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Adding Our Thanks

Thankful Hearts

Day 53of 180
Week 11of 36
15Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how to create personalized verses about gratitude

2

Sing new verses added to a thanksgiving song

3

Develop a heart of thankfulness to God

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 100:4

“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.”

— Psalm 100:4 (WEB)

Demonstrates how we can express gratitude through music and personal reflection

📦 Materials Needed

  • Previous day's thankful song sheet
  • Thankful picture cards
  • BibleMouse Song Collection
  • Small bells (optional)
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Recap yesterday's thankful song, invite children to remember things they're grateful for

💭 Review Question: What special things did we thank God for yesterday?
2Teaching (5 min)

Introduce creating personal verses about thankfulness

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • God loves when we tell Him thank you
  • We can make our songs special by adding our own words
  • Every person can thank God for different things
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What makes you happy today?
  • What did God give you that makes you smile?
3Activity: Our Thankful Verse Maker (6 min)
singing

Create new verses for the thanksgiving song using picture cards and child's ideas

📝 Instructions:
  1. Spread out thankful picture cards
  2. Let child choose a card
  3. Help child create a simple verse about that thing
  4. Sing the new verse together
  5. Encourage adding melody and hand motions
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps complete verses

Challenge: Child creates entire verse independently

4Closing (3 min)

Sing all verses of the thankful song

📝 Review Questions:
  • What new things did we thank God for?
  • How does singing make God happy?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll add soft musical sounds to our thankful song

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Young children learn gratitude through modeling and repetition

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Be enthusiastic about child's creative ideas
  • Accept any sincere attempt at creating a verse
  • Use gentle encouragement
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might feel shy about creating verses

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's excitement about personalizing the song

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Draw pictures of things we're thankful for
  • Record child singing new verses
  • Create a family thankfulness journal

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