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Angel's Blog - Teaching verses to little ones
Reading List
Jotham's Journey, Prudence and the Millers, 1 Peter, The King's Daughter
Our Curriculum:
Horizons Math Grade 4 and K,The Reading Lesson, Sequential Spelling, Lifepac Language Arts 4, Apologia Astronomy, Veritas Press New Testament/Greeks/Romans
Prima Latina, Contenders for the Faith and various Winters Promise books, Live Mocha Spanish, Plants Grown Up
A friend asked HOW I teach my children Bible verses.
In our house it always starts with THIS. This is our first "Curriculum". It teaches ABC and life relevant verses for a preschooler. And it has fun stories. Its is a GREAT resource!
We take 1 verse a week, and go through the entire book. It helps with discipline because I can remind them of the verse we learned "A soft answer turns away wrath" or "Do all things without complaining or disputing" and "Honor your mother and father". The stories explain the verses in a way that is relevant and easily understood by a preschooler! We've used it with 2 children so far and cant wait to use it a 3rd time!
And as they got older we add more. We've gone back and added more to the verses we learned in the book. For example on "A soft answer turns away wrath" we also memorized the next verse "but a harsh word stirs up strife". You'd be amaze at the long passages children can memorize! Get it in their heads when they are young! Right now the boys and I are working on Psalm 1. I printed it and put it on our fridge and when we are in the kitchen we recite it. They usually learn it long before I do!
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Thanks for writing, as usual!
We do a similar one from our curricula company, they actually have a coloring book that we like. The book is called "Bible In My Heart Coloring Book" put out by Rod and Staff publishers. <http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com/item/2954/> It's nice and inexpensive, but paying for shipping is actually more than the book! LOL! I like this because while they are coloring (my children love to color!) they are thinking about the scrip and the lesson, and since I think I have some more 'visual' learners, they have a 'visual' to put with it as well.
The one you have mentioned here seems very nice. I love books like this!
I actually wouldn't mind pulling your 'ear' about how many scrips to cover, it seems like we are covering so many right now I can't even keep up, but the children seem to be able to keep up *much* better than I thought! HA!
Your RGT and FB friend ;)
I've added this to my Amazon wish list- when I do my next purchase, I'm going to get this. I'm loving all the book links you've been posting lately- I've got a lot of them on my wish list now!
Kelly/FlyingMom at http://www.threelittlejewells.com
