First: Welcome the children into the session. Say how happy we are to see them and how important they are for the class. The volunteer will start the class with an opening prayer. The children would be able to volunteer themselves to do the prayer.

         After that, the Spiritist worker will introduce the “Raffle Box of Prayers”. In your turn, each child will open the box, choose one prayer and read it loudly for whole class. We will do it until all the kids have their chance to choose and read a prayer.

         Second: Prayer Activity - The volunteer will discuss with the children about the prayer “Prayer for my brothers and sisters” from the book LEARNING HOW TO PRAY - A BOOK OF PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN by Elsa Rossi. Each one will also receive a copy of the prayer.

         Third: Invite the children to sing some songs together.

         Fourth: Recycling Activity – A basket will be created using juice boxes. Pictures of Jesus with children and hearts will be placed inside each one by the children. Each child will have its own juice box to work on. Once the work is ready the children will be sat in a big circle. The volunteer will ask them to share the juice box with the person sitting on their right.


         Fifth: Tell them the story called: ‘Lara’s lesson’.

         Sixth: Activity - The volunteer will bring a box with funny accessories.

         The kids will have to wear the objects and when the volunteer says “share” they should swap over the accessories with a friend.

         Seventh: Basket Activity - The volunteer will bring a basket with lots of hearts inside. And in each heart will have the name of one child. So, each child will have to take one heart from the basket at time and offer/share the heart to a friend.

         The volunteer can also interact making some questions such as: Is good to share? Do you share? What do you share?

         Eighth: Healing Theatre - Prepare the kids for the healing time. Put one chair at the centre of the room and ask for one child to seat on the chair. They will be asked to show how he/she would be behaving upstairs during the healing time. After that the class should say if he/she had a good behaviour and if yes they would receive a recycled necklace with a happy face on it.

         Ninth: 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: SHARING IS GOOD

         Closing prayer

         Class suggested being suitable for: Kindergarten (5 to 6 years old).

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

                  

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