Latter-day Village Square

AUGUST RESOURCES

The following August resources have been added to the Primary Knowledgebase:

• Sharing times
  http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/category.php?id=248
• Primary Scripture Search
  http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/article.php?id=1794
• Monthly Theme Posters & Bookmarks
  http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/article.php?id=1793
• Newsletter Template
  http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/article.php?id=1792
• Lesson Helps
  http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/category.php?id=240

PRIMARY MUSIC

The song for August is “Families Can Be Together Forever” - in the Primary Music Knowledgebase - I have two different teaching ideas included and have added a couple new ideas I found for this song, so come check it out! - http://latter-dayvillage.com/primarymusic/article.php?id=1553

STICKERS

*~*~*~*~25% OFF STICKER SALE~*~*~*~*
Most of our Primary Stickers are on sale through the end of August!

NEW PRIMARY STICKER
Our ward wanted something to give to visitors when they come up for the
welcome song, so I designed a cute “Primary Welcome” sticker and have added
it to our store.
http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=840_846&products_id=83031

All our stickers have FREE SHIPPING!

SUMMER ACTIVITY DAY
We are having our Summer Quarterly Activity Day on Monday - it will be a Water Day - the kids are very excited and inviting their neighbor friends! We will play Water Kickball using a beach ball and wading pools on each base with a slip’n’slide leading to home plate. We are doing a relay race with buckets of water on one end, big sponges, and empty buckets at the other end. Children will soak the sponge at one end and run to the other end and squeeze it into the bucket, and run back and give it to the next child. The team with the most water in their other bucket at the end wins. We will have lunch of hotdogs/buns/ketchup/mustard, watermelon and snow cones/popsicles. I also bought water balloons in case we have extra time. We can stand in a circle a ways apart and toss the balloons from person to person and see how many we can get back to the start.

Enjoy the Summer while it lasts!
Debra

VISITING TEACHING BOOKMARK
I just added the August Visiting Teaching Bookmark to the Sampler Knowledgebase:
http://latter-dayvillage.com/sampler/article.php?id=572

STICKER SALE
LDV is running a 25% off sale on most Primary, Young Women and Relief Society stickers till the end of August. All our stickers have FREE SHIPPING!
http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=899

RUBBER STAMP CONTEST
Sunbeam Stamps has introduced several new adorable stamp sets you will just love! Everyone who buys one of the new sets listed below by the end of August will be entered in a contest for an additional FREE STAMP SET (a 19.99 value) of your choice from this list:

The sets included in the contest are:

• ~*~Charity Never Faileth Set - http://tinyurl.com/oc6pg2
• ~*~Love My Missionary Set - http://tinyurl.com/nd8nf3
• ~*~Girls Camp Set - http://tinyurl.com/klj43z
• ~*~Personal Progress Set - http://tinyurl.com/lg39oc
• ~*~Royal Generation Set - http://tinyurl.com/ncts9g
• ~*~Temple Marriage Set - http://tinyurl.com/m46xd8
• ~*~Love You Set - http://tinyurl.com/m3h47w

See all Sunbeam Stamps here:

http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=38

BYU EDUCATION WEEK
Aug 17-21 “In Thy Light Shall We See Light”
http://ce.byu.edu/ed/edweek/

I am trying to cram a lot into one week and don’t know how I’ll do it! Going to Yellowstone next week but have to be back in town for the annual LDS Booksellers Association Convention! Watch for updates on new products I will see at the convention!

