Same ol...same ol... Teaching. Young Women's was a Cupcake Wars between the MIAMaids and Laurels. The cupcakes were all premade and the girls brought decorations. They had to create a picture with the cupcakes. The Laurels won...with their bouquet of flowers (each cupcake was a flower.)
Thursday, MIDI. Friday..teaching, my Mentors meeting that I run, and Los Tres. Saturday, Teacher Heaven, babysitting Janet's children, and...last, but not least, running to Panera before the RS session. I had the car loaded with books we were getting rid of for a service project to give chapter books to children in a less fortunate ward. Mike and I had boxes we needed to get rid of. We still do. But the sister missionaries came in helping carry the boxes and a lady was taking all our pictures, then found out I was a teacher getting rid of my books and so the article had quotes from me. :) Check it out on FB.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
How can I keep from singing?
Today, I'm still sick. Still on meds. Found out that my principal is leaving in a week. She's had a lot of personal trials lately...but our scores were so low I wouldn't be surprised if it was a forced out.
Today's Sunday lesson was on keeping the Sabbath day holy. I had the girls share their favorite thing they like to do on Sunday. I remembered my blue treasure box I made for the children. I remembered the Sabbath Day jar I made for the children. I remembered the scripture story videos, sitting on the couch and round robin telling what we learned in church and then round robin choosing our favorite church hymn or song to sing. I remembered the no bake chocolate cookies David would make...Fast Sunday's movie and popcorn.
But what I loved most about Sunday traditions started when I was a child. I would sit on the couch with the album cover of a Tabernacle Choir record and sing with the choir. I knew all the words. I knew all the parts. I loved the songs. When I got to be a mother, I had a binder of EFY type songs that we women would sing in parts around the piano. I also remember everyone going to choir practice and singing in the choir. As I have become an empty-nester, I've gone back to my childhood tradition where I play the Tabernacle Choir CD, but now I have ordered the actual written music that I sit on the couch and sing with the CD. I passed out some music today and we sang with the CD in my class. I loved it.
My next to last choir practice was today. My last performance number is quite apropos, "How Can I Keep From Singing" (a freebee download from Sally Deford.) I have so many people coming to choir to sing it. It is going to be beautiful. How can I keep from singing?
Today's Sunday lesson was on keeping the Sabbath day holy. I had the girls share their favorite thing they like to do on Sunday. I remembered my blue treasure box I made for the children. I remembered the Sabbath Day jar I made for the children. I remembered the scripture story videos, sitting on the couch and round robin telling what we learned in church and then round robin choosing our favorite church hymn or song to sing. I remembered the no bake chocolate cookies David would make...Fast Sunday's movie and popcorn.
But what I loved most about Sunday traditions started when I was a child. I would sit on the couch with the album cover of a Tabernacle Choir record and sing with the choir. I knew all the words. I knew all the parts. I loved the songs. When I got to be a mother, I had a binder of EFY type songs that we women would sing in parts around the piano. I also remember everyone going to choir practice and singing in the choir. As I have become an empty-nester, I've gone back to my childhood tradition where I play the Tabernacle Choir CD, but now I have ordered the actual written music that I sit on the couch and sing with the CD. I passed out some music today and we sang with the CD in my class. I loved it.
My next to last choir practice was today. My last performance number is quite apropos, "How Can I Keep From Singing" (a freebee download from Sally Deford.) I have so many people coming to choir to sing it. It is going to be beautiful. How can I keep from singing?
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Guardians of Virtue
My lesson today...I was sick, so I was inspired to not talk. I showed the video on Mormon.org about setting the limits...where the drawings of the trees and the planes that crash because they have a goal to not fly into the tops of the trees, not 500 ft. above the tops of the trees. So I gave each girl a poster. They drew the trees and the tops of the trees and the things that were representing each of those things, then each girl added personal and items we talked about as we shared experiences and things we read that were ways we could aim higher than the tops of the trees. Every girl went home with a poster for her bedroom and somethings she had decided to keep herself chaste and virtuous. They loved it. Easy lesson.
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