August: My Body Is a Temple of God
This is our Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation monthly and weekly theme help section. Find object lessons, music, sharing time ideas, clipart, and much more to help you with this month's LDS Primary theme from the Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation booklet.
Primary Weekly Themes: August 2011
- My body is a temple.
- Dressing modestly shows respect for Heavenly Father and myself.
- Living the Word of Wisdom shows respect for my body .
- Reading, watching, and listening to wholesome things keeps my mind clean.
20 minute Music Time
- The song to teach during Primary Music Time in August is The Lord Gave Me a Temple
If you've got ideas on how to teach this song please comment below!
Scripture
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? ... The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are" (1 Corinthians 3:16–17).
Jenny's Tips
With older children, especially Activity Day girls, you might want to have activities based on modesty in conjunction with this theme. We have a huge Teaching Modesty article in the Young Women's section that is sure to have things you can use.
More Help
Sharing Time Lessons from The Friend
We have indexed a number of Sharing Time Lessons from old Friend magazines. You can use these lessons when there isn't a 5th week lesson, or you may want to get ideas on how to adapt the provided lesson to your students.
Primary Clipart Related to this Month's Theme
Below are LDS Clipart clipart images that relate to the Primary theme for August.
Many of these images were shared by users just like you, so please upload your graphics and help us grow. Our system keys off of the tags found at the bottom of the page, so not all images will be strictly relevant.
Related Object Lessons
Our system suggests these LDS Object Lessons that could be used as attention-getters with this lesson. Don't use them to replace the lessons in the manual -- they are supplemental.
- The place whereon you stand is holy ground
- The Temple: A house of Order
- Families can be sealed together
- What Goes In, Doesn't Come Out
- What Goes In, Doesn't Come Out 2
- One bad peice
- The temptation of sin
- Word of Wisdom
- Modesty
- push out bad thoughts with clean thoughts
- Stop Before You Start
- Following the shepherd keeps me safe
- Word of Wisdom - Care Manual for our bodies
- Obedience is easier with the help of a friend
- Strength in Your Thoughts
- Modesty - remove the distraction so people will pay attention to YOU
Aren't these object lessons great? Please share your object lessons, too!
Sharing Time Ideas - on the Web
Get sharing time ideas from great Primary bloggers all over the web!
Below is a list of Primary Sharing Ideas from the web.
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If you have a Sharing Time blog and would like your ideas featured here, please email me at jennysmith.net@gmail.com. I'd love to help you share your ideas!
I Pray to Heavenly Father for Strength to do What is Right Sharing time "cell phone taken from http://www.clker.com/clipart-cell-phone.htmI Pray for Strength to do What is Right Sharing TimeJune 2012 week 1 themeWhat is this? (hold cell phone or a picture of one) A cell phone. What does it do? It helps us talk to someone that is far away and communicate with them. It helps us solve problems, feel comfort, get answers, and direction for where we need to go. Elder Joseph W. Sitati of the Seventy shares a story about a cell phone. While traveling in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with other church leaders their truck broke down and they needed to call for help...
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#1 I have a lesson on Modesty
I have a lesson on Modesty for Family Home Evening that can be done during this month so that the whole family can focus on this important principle.
http://www.family-home-evenings.com/2009/03/modesty.html
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