Morning parents! Please share this week’s lesson and activities on encouragement with your kiddos. You can either discuss the questions as a family or have your kids journal (virtual or written), about their experience with staying encouraged this week. We miss you all and can’t wait to see your smiling faces.

Warm regards,
Andrea Andrews

Devotional: Please share this video with your children.
”Positive Affirmation for kids: Power of positive thinking, affirmations for kids.”

https://youtu.be/z-sDDtKVVbY

Lesson: Staying Encouraged!

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noun
1. the action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope."thank you for all your support and encouragement"

Discussion Questions?!?:

• What are some ways this week in which you have been encouraged?
• How have you encouraged others this week?
• What will you do in the coming week(s) to be and encouragement to yourself and others.

TIPS - Activities to keep the family Encouraged

Encouragement Game:

Sit in a circle and give everyone a piece of paper and pen. Each person should write their name at the top of the piece of paper, then pass it to the person on their left. Each person then writes one or two (or more) positive characteristics about the person whose name is at the top of the paper.

After 30-60 seconds, everyone passes the pieces of paper around to their left again. This continues until everyone has written on everyone else's paper.

A typical piece of paper would look like this:

FCBC Youth:

•Intelligent

•Compassionate

•Leaders

•Accountable

•Responsible

•FUN!

•Active! (Playing, reading, journaling)

•Socially connected (Even while distancing)

The final step is that everyone receives their piece of paper back again.

It works best if you collect them and hand them out one at a time, so everyone can see people's reaction seeing the positive comments about themselves. Depending on the make up of the group, one option is to have people read out their own list.

Important note: As some commentators have pointed out, it may be worth doing a quick check to ensure the comments are appropriate and positive. Keep it positive

Acts of kindness challenge:
Challenging your family to a competition can be an effective motivator for increasing kindness. In this challenge, the family will recognize when someone does something nice for them unexpectedly and surprise others with random acts of kindness themselves.

Read Books About Kindness:
Depending on how old your students are, you might want to read them one of these age-appropriate books about practicing kindness.

For kindergarteners to second-graders, Nancy Elizabeth Wallace’s The Kindness Quilt is a good book to read and discuss.

For more advanced readers, Carol McCloud’s Have You Filled a Bucket Today? will teach students the idea that everyone carries an invisible bucket that can be filled with compliments and kindness.