Fly Swatter - Stand for the Right

Here's the lesson plan for the first week of March. They will be learning Stand for the Right, but I will not be there that week either so here are my plans for my sub.

Fly Swatter Game - Stand for the Right
3/6/2011

I’m sending you a flip chart of the words for this song. It’s very short and they should catch on pretty quickly. Sing through it once for them while showing the flip chart. Then have them sing with you a few lines at a time. Once they seem to have a little grasp on it move to the fly swatter activity.

I’m sending the White board to you. Use the Wet Erase markers to write the words to this song on the board. That way the words won’t get messed up when the kids smack them.

Tell the kids we’re going to sing through the song again but you need two helpers. Use popsicle sticks to choose two kids. Give each a fly swatter. (don’t worry they’re clean) Tell them that you’ll stop the singing some time during the song and they have to smack which ever word would have come next. Whose ever swatter is on the bottom wins. The other person picks someone else to challenge them. The “winner” only stays up 3 turns at most and then they have to pick someone else to play too.

Chair Hop

I just typed out a lesson plan for my substitute for the next two weeks and I thought I'd kill to birds with one stone and just post my lesson plans on here. I know it's cheating and the format will be a little different because these plans are for my sub, but I think you'll get the idea.

Chair Hop - Program review
2/27/2011

I’m sending you a big blue Die. The kids can roll it to determine which song you are going to sing. Use the Popsicle sticks to choose a kid.

1. If I listen With My Heart (IILWMH) vs 1
2. IILWMY vs 2
3. IILWMY vs 3
4. Books in the Book of Mormon
5. I Will Follow God’s Plan
6. Wiggle Song

After a song is chosen tell them which word they are going to move chairs. Below is a list of ideas for each song for words. If just moving one chair over starts getting old you can make it more challenging by adding a spin before sitting or jumping 2 or three times. You get the idea. They don’t do the chair hop on the wiggle songs.

If I Listen With My Heart - Choose a few of the kids like Emma Maughn or Madeline Callis to help the other kids with the signs. If it seem to be too hard to do the signs and play chair hop they can not do them.

VS 1

1. If
2. I
3. Hear & Listen

VS 2

1. Savior, He, Christ (any reference to Jesus)
2. I
3. Prophet

Vs 3

1. Spirit, Soul
2. I
3. Hear, Listen

Books in the Book of Mormon

1. And Number (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th)
2. Book
3. On every book name

I Will Follow God’s Plan

1. My
2. Words beginning with “P”
3. I, My, Me (any reference to self)

Wiggle Songs

• Snowman
• Head Shoulder’s Knees and Toes
• Hinges

I Will Follow God's Plan For Me week 1

Alright, I think that I will use the idea I posted last week as a review activity for the second week of February. On the first Sunday of the month I do both Sharing and singing time so I need a longer more lesson infused plan. So here it is.

I'll ask them to imagine they are going on a trip to California. We'll get in our cars and start the engine. I'll tell them to start driving only there are a few problems. We don't have a map. How likely is it that we will get there? Not very. Then I'll bring out an atlas and we'll figure out a route to get there. We'll talk about how important it is to know how to get where we're going. We need a plan.

How many of you want to go back to live in Heaven with Heavenly Father? Does anyone have a map to Heaven?

Do you think Heavenly Father wants us to live with Him again? YES!

Do you think He would send us here and not give us a map to get home?

Heavenly Father’s map is just a little different than what we are used to seeing. What are some things that could be Heavenly Father’s Map?

• Scriptures, which contain the commandments [show object or picture]

• Following the living Prophet’s council

• The Savior’s life is an example

• Our parents teaching.

Heavenly Father has created a plan for all of us to get back to live with Him. It is called the Plan of Happiness. Heavenly Father presented us this plan when we lived in Heaven before we were born. We all heard the plan and chose to follow it! Talk briefly about what the Plan is. Us a diagram of the plan. We're going to learn a song that will help us remember what the Plan is so we can always remember how to get back home.

1. I'm going to start with a wrapped present with a paper that says "My Life" inside. I'll tell them there is a really wonderful gift inside. It's something priceless that we all have. After they guess we'll unwrap the gift hang the sign on the board.
2. I'll remind them that our life has a plan that Heavenly Father gave us. Move the Plan diagram next to the "MY LIFE" sign.
3. Referring to the Plan diagram remind them we started in Heaven with Heavenly Father and all our brothers and sisters. Hang up a picture of stars and space dust from Gospel Picture book.http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5896517323609932208
4. Picture of earth
5. Picture of Light and a Baby
6. Map
7. Little girl holding scriptures and rod
8. Hammer, rake, dishes / person working
   
9. Person praying
10. person walking on a bright path
11. Smiley face
12. House in the clouds.