This year the theme in Primary is CTR. I was so excited to hear that this is the theme because it is something so important to instill in our children. In our Primary, we have come up with a few different ways for the children to practice choosing the right every day. Each week, we pick two children from Jr. and Sr. Primary to be the Super CTR. They get a card to take home with them and during the week they try to do something to choose the right and then write it on the card. The next Sunday, they come back to Primary and share what they did with their friends during Opening Exercises. We then take their picture and display their picture and their card on this display board out in the hall so that the parents can walk by and read what their children are doing in primary to choose the right!
We also have given each child a sheet of paper that looks similar to a BINGO board only in each space is a CTR shield. The instructions on the paper are that at the end of the day, the child shares with a parent, sibling, or other person (Heavenly Father if they want to pray), and tell them one thing they did that day to choose the right. Then, they can color in one shield on their paper. When their paper is completely filled they can bring it back to Primary to pick a prize from the CTR Prize Box (pcitured above). It is filled with CTR stickers, CTR pencils, CTR bracelets, and CTR gum, and CTR candy. Then they can get another chart to take home so they can have the opportunity to pick another prize! The idea is that the children start making conscience decisions every day to choose the right. Already I have noticed a difference in my own children. Preslyn will come up to me and tell me something she did and say, "That was choosing the right, right?"
CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR! CTR!
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