Family Handbook Series Question

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  • May 7, 2009 at 6:04 pm
    Sherrie
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    Hello Everyone,

    I have a question for Sonya or anyone else who has used the Family Handbook Series. I would love to follow the SCM curriculum guide and use these handbooks to combine our Bible/History and Geography each year. However, because these handbooks sometimes skip over passages of Scripture or completely drop them for a period of time while focusing on history lessons, I am having a hard time figuring out how to make this work with our current convictions about Bible study.

    You see, our family has gotten into this wonderful pattern of studying the Bible every morning chapter by chapter. And whenever I have tried to supplement a history lesson in it’s place we all feel like we’re missing out! Our kids will say, “Where’s our Bible lesson?!” Now I realize that in the older years, SCM has them doing additional Bible studies in Proverbs, OT Law, Romans etc. which I think is awesome. So I could see how the guides would work if our kids were older.

    But for now I’m trying to figure out how to make it work with younger ones. So here’s my question…do you think I could continue studying our Bible lessons in the morning at a pace of 1-2 chapters a day, and then implement any coordinating History/Geography lessons from the handbook in the afternoon? In other words, use the handbooks more like a supplement than a guide that I have to follow. (I realize this would mean that sometimes we would be doing Bible, but would not have a history/geography lesson to go with it)

    I have purchased the Genesis-Deuteronomy Handbook and it seems like this would be possible. But do you think it would be possible with the other handbooks? Has anyone else tried to implement the handbooks this way? In other words, is there anyone else out there like me who is stuck in their ways but wanting to implement all these great resources?! 😆

    Thanks!

    May 8, 2009 at 3:25 am
    Sonya Shafer
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    Great question. The other two handbooks do Bible readings two or three days a week year round, with the other days devoted to history reading and geography. It’s just the Genesis through Deuteronomy that devotes one entire term to Ancient Egypt. However, that still doesn’t give you a Bible lesson each day.

    (And just for the record, yes, please feel free to adjust any of our resources to best fit your family. Curriculum should be your servant, not your master.)

    My first impression is that your idea might work well. Read the Scripture every day, then do history or geography in the afternoon as it fits. You would get through the handbook sooner than one year (which isn’t a problem). However, come to think of it, you might even that out when doing the Joshua through Malachi study because those lessons don’t cover the entire books of all the prophets, just selected portions.

    About the only other option I can think of at this point would be to do your family Bible readings in a totally different place in Scripture from where their school Bible lessons are. Another option, but not necessarily a better one.

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