Devotional with the little ones was touching, short, and full of music and feelings. We used a Bible video on "The Greatest Commandment": https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/the-greatest-commandment?cid=HPFR022015710&lang=eng
Then we did a couple short "for little friends" segments: one short video on charity and a little article. We finished by doing "reverence practice" while quietly watching and listening to the following.
http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/articles/trying-to-be-like-jesus-friend?lang=eng
I bore my testimony, we did our patriotic marching song with the older kids ("Fifty Nifty") and then they were off!
We were able to kick off our "charity" week with the older ones by watching the above Bible Video to remind us that we are studying why to have charity because it is helping us to become more like Christ. I challenged them to find examples of "charity" for our group "word study" on Wednesday (I decided I wanted to have them have a little time to prepare).
We then read the article about the new theme for the year, "Youth are Encouraged to Serve Secretly," taking turns reading a paragraph and then watching the video on service in the middle of it. We finished, watched the "Trying to Be Like Jesus" segment above and I challenged them to leave Hershey kisses on people's pillows this week in our family as we perform secret service...to try and "not let their right hand know what their left hands are doing." We sang "I Feel My Savior's Love" in Hungarian for our closing song, had a prayer and then a short reflection time.
"Little Britches" was a two-chapter exciting day about Ralph's adventures on horseback and as a cow-herder and then Tova and Kel were off for debate. I did a quick check of people's marked off "jobs and basics" on our chart for the week and assigned the extra jobs. I could sense that Maia (4) needed some mom-time (she is very volatile right now), so we started on a puzzle upstairs after finishing her time out for inappropriate behavior during family reading. It was a little more challenging, but she persisted. I put on our iTunes playlist with kid's songs for her and little Spooner, who has spent the last 30 minutes dancing around to it. We have patriotic music, kids church songs, and "classics" like "5 Little Ducks." Spooner was happy, Maia was delighted to be spending time together and the other kids are spending some much needed learning, leading and creative time together. Time for lunch!
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Maia is helping me with lunch. After getting out all the containers of leftovers, she came up to me with her preference for lunch: reeses brownies. Ummm...no. Time to go and learn some principles of nutrition :).
Then we did a couple short "for little friends" segments: one short video on charity and a little article. We finished by doing "reverence practice" while quietly watching and listening to the following.
http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/articles/trying-to-be-like-jesus-friend?lang=eng
I bore my testimony, we did our patriotic marching song with the older kids ("Fifty Nifty") and then they were off!
We were able to kick off our "charity" week with the older ones by watching the above Bible Video to remind us that we are studying why to have charity because it is helping us to become more like Christ. I challenged them to find examples of "charity" for our group "word study" on Wednesday (I decided I wanted to have them have a little time to prepare).
We then read the article about the new theme for the year, "Youth are Encouraged to Serve Secretly," taking turns reading a paragraph and then watching the video on service in the middle of it. We finished, watched the "Trying to Be Like Jesus" segment above and I challenged them to leave Hershey kisses on people's pillows this week in our family as we perform secret service...to try and "not let their right hand know what their left hands are doing." We sang "I Feel My Savior's Love" in Hungarian for our closing song, had a prayer and then a short reflection time.
"Little Britches" was a two-chapter exciting day about Ralph's adventures on horseback and as a cow-herder and then Tova and Kel were off for debate. I did a quick check of people's marked off "jobs and basics" on our chart for the week and assigned the extra jobs. I could sense that Maia (4) needed some mom-time (she is very volatile right now), so we started on a puzzle upstairs after finishing her time out for inappropriate behavior during family reading. It was a little more challenging, but she persisted. I put on our iTunes playlist with kid's songs for her and little Spooner, who has spent the last 30 minutes dancing around to it. We have patriotic music, kids church songs, and "classics" like "5 Little Ducks." Spooner was happy, Maia was delighted to be spending time together and the other kids are spending some much needed learning, leading and creative time together. Time for lunch!
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Maia is helping me with lunch. After getting out all the containers of leftovers, she came up to me with her preference for lunch: reeses brownies. Ummm...no. Time to go and learn some principles of nutrition :).
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