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Teaching KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE - Come into the room dressed in a cap and gown.
Introduce yourself a Nola Knowledge with a "K" (pronounce the K when saying
it.) I'm here to tell you that there is much knowledge to be gained by doing
your personal progress. Then read a poem or scripture on knowledge.
(Handout – Fruit roll ups with a ribbon around it. Tell
them that as soon as they accomplish their goal they can eat their diploma!).
Tell the girls a story about a yw who didn't have the
opportunity to be in the kitchen much while she was growing up. When she got
married she remembered her mother talking about how she made cakes, cookies etc.
from scratch. She wanted to be a good wife so she decided to try making
something from scratch. She took out a cook book she received as a wedding
present and proceeded to look for a recipe she could make from scratch. Having
found nothing, she decided to go to the grocery store and get some ingredients
for scratch to make her husband a treat. She talked to the grocer and asked
him if he had stuff to make something from scratch and he showed her to the
flour and sugar etc. She wasn't sure why he was showing her those items and
then asked him if he had some scratch. With a puzzled look on his face he said
no and told her to go the store around the corner. When she approached the
store she thought it was odd that it was a feed store, but not thinking much
about it she entered the store, and asked the clerk if he had scratch, he said
yes how much to you need. She said I
don't know. He asked her how many chickens she had, and she responded none, but
I'll take the 25# bag of scratch. When she got home and took some scratch out
of the bag, she was a little confused at the idea that this dry crumply stuff
would make a cake. Once
her husband returned home, she asked him to make something from scratch. He
was happy to help her in the kitchen so he said why don't we both go make
something from scratch. They went to the kitchen and she found herself watching
him, and to her surprise found that he was using flour, sugar, eggs, etc. but
not the scratch she had purchased.
The moral of the story is, with out being taught we don't
know things that are important.
We also do bulletin boards representing each value as the
month's theme. When we last had knowledge as our theme, I used the "hidden
treasures of knowledge" scripture, (sorry I'm at work and can't give you a
reference). Anyway, my son helped me make a treasure chest that stood out about
1 1/2" from the board. I used tiny volumes of the standard works that peeked out
of the top. Also made gold and siver coins, pearl string etc. to fancy up the
treasure chest. I also made little mock math, science, etc. books and glued
onto the board pencils, crayons, school things, scattered around. So world
knowledge was a secondary theme, but the real treasures were the scriptures in
the chest. Hope you can picture it. (It also helps to have an artistic son.)
value minute.---the value is knowledge
she first talked about the lessons for Sunday school so far this year, about the
creation and Adam and Eve and how when they were in the garden they didn't know
good or evil and they didn't even know what they were choosing by partaking of
the forbidden fruit. Then she talked about the dream Lehi had about the tree of
life and how we all want to eat of the tree of life. She then went on to say
that our whole reason for being here is to know that the Gospel is true and gain
a testimony by gaining knowledge of things
pertaining to the gospel. As a handout she gave a green apple. It was very
effective.
Hope this helps.
Laura in MN
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