Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
I’m not the most creative person, so when I learned that this arrow charm with eternity circle made craft-making so easy, I had to try it myself. Are these bracelets awesome or what? I think they are perfect for the 2016 mutual theme. It takes only about five minutes to make each bracelet, and the tools and findings can be found at any hardware or craft store. In fact, my…
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Ever since General Conference ended less than a week ago, I’ve been asked when I’d be coming out with a study schedule–so here it is! My last schedule doubled up talks fairly randomly because of the number of weeks vs number of talks, so I evened it a…
I am always looking for a theme to go with my lesson. Sometimes the choice is obvious and other times I have to get creative. This lesson was the creative route.
I went with I “Mustache” how can we show love for our parents.
Before church starts I have the opportunity to go set my classroom up which is a HUGE help for me. So under each chair I put half of a mustache that I cut out of black paper and on the back of that paper were scriptures. They will have to find their other half and then with that person fill out a short questionnaire about what they read.
As class starts I am going to try and be sneaky and put on a fake mustache (which you can find at the Dollar tree) and start the lesson. After the giggles are done I’ll have them each put one on as well and we’ll proceed with the lesson. If they are irreverent or disrespectful they loose their mustache. (which they will be instructed as I hand them out)
I am altering the lesson a little by adding a sharing time activity idea I found and replacing the part
Lesson from the manualSo for the last few weeks my kids were having a hard time being reverent during the lessons. And I think they were expecting a super handout every week. So I decided to use this lesson as a teaching opportunity. I didn’t bring the…
Doing two lessons in a row with service as an underlying theme made it a little more difficult to come up with some ideas.
I had made up a wooden spoon attached to a long piece of wood (a yard stick would work great) and asked them each if they could feed themselves with this spoon. They each took a turn to try. I then told them this story:
In the lesson it says to hum songs, well I’m not a great singer or hummer so I brought a CD player and we kind of played name that tune with the songs.
For the Good Samaritan story I found this great idea to help the kids remember it. First I told this story that I found HERE using the banana’s, apple, and orange. I actually did smash the banana and the kids LOVED it. I then asked them to tell me the story of the Good Samaritan and how it related to the story I just told them. They did great!
In this lesson it also tells you to find info on your bishop, I actually ran out of time in this lesson to tell about our bishop but we did discuss who serves in our ward and all the work that they do including the bishop. I had made up little thank you cards for them to write him a note of thanks then we placed them in a white paper bag in which I had bought a Buntlet and attached a tag to the top. We then closed up the bag and put a paper tie on the front and one of the kids delivered it to him.
On the bottom of the newsletter I made a service check for each of them to fill out and give to a family member.
Helping comes in CANS not in CAN’TS
Lesson from the manualSometimes it’s hard to teach these lessons to my 7/8 yr olds. They are still young enough to need these basic principles taught to them but some times they way they are presented in the lesson seem a little young. In this lesson i…
This was a fun lesson to do. I used the idea that our life here on earth is part of the journey to living with Heavenly Father and our families forever. So for our journey we were going to be taking a plane ride. I had the room set up with the cha…
I loved General Conference! There were so many powerful messages from our amazing leaders. There were a lot of themes that crossed over multiple talks, like being focused and obedient. Overall I thought it was wonderful, and I look forward to stu…
This is my newsletter for the lesson as well as the paper handouts and words trips I used. Again this lesson was too long ago that I don’t remember much of what I did. I know I used cell phones and called on of them and had a member of the class answer…
Unfortunately I am starting these posts about a month too late. I can’t remember everything I did for this lesson and I haven’t been taking pictures of the handouts I’ve been giving either. SO starting at lesson 39 you’ll start seeing the hand outs and…
LDSBookstore.com is pretty amazing! This is just a quick, casual announcement that my sister and I entered LDS Bookstore’s pendant design contest and got our two designs in the top ten. I personally love all the designs, but if you vote for either of t…
I know some might say that it’s too early to start thinking about Christmas, but I’ve been celebrating since Easter! Last year I introduced The Living Christ Christmas Tree Memorization Project, and this year I’m doing it again. Having these words…
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