Comments on: A continuing conversation on the use of manipulatives by Carroll Smith http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/a-continuing-conversation-on-the-use-of-manipulatives-by-carroll-smith/ Supporting a Charlotte Mason Education Worldwide Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tammyglaser798 http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/a-continuing-conversation-on-the-use-of-manipulatives-by-carroll-smith/#comment-65 tammyglaser798 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:55:02 +0000 http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-65 My church just held your typical experiential, song and dance kind of VBS. They asked me to teach the scripture lesson on two days of this week. I taught four different classes, separated by grade. I decided to be the subversive as always and tossed out the scripts and rewritten lessons I was given. I used the lessons in the back of Volume 3 as my guideline and focused on giving children the context needed to follow the bible passages. With the older children, I read straight from the Bible and had them reproduce their learning, since none of them had been taught the art of narration, by handing in pictures that had to do with the lesson--not cartoony stuff by printouts of art, woodcuts, stained glass, etc. They made wonderful connections and I loved their comments. They enjoyed the Bible, undiluted, without the twaddle. If only we would have the courage to give our children access to the unseen spiritual elements of reading the Bible without the materialistic fluff to sidetrack them. My church just held your typical experiential, song and dance kind of VBS. They asked me to teach the scripture lesson on two days of this week. I taught four different classes, separated by grade.

I decided to be the subversive as always and tossed out the scripts and rewritten lessons I was given. I used the lessons in the back of Volume 3 as my guideline and focused on giving children the context needed to follow the bible passages. With the older children, I read straight from the Bible and had them reproduce their learning, since none of them had been taught the art of narration, by handing in pictures that had to do with the lesson–not cartoony stuff by printouts of art, woodcuts, stained glass, etc.

They made wonderful connections and I loved their comments. They enjoyed the Bible, undiluted, without the twaddle. If only we would have the courage to give our children access to the unseen spiritual elements of reading the Bible without the materialistic fluff to sidetrack them.

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