I am excited to announce that the next set of RS Lesson Handouts are available in our store! This is the second set - for lessons 13-24, which should go through the end of 2008.
Each lesson has handouts, journal pages, posters, and quote cards.
New with this set, I added some EXTRAS - which are photos/illustrations and articles, mostly from the Ensign and other image archives, that go with the lessons.
I know many have been eager to get this next set of handouts, and they are beautiful. Courtney is about to pop with a new baby due any day, and has had a rough time, so I am grateful she has been able to finish it all up (plus several other collections she’s been working on for us) - and the
extras took me several extra days to put together. Sorry for the delay! I think you’ll see it was worth it.
The July Visiting Teaching Bookmarks are now available!
The pdf version of the July Ensign is available at lds.org
http://www.lds.org/gospellibrary/pdfmagazine/0,7779,592-6-1,00.html#
We have found a way to easily share some of our artists creativity by creating a store through Zazzle. Similar to CafePress, our Zazzle store offers our unique designs on appearal, mugs, and other consumer products. Even though we are just in the startup phase, we have quite a few products to showcase.
New July Sharing Times have been added to the Primary KB. The July Friend is on lds.org in pdf format. This month I included some visuals, scripture word strips, a conference talk and a song chart that are mentioned in the Friend list of ideas, as well as the Friend articles mentioned.
New Primary MANUAL
There is a new Nursery Manual! Behold Your Little Ones. It is listed as a nursery manual, and I do wonder if we will be getting additional new Primary manuals soon. You can see it online at the Church Distribution website.
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So far I have not seen or heard mention of the 2009 Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation and Sharing Time Guide arriving in wards - if you get yours, please PLEASE let me know as soon as possible!
PIONEER DAY
The current Village Download Depot Club collection is a beautiful Pioneer collection by our wonderful photographer Courtney White.
In case you didn’t know, there is a free Relief Society membership at LDV
- and each month I design a Visiting Teaching Bookmark. You can get the July bookmark now.
NEW SONG
I wrote a new song! "What Would Jesus Do?" and with the help of my friend Jennifer Lerud, who did a lovely piano arrangement of it - I will be able to add it to the Primary Music KB next month!
We are now adding the last set of seminary lesson plans from MarGene Von Forell. If you are unfamiliar with MarGene and her lesson plans, visit her bio page here. MarGene’s years of teaching experience, coupled with her vast collection of quotes, stories, games, and activities, provide seminary teachers with many valuable teaching tools.
Coordinated with the current teacher’s manual, she adds additional teaching opportunities to any lesson. Where applicable, she includes resources collected by her father, a career full-time Seminary/Institute teacher (now retired). Every teacher should read her MarGene Von Forell’s New Testament Summer Preparation Outline and New Testament’s First Lesson; get the year started off right with the correct preparation, classroom organization, and student management strategies.
We intend of completing the addition of MarGene’s New Testament lessons by the end of October. Watch the New Articles list to see where we are.
As I was speaking to a seminary teacher of the phone, trying to resolve a download problem, she let it ship that the Old Testament was her first year teaching and that we had experienced discipline problems with several of her male students. I could relate to her; my first year of teaching was as a Thanksgiving replacement for a teacher (former bishop and high counselor) who threw in the towel on a rowdy bunch of seniors. Seniors who had their way all fours years and were not about to change for me or anyone else.
I did the only thing I knew how to do; Norm Setting. Read this article (Norm Setting, Making Expectations Clear)to see how it’s done. It worked for me; granted, we did have to review the agreements several times that first week, but eventually, even the other students helped me reign in several of the most disruptive ones. Norm setting really works if you stick with it.
When is the ideal time to do norm setting? In your parents meeting that kicks off the school year! Then everyone invested in your students success; they themselves, their parents, and you are there to establish what is acceptable behavior, what is not, and what appropriate consequences should follow. Then there are no surprises during the school year if you have to call in a parent or priesthood leader for help. Read this article (Conducting a Successful Parent Meeting) for how to conduct a good parent meeting, inserting a step for norm setting following the outline in that article.
We now have an ALL NEW version of the highly popular Scripture Rock series for the New Testament. Set to more modern, rock oriented music, this product can also help your students quickly and permanently memorize (every tried get a tune out of your head, music REALLY helps with memorization) the mastery verses.
LDS Scripture Rock New Testament comes in two varieties
Regular CD. The CD contains 25 tracks of the scriptures set to rock/modern music.
Karaoke DVD/CD. This set includes the music CD and a bonus karaoke-style playable DVD with background picture & scrolling text so you can sing the lyrics to the music. A real winner.
Both of the LDS Scripture Rock products have volume discounts, for more savings.
ALL of our Music Products have playable music clips on their product page; just click the links toward the page bottom and the sample will open and play on your computer. This lets you sample the music style and content to help choose the best approach for your class. But order NOW so you can get a head start and have all 25 passages memorized before the school year starts. This is a tremendous advantage you will have; you can play Stump the Teacher or SM Stump the Chump.
Sing the Scriptures scripture mastery tunes for the New Testament are now available as a download. Purchase these catchy tunes already ripped into the popular MP3 format. Burn them to a CD, copy them to your MP3 player, or play them directly from your computer. Get them instantly and a savings vs. the CD product. No shipping charges and the price is lower!
Order now for yourself and have the 25 scriptures all memorized before your students!
Of course you can also . The cost is higher and shipping is also added, but you do get the CD, which gives you maximum flexibility as to what you can do with the music. Order now.
I am excited to announce that the next set of 
