Comment Your Questions About Seminary- The Red Headed Hostess

The reason for this post:

One of the most common questions I get emailed is about seminary stuff… and I have to admit that I am really slow at getting back to emails lately (please don’t take this personally – I am trying to reconcile this weakness).  So I decided to do a week of posts dedicated to seminary stuff.  I will be doing some posts and I have some awesome guest writers who will have a lot to offer!  The plan is that it will be the week of August 12th.  So meanwhile…

Will you leave a comment and/or question below (or email me) anything you would hope to see that week?

This invitation is extended to teachers, parents, leaders, grandparents and students.

So just let me know what you would like to hear about.  First week suggestions, scripture mastery stuff, devotional ideas, how to help your child get the most out of seminary, etc.

And then I will get to work.

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30 comments

  3. Wow!! I can’t wait! Anything special you did to get them to read the assignment ahead of time or be willing to write…anything!!…would be great. I have used and shared lots of your ideas—THANK YOU for what you share with all of us!!

  4. Do you happen to have New Testament scripture mastery madgabs? I enjoy reading your ideas for seminary. My seminary class starts next week, so it would be helpful to have you share some ideas for a little further into the year as I will have been teaching for a week when you plan your week of seminary. Thanks for being so willing to share!

  5. Oh, I’m so glad you asked. I have been anxiously awaiting your scripture mastery list. You did it last year with all of the SM’s on one page with a picture for each one. I laminated them and gave one to each student. We used it all year and I was so grateful to have it. Thanks for sharing all of your ideas!

  6. Hi,

    I LOVE your site and have gained SO much from it. I can actually FIND notes and thoughts I have written while I study and can refer to them as needed for lessons and talks! Thanks for sharing.

    This is my second year teaching early morning seminary.Do you have a specific preference to how you taught the New Testament? Did you teach it from the beginning of the New Testament as bound on through to Revelations….or do you prefer to teach the life of Christ and then the rest? ANY and all suggestions would be appreciated.

  7. Ideas for home study seminary! My oldest adored seminary her first year, and then did not have a good experience her first term of second year (different instructor for the 10th grade and above) and refuses to return, so we’re trying to build seminary study into our family scripture time. We do use scripture journals (THANK YOU for your stuff!!!).

  10. Hi, this will be my senior year of high school and seminary. I go to early morning seminary and I haven’t been getting anything out of it! It is hard to see the blessings of it when I am tired. I’ve prayed to make this year (my last) the best. I just need help making it the best. I want to appreciate it, look forward to seminary. Everyone I know says “how much it blesses their life, how it brings the spirit, how they’ve learned so much” but I never feel that way. 🙁

    How can I make this years seminary worth it?

  11. I’m interested in the way you teach Scripture Mastery. What are some of the games, activities, and methods you use for each quarter (key phrases, doctrines and principles, 1st letters, and memorizing). Do you use any of the scripture mastery songs? We spend 5-7 min a day on Scripture Mastery on learning rhymes, key phrases and memorizing. But I can see the value of spending more time on the doctrines and principles.

    Your chapter marking guides are very helpful, as well as your insights on various topics.

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge and years of experience with us 🙂

  12. this is off topic… but are you still planning on printing your “house of israel” book? i sure hope so!!!
    thx
    sam

  13. I would love to have the titles of the parables, such as “The Prodigal Son” or “The 10 Virgins”, done in cute fonts, put together on a page that can be copied onto sticker paper, cut up, and used for easy reference!

  14. I would like to see more sectionalizing and page titles! Also, I would really, really, really love it if you would share more from your scripture journals with us! Your insights speak loudly to my spirit and creates a desire in me to want to know more. Thank you for all you do to increase our knowledge, testimonies, and our spirits.

