A Psalms Study from Soli Deo Gloria - TOS Review

We often sing hymns made from the Psalms, so the words are in our heads, but do we reflect often on their meaning? One thing I really enjoy about teaching our Children's Choir is that we'll talk about what the Psalm is about and try to gain understanding before working on it musically for presentation.

I have another resource available to me now, thank you to a fellow homeschooler named Kim Kargbo. The Kargbo family have created some homeschooling resources through their site Soli Deo Gloria, one of which is "A Pre-Inductive Study of the Psalms" in her booklet titled
"Young Hearts Longing for God".

We've been able to use this workbook for a few weeks, which covers 30 of the Psalms. Each week we chose a Psalm on which to focus, using the workbook questions. I wrote the Psalm up on my whiteboard, so it was right there, in nice big writing, for us all to see all week. Where the workbooks asked the children to use coloured pencils, they used colour whiteboard markers. A journal is also recommended for use. Our children have their church note book journals, so we used these throughout the week for them to make their notes.

This workbook is aimed at grades 4-8. My children happen to be in that age range, but if I had younger children I'd have them get involved too. We'd read this aloud each day, focusing on a new question or two a day (there are between 7 - 11 questions per Psalm). The questions are really springboards to other discussion, we found. There may be other aspects of the Psalm that you would like to discuss also. This makes the job of the parent/teacher to be more of a facilitator rather than just expecting quick right answers.

To view a sample, you can visit the Soli Deo Gloria website, or go HERE to look at the first week's lesson. It is available as a printed workbook for $16US (plus postage) or a 36 page pdf ebook for $14.50US.

NB - I received this product from TOS for the purpose of review. There is no other compensation and the opinions are my own. Thank you to TOS and Kim Kargbo for the use of this product. If you'd like to read further reviews on this product, please click HERE.