new manuals

The new manuals for Primary came and I'm really impressed.  Each lesson is dated, and very clearly laid out.  Each lesson had media references and a very nice coloring makeable page.  I think this will make teaching primary so much easier.  It will hopefully decrease teachers need to go find random other pictures of scripture stories.  It also gives specific lds media to show so you don't have teachers showing Joseph kind of dreams to their classes for 3 weeks, hopefully.

I'm really impressed with the resources the church is coming out with and how it standardizes the experience.  There are a lot of people out there creating coloring books and pinterest activities, and etsy sharing time lessons.  The church has created a fantastic manual that removes the need for that.  It may hurt some cottage industry that has been enabling the keeping up with pinterest craze, but there's still plenty of room for  people to go buy content outside if people want to.

The church has come out with this coloring book for the 4 standard works.  It's so affordable we can give it to the kids for Christmas.  I'm really happy about this creative and accessible item.