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Tell me about the wrist bands
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we are having the same problem. 3 days prior to our camp, it was cancelled…did you come up with anything?
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Where can I find red wrist bands with the I believe theme?
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Our Stake’s Trek theme is: “Together we stand, Never alone.”
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July 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm in reply to: I need a quiz to give the girls in Young Womens to better prepare them for babysitting. Can you help me? #243776
Check with your local red cross, if they are serious about baby sitting they can be baby sittier certified by the red cross for $10.
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I just got back from our youths trek and our theme was “Faith in Every Footstep.” Hope that helps!
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We have notesbooks for our RS for each organization (YW, Primary, Nursery, & RS) that contain the newsletter & any upcoming activity announcements/sign-up sheets. Plus our RS secretary types up the announcements for each of the groups not in RS meeting on Sundays. It’s a 3×5 piece of paper & I love getting it. I’m in nursery & it helps me feel “connected” to my sisters. Hope this helps!!
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June 29, 2011 at 3:40 am in reply to: Alternate words to “Have I Done Any Good” for Visiting Teaching Skit #244238
I’m glad you have come up into the idea of using alternate words to “Have I done any good” to use in visiting teaching skit. It’s nice i like it. Next time we will hold our training we will use it. Thank you for your great ideas.
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CTR 4 is such a tiring age to teach. I would say that it is good to expect them to be able to sit, but know that they will probably not be able to the whole time. Offering lots of “wiggle time” as you say is essential, as well as changing activities often because they still have such short attention spans. As they mature during the year, it will get easier for them to sit. Here are some activities that my class (7 boys, 1 girl) enjoy:
-Hide and seek an object/picture: One child leaves the room while we hide a picture or object that has to do with the lesson. Then the whole class says “hot” or “cold’ to help them find it. Everyone must get a turn or you will never hear the end of it. :)
-Playdough (with cookies sheets to work on to contain the mess)
-Memory/concentration : I made it homemade by printing out clipart pics in pairs, or you can buy small picture cards at a church bookstore
-acting out the stories in the lesson : I was surprised how much my kids love doing this! We get simple costumes (read ties, robes, etc. VERY quick and simple) and I tell them the story first (usually a scripture story) and we act it out. I talk about the theme of the lesson all through this time and we also act out the same story over and over so that every child has a chance to do the part they want. They really seem to internalize the stories better with repetition.
Church Bingo: We just tried this one, it is still a bit over their head, but I think they’ll like it more with practice. I found the cards online somewhere and printed them.
As for the quirks of individual class members – my kids do stuff like that too! :) It comes with the age I think. It helps to keep things moving so they don’t have time to be bored and act up. Positive reinforcement is good too. I would talk with the primary president about sharing time, but if you are afraid of stepping on toes, just mention it within the context of your class. aka “My class is really wild during sharing time, what can I do?” etc. Good luck, they are precious at this age, you just have to get past the hard parts. -
wow!! Thank you for that. i’m a convert also and have found it difficult to sit down with my girls and get this accomplished.
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We just got done with our trek. I would offer suggestions on the baby. Make it look real and give it some weight. We had some homemade babies (6 inches – one piece) and another “family” brought their own porcelain baby dressed in a white blessing gown (nope, it didn’t get that dirty). The porcelain baby was treated very different than the homemade ones. Not because it was a cute baby (it wasn’t) or would break, but because of the gown, weight and proportion of the baby. Nobody could keep their hands off that baby even before you knew it was porcelain! It looked real from a distance. Guys and girls were flocking to this baby. Guys fought the girls to carry the baby along the trail.
Instead of a porcelain baby, go to a second hand store and see if you can find fabric/plastic dolls. Unstuff the doll’s body, arms, and legs, and replace with rice to give it some weight and maybe sew some clothes (definitely a bonnet). Our homemade babies just had a diaper wrapped in some fabric. The more real you make that baby, the better the experience.
But just to give you the heads up. Being the shadow of death and taking those babies away (because they “died”) is really hard. The families were deeply effected, even with the little homemade dolls. Hard to watch.
You are in for a great experience! Enjoy
Here is a suggestion on a book I found.
Cannon, A.E. (2002). Charlotte’s Rose. New York: Dell Yearling. As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to.
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I also teach CTR 4 and have been doing so for about 5 years now. It hasn’t gotten any easier as each class is different from the last. This year I have a chart that has a smiley face, an OK face (straight line for mouth) and an unhappy face drawn next to each other at the bottom of a piece of 81/2 x 11″ card stock. On the back of the sheet are four magnets. I put this up on the black board at the start of the lesson. Above the faces are a list of the rules in the classroom (no talking while the teacher is talking, sit in chair nicely, etc.) Each child’s name is written on a small piece of colored paper with a magnet attached. All the children’s names start off on the smiley face side at the beginning of the lesson, then as things start happening in the classroom, I move their names under the straight line face first or directly under the unhappy face. The children really respond to this because no one wants to have their name under the unhappy face, they all want to be under the smiley face! Constant encouragement helps too. Telling each child individually how much I appreciate them sitting still, asking a question, not talking, etc. As soon as one of the more rowdy ones starts to behave I acknowledge them right away as well. I hope this helps.
Sorry about the sharing time delimma. It’s important reverence begins in the primary room since that often sets the pace for the rest of the day. You may want to speak to the primary president first, she may be praying for an answer too and maybe you could help her brainstorm. -
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