23rd Psalm

As per my February Post and saying that I had plans to incorporate more scripture into our days of learning, here's the update I promised.

We started with memory verses and that took off very well. Now, we're getting into memorizing larger chunks of scriptures, like whole Psalms. Logan is LOVING this... he is just such a good little student with how he takes to learning something new.



For the individual scriptures, here are pics of our little "program"

I bought the pockets and the index cards at the teacher store, Lakeshore, the same time I got the 100 square chart and got our reading plan organized. At first, I was introducing a new scripture every Sunday night... then he was learning some of them faster, so we just went to adding a new one each time he had the newest one down well. Some of them took longer than others, due to their length and wordiness, but some were learned within just a few days.

Some of my scripture choices were made for discipline teaching, helping me drill in the correct behaviors that are accepted in our home


Some of them are just classics that he'll hear throughout life, in hymns and stories


And this one, in particular, was requested by Papa

We would repeat ALL of them EVERY night... so he wasn't forgetting what he learned. Now, he has these 12 down so well that he can say them when we are traveling, not even needing the pockets in front of him. He's got quite a little memory, a photographic one at that!

 These were added on the spur of the moment, to the side of his dresser, because we were having some trouble with how we were/are treating our friends and our brothers. Now we can turn to these when our unkind, impatient and unloving tendencies rear their pretty little heads! Realizing that his actions are displeasing to God is much more effective than making him think it's just the way mommy and daddy want him to act!

Reading update: We are on lesson 80, and I'm really trying to get us done with this program by the end of the month. That will take some major effort, but it's not impossible. He loves doing it, it's just the making time because the daily stories are getting longer and longer... and then there is the questions and the writing. We've changed the time to our "storytime" before nap, so hopefully that helps us keep the daily commitment better now that summer is here!

I look forward to seeing how God is going to use this little brain to His glory one day... praying that Logan will love our Savior with a passion that allows this love of learning to be a useful tool in His kingdom!