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Here is a suggested routine

This is to help set a rhythm for each day and provide alternatives to screen time. You can download other schedule options by clicking the button below. 
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Learning Time

                                    

Character Focus for Today: Truthfulness

Truthfulness is: “Earning future trust by accurately reporting past facts.” This means that when you are honest and tell the truth about things that have happened, people will know they can trust you now and in the future. Some ways you can show truthfulness are by telling the truth no matter what, encouraging others to tell the truth, and carefully giving and keeping your word. When you show truthfulness, you don’t have a guilty conscience from telling a lie, you are an example of honesty to others, and you show others that you are trustworthy.

Truthfulness Activity



Truthfulness Activity: Gravity Test

Supplies Needed:
8-10 toys or other items that can get dropped without getting broken

Give your child the items and have them drop the items to see if they fall to the ground every time. Have them drop each thing at least once and some things more than once. You can ask them before they drop each item whether or not they think it will fall.

Talk About It: Each object you dropped fell to the ground. This is because of gravity. It pulls things on earth to the ground, including you! You don’t have to worry that it might stop working or that you will float off the ground. You can trust that gravity will pull you back to the ground because it’s reliable and never stops working. When we tell the truth consistently, it makes us reliable too. People know they can trust us to tell the truth because we always do. On the other hand, if we only tell the truth some of the time or when we feel like it, people can’t trust us because they don’t know when we’re being truthful and when we’re not. We need to make sure that we are reliable and truthful all the time. Show truthfulness by telling the truth in every situation, even if it’s hard or you don’t feel like it.

Hands-On Activities



First Activity: Water Games

Have fun playing outside and getting wet with your children today. You can have a water fight by using water balloons, spray bottles filled with water, a hose, or by filling a bucket with water and giving everyone a cup that they can refill from the bucket. You can also have water races by having two buckets per child, one full and one empty. See how quickly they can fill their empty bucket by using a cup to run the water from the full bucket to the empty one. You can also have your children line up and work together to move the water from one bucket to the other by passing the cup over their heads to the person behind them. Enjoy spending time outside with your children!
Second Activity: Personal Play Time (30 min.)

This is a happy time when children get to be in their room and play something of their choosing by themselves. Siblings who share a room can be together. The children might greatly oppose this idea at first, but after several days (up to a week) they may be begging you for more time. Keep it positive! Be excited about it! After the time is up, they must clean up what they were playing with and "Personal Play Time" is over. After this, they must come out of their room. Changing up locations throughout the day keeps things interesting and creates anticipation for the next activity

Creative Play

Activity: Lights, Camera, Action!

Have your children take turns being the “director.” That person will pick a scene or scenario for everyone to act out. When everyone is ready, the director will say, “Lights, camera, action!” and they can begin. Once that scene has been acted out, someone else can be the “director” and pick a new scene.

Quiet Time Activities 

Quiet Time Ideas: reading books or listening to audio adventures.

Audio Adventure Idea: Focus on the Family Streaming

Check out Focus on the Family’s audio books and audio adventures, one of which is The Imagination Station Series audio books, where you can join cousins Patrick and Beth as they travel back in time in the Imagination Station! https://www.lightsource.com/ministry/focus-at-home/?seriesId=20878

See the link below for other options offered by Focus on the Family:
https://www.lightsource.com/ministry/focus-at-home

Journal

As the afternoon is starting to come to a close, have your children update their journal. Encourage them to write or draw something that happened today and also something for which they are grateful.

After the devotional tonight, have your child write down in their journal something they learned about Jesus from the story or from what He taught, along with their action step.


Here are a few review questions from yesterday’s devotional:
What did Jesus say someone who wants to follow after Him should do? What would that look like for you?
Which is better: to gain the whole world or to save your soul?

Family Devotional Idea

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Devotional

In The Gap Kid's Truthfulness Video

Watch this fun video to learn how you can show truthfulness!

Wow! What a Day! 

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