We started coloring images of different ways that our tithes and offerings are used, but we ran out of time! The children took them home to finish coloring as they teach their families all about tithing.
December 13 is Santa Lucia Day, so we celebrated with the traditional bread. The children said it was good, but not their favorite. We talked about all the things that Heavenly Father, and learned that he only asks us to pay one-tenth of our income as tithing. We practiced counting coins and figuring out how much tithing to pay, and then we walked to the clerk's office (a pretty long walk from our classroom!) and picked up donation slips and envelopes. We talked about how to pay our tithing and what our tithing money is used for: church buildings and materials, missionary work, and family history work, among other things. The children loved our last story from the life of President Kimball, so they were excited to learn more about his childhood. We found out how President Kimball learned to pay tithing. The children were very surprised to learn that you could pay your tithing in eggs! They were also amazed to learn about all the work he had done on the farm and then at a dairy. They do not want to milk cows for a living!
We started coloring images of different ways that our tithes and offerings are used, but we ran out of time! The children took them home to finish coloring as they teach their families all about tithing.
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The children had all eaten a lot on Thanksgiving, but they were not too full to devour chocolate-chip cookies! We talked about what today is: Sunday, or the Sabbath. We discussed things that are good to do on the Sabbath, and the first thing on everybody's list was going to church! We learned that to worship means to show our love and respect for Heavenly Father and Jesus, and that we will be happy and feel the influence of the Holy Ghost if we worship properly. We discussed what to do during the Sacrament, while somebody is giving a prayer, during a lesson, and during singing times. The children had lots of great ideas of what they should and should not do! We learned that singing is a form of worship, and singing a hymn is like saying a prayer. The children enjoyed a story about Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone. When he was a child, his family was too poor to buy shoes. He had to wear old nurse's shoes to go to church, because they were the only thing that fit, and he was almost too embarrassed to leave the house. Elder Featherstone learned that it is more important to go to church than it is to have nice shoes, and he learned that his classmates loved and respected him no matter what was on his feet. The children couldn't imagine not having enough money to buy shoes, but they were very relieved and happy that he made the choice to go to church. We learned from a story about President Kimball that we should listen carefully when we go to church, so that we can learn what Heavenly Father wants us to know and do. As a boy, President Kimball heard a church leader encourage the members to study the scriptures, so he started reading the Bible every night. It took a whole year, but he finished the whole book! The children shared some of the teachings they have learned by coming to church. We colored flip books to help us remember the words to the song "When I Go to Church".
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