FHE- Baptism Prep

Here is the monthly list of lessons. 1-4 means Each Monday in the month and that lesson to be taught.
These topics are all located in "Preach My Gospel" The "Character Trait" lessons however, are not. I just am making them up as I go.
RESTORATION DISCUSSIONS

Jan - .Loving Heavenly Father
Teach the children that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have resurrected bodies of flesh and bone. The Holy ghost does not yet. Teach them that God wants to hear from us. We communicate to others through phone, with God we can through prayer. He suffers when we suffer and he rejoices when we rejoice. Teach them that God gave us bodies and that we should respect our body and others.
Character Traits w/ lesson:
RESPECT. Teach Respect to body, prejudice,racism, sexism. Everyone is Different/ Children around the world coloring page.
Quotes to put around house this week: "If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. "
Pictures to be Used: Heavenly Father- GodHead- Prayer
FEB
1. Gospel Blesses Families
2. Heavenly Father reveals his GOSPEL in every dispensation/ Savior’s earthly ministry
3.The great apostasy/ Restoration through Joseph Smith
4. Book of Mormon / Holy Ghost

MARCH- Plan of SALVATION
1.Pre- Earth Life- God’s Plan and Purpose
2.Creation/ Adam and Eve
3.Earth Life/ Atonement
4.Spirit world/resurrection. Kingdoms of glory

APRIL-
1.Gospel of Jesus Christ/ Sin/ Faith
2.Faith/ Repentance
3Baptism- our first covenant(Baptism Covenants)
4.Gift of The Holy Ghost/ Endure to the End

MAY
THE COMMANDMENTS
1. Law of Chastity
2. Sabbath Day Holy
3. Follow the Prophet/ Ten Commandments
4. Tithe, Word of Wisdom/ Fast

JUNE-
1.Laws and Ordinances
2.Eternal Marriage/ Temple
3.Service/Missionary Work
4.Recognizing g the Spirit

JULY- Role of BOOK of MORMON
Christlike Attributes aka character Traits continued….

THe Key

I decided since I have four months until Hannah is going to be baptised, I am going to do discussions with her. I am going to take lessons from "Preach My Gospel" and read up on it. Then I am going to turn around and make it age understanding and cute. There are four discussions to teach. FEB 1. Restoration. MARCH 2. Plan of Salvation APRIL3. Gospel of Jesus Christ MAY 4. Commandments.

I am going to teach these with our daily night routine and remind them in my FHE lessons as well on Character Traits. Character traits that we are aiming for are those that Jesus have. I am using this motto I made up ...The "KEY" to growing a "FOOT or TWO" in righteous character traits are: Honesty, Respect, Virtue & Integrity, Obedience, and so on. Now in next weeks lesson, RESPECT I am going to teach them about prejudices, racism, sexism, and treating others the way you want to be treated. I am so excited to put time and effort into these lessons and hopefully if you are reading this, you to can take what I have put together and copy the lessons! I love finding ideas and being able to share them with others.

For FHE this year I am focusing on "Building Character" I found vinyl saying at wood connection that saysIn faith, In purity, word,and spirit . I put them on a frame that I painted black with a picture of Christ in the middle. Each week we will talk about a characteristic that can fit into those categories. I got this idea because I was reading in a book called "Questions kids ask about sex." It talked a lot about teaching our children character traits that are positive. I loved that book, it says how in this day and age you don't have a choice to wait to talk about sex. Either the media through billboards, movies, tv, music and so on will teach them, or you can. Anyway it talks a lot about ages and stages children go through up until they are teenagers and some of the false core beliefs people thought when they were younger. I personally think if you wait too long, your kids won't want to talk to you and they will be disgusted. If you start early age appropriately they grow up realizing that it is normal. I am teaching about affection, character, and the negative side of sex, meaning I found an awesome book at Desert Book about pornography. Everything you ever needed to say to your kids about it is in this book. It's called "The Trap" and talks about a little boy who went to close to a bee hive and how it ties in. Anyways, Now with that being said, right now I am teaching my kids the first character trait on my list... Honesty. I printed out a picture of Cinderella and Spiderman and asked the kids what they were. They are Characters that they associate with. I then asked what makes them characters? DO they hit others? Steal? say mean things to people who don't look like them? They all said "NO" really loud. I then proceeded to talk about how we want to build good traits in our personality. I showed them a picture of Pinocchio and asked why his nose grew. I went on to tell them some stories about honesty and then we played the Hot or Cold game. I wanted to stress that when you tell a lie, even if you say JUST KIDDING at the end, it still is a lie and can hurt others. I played a song while showing pictures of honest people in the scriptures and told them I would play the song this whole week. I then wrote quotes and put them on cute paper around the house. For instance I wrote "BE HONEST" HONEST HEARTS BRING HONEST ACTIONS" "HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY" and so on. So far it has seemed to work and I am working on next week's trait. Here is the song if you wanted to use it, Jenny Phillips "HONEST" song.