  15. I’m a homeschooler and have decided to use the principles of Celestial Education by Michelle Stone, in our homeschool this year. I would love to see with each of your posts about seminary stuff, ways to gear those ideas more toward younger children. My kiddos are 9 and under and we also have some special needs at our house. We LOVE all the ideas for teaching the plan of salvation and the scripture journal ideas. We just need some ideas for gearing them toward younger kiddos! 😀

  16. Shannon! I am so glad I found your blog!!! I’ve been looking through it, and I am so inspired by all you’ve done. You are amazing and wonderful. Thanks for sharing all that you have. I love it. Love, (Your EFY friend) Nancy

  17. This is my second year teaching Early Morning Seminary and one thing we struggled with last year was getting the youth to read the block on their own before class. Surely every Seminary teacher faces this challenge at some point! Any suggestions to get the students genuinely excited to dive into the scriptures on their own? Without bribes, coercion, or guilt…hahaha.

    Also, I really feel a need to focus on feeling the Spirit and more importantly how the youth can know and recognize when they are feeling the Spirit.

    And any suggestions you have for writing in the study journals CES provides for us. Often I’ll have a question near the end of the lesson that I give my students time to write their response and feelings about, but I really just want that to be a jumping off point. I want them to get in a habit of writing down thoughts and impressions that they have. Any thoughts you have on that would be appreciated!

    Thank you so much for your blog and all the materials you provide! You’ve been such a blessing to my without your even knowing it! 🙂

  18. I would love suggestions for attention getters. Not necessarily object lessons. But a bit along those lines. Different things you do to reel the kids in. If you can give examples relating to this years upcoming lessons, even better. Thank you. I love all of the wonderful things you have shared

  19. I would love to know what you do on the first few days! I would also like some suggestions for making the lessons relevant to the students today. Thanks for all you do!

  20. I would love it if you would post a sheet of New Testament scripture mastery stickers! Thanks for the NT flashcards! Also will you be doing any Mad Gabs for the NT?

  21. ANYthing you have to share is amazing. But I would love a black and white Plan of Salvation chart and also details about HOW you teach SM, what activities you do, do you do them a few minutes each day?

  22. I second the NT Madgabs! I am new at this and think my small group of english speaking early morning seminary students out here in Chile would LOVE to play that game. We’ve already started our school year, but they will still love this I am sure!
    Thanks for all your insight. It has helped me, as a first time teacher, to find my ‘seminary legs’ 🙂

  23. I would like to see more sectionalizing and page titles! Also, love it if you would share more from your scripture journals with us! Thank you for all you do to increase our knowledge, testimonies, and our spirits. The ideas about the Parables would be great also. This site is amazing and everything you to is the greatest. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with all of us.

  24. We homeschool and one of my favorite things is having time to deeply study the scriptures every day together. My oldest girls are in 7th and 8th grades this year and I am wondering if I could use the seminary student manuals with them, or if I should wait until they are officially in seminary so that it is not a repeat for them and will have “maximum impact.” I would be studying on the same schedule as the seminary, so the content we would cover this school year wouldn’t be covered again until the rotation comes around in 4 years. How much do you use the student manuals in your classes, and what would be your opinion about parents using them with their children before they reach seminary?

  25. Thanks for asking what we’d like to see. I’d otherwise be hesitant, considering it an imposition, when you’re already willing to generously share so much.

    I’d love to see sectionalizing guides/page titles for the rest of the books in the New Testament (and eventually all the scriptures), suggestions on what you do for the first day and first week, and suggestions on how to get kids to read scriptures at home, especially in preparation for the block being studied. Motivation ideas are always needed. Also, ideas on introducing the scripture mastery verses and helping the kids get familiar with them early in the year would be helpful.

    Thanks for teaching me about scripture journals. We’ll be using the seminary journal as our basis for daily note taking and journal keeping and I expect to be amazed at the difference. It’s made such a difference for me.

  27. Is it ok to use the idea you shared for each day pages with the scriptures studied, their notes about it and how they might use these ideas in their life?
    Since you are selling journals with the same thing, I was wondering if it would be ok to do that.

    thanks for all you share–I think it must be amazing to be a student in your class.

    Laurel

  28. Will you be posting your large version of the Plan of Salvation?
    Seminary starts next week, and I would love to use it.

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