GOAL ACTIVITY. “BEE” SMART Study Habit Helps. Youth will love these: 1) “Bee” Smart cover to place over a favorite book, 2) “Bee” Smart Hints bookmark, and 3) Read with All Your Heart! Great Book List bookmark and 4) Smart Bees and Hearts checkers.
For: Youth Goal Activities, Activity Days, Primary Sharing Time, Young Women, Seminary, or Family Home Evening
Faith in God Activity Days – Developing Talents Goal 6:
Read D&C 88:118. Discuss what it means to “seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” Improve your personal study habits by doing such things as learning how to choose and read good books or being prepared for school each day.
THEME: I Will Improve My Study Habits
ACTIVITIES:
“Bee” Smart and Read with All Your Heart (Book Cover)
“Bee” Smart (Bookmark—Good Book Reading List)
Smart Bees and Hearts (Checkers)
INVITATION
Invite Activity Days girls to this activity using invitation.
For This Same Invitation: Use to invite girls to anytime activity where you do things from the heart. Ideas: (1) Heart attack a friend, especially one who is not coming out to Activity Days, or an elderly person or someone who has been ill and needs encouragement. (2) Kind-Heart Brainstorm where you think up ideas – ways to be kind, loving, caring, and serving to others – then schedule a time and do your kind-hearted deeds, or create a heartfelt message to leave them perhaps with a treat.
PREPARATION FOR ACTIVITY:
• Print invitations, color, and give out a week ahead or have them ready to give to girls at a current activity, inviting them to the next.
• Have girls who are more active take the invitation to those less active.
ASSIGN TREATS:
• See matching THOUGHT TREATS (below).
• Have girls share their favorite recipes with you and you could make them during Activity Days or have them make them ahead to share.
• With the Activity Days budget have girl help you plan treats ahead for the next activity – hopefully treats that go along with the goal or lesson theme.
ACTIVITY DAYS PLANNER
“Bee” Smart and Read with All Your Heart (Book Cover)
1. Print, color, and cut out the “Bee” Smart and Read with All Your Heart Book Cover glue-on stickers.
2. Make a book cover out of a brown paper bag by laying the back cover of your reading book on paper and cutting paper 3″ wider than book. See instructions on sticker page.
This same book cover can be adjusted for larger or smaller books that you are currently reading by folding the flaps to adjust.
THOUGHT TREAT (Honey “Bee” Smart Taffy). Make honey taffy (recipe below) and share with girls.
Thought: Suggest they work hard to get an education so they can be better mothers and provide for their families if they need to. Tell them, “We can follow the example of the busy bees who work all day carrying the pollen and nectar from the flowers to their hive. Let’s ‘bee’ smart and work hard.”
To Make Honey Taffy: The girls can help make this quick-and-easy honey taffy. In a medium-sized saucepan, bring to boil 1 cup of honey, boiling honey 7-10 minutes on medium high heat, cooking to a soft-ball stage. Test by dropping 1/2 teaspoon honey into cold water. If you can form it into a ball it’s done. Pour onto a buttered surface, e.g., a marble or plastic cutting board, and cool 5 minutes. Then pull and stretch it into taffy, adding butter as you pull. Roll and cut into bite-size pieces to eat.
“Bee” Smart (Bookmark—Good Book Reading List)
1. Obtain, color, and cut out the “Bee” Smart Bookmark—Good Book Reading List.
2. You can improve your study habits by choosing books from this list to read, and following the “Bee” Smart hints.
Smart Bees and Hearts (Checkers)
1. Print, color, and cut out the Smart Bees and Hearts Checkers Game.
2.See game rules on the checkerboard page to play. Make 4 copies of board and cut out. Spray mount the backs with spray-adhesive. Mount on cardboard or poster board backing.
More Activity Day Activities:
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MORE CHOICES – Coming Soon
for Developing Talents – Goal 6:
• Theme #1: I Will Improve My Study Habits (“Bee” Smart and Read with All Your Heart book cover, Good Book reading list, and Smart Bees and Hearts checkers)
• Theme #2: Color My Life with Knowledge (Research about color, Knowledge demo, and Reading time)
• Theme #3: School is Cool (Learn good study habits, and Create a Super Study Spot desk pad)
• Theme #4: Be a Jelly Bean Reader (Learn about fiction and non-fiction books)
