This week is a weird one. The kids are off Wednesday and Thursday for exams. The other teacher is having a surgical procedure this week, too, and so his class isn't meeting Friday, which means mine isn't either. Next Monday is a school holiday (which I forgot). And yesterday, the federal government called a 2-hour delay because of ice, which meant the schools did as well, and so Seminary was canceled.

So I went from thinking I was going to do four lessons during the next few days to having to do my best with just one, so I rewrote my lesson yesterday. I suppose it was a lot like being a home study Seminary teacher, in that I have a lot of reading material assigned and I had to choose just the very best stuff to cover.

We had a regional inservice training the first weekend in January. In this area, Seminary and Institute teachers are invited to a Saturday training that lasts for several hours. This one went from 9 AM to 3 PM, and included lunch. Lunch was the best part :)

Our meetings start off with a kind of a keynote address and then we get to choose courses from two sessions in the morning, eat lunch, and then have two sessions in the afternoon. At the previous inservice, the meeting was cut short at lunch time due to a pending storm, and so during lunch there were some tables set up with different Seminary type activities and ideas that people could view at their leisure.

I'm posting this out of order, but I taught Deuteronomy last week. Just catching up.

On the easel I wrote the following for Deuteronomy 8:

Blessings of REMEMBERING
v 2
v3
v4
v5

Dangers of FORGETTING
v11
vv12-14
v17
v19

Here's what I had in my notes:

Blessings of REMEMBERING
v 2 - God led thee, proved thee
v3 - God humbled thee, fed thee, taught thee
v4 - clothes lasted
v5 - chastened thee

Dangers of FORGETTING
v11 - not keeping the commandment
vv12-14 - when you're satisfied, you be become prideful and forget miracles God has wrought for you
v17 - you'll think you did it yourself
v19 - forget God and perish

Did our Delilah toss around to handle who took each section of verses. This turned out to be a fast, good discussion.

My kids are always silly on Mondays. I don't know what does it to them, but most of the time Mondays are just a little sillier than usual. I've learned to just accept this and embrace the silly. It helps that I do find them genuinely funny, and so I don't have to stretch too hard to enjoy their silliness, but I do try to keep them close enough to earth to get a good lesson in.

It's a new year! I've set a goal to add new content to the site each day of 2012. Most of the time I'll be blogging since I am blogging about my Seminary class, but on off days I will try to add some new content related to Young Women or Primary.

Seminary was canceled on Thursday due to the extreme flooding in the area. Since I do my lessons based on the reading that the kids are doing, we ended up skipping Exodus 29.

Leviticus 1, 3, 4:1-22

For the 10 commandments lesson, I wrote the following chart on the board:

1 - Deuteronomy 5:1-8
2 - footnote f, D&C 68:25
3 - footnote b, Mormon 7:7, D&C 58:30
4 - Exodus 31:12-17, Deuteronomy 5: 12-15
5 - Deuteronomy 11: 8-9, 17, 21; Helaman 7:24
6 - footnote a
7 -
8 -
9 - footnote a
10 - Matthew 5:28

I had the kids list the 10 commandments aloud using the motions from the video I keep mentioning:

We use the actual KJV language when we practice, however.

The kids wrote the commandments on the board after each number and list of cross references. Then we went around the circle and read the references for each.