Showing posts with label Taffy Micheli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taffy Micheli. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Teaching in the moment
Because of a volleyball awards night Monday, we didn't have family home evening. So last night, I decided we would just play some games or something together. Mylie wanted to do puzzle races, so we got out the puzzles and got going. It didn't take long at all before Connor and Mylie were going back and forth arguing about who was winning and losing, and there was a LOT of bragging from the winner after each race. This has been a problem lately, so Tony and I took the opportunity to talk about sportsmanship and being a good winner. Then I remembered that we had an episode of the Berenstein Bears on VHS about this exact thing. So, we watched that. The kids really seemed to get it, and it may have been one of our most successful FHE lessons ever, totally unplanned. Family Home Evening is a great time to teach kids, and I feel strongly that we need to have it consistantly. However, our most effective teaching usually happens in the moment.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Armor of God
Sometime this summer, our family had a fun FHE on putting of the armor of God. I used pictures from the primary manual to create two soldiers and armor for each one. Go to http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=637e1b08f338c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=0819a41f6cc20110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1&contentLocale=0
and scroll all the way to the bottom to see the soldiers I used. I colored each one (making them a little different) and colored armor for each as well. We laminated these so that we could put tape on the back of each piece of armor and tape it onto the boy. Then I just typed up several different choices my kids might make. For example, "You shared your toys," or "You said a bad word." Then I put all these into a bowl. The two kids took turns picking a piece of paper from the bowl, listening to the choice made and deciding if that particular choice helps us put on the armor or God or if we take off our armor by making that choice. For each good choice, they got to tape on one of the pieces or armor, and for each bad choice, they had to take off one piece. The first child (or team) to put on the whole armor of God wins! It was really fun, and made an impact on Connor anyway. A couple days later, Mylie was crying in the family room, so I came in to see what the problem was. She told me that Connor had turned off the TV. I asked Connor why he did that. He said that Spongebob had come on, and since it sometimes says bad words, he turned it off. Then he said, "That's helping me put on the armor or God, isn't it, Mom?" It was so cute!
and scroll all the way to the bottom to see the soldiers I used. I colored each one (making them a little different) and colored armor for each as well. We laminated these so that we could put tape on the back of each piece of armor and tape it onto the boy. Then I just typed up several different choices my kids might make. For example, "You shared your toys," or "You said a bad word." Then I put all these into a bowl. The two kids took turns picking a piece of paper from the bowl, listening to the choice made and deciding if that particular choice helps us put on the armor or God or if we take off our armor by making that choice. For each good choice, they got to tape on one of the pieces or armor, and for each bad choice, they had to take off one piece. The first child (or team) to put on the whole armor of God wins! It was really fun, and made an impact on Connor anyway. A couple days later, Mylie was crying in the family room, so I came in to see what the problem was. She told me that Connor had turned off the TV. I asked Connor why he did that. He said that Spongebob had come on, and since it sometimes says bad words, he turned it off. Then he said, "That's helping me put on the armor or God, isn't it, Mom?" It was so cute!
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