Here are steps to create your own personalized study, or you can follow my lesson plans that I will post weekly.
1. Make a list of the materials from the gospel library that you want to use in your course of study.
2. Next, assign each day of the week to a different topic.
3. Do your gospel studies first in the day. " Seek ye first the kingdom of God" (Mathew 6:33)
4. Listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit.
5. Enjoy learning together!
Here is my list of materials ( Our kids are ages 13, 11, 4, 4, & toddler. My plans are mostly geared towards the older two, but I do have plans for the twins too. )
- Scriptures
- For the Strength of Youth
- New Era/ Friend Magazines
- General Conference talks
- Saints- church history
- Family Search - family history
- Personal Finance guide from the Self- Reliance course
- Preach My Gospel
- Come Follow Me For Families (starting in 2019)
- Hymns/ Children's Song book
Here is my schedule:
Every morning we begin with a Hymn or song from the Children's Songbook. We read the scripture that goes with the song, listen to the song, and discuss the doctrine being taught. Then we have a prayer.
Also, we each do our personal scripture study at this point and record it in our sketch journals. In January 2019, this is probably where I will insert the Come Follow Me for Families study.
Monday: Choose a General Conference talk from the previous General Conference. Read it with the kids. In much the same way as the Come Follow Me curriculum works, listen to the Spirit to inspire ways you can explore learning through that talk. For example, underline new and interesting words to look up and learn, any geographical references can be researched, languages, art projects, character development and human studies, etc. There are so many possibilities. You will use each day of the rest of the week to work on the projects and studies you pull from the talk.
Tuesday: We choose a New Era/ Friend article or activity to read/do together. Follow any rabbit trails that come up. For example, we read a story about a blind boy from China. My kids had questions about braille, so we researched braille in other languages and made braille messages for each other.
Wednesday: We are using the Personal Finance course books. Do one lesson per week. Since it is designed to be used in a group and for adults, I just make adjustments as needed to apply it to my kids. I ordered the workbooks at the LDS Store.
Thursday: Family History Day. We use Family Search to do indexing or work on family history. We can find people, add memories, learn about ancestors, etc. There are family history quests in the Friend Magazine this year and have been similar things in past years, we do those. We also play family history games, etc. You get the idea. So many amazing blessings are promised to those who participate in family history!!
Friday: Alternate weeks- Saints church history (lots of resources here including the book, podcast, and live events) / For the Strength of Youth
After our Gospel Study time, We do our regular school lessons. In case you're wondering what we use, here it is:
Language Arts/ Art/Geography- Good and Beautiful
Science Units & History- Good and Beautiful
Math and Higher level Sciences- Khan Academy
Elementary Math- Good and Beautiful
Music- Private music lessons and Composers podcast
Nature Studies- Good and Beautiful notebooks
Tea and Poetry- Thanks to my awesome friend Leslie for the idea, we've been having fun tea party Tuesdays where we listen to classical music, read poetry, do art projects, and study artists and composers. We have herbal tea and also learn about manners, all the kids love it.
Now, come back often, I'll be sharing our weekly activities with you!
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