Bible Studies for Children
I consider our Bible Studies for children to be totally separate from our actual school work. We have Bible in our school too, but I want more for my kids because we tend to miss Sunday school a lot. I have yet figured out how to get the extra sleep I so desperately need and get everything together to get us all to Sunday School at 9:30 consistently. I know it’s possible, but just not in the cards for us right now. It’s our season of life right now.
Anyway. So our Bible Studies is different. It’s a Bible studies for children. Think of it as a personalized Bible study that I share with my kids.
This year I’m trying something different. We reviewed the Moore Family Films dvd of ABC Say it With Me earlier and I knew that it was so good I wanted to do more with it. So, I’m building our morning Bible studies off of it for this semester.
Each week we are taking a verse. For our first week of school we will be doing letter A. I am making some copywork to use with it, we will watch the “A” clip daily and by the end of the week it is my goal to have everyone memorize the verse. I will memorize or re-memorize with them. That verse will be up on our school board for the week as well. I’m in the process of making a Bible Memory Verse chalkboard(you won’t want to miss this DIY project) to write our verses on. We will also be doing fun things each week. I’m thinking things like make the verse out of cookie cutter cookies, writing the verse outside with sidewalk chalk, making letters with bodies, etc. Lots of fun things that hopefully will make learning our verses so much fun that the kids will remember them!
I will be sharing my copywork with you as well so make sure to check in weekly. My goal is to have them up the Sunday of that school week. Our official school week count will start on September 1st. We’re doing school already, but it’s not part of the week count. We haven’t officially started yet. We do school year round but have two actual semesters to coincide with our local homeschool group that we work with.
What do you do for Bible? Do you prefer a specific translation?
We use the KJV in our house. All of my kids have their own Bible. Well not baby yet, but she will soon have a Toddler Bible. I am looking at getting new preschool type Bibles for our 3 and 4 year old as well. All of the children’s Bibles are KJV as well except for the Toddler Bibles. I have yet to find a storybook Bible that actually incorporates a version. I could do a whole post on why we chose the KJV but this is not the time for it.
Now I know some might be curious what Bible courses we use in our school. I highly prefer the Abeka Bible Curriculum. It is wonderful! But Bible is a daily part of ALL of our school, not just the Bible coursework. We incorporate Bible with our Konos, we have Bible in our math(Mommy makes some of her own stuff up for this), we have Bible in our copywork and our handwriting, we have Bible in our reading, etc. I think the Bible should be a daily part of our lives and showing up all over the place.
I know there is some controversy in the homeschool realm as to how structured Bible studies should be and how somber they should be. Some don’t believe in making storybooks and tales about the Bible. Some don’t use real Bibles. It’s such a personal choice though to me. My husband and I made our choice. We did not ask other people, we did not take a poll. We did however, spend time in prayer and I constantly feel led to change a small part or make something a bit different as my children age and I want them to take the Bible and the love of God seriously. That being said I do allow my children to watch Veggie Tales and What’s in the Bible. For young children I think we need to take a step back and let them learn however they can. One of our biggest things has always been music. If music is playing in our house it is Christian.
Now, let me step back there a bit and say come back soon and I’ll share that revelation with you as it was a recent change to only Christian. But my children love to sing. They sing Jesus Loves Me as they swing. They Sing God’s Not Dead as they clean house. They sing Daniel Prayed when the baby is cranky. I am tone deaf but I take every opportunity to share music and my love of music with my kids.
Now back to the task at hand! Visit the other blogs below to see what they are doing for the 2nd Day of our Hop as well as the Main Crew page for all 50 blogs participating. Don’t forget my Day 1 Post either where I talked about our Homeschool Curriculum for this year.
Jennifer @ Chestnut Grove Academy
Crystal @ Tidbits of Experience
Rebecca @ Raventhreads
Jennifer @ Milk & Honey Mommy
Dawn @ Guiding Light Homeschool
Monique @ Living Life and Learning
Lisa @ A Rup Life
Beth @ Weavings
Lisa R @ A Rup Life
We use KJV too. I had a hard time with the toddler bible and eventually just bought him a real bible that was toddler sized. Recently with Horizons and Sonlight curriculum little bible story books came with them and I think it is a nice compromise. You might like the one that comes with Horizons for 3s. It had KJV verses included.
Erin S.
When we used Horizons for PreK they just had one level. I may have to look into the Bibles though and see what they’re like! Thanks so much.