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(Terri Finney in Fort Worth, TX) |
THE FRIEND:
Search online at "http://www.lds.org/"to
find some old stuff that the kids haven't seen if they read the Friend.
Try searching for:
CROSSWORD PUZZLES:
Make your puzzle/crossword. Lots of fun.
Use words that relate to your lessons
or put the kid's names in the puzzle (my kids love this).
Look under LINKS on the front page
of this site, there you will find 4 different site who can help you make
a puzzle ~ Conny H.
FHE IDEAS:
Families can always use ideas of things
to do at home. Have it relate to the lessons your doing in class. I try
to send kids home with things/ideas to share in FHE the next day.
SCRIPTURES:
Give them scriptures to read. If you make
them short and easy ones the parents might actually do it :-) You could
even send home a scripture reading chart for them to color in each day
they read. I found one on "http://www.lds.org/"March
1991 titled "Read the Scriptures Daily." We do a scripture trivia question
in our ward bulletin each week and have a child share the answer in Primary.
You could use easy trivia questions (we give them a scripture reference
to look up the answer). If you make the questions enticing enough they
will do it.
Make scripture reading chart (there
are reading assignment in the Primary manuels). Put a picture on that correlates
with the assignment, so that they can colour every day thay have read.
There is a "Read the Scriptures Daily." in Friend
Make a scripture
trivia question of the week: This could be a question where the
answer is found in the reading assignment.
Or with the question you could bring
a You could bring a scripture reference they can look up for to find the
answer. ~ Conny H.
LESSON SCHEDULE:
Give
the topics of your lessons for the upcoming month
with ideas of how the families can discuss
the topic at home.
SPOTLIGHT: Spotlight a child in your class each month.
COLORING: print simple pictures that the children can color.
FLANNEL BOARD: We are making flannel boards out of pizza boxes for our teachers and printing off lots of flannel board figures from the Friend for them to use in class. You can find directions for making these on Debra Woods' site at "http://primaryetc.com/Pizza.htm" (we make ours a little different. I cover the outside with fabric and the whole inside with flannel-polar fleece works too. To use it I sit it open in a V shape like a book. This gives more room).
FLANNEL BOARD FIGURES:
You can find LOADS of figures, all of
which were printed in The Friend so they are Church Produced, at Whitney
Larson's site "http://www.mycityport.com/primary/clipart/"
SONGS: include
the words to the song of the month for primary (or if your PP does this
in a monthly newsletter you can include the words to other primary songs).
We actually scan in (and reduce size) the page from the Children's Songbook
and put it wors and music in our monthly newsletter. As long as you read
the bottom of the page and it says that it can be copied for home use or
has the copyright symbol followed by a year and LDS. There are several
songs that the Church does not own and many that say they may not be copied.
Keep your eyes open for those. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam is one!
