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Bible just one day a week?
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Hello! 🙂
I was looking through the sample for one of he history modules and I looks like Bible is only scheduled one day per week. Did I understand that right? Surely that’s not all the Bible suggested? Just curious how you all do Bible study. My children are 10, 6, and 4. We have been doing AO til this year and are getting ready to switch to SCM. We have been reading straight through the Bible til now, but I’m starting to get nervous about minor prophets and some of the other OT books coming up. How do you all do Bible!
Thanks,
Jenn in KS
The SCm modules for Bible, History and Geography have it set up as Bible 3 times a week, history 1 time a week and geogpraphy 1 time a week. If your reading is skipping someone, add that person in somewhere on another day, or do an extra reading later in the day, if you have to. Don’t burn out the kids, though.
In the beginning of some of the modules, Sonya has to set the background into place with the history part or the Bible part…as you get deeper into them, they even out to the schedule above.
Also, keep in mind that you are rotating through history, and your children will be reading the Bible all through their life, if you miss it once, they will catch it another time, way, etc…I am not belittling your desire to not miss anyone in the OT. For your personal anxiety levels and sanity, keep in mind, both for Bible and school in general, that there is no way to teach your children everything. Spread the feast and let them enjoy some discovery along the way. =)
I guess my main concern is that Bible is read *everyday*. Not so much that it’s read straight through. I was just hoping it was scheduled in the modules that way. I still have yet to go through Planning Your Charlotte Mason Education, so maybe that will help me see it all and plan it all.
Maybe all of this is assuming there is a separate family worship time every day that the Bible is read?
We do have seperate daily family scripture time, where we spend our time teaching the gospel in detail and context to our personal lives.
As we are doing it for history, that is the time I mostly(!) use to put the people in the Bible in context with the world history surrounding them (and sometimes we have great conversations here too). That way, Noah is not floating somewhere in space with Mozart in their minds, having no real concept of the connections between “history” and “scripture”.
Sometimes the two readings connect, sometimes not. But they are seeing the Grand Plan in different aspects on a daily basis.
Hi, Jenn. The modules are set up to emphasize Bible history as it happened alongside world history, so during modules 1-3 more time is spent reading Genesis through Acts. Once we finish Acts, we have only the epistles and Revelation left, so those books are spread throughout modules 4-6 with more time being given to the world history. It kind of shifts in weight, if you will.
During modules 4-6, the older children are digging deeper with the accompanying personal Bible studies, and the younger ones are working through the epistles together. Once a week you read a chapter and identify principles for life, then review your findings and encourage one another to live them out each day until the next week’s chapter is read. I do assume that your family will be doing Scripture memory daily and can easily add family devotions/readings every day as desired.
We could have spread out the Bible readings to be a consistent amount through all six modules, but in order to emphasize the Bible history alongside the world history and to help my children see that Bible events are real and took place in the regular history of the world, I chose to do it this way. Hope that explanation helps a bit.
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