Attributes: Unity & Charity

Godly Attribute: Unity
Christlike Attribute: Charity & Service

We talked about how we united many different notes into one sound. We discussed how we are also all different people, but we belong to one great family, that started with Adam and Eve. Even though we may like different things or work in different ways, or make different sounds, we are all important parts of this great big family, and just like we want every part of our body to be doing as well as possible, we want every part of our human family, every person we meet, to be doing as well as possible, living with as much joy and love as possible.

Exploration Activities
Then we talked about how every time we help anyone, we are making things a little bit better for everyone, which blesses us too. What we do affects everyone, and to explore that further, we played a game by having the children lay in a circle on the floor. We had each child put their head on the stomach of the person next to them in the circle. One child started the game by saying, “ha”, and the next had to say, “ha”, and we had each try to take a turn saying “ha” without laughing, or else they had to start over. We talked about the gift of a smile, and how that can brighten one person’s day, and they may be just a little kinder to someone else, who may be a little kinder to someone else, and so on.

We also played Ring Around the Rosies, to emphasize that when one of us is hurting, it affects us all as well, and we want every person to be as happy and well as possible, because we each affect and are a part of each other’s lives.

Discovering Principles: The Head leads the Whole Body

Discovering Principles
We explained that the ancient Hebrews also used the letters in their Alphabet as numbers. We asked what number we usually start counting with (1), and drew the number 1 on the board. We pointed out that we only have one head on our bodies, and asked how hard it would be to make decisions and do things if we had more than one head.

We asked how our heads help our bodies. Then we asked them to pinch their arm and see if they felt their skin telling their brain it is getting pinched. We also told them to look around the room for a particular color, and listen for a sound. We pointed out that our bodies send messages to our brain about what we experience. Then, our heads listen to our bodies, and learn what the world is like and what is going on around and to us. We mentioned that if we felt our stomach tell our mind that it is empty, our mind would know that we need to eat food to get more energy for our body to work well. Our head listens to our body, and then help us know and decide what to do.

Next, we had the children touch their toes, their nose, and other things, and asked how they got their body to move. We talked about how their mind helped them decide to obey our instructions, and sent messages to their muscles. Then, their muscles obeyed the instructions from their minds. We pointed out that our heads are very important, and they help take care of our whole body, not just parts and pieces of it. We asked if our heads ever want any part of our bodies to hurt, and explained, that they don’t, the head wants every part of our body to be as healthy and happy as possible! Even though our bodies are made of lots of different parts and pieces, our heads help all those parts work together as one, whole body. 

Exploration Activity & Movement: Moving Our Body

We told them we were going to use our heads to move our bodies to some music. We turned on some music and danced around, making all kinds of different circles as we did. We noticed circles on our bodies, and ways we can move our bodies in circles, like summersaults, spinning and such.