**Guest on Teaching Restored Podcast about Primary- Link in the show notes**

This week on Come & Do, we’re learning how prophets help us grow! Using Jeremiah 1:10, we’ll explore how prophets help us plant good things in our lives and root out the things that hold us back. Junior Primary will act out real-life scenarios using blocks and feathers (good thing they have imaginations to pretend it's a plant and weeds:), while Senior Primary will work in teams to sort scriptures and General Conference messages. They'll then creatively teach their classmates what they’ve learned. Both lessons give kids the chance to move, create, collaborate, and teach gospel truths in their own words. Come discover how to turn a lesson about prophets into an active, hands-on experience your kids will remember!

What if your Primary kids could carry a reminder of Jesus Christ’s love with them wherever they go? This week, we’re exploring the powerful promise in Isaiah 54:10 that even if the mountains move and the hills disappear, Jesus Christ’s kindness and love will never leave us. Through repetition, movement, and sensory learning, they’ll practice memorizing a “scripture friend” they can remember whenever they feel sad, make a mistake, or need reassurance of the Savior’s love. We’ll finish by creating a personalized sticker (or a scripture-inspired T-shirt design for Senior Primary) to serve as a daily reminder of this beautiful truth. This is one simple but powerful doctrine that, if planted deeply in our children’s hearts, can change their lives!

Joyfully Reverent describes this Junior Primary lesson! They will celebrate the Resurrection and understand how Jesus Christ overcame death and hell. Sing “Gethsemane" together and then use a fun object lesson with two “monsters,” and let the children rip them up and celebrate Christ’s victory. Finish with a joyful reminder that because of Jesus Christ, we can all be resurrected—and yes, you may even have to play “pick the magic trash” afterward! Senior Primary will discover that Jesus Christ can restore what is lost or broken through a partner scripture study and simple graphic organizer. Kids read a parable, retell it in their own words, answer questions about Jesus Christ, and share a personal experience before teaching their story to a small group. This activity is packed with scaffolding—partners, teacher support, a graphic organizer, and smaller groups help kids feel successful doing something that might otherwise feel hard. These kids need lots of practice teaching before YM and YW and these kind of activities prepare them.

Help children learn that getting angry is normal, but we can choose what we do with those feelings. Using figurines and pretend-play scenarios, Jr. Primary kids practice being quick to do helpful things and slow to anger. They will act out different situations and respond with actions that are quick, slow, and soft. Senior primary learners will practice being peacemakers when they encounter anger and contention around them. After reading a scripture from Proverbs about controlling anger, partners will act out a scenario where a friend is angry and practice using the scripture’s wisdom to help “cool the fiery darts” before someone reacts rashly. Both of these activities T gives children a fun, low-pressure way to practice using gospel principles in real-life situations!

This week the Junior Primary will learn six ways they can recognize how Heavenly Father communicates with them through the Holy Ghost. Children receive a paper with six boxes and draw a picture in each box after watching you act out a different way Heavenly Father can speak to them inspired by great a great Friend article that is linked in the Appendix and HERE. Senior Primary will try to answer this question: How does being baptized and taking Jesus Christ’s name upon us change the way we live? Turn the classroom into a gallery walk! Students quietly rotate through six posters about baptismal covenants, reading examples and anonymously writing how they can live each covenant in their own lives. The article that inspired this is also in The Friend linked in the appendix and HERE.