognised a question!

Here's a picture of Zoë with her Daddy:

Comments

• Friday, May 4, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by heehoo

I like your blog.
And you like pictures on your blog to stretch it!........ahhh that's all
~heehoo~
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• Friday, May 4, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Burger

That bible is the huge bible!
IT would be worth a a lot!
the worlds smallest bible is as big as a match head
well that is just the new testement.

"SCRAPS"
burger

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