Enjoy the remainder of Summer!
Debra
debra@latter-dayvillage.com

I wanted to let you know that the Lessons 37 and 38 are available for subscribers of the Teachings of the Prophets Lesson Handouts/supplements.
http://latter-dayvillage.com/pages/rs/RSJS/index.html

The July Visiting Teaching Bookmarks are also now available in our Sampler Knowlegebase:
http://latter-dayvillage.com/sampler/article.php?id=570

There is a new handout at lds.org for orienting new Relief Society personnel:
A training and orientation handout was shared in the recent Relief Society training. It shares the vision and goals of the Relief Society general presidency. It can by used to orient new Relief Society leaders to their
callings and as a guide for auxiliary and priesthood leaders for ongoing leadership training.
http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,8731-1,00.html

There is a new Frequently Asked Questions section for Relief Society at lds.org
http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,8004-1,00.html

Our home decor section at LDV online store has many new items!
http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=829

With Pioneer Day approaching, check out our Pioneer Clipart!
http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=810_811

Happy July!
Debra Woods
debra@latter-dayvillage.com

The July Primary Resources have been up for several days.

There are new sharing times, the new posters and bookmarks, new primary scripture search, new newsletter template and lesson supplements.
http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/category.php?id=230

2010 PRIMARY THEME

You may have received your 2010 Primary booklet already, I know many people have, and our ward received ours a couple weeks ago. There is a lot more information in this new outline than in years past. It is really
neat. In case you have not received yours, the theme is “I Know My Savior Lives.”

I have created the one page at a glance outline of the monthly themes, scriptures and songs that can be found at:
http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/article.php?id=1765

PENCIL SALE

We have a lot of beautiful blue 2009 Primary Theme pencils:
http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=840_845&products_id=82689

and white I Am a Child of God pencils
http://latter-dayvillage.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=840_845&products_id=81738

in our store that I’d like to clear out - so if you order either of these pencils in the next two weeks, (they come in packs of 7) you will receive 5 additional pencils FREE! This offer is good through July 19th or while supplies last.

ORIGINAL SONG

This month you may want to consider teaching the song I wrote for the proclamation on the family entitled “The Family Our Destiny.” I will be adding a teaching idea shortly to the music knowledgebase.
http://latter-dayvillage.com/primarymusic/article.php?id=1555

PRIMARY ORIENTATION DOCUMENT

There is a nice Primary Orientation resource at lds.org
http://latter-dayvillage.com/primary/article.php?id=1777

Happy July!
Debra
debra@latter-dayvillage.com

I am sorry I am late with these bookmarks! Where does the time go? This month there is not a specific message for Visiting Teaching - we are invited to choose a message from the Conference Report to share with our sisters. I decided to use the photo on the front of the November Ensign - when have we more needed to know we are lead by a living prophet we can depend on?

Here is a link to the bookmark -
http://latter-dayvillage.com/sampler/article.php?id=552

God bless you all -
~ Debra
“Fear not - though the enemy deride! Courage! For the Lord is on our side. We will heed not what the wicked may say, but the Lord alone we will obey!” Let Us All Press On - Hymns, 243

We’ve gotten lots of requests for the 4th Quarter Lesson Handouts for the YW 3 Manual - and AT LAST they are in our store!

As usual, Courtney White has done an excellent job creating these beautiful lesson handouts with her gorgeous photography and sensitivity to the needs of our youth.

This particular collection has 2 lessons about general conference. There is a Conference Companion handout included.

Each year I design a set of Scripture Mastery images that we use on our posters, clip-art and stickers.  This year we added a new product, New Testament Scripture Mastery Shrink Charms - with the New Testament SM designs.  This shrink plastic product has all 25 designs on one sheet that you cut out, hole punch and bake to make sturdy little charms that you can use in a number of ways.

