Are preschoolers ready to start memorizing books of the Bible?

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I mean like 4 and 5 year olds??We'd start slowly and just slowly work our way through, like the first week ,Genesis- Deuteronomy. Then Joshua-Ruth, then 1-2 Samuel, then 1-2 King, then 1-2 Chronicles, then Ezra-Esther, Job-Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Lamentations and Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, and for the New Testament- Matthew-John, Acts-Romans,1-2Corinthians, Galatians and Ephesians, Phillipians and Colossians, 1-2Thessalonians,1-2Timothy, Titus and Philemon, Hebrews and James,1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude and Revelation. Do you think this is too fast. We would review them tons and tons and tons EVERY week and then introduce new ones. I don't think it's too early, but the other teacher, (we're best friends and not adults, but i promise we're capable) thinks it is. I know they could do it, we have SMART PRESCHOOLERS in our class. I just don't know...HELP!

To Forkface: I already have, I did it in two days when I was 9, (14) now.

To Tom A: No, your right it isn't gonna happen. I wouldn't want to poison my s.s. kids innocent, young minds. And you'd be surprised at how much some of them genuinly love Jesus. Also, it is quite the opposite of what you say. I am sooo secure in my beliefs that I am willing to be one of the very few willing to step up and teach the Truth to those kids and I'm proud at how much they have grown since we began teaching. We have a little boy "Peter" that when we started would never even think about playing games with us and such... Now he is one of our most enthusiastic kids. And I know that is God working through me to get to him. And I'm so excited when we get kids like that.

To Corey: I teach PRESCHOOL SUNDAY SCHOOL, not regular preschool or school, the whole purpose is to teach them the way the world was created, and it's preschool, not even Kindergarten, I'm 14 years old!!!

The purpose of this is to give them a solid background and for when they get older they will find Bible Drills easier and the information will hopefully stay with them their entire lives... We've taught them things that I do not even remember teaching them (I remember it myself personally, just not teaching it) that they blow me away at what they do really remember and it's very encouraging. Again I will say it, I am 14!!

Answer 1

I think it's a WONDERFUL idea, AND, I'd go so far as to say that somewhere in elementary school I'd have a class where the kids, on a daily basis, took their ball point pen and loose-leaf paper and copied, by hand, one chapter of the Bible each day, starting from Genesis and working all the way through to the end. It took me till I was 35 years old till that idea came across my mind to do, and seven and one-half years later, I finished the last words of Revelation. And I can tell you that that "exercise" brought so much more depth of the Bible to me, and when I got through, I was so appreciative, and then felt so empty since I had finished the Bible and began missing that " . . .closer walk with Thee", that I took two more Bibles and have begun copying them side-by-side for comparison and further understanding. Now I'm in the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 16, and I go a lot slower, verse by verse, so that the depth is so much greater. It was a great "eye-opening" thought that came to me that day, years ago, and I can tell you, from my experience, that your idea is fantastic. God Bless you.

Answer 2

Memorizing merely the grocery checklist could do me a international of sturdy. Memorizing any chinese language nutrition menu could be particularly clever too considering all of them carry a similar dishes yet I continually stare on the menu for 10 minutes analyzing it besides. the two are greater clever than memorizing the bible, until you prefer to be the minister of a mega church and stay in a extensive abode...properly, that's yet another tale. Then, random bible rates could be particularly clever.

Answer 3

a.) Is this a joke? OF COURSE NOT! have you ever thought that maybe the reason we have so many kids who arent motivated in school at older ages and would rather go smoke a blunt then go to english class is because we start stressing kids out at younger and younger ages? 20 years ago children learned to read at like grade 1 or 2... now they are being forced to learn how to read at the preschool level? if thats not stressful enough... you want them to memorize theories on how the world was created?!! Its not a matter of whether or not they can do it, its whether or not, in the long run, its smart as the teacher to do it. Many kids these days are being forced to memorize 20 vocab words a week by the grade 4, and it is painting a bad picture of what school is for.. in the minds of young kids. In preschool they should be learning the building blocks of life... they should be learning how to make triangles out of square blocks.. therefore teaching them indirectly how to problem solve -- if you mess up, subconsciously, at a young age, your brain takes the good parts of the idea and seperates it from the bad parts of the idea and works with the good parts and changes the bad parts of the idea until they have made a simple structure like a triangle. preschool should be for teaching kids to color in the lines and teaching, without badgering, kids how to follow rules... and teaching them the importance of family. -- please read the link listed in my sources below --
b.) Religion...? ill admit i didnt bother reading all of that bible stuff you wrote in your question.. because most of those names dont mean anything to me... but teaching religion in public schools is illegal. if you teach in a private school or something then thats not the case but i still dont like the idea. Those kids prolly cant even pronounce those names.. I cant even pronounce those names... if the kids parent wants them to learn religion, they will take them to a church.. it is not your right to decide for the parent whether or not their child will believe in god or those 400 other people supposedly existed. they are young and vulnerable and dont kno any better then to listen to the older person they see as the authority. Teaching is a job, just like accounting for example. your a teacher, not a priest or a nun. so please, just like accountants dont teach geography when they are at work.. dont teach religion when your at work.

PS: And to the lady/man above who said that they feel sad for the lost depressed people who dont believe in god or w/e... shuttup. lol... i dont believe in god.. i guess you could say im atheist.. i am NOT depressed or sad. i believe in truth and i have a solid mind that believes in things that are proven and not stuff that has never been proven, and quite honestly is a way of making unstable people feel safe and stable by giving them answers to questions they dont have answers to, yet. the difference between believers and non-believers is that believers dont feel safe and feel confused and lost (which may be symptoms of *depression* or *insecurity*?) and non-believers understand and cope with the reality and dont feel afraid to die and take more pride in accomplishing things in their lifetime. When i die, i understand ill eventually rot, turn into dirt, grow to grass, get eaten by an animal, and so on.. but contrary to what some, ignorant to say the least, people think.. it doesnt bother me, because while im on earth.. i plan on making a difference.. it wont help me when im rotting in the ground somewhere.. but hopefully it will help a few billion people after me. when you ask me who lives a better life, a believer or a non-believer, i would tell you without a doubt in my mind, a non-believer. So please whoever decided to paint me, and other non-believers, as a poor frail little boy whose sad and depressed... please appologize!

Answer 4

I don't know about it being too early, but it's nice to know that you're still allowing people nowadays to make a free choice about religion, jolly good show.

Dammit, are you really so insecure about your religion that you're gonna force it on 4 or 5 year olds? Frankly, for me - forcing your views on an impressionable child is horrible - it takes away freedom of choice and simply provides evidence that religion is controlling and commanding.

Why not take them through the Koran? Or, maybe even the origin of species? But thats never gonna happen is it.

Answer 5

I think memorization has its' place...it is more important that they know the practical side of the bible. They should know how to show their Christianity without just quoting but by their actions. God Bless

Answer 6

Oh yes! If you don't start early enough, chances are they may not 'be interested' in it later on. Please teach them the Bible... So many around me have gone without and I want to cry each time I see them in decay.

Answer 7

if you do it in a fun way like ask them what they would like to do like projects to do the bible but a fun project that everybody want to do sot hat they would learn and have fun

Answer 8

yes! You can start by reading about it to them.

Answer 9

yes especially if you ease therm into it and take them to church.

Answer 10

What's the point of that?