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WHAT's NEW AT LDV

Our All Members newsletter has a new name, The Villager, and of course a new logo. Debra and Tim have been very active, so hang on, this is going to be a long one . . .

2007 YOUNG WOMEN RESOURCES

We have had a rush of Young Women art collections in the Download Depot, and now many of those wonderful designs have made their way onto LDV stickers! Each sticker pack comes with 48-50 stickers for $2.00. With the Young Women's General Meeting on March 24th, this is the perfect time to use our art collections and new YW stickers to focus on the theme - "Let virtue garnish thy thoughts . . . " I've put together a chart for the keywords of D&C 121:45 and the definitions of the words, which can be used for a preparation activity for the upcoming broadcast.

TEACHER AIDS

We recently added a page of links to handy online teacher resources. Find how to make everything from bingo cards, personalized license plate printouts, to translating and rhyming dictionaries. We are constantly looking for good resource links. If you have resource links to add, click Contact the Webmaster at the bottom of any link directory page.

We added a wonderful new teaching aid to our shopping cart: Powerful Tips for Powerful Teachers by C.S. Bezas - Crucial guide to working with today’s dynamic youth. Compelling, yet simple, these tips will help you burst beyond fatigue and frustration...
Digital Product News

PROPHET TEACHING RESOURCES

Prophets of the Restoration Activity Book - by Debra Woods Hamilton, illustrated by Scott Jarrard. Fun and interesting lessons, games and activities for the 15 LDS prophets - great for all ages. The last quarter of the curriculum year contains lessons that focus on the prophets of the church. You can enhance your seminary prophet lessons by purchasing a subscription this digitial activity book. Written by Debra Woods Hamilton and featuring illustrations by Scott Jarrard, these lessons contain special activities and games that your students are sure to remember. Who will forget Joseph Fielding Smith after the coloring page and the paper airplane contest? Or Wilford Woodruff after all of the bumps, bruises, and 'knots' (pun intended) he experienced.This popular DC teaching resource is now available as a instant digital book download from our shopping cart.
Prophets of the Restoration Stickers - These are not a digital product, but go along with the prophet theme. These elightful designs of each of our latter-day prophets by LDS illustrator, Scott Jarrard. Reinforce your study of the prophets with these fun stickers.

MARCH Club Collections

There are wonderful new art collections in the Village Download Depot Club, and the Club Sampler also has some new special projects you can try out for free! The collections from January and February are now in our shopping cart!

March Seasonal Collection

Spring Photo Collection by Courtney White
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March Fonts


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March LDS Collection
Relief Society Collection by Cheryl White
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PRIMARY NEWS

NEW PRIMARY STICKERS

Debra used Melissa Carter's Primary Collection art from our February Village Depot Download Clubto create a new set of Primary Helper Stickers in our store! Four designs in each pack - Prayer, Scripture, Talks and Reverence - 48 stickers for $2.00

PRIMARY ART COLLECTION

As we mentioned above, Melissa's darling 2007 Primary Theme Collection was in our February Download Depot Club - well - now that it is March - that collection is available separately in our store - for instant download at $6.95. It is so fun - one of my favorite parts is the bulletin board border of children holding hands - http://latter-dayvillage.com/proddetail.php?prod=2007PrimaryTheme

MUSIC NEWS

May's Song Idea is now online - An Angel Came to Joseph Smith - this is another Powerpoint presentation - but we have included links to every picture I used so if you'd rather do it with hand held pictures, that is great!

We added a pdf version of the presentation for "I Know that My Redeemer Lives" for anyone who would prefer to print it out.

Debra also fixed a problem with the Music Motivational Chart - all my footprints were right footed! So it looked like someone was hopping toward performance readiness! I changed it so every other footprint is left-footed. I hope it isn't too late for some of you to print out these footprints again.

Debra added a number of song ideas to the Knowledgebase - in case you need them for suggested sharing times.

THEME POSTER

The Monthly Theme Poster for April is online and is once again so beautiful.

SEMINARY NEWS

MARCH MADNESS

It really is March Madness time. Linda Harper's 2007 DC March Madness is now online in the filing cabinet, and we made several past versions available here for reference. NOTE: the basic game outline and play does not change, only the clues, which should be DC based this year.

The madness is in the consequence slips that a player must draw when they miss a basketball shot. From personal experience, this activity can get your students into scripture mastery or class learning like nothing else. Just say "when we finish this (activity, lesson, test) we can play March Madness for 10 minutes. You keep your teams scores (and members; they change) running throughout the month of March. It is the right carrot to dangle, a WINNER.

FREE DOWNLOADABLE DC SM RECORDINGS

As this DC Church History year comes to a close in several months, there is usually a rush by many students to pass of their scripture memorizations, along with frantic efforts by teachers to support those activities. With almost EVERY teenager possessing a protable MP3 player, we remind you that there are FREE downloadable recordings of the 25 DC Scriptures Mastery verses. You may freely distribute these to your students, simply download them to your computer and burn them to several CDs. Then pass the CD's out to your students, asking them to pass the CD on to a classmate after they upload to their player. These clips are designed to Debra Woods Hamilton, a consumate voiceover talent, to be entertaining enough that words will really sink into your students memory.

DC Scripture Mastery Takes Stage! - Doctrine & Covenants Scripture Mastery TAKES STAGE! The scriptures like you've never heard them before! Original recordings of each D&C Scripture Mastery Verse featuring the vocal talent Debra Woods Hamilton, Jerry Hamilton and Justin Cavanah. So make our web server groan with download activity and pump up the DC SM volume!

NAUVOO RESOURCES

We have several items in our shopping cart that can help you teach the Nauvoo period. To access them:

  1. Visit our shopping cart home page.
  2. On the left menu, click Search Products.
  3. Enter the word "nauvoo" (w/o the quotes) into the Search For: field.
  4. Click Search.

ANNOTATED SCRIPTURES for teaching Church History

Our Annotated Scriptures are truly a fantastic resource for studying the Doctrine and Covenants.

  • The sections are linked with
    • Quotes from Church General Authorities
    • Insights from Institute and Teacher's manuals
    • Teaching Emphasis as directed by CES
    • Stories from Church History
  • The entire History of the Church is provided and linked. As you research a section, you can quickly review the recorded historical background and happenings.
  • Contains biographies of characters mentioned in the DC.
  • Map section contains many era maps.

The Old Testament is now available as part of the Annotated Scriptures. If you are teaching next year, access to the annotations and resources will really stimulate your summer preparation and study. You can try the Annotated Scriptures free for one week; click here to sign up now.

SALE on DC ITEMS

The following items are on sale while supplies last. Give your students a Scripture Mastery boost or stock up for next time you or someone in your area teachers the DC. Southern hemisphere teachers; the savings can help offset the extra shipping charges from the states...

OTHER NEWS
Whew; if you made it this far, we apologize for the 'supersize' newsletter. It's just that we had so much to tell you. Thanks for hanging around!

Best Regards,

Debra Woods Hamilton, Marketing and Creativity
debra@latter-dayvillage.com

Tim Holder, Technology
Email: webmaster@latter-dayvillage.com