• Give a key ring, zipper pull, chain bracelet or necklace to students and as they “master” each verse, they earn a charm to add to their key ring.
• Life applications - students earn charms as they can share with the class how a scripture mastery verse applied to some aspect of their lives.
• Use for games!
• CRANIUM - Use a Cranium game board and die to play.  Instead of using the cards, use the charms- players choose a charm from a can, or have them laid flat, face down on a table.  The team member must use a variety of ways to get their team to guess what the verse is, such as charades, drawing a picture, modeling clay etc. - the same idea can be used for Pictionary etc.
• MEMORY - Use two sets laid flat on the table top and have students try to find pairs.  When they make a match they recite the verse to earn the charm.
• BUTTON BUTTON - like the old childhood game, lace one set of charms onto a long length of yarn and tie the ends together - students sit cross-legged on the floor in a circle and hold on to the yarn - pass along the charms while music is playing - whenever the music stops they must stop passing the charms.  Teacher has a can with another set of charms in it, and pulls one out.  Whoever has the mate to it has to recite the verse or give an life application etc.  For fun, add a button to the yarn, and whoever has the button when the music stops must leave the circle
• BURIED TREASURE - fill two plastic tubs with sand or wheat and hide a set of charms in each tub.  Place the tubs on a table at one end of the room.  A timer calls out every 15 seconds and have two teams send one member at a time down to dig for buried treasure.  Each 15 seconds the digger stops and another student runs down to dig.  Have a grid with five rows and five columns on a piece of cardboard.  Put a keyword in each square.  When the diggers turn is up he/she takes all the charms they unearthed and places them on the matching square.  They only have 15 seconds to correctly place them or they have to throw their charms back in the tub.  The team with the most charms at the end of a certain length of time, or the team that gets all the charms correctly placed on the grid first, wins!
• BINGO - make up BINGO cards with keywords scattered on each square.  Pull out charms from a can and players place candies on their BINGO cards to form horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines to earn a BINGO.  When someone gets a BINGO they must choose one of the verses in their bingo line to recite correctly to actually win.

TELL US HOW YOU USE THE CHARMS!

~Debra

2009 Resources are now available in the Primary Knowledgebase to help you prepare for the new year!  I have added several already with many more to come.  Currently you can find:

• 2009 Primary Weekly Planner
• 2009 Sunday Planner
• 2009 Talk/Prayer/Scripture Assignment Chart
• Talk/Prayer/Scripture Assignment Cards
• 2009 Theme Birthday Postcards
• 2009 Primary Bookmark
• Class Presentation Sharing Time Reminder
• 2009 January Newsletter Template

Also included is the font used in these resources that you can install on your computer if you want to use the editable Word document versions and keep the look and formatting of the original!

I did the logo you see here and this is part of a whole collection of 2009 Primary Clipart that will soon be available in our store and will also be available as stickers and rub-onz and shrink charms!

2009 PRIMARY SONGS - one of the songs to be taught in 2009 has just been published in the October Friend magazine - “The Family Is of God” and you can listen to the song as an MP3 file at lds.org

There are two months in 2009 when the song is not specifically chosen for you, instead you can select your own favorite song - Song of your choice about Jesus Christ from the CS, Hymns, Friend or Liahona - in April and July.

APRIL THEME - Jesus Christ made it possible for me to live with my Heavenly Father again.

JULY THEME - I will strengthen my family.

The outline only suggests songs through August that will be included in the CSMP.  Two of the songs I have written that are now in the Primary Music KB would be PERFECT for the following monthly themes:

OCTOBER THEME - “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” teaches me about families.  My song - “The Family, Our Destiny’” was written about the Proclamation!

DECEMBER THEME - My family is blessed when we remember Jesus Christ. My song - “He Came” touches on the weekly gospel principles included in the outline for this month.

CSMP 2008

I have to mention that I am the first counselor in my ward Primary, and was in charge of the CSMP this year.  I adapted the script by Linda Whitlock that is in the Primary KB.  She had suggested using the song “I Wonder When He Comes Again” in the script, and I substituted “He Came” in it’s place.  There was a boy who had just turned 12 who so wanted to participate in the CSMP and sing a solo, and he and a wonderful 10 year old girl sang a duet with him.  The CSMP was rough in practice, as is typical, but on Sunday with angels in attendance, the program was so lovely!!!!!  Thank you Linda for that wonderful script.  I cried the first time I read it and little realized I would be using it in my own ward!  All the music was wonderful, including this little duet - just the way I dreamed it would be, but was a bit nervous about till the program.

OCTOBER 2008 RESOURCES

I’ve added new sharing times, lesson supplements, posters, newsletter templates and more for October!