Christmas Lesson

Merry Christmas from Beau's Sunbeams!

We had a fun lesson yesterday. We talked again about the birth of Jesus, ate cookies and colored the stars of Bethlehem. Somehow the topic of bugs came up....Joey was concerned about a wasp stinging you, Davis said to kill all the bugs, and Trevor said that bugs can suck your blood!
I promise I try hard to stay on topic, but boys will be boys!

Here you see them re-enacting the shepherds as they saw the star in the sky...
"Lo! There is a star! The angel said don't be scared, it's the baby Jesus!"

Learning About Our Savior

Today we learned about thinking about our Savior and being reverent as the sacrament is passed. Our activity was coloring a picture of a girl that was partaking of the sacrament in a reverent manner.

Beau's Sunbeam Marching Band

Today we talked about music and how it can make us happy when we're sad and make us think about Jesus and become reverent. We made marachas and formed our own marching band!

Primary Program Practice

We had our final Primary program practice Friday night before the big show Sunday. Keeping these four boy Sunbeams in line is like nailing Jello to a tree...

We even brought in the police...

Sister Wendie in action!

Pray for us this Sunday @ 10:30am EST !!!

Beau's Sunbeams

Trevor, Joey, Beau, Caleb, Maddie and Tyler. We missed Austin for this photo.

I Can Be Kind to Animals

Two of the boys had new socks and shoes. They couldn't quit looking at them, so we took a timeout and took a picture!

Our lesson today was about being kind to animals. Since Joey, Tyler and Trevor have all been to my house and played with my dogs, we used them for our examples. Talking about dogs prompted the following comments:

Tyler: "Scooby Doo has a tail and can talk. Sugar (my dog) can't."

Joey:"I pull the tail of Mimi's and Tata"s cats but I'll try not to any more."

These are the boys favorite animals:

Tyler: tiger
Joey: elephant
Trevor: crocodiles

Here are some random comments during the remainder of the lesson:

Trevor: "I'm eating a real worm."( I gave them gummy worms)
Joey: "Never shoot a bird"
Tyler: "Only shoot bad birds."
Joey: "Not an eagle."
Trevor: "If a bird tries to make a hole in your body, he's bad."
Trevor: "My daddy can't kill anything cause he doesn't have any guns...he can use tools, like a hammer to kill something."
Tyler: " Batman doesn't go to church."

Aubrey Fry (Tyler's little sister) sat in on our class for about 10 mins. She sat at the table in a chair just like the boys. We were amazed because she's generally shy and doesn't like to leave her parents. Here's what Tyler had to say about it.

Tyler:"Aubrey was trying to tell us how bunnies make a sound, hop, hop."
Trevor: "My Mimi's dog was Julie, but her died."
Tyler: "But we are not going to die for a long time."
Trevor: "When you die you are a spirit."
Joey: "When you're in a cemetery, you dig a hole."
Trevor: "What is 100+10 through 11 1?""

Never tell a train story...

Lesson 34 - I Can Love Others

The boys had little trouble with today's lesson. They all realized we should love each other and that Jesus and our families love us. I'd say that's a pretty remarkable thing when you consider the number of children who don't feel loved. I was trying to emphasize to them how lucky we all are to have a loving Father in Heaven and earthly parents. I suspect that often we take this for granted. The energy level was high today so I gave them pipe cleaners to play with as we talked.

The real challenge began in sharing time. Sis. Matthews had a real cute story about a train that needed help and finally realized it could pray and ask Heavenly Father for help. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, my "Thomas the Train" fanatics kept interupting her to tell her which train to call to help. They knew every name of all the "good" and "bad" trains and cars from the Thomas the Train show. Somehow I think the message got lost...I guess you need to know your audience...what started out as a great idea ended up as a plug for PBS...

Lesson 33 - I Can Be a Friend

Not too many quotes today. We were talking about sharing and being a friend. I asked what they would do if one of their friends was sad because someone was teasing them...as a group they all thought they should "tease him back"! Guess we have a little work to do....

Later I showed the class a picture of Jesus and explained that He is our friend. Got one good quote from Tyler.

Tyler: "The bad men got Jesus. When Jesus was hanging, he prayed then he got dead so they couldn't get him anymore!" I'd say FHE is working!

I brought my camera to class and let each one of them take a picture of their friend. Elder Cook then took a class picture for us. Here are the results.

Lesson 32 - I Am Thankful for Food and Clothing

Sunday we talked about where our food and clothes come from. I had pictures and stories to explain about different plants and animals that contibute to our food and clothing. We even acted out planting seeds, getting dressed and going fishing. Here is what I learned...

Memorable quotes from Sunday's lesson:

When told that bread comes from grains...

Tyler- "Bread comes from bananas, when they get dark you give them to Nana and she bakes bread!"

When told that you can pray absolutely anywhere...

Austin - "You can't pray when you're coon hunting, they won't let you! Not even whisper."

When told that lots of clothes come from cotton...

Trevor - " Even underwears?"

Austin - "Uh-uh, shirts come from Wal-Mart!"

As they were pantomiming catching a fish...

Trevor - Immediately landed a whale!

Tyler - Immediately caught a catfish!

Austin - Patiently held his pole and said, " Nothing's bit my worm yet". (obviously the only one to have ever really gone fishing)

BTW, everybody's favorite breakfast food is Pop Tarts!