The Standard Works ... in Chocolate!

One thing that I like about teaching Primary is that the lessons can be very creative! I was working on my lesson for this next week and I found this creative idea online and thought I would give it a try. Our lesson is on Nephi went back to get the brass plates, record keeping, and how we believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. So, I (with some help from Max) made these little mini scriptures from Hershey Chocolates. Not too difficult and if you need instructions, just let me know. I'm not sure they'll make it home with the kids but, I will plan to hand them out at the end of primary. Last week I made a magnet out of a wooden clothes pin with each of the kids name on it. I put them on the blackboard and clip their coloring pages or handouts to them during class time. They were so excited and really wanted to take them home. I may make extra's for them this week but, overall the class is pretty good. I average 5 kids each week but could have a possible 6. It cracks me up how many times the kids can ask to get a drink or go to the bathroom. Overall, I am learning to love primary again.

Speaking of primary, my thanks goes out to Sister Nancy Skiff in our ward. She is the music chair for the primary and nursery kids. Max has been singing more and more recently and likes to pretend that he is Sister Skiff. She comes in to his nursery class each week for singing time and he loves to sing all the songs that she has been teaching them. Today, his specialty was "If you see a frowny face do not let it stay.... simply turn it upside down and smile that frown away!" Max was using his alphabet letter drawings as his faces and would turn them around. It was cracking me up! I really need to get it on video! Thanks to Sister Skiff and her creative singing techniques!