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Bits & Pieces for Freedom & Simplicity™Judah Bible Curriculum |  |
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ~ Genesis 1:1 |
Here's some of our ideas from our Year 1 Week 1 of Judah Bible Curriculum. They should give you an idea of how simply this Principle Approach® curriculum can be done. Remember this is based on a first attempt. I had listened to the JBC teaching tapes and read through the curriculum, but had not taught it before this week's lessons. The Curriculum gives the Theme of "God Creates Man to Bless" - Week 1: Creation Gen. 1:1-25, Statement of Theme/ Memory Verse: Gen. 1:1 (my children added verse 2 also).
Each made "Creation Circles" - this could be done in SOOOOO many different ways - a simple one, how we did it for our notebooks, was I designed a page with "Days of Creation" across the top then 8 large circles (2 lines of 4) as big as I could fit on the page (with younger kids, not doing notebooks yet, we do a lapbook of these - or you could do one big poster board of these). The first they titled "In the beginning..." and drew a pic of "without form and void". The other 7 were labeled for the day and pics of what was made. Day 7, God rested, was interesting. I think they copied each other - a large man sleeping. We talked about how God never sleeps, He just stopped creating.
Each did a Learning Map ("mindmap" to those of you familiar with iMindMap, Nova-Mind, Inpiration, or MindManager or other similar software, or Heart Of Wisdom home school curriculum) - of who God is. Again, I designed a starter sheet for them (you sure don't have to, especially for older kids) - I put a triangle in the middle with "GOD (Yah) is..." written in it. To get them started we discussed the Tri-unity of God, in the Creation. Looked up verses - Spirit was hovering, all things created by Jesus, etc. and then wrote "Father" "Son" and "Holy Spirit" around the triangle, then branched out from there as to who God is. This was kind of a review project, as we have done a study before on the Attributes of God, so they called out things and we all added them to our "maps", then they worked a while longer independently.
Our older daughter did a "Key Event Sheet" on Creation, again I have these designed on the computer in Inspiration as a Learning Map. The name of the Event in the center, then the 4 branches (for the 4 areas prescribed - by PA, and in Judah - for researching an event). If your children haven't done Key Sheets before this is a good place to begin, as this one can be so easy (but could go so DEEP!) I had her try to include scriptures for as many of the points she thought of as she could. (And I did let her look at mine, just for the basic idea.)
We read a book on Creation. It really spread it out - in poetry. The children enjoyed it and the projects.
Our older daughter did more "outside reading" on Creation.
In addition, as per the curriculum, we read the Scriptures given, memorized the Bible verse (and copied it for our notebooks), discussed - who God is, and what was created on each day, looked up other Scriptures as I saw relevance.
OK, there's a whole week - reading, writing, drawing, researching (cut and paste with the little ones).
Other weeks we include some more "active" activities - although that's not MY forte:
Most children like object lessons - because they are metaphors! the Mashal!!! In explaining internal and external government, here's one I thought of with our kids. (It seemed to beat out the illustration in the book, although I had them draw that first, before I thought of this.) Take a glass and a balloon (not blown up). The glass itself represents all government (over you). The area inside the glass is external government (people that have to control you). Place the unblown up balloon in the glass. Notice how much space there is around the balloon - A LOT. Blow the balloon up into the glass - filled with the Holy Spirt/ breath of God, lots of self-government, very little external government needed. Gal. 5:22-23.
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