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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Zach's Mom came to help with our class today! Most of our class had very severe wiggles, so we were happy to have another grown-up helping us to focus on the lesson. We found out how President Spencer W. Kimball learned to pay his tithing. It was fun to hear about his life on a farm when he was five or six, just like the children in our class! Because President Kimball's mother and father taught him about tithing when he was little, when he grew up, he continued to be faithful in paying his tithing. Because President Kimball used to look for eggs, Sister Combs had brought a basket full of eggs. They had money inside! Each child took an egg and counted the coins, then figured out how much tithing they would pay if they had earned the egg money. It was hard to give the eggs back--they were so much fun to play with! Next, we took a field trip to the Bishop's Office, which, according to the children, was really not far enough away from the classroom to count as a field trip. We each took a tithing slip and an envelope, so we could learn more about the process of paying our tithing. Sister Jones explained about filling out the form and putting our tithing money and the white copy of the slip in the envelope. Most of the children sealed the envelope and commented on whether the glue tasted good or bad! Since we didn't have any tithing money to pay, we didn't give all the sealed envelopes to the Bishop. We learned that people paid tithing in Jesus's time, too. We learned about the poor widow who only had two little coins to put in the tithing box. Jesus said that she had done the right thing by paying her tithing. It doesn't matter if our tenth is a lot of money or just two pennies--Heavenly Father is happy and will bless us if we pay our tithing.
We learned about how our tithing money is used with a coloring page. Some of the children colored very carefully, with lots of crayons and details, while others used one or two colors and then switched to constructing paper baskets, fans, and cell phones. We are thankful for tithing! |
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