Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Scripture memory update

I asked awhile back for advice on how to do scripture memory with Katherine. I wanted products and "systems" as I am not good at just picking out a verse and having her memorize it through drill and practice. Through your advice and trips to the bookstore I have found several products so I thought I would share them with my friends. I will admit that though I have done the research and have acquired some of these products I have not been very disciplined. I am making progress though.The first memory system is Truth and Grace as recommended by Jen. I just purchased it but have not actually seen it yet.

Another Jen recommended Memlok as used by her sister-in-law. I have her copy to look over and it is very comprehensive. There are pictures to go along with verses and they are organized by theme as well as by book. I think it is a very good system but probably a little advanced for us at this point.

At Lifeway I bought The Memory Bible which is a book and CD's. The book is over Katherine's head but the CD's are great. There are 52 verses. Kirk Cameron narrates and explains the context and then there are 2 songs for each letter of the alphabet. They are pretty good for kids music.
We borrowed Hermie and Friends Scripture Memory CD from Chrys. We have the one on being truthful. I feared that I would be listening to the bugs from the movies sing kind of like when you have a Veggie Tales CD and you are listening to the veggies talk. The Hermie CD's are not like that. The characters may narrate a little between some songs but the songs are cute. They are less expensive than other CD's so I will pick up some more.

Erin recommended the Children Desiring God verse cards.

We have volume 1 of Steve Green's Hide 'Em In Your Heart music CD's. At first Katherine did not like this CD but I have put it on again and she said she liked it. Steve Green has a fabulous voice! I checked out the video at our church library and I would skip it. It is pretty cheesy.
At the home school convention I bought the ABC CD from the Scripture Memory Fellowship. The songs are a little choir sounding but they do a great job of sticking in your head and that is the point of them. There are a few other CD's as well. I also bought the book that went with the CD.

I also found the Seeds CD's. I listened to samples and they are songs that don't annoy the parents. I think we will be asking for the CD's for Christmas. There are 2 CD's, Courage and Faith.

What I have done with the CD's is load them all onto a playlist on my ipod so that they are all randomly played. This mixes up the verses and also the types of songs. Some I like more than others.

I hope this helps some of you.

3 comments:

Chrys and Mike said...

voddie baucham recommends the truth & grace books. rachel and i ordered them and she said they arrived today so i'm looking forward to using it. i saw jen's post about them last week and was excited to hear great reviews about them from yet another person.

i also ordered "training hearts teaching minds: family devotions based on the shorter catechism". it has not yet arrived. dr. baucham recommends it in his book family-driven faith. (a book i highly recommend, by the way! :)

i'm glad you're enjoying hermie and steve green. yes, the videos are cheesy but the songs are fantastic.

we have that memory bible as well, i got it years ago at sam's. i gave it as a gift and they loved it so i got one for us before we even had kids.

we got the ABC CD at the homeschool convention, too.

i have wondered about the seeds CDs before. i've never heard the songs.

AWANA has scripture memory CDs as well. O has the one that goes w/ the cubbies curriculum.

i did the same thing w/ my ipod and now i just have to find it...am afraid it has disappeared at the hands of my littlest boy and was accidentally flushed or thrown away. i sure hope not!

thanks for the compilation and great info!

chrys

Anonymous said...

There are actually 4 Seeds CDs. Courage, Faith, Worship and Praise. We have them all and I really like them!

Christy@pipandsqueak said...

I thought there were more Seeds CD's but that was all I was finding last night. Glad to know you like them all. I just listened to the short snippets online.