First: Opening prayer - The Spiritist Volunteer will ask one child to read one topic of the “The Lord’s Prayer”.

         After will introduce a box of prayer and ask for one child to volunteer himself/herself to read the prayer for the class. Please ask the child to say his/her words as well, as to complement the opening prayer.

         Second: Welcome the children into the session. Say how happy we are to see them there and how important they are for the class.

         Third: Sing songs together; get the children to remain standing but in a circle.

         Fourth: AThe volunteer will bring a model of an incarnated Spirit which contains: physical body, spiritual body, Spirit, vital fluid and silver cord (see picture below).

         First, the volunteer will ask the children if they know what this model is about. (wait for their comments)

         Later the volunteer will introduce the paper cards with the names and a small explanation of each part of the model. Each child will need to match the paper cards with the correspondent picture of the model.

         Fifth: Activity 1 - The children will be asked to match up the following words with their meanings and explanations: GOD, SPIRIT, BODY, BODY AND PERISPIRIT, VITAL FLUID, REINCARNATION, GOD’S JUSTICE, GOD’S LAW, SOUL, PERISPIRIT, FAMILY.

         Sixth: Activity 2 – Prepare a paper doll

         The volunteer will bring a picture of the planet Earth which will be used to explain the following topics:

         * Immortal beings;
         * Reincarnation;
         * Family Ties;
         * Progress.


         Seventh: Activity 3: Find the right word – the children will need to match the word with the right meaning.

         Eighth: Power Point Presentation: The Prodigal Son.

         The volunteer will ask the kids to tell the Parable of the Prodigal Son.

         Ninth: Video - The Prodigal Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96rkM5Gpn0

         Tenth: The Prodigal Son Activity - The volunteer will bring the parable in pictures and the kids should put in writing the parable of Jesus.

         Eleventh: Healing Time - Prepare the kids for the healing time. Put one chair at the centre of the room and ask one child of each time to seat on the chair and show how he/she should behave upstairs.

         Twelfth: Preparation for closing prayer - Kids should choose a passage from the: Gospel According to the Spiritism for the kids, The Spirits Book for kids or the Heaven or Hell. The volunteer will encourage the others kids to volunteer themselves for reading and give a quickly comment about it.

         Thirteenth: Closing prayer - One of the children will do a closing prayer; encourage the children to volunteer for this task. If they don’t want to collaborate we could say we will follow the letters of the alphabet. The child’s name that starts with the letter A will do the opening prayer this time. Everybody will have the chance to collaborate.

         Homework: Who is my family.

         Class suggested being suitable for: 1st Cycle (7 to 8 years old).

         Spiritist volunteer: Juana Castro, London, linked to The Spiritist Psychological Society.

                  

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