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Feed Items, Object Lesson

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…

Lesson 37

Lesson from the manual

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:

One day a man said to God, “God, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.

God showed the man two doors. Inside the first one, in the middle of the room, was a large round table with a large pot of stew. It smelled delicious and made the man’s mouth water, but the people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. God said, “You have seen Hell.”

Behind the second door, the room appeared exactly the same. There was the large round table with the large pot of wonderful stew that made the man’s mouth water. The people had the same long-handled spoons, but they were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.

The man said, “I don’t understand.”

God smiled. “It is simple,” He said, “Love only requires one skill. These people learned early to feed one another. Those who are hungry are greedy people, and they think only of themselves.

They then tried to feed each other and saw that it worked much better.

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.

For the hand out I made service “CANS”

I filled small fruit cans with candy and on the front of the can I put this poem

Do all the GOOD you can
By all the MEANS you can
In all the WAYS you can
To all the PEOPLE you can
At all the TIMES you can
For as LONG as you can

Helping comes in CANS not in CAN’TS

You can find instructions on how to make the cans HERE

And you can download my printables for this lesson HERE

Lesson 36

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…

Lesson 35

Feed Items, Object Lesson

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…

lesson 34

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…

Lesson 33

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…

Rachel Davis October 2, 2015

Scripture Posters for 2016 Primary

As I was putting together the scripture posters for each month of the year, a few additional posters came to mind that I thought might be helpful. First, the scripture for the YEAR: 2 Nephi 4:15. It doesn’t necessarily belong if you’re doing a monthly bulletin board that you rotate, but it would be a great […]

Rachel Davis September 30, 2015

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2016 Primary Scripture Posters

I’m pretty excited about the printables I’m sharing today! I plan to use them in our Primary, but I got them prepped early so you could use them too. They are big: designed to be printed as Engineering Prints at your copy shop. I’ll walk you through that process–it’s super easy and pretty inexpensive, don’t […]

Rachel Davis September 23, 2015

Reverence Reminders

It’s all Primary Program all the time around my place these days! I’m thinking about how we’ll be practicing at church and I’ve decided that I’ll do a quick review of our expectations for practice behavior. I made a tabloid (11×17) sized poster to remind the children of how I hope they will act as we […]

Rachel Davis September 16, 2015

One Page Conference Coloring Page Printable

We want to encourage our Primary children to listen to conference, so I put together this one page printable with a few games, images to color, and space for notes. It’s designed to be photocopied on both sides. It would be fun to send a packet home for each child with coloring pages and activity […]

Feed Items, Object Lesson

Primary Classroom: Difficult Behaviors

Jess September 10, 2015

Please note that these ideas are not for disciplining your class but to only encourage participation and positive reinforcements when they make good choices.-While teaching, walk over to child and just lightly squeeze/tap their shoulder, they will know…

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My Gospel Standards Printable

Rachel Davis September 5, 2015

Hey there! It’s been a crazy week around here: four feverish boys, first week of preschool for my baby, two back-to-school nights. So I’m just getting around to pulling together sharing time for tomorrow. I really like keeping it as simple as I can. (Sometimes I have to restrain myself–I really enjoy going over the […]