July A Bishops (Jenkins)

 This lesson focuses on Bishops and how they help a ward. You should also talk about how bishops are called by Heavenly Father through the Spirit and the Priesthood of Jesus Christ. 

Main activity

I'm going to teach what bishops do by using the video and the handout from Come Follow Me.


I added words to this weeks handout. PDF here


-for beginning readers:

I'm going to have them put a mini marshmallow or M&M on each picture we talk about, emphasizing each word to listen for in the video. Then when they hear the word, they get to eat the treat on that word/picture. I bet this will be a bit noisy during the video, but I'm going to try to counsel them to do it without talking so we can hear the next clues.

-for kids who can't read:

I would do the above, but cut the pictures out of an extra page and fold them up to draw out of a cup or hat. The kids or teacher could pull out a picture, one by one, and then they could find the match and eat that treat. Then watch the video and point to the picture the video is talking about.

-for kids who don't watch videos well:

I would make a book out of the video. Yes, I am crazy! (but I'm not doing it for this lesson, sorry) Some kids really love to be read to, and you can stop and start anytime the kids want to talk about the 'story.' I don't know if I would combine the book reading and the listening game together.


Learn a song

visual aid PDFs Our Bishop p1 Our Bishop p2 Our Bishop p3 Our Bishop p4


I play the ukulele and my kids are old enough to take turns strumming while I change the chords. They're kind of competitive about it, so we sing the song as many times as we have kids. But you could play the song on your phone a few times, pointing to the pictures and singing it to them, as long as they're interested.


Drawing activity

We usually say a closing prayer and then get out the coloring activity while we wait for family to come get the kids. But this week, depending on time, I might have them write a thank you card, dictating to me on a "sloppy copy" first, then I'll write it on to the page they color. I thought at first they could take turns coloring one page, but they really don't take turns well and are a little critical of each other's work. So maybe separate papers are best. And if we do run out of time, just a colored picture is nice enough to give the bishop.

'Thank you' PDF here



Questions I ask myself afterwards:

What worked? Why? What didn't work and why?

Comments

  1. W/Love KJuly 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM

    Ok, I found my first mistake before I even taught the lesson. The bottom left picture should be labelled "Love." Oops.

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  2. W/Love KJuly 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM

    Things I learned. 1- My class doesn't like M&Ms. they did participate, but they suggested flavored popcorn as an alternative. I thought it was going to be all over when I found out my sole motivation wasn't going to work, but I think the promise of something better next time made them feel better.
    2- Having the other teacher participate and model what the kids should do was helpful. I think that could also be used to measure how well you give instructions. If the other teach doesn't know what to do, the kids probably don't know either.
    3- It was helpful to let one of them know my true feelings when they flipped the song aid over. Normally I just laugh it off, but this time I explained that it made me sad and upset that they would interrupt me taking about it, and surprisingly they didn't do it again.
    4- There was enough time to give instructions, play a game with the video, sing the song three times and color Thank You Card. So I felt like I didn't over or under plan.

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