Monday, July 28, 2008

Sons of Mosiah

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Dylan
Scripture: Arthur Mosiah 28:6-7

Lesson: Missionary Work

Have you ever seen a missionary? Where? (church, riding bikes on the street)

How do you know they are missionaries?(their name tags, what they are wearing)

What do missionaries do? (preach the gospel, serve others, be good examples)

Can we be missionaries? How? (be good examples of the church, invite friends to primary, help others, teach our friends)

Activity: Tyler and Kerri taught the family this activity from the Friend Magazine. It illustrates the story of Mosiah's sons and how they became successful missionaries who baptized many.

Song: Called to Serve
Prayer: Tyler

Treat: Fresh pineapple

Monday, July 21, 2008

Title of Liberty

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Kerri

Lesson: Kerri
I bought some white fabric and made a Title of Liberty. I attached it to a pole.

Show American Flag - what does this mean to you? (Freedom, America, Liberty, Opportunity, Peace)

Flags have been used for many years to symbolize different things for people. They unify groups of people and help to remind them of what is most important.

The Nephites were being threatened by the Lamanites. The Lamanites wanted to take their land and enslave them. If this happened, the Nephites would have lost their ability to worship freely. Captain Moroni created the Title of Liberty to remind his people about what was most important to them.

What were the most important things that Moroni valued? God, Religion, Freedom, Peace, Wives, and Children

The flag rallied his people together in a common goal and they were able to defeat the Lamanites and protect their livelihood.

Song: Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree
Prayer: Arthur

Activity: We went to a local ice cream shop for dessert

Monday, July 7, 2008

Understanding the Sacrament

I just found this great site for flannel board stories. I admit, I don't have a flannel board, but the pictures are cute and perfect for our young family.

Song: Before I Take the Sacrament (Children's Songbook #73)
Prayer: Arthur

Scripture: Tyler D&C 27:2

Lesson: Kerri

I used this lesson to teach about the Sacrament. We printed off the pictures and used them to tell the story of the Last Supper (Matthew 26:26-28). Then we related that to how we take the Sacrament each Sunday in church

Activity: Prepare Homemade ice cream
Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Tyler

Monday, June 30, 2008

Miniature Golf

It has been a busy month for us, so we decided to spend some quality time as a family playing miniature golf again.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Joseph Smith and the Golden Plates

Song: The Golden Plates
Prayer: Arthur
Scripture: Arthur

Lesson: Tyler and Kerri

We used this story from the May 2008 issue of the Friend. I cut out these figures and colored them. Tyler and I then told the story by acting it out with the characters.

At the end, Tyler made the point that the Golden Plates that Joseph Smith had found would one day become our scriptures.

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Dylan

Activity: We played a Thomas the Tank Engine card game
Treat: Otter Pops

Monday, June 16, 2008

I Can Be a Friend

Song: Give Said the Little Stream
Prayer: Tyler
Scripture: Arthur

Lesson: I Can be a Friend

1. Who are your friends?
Use 3 hand puppets (1 sad, 1 mad, 1 happy)

Let me introduce you to a special friend of mine. Pull out sad friend
Is she mad, sad, or happy?
what do we do when our friends are sad? ask her what is wrong? offer to help

Pull out mad friend
Is she mad, sad, or happy?
what do we do when our friends are mad? ask her why she is mad. offer to help.

Pull out happy friend
this is how our friends feel when we help them or make them feel better.

I have a picture of another very special friend. Do you know who this is? (Show a picture of Jesus)

How do you know that Jesus is your friend?

Explain that Jesus loves us and would do anything to help us. He teaches us good things and wants us to return to him and Heavenly Father. Good friends want us to do good things and be good boys and girls.



Activity:

Have the children stand and sing “Fun to Do” (Children’s Songbook, p. 253), using the phrase “Sharing my (toys, book, or whatever else the children suggest) is fun to do.” Have the children make up actions to go along with the words.

Sharing my toys is fun to do,
Fun to do, to do, to do!
Sharing my toys is fun to do,
To do, to do, to do!

Prayer: Arthur

This lesson was adapted from Primary 1:Lesson 33

Monday, June 9, 2008

Family Tree

Song: Families Can Be Together Forever
Prayer: Arthur
Scripture: Tyler

Lesson: Family Tree

Read all of or a short part of the The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Summarize that Heavenly Fathers wants us to have families that love each other.
What is a family? Grandmas and Grandpas, Moms and Dad, Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters

Activity: Put together a family tree. I printed out small pictures of our family to glue to the apples and stick on the tree.

Song: The Helping SonPublish Post
Prayer: Tyler