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Synced Calendars! Yay for LDS.org!!!
Last year I made my reading chart as a document and would print off sheets as needed each quarter. This year, I've posted my Seminary reading calendar for New Testament online as a Google calendar. You...
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Scripture Mastery and Study Skills Tool Kit
I thought I'd post a few pictures of the items I created before class this year. Some of these are what I call Five Minute Fillers, while others are just tools for scripture mastery games:
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Rethinking devotional talks
Last year I didn't include any kind of spiritual thought or talk in my devotional for Seminary. I didn't feel that as a first year teacher I could confidently expect the students how to prepare a...
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Regional Seminary Training
Saturday was our regional Seminary training. As usual, the presentations were of varying value and interest, but I was glad I went. This time I took notes on my tablet using Evernote. I am in love with...
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I survived my (second) first day of Seminary!
Whew. I don't know about you, but I did not sleep well before my first day of Seminary this morning. A friend came over and we talked for several hours, and so I didn't get my last minute things...
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Scripture Study Helps for Seminary
Day two -- successful completion!Today was scripture study helps. When I split our class into zones, I made sure each zone had at least one Freshman. Today we played scripture mastery jeopardy...
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My first sub....
I came down with a terrible sore throat and fever late yesterday afternoon, and so my husband subbed for me this morning in Seminary. The topic was the first of two sections of the plan of salvation....
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Week One - Fin
Wow. That was over fast! It's always amazing to me how fast Seminary seems to go. The Freshmen are settling in, and they all commented during class today. Having 16 isn't much different than 12 so far,...
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Matthew 1-3
We've moved into our regular study of the scriptures. So far it seems to be going well. I am trying to focus my lessons on the expectation that the kids have read so that we get into some good habits...
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Matthew 4
Today we covered Matthew 4, the temptation of Christ. This has always been one of my favorite scripture stories. I'm not sure if it's because Jesus owns Satan so soundly or if it's that I feel like the...
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Ask the Missionaries
After an extended vacation, I'm back! I'm still pretty jet-lagged from the trip, but at least getting up in the morning for Seminary isn't a challenge. I'm waking up at midnight and trying to get back...
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Struggling to get back my A-game
Well, it's obvious that I've been away from teaching for a while. I'm feeling like I'm not quite on my A-game yet. I don't know if the kids have gotten out of the habit of discussing with the other...
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Finishing Matthew
Tomorrow we are wrapping up Matthew. It seems like it took a long time to get through this book, and I was gone for nearly half of it. :)I'm feeling better about my lessons now. I don't know if it was...
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Matthew 28 to Mark 1
Matthew 28We wrapped up Matthew with a short summary and activity. I had the kids read the first 8 verses of this chapter silently and had 6 volunteers -- 2 had to be female -- come up to the front...
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Luke 1 - Luke 7
Well, another week has come and is nearly gone. I'm finally getting better at weeding out things to cover during class, but wow. It's still difficult. With Old Testament, the problem was finding...
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I wonder what I'll be good at?
Luke 15While we were watching this fantastic movie this morning: all of the students were commenting on how talented this sand story artist, Joe Castillo is. Then, one of my least introspective...
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Jenny's New Testament Reading Chart for Seminary
As you may already know, I used assigned reading for my Seminary class. Here is my lesson schedule/reading chart for Seminary.The scriptures in italics are Scripture Mastery passages we will repeat...
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Catching up with John
Hello, friends. It's been a long time :). I'm sure you can appreciate why, what with three holidays in a month, plus new pages for all the 2013 stuff, plus 4 family birthdays, plus teaching Seminary,...
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Improving the Quality of Devotional Talks
Youth devotionals -- they can put the most patient of teachers over the edge. The forgetting, the faking, the false doctrine, the too-familiar gospel cliches all combine in a slow-moving train wreck...
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John 10-21
You know, it feels like I'm better caught up on the blog than I really am.... I didn't realize I was so far behind.Anyway, we are wrapping up with John this week. My class takes off all but one day...
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