We’ve now completed our first 4 weeks of Bibles Basics for Two Year Olds. We are loving it! I scheduled a break for us this week so I’m going to blog about what we’ve done so far and schedule the posts once a week from now on. ————————————————————————————————————————————- Kent was 26 months old. We Started with Bible Songs The overarching theme for the first 6 weeks of Bible Basics is, “God Made…”. During week 1 we learned that God made Day and Night. The curriculum comes with 2 CDs containing over a hundred Bible and activity songs. I copied the CDs in to my itunes collection. The song titles did not carry over automatically so I entered them manually. It didn’t take very long though, maybe an hour. The curriculum suggests several songs to play during the “God Made…” units. The teacher’s manual stresses the importance of playing most or all of the same songs from week to week so that these little people can become familiar with them. I normally would have chosen new songs every week but I took their advice and I’m glad I did. As the weeks have gone by Kent has become better and better
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Bible Curriculum for 2 Year Olds
I know a couple of you have been waiting to see what we chose for a curriculum. The study guide we chose is put out by Joy of Living Bible Studies. I was hoping to get a promo code for you but, alas, there are no promotions available at this time. However, if you decide to purchase the curriculum for yourself you can feel good about where your money is going. From the Joy of Living site: “Joy of Living Bible Studies is an evangelical, interdenominational, nonprofit organization, dedicated to increasing the study and teaching of God’s Word. All money not used for printing and office costs is used to develop new Bible study courses and to provide materials free of charge to prisoners and others unable to pay for them.” The particular study I chose for Kent is Bible Basics for Little Ones. Joy of Living offers other preschool studies but the Bible Basics is specifically designed to be simple enough for 2 year olds. It includes 33 lessons. The lesson plans are brief and geared towards Sunday School or nursery school classes that meet once a week. However, I am finding it very easy to adapt the plans
Continue readingFirst Day of 2 Year Old Tot School!
Kent was 26 months old. Yay! Finally, time to kick things off with our new plan. Inspired by 1+1+1=1, I made this cute sign for Kent to hold. This is how he wanted to take the picture… …but I kind of wanted one that didn’t cut off his head so I tried again while tickling his toes… …and still just got a look of “really, Mom?” instead of a true smile. sigh I didn’t think we would be able to start Tot School on schedule but the guys were able to help me rearrange the house at the last minute last night. They took our play kitchen up to the attic for storage, brought in our new shelf, and took a couple things out of our office so there is more room for storing materials. I want to give you a whole tour in a separate post but for now here is a sneak peek of the shelf. I moved our old tot trays shelf over by the recliner so it can house part of our book collection. We didn’t get to start school right away in the morning but Kent was very excited to have so many books at
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