CLASS THANK YOU'S - Teacher can have everything put away and all the chairs stacked and as the children come in, the teacher can hand each child a chair and see how many children say, "thank you."  For FUN and to keep the children's curiosity up for a while, the teacher can have a little score board on the chalkboard and every time she hears a thank you, she can rush to the scoreboard and add a mark to keep track of how many THANK YOU's she receives. The teacher can also hand out other things, such as supplies or a treat, and keep track of the THANK YOU's. Children will find out during the lesson what was being scored (kept track of).

CLAY THANK YOU's - Modeling clay and long snake-like rolls will be formed and made into letters to say THANK YOU for children to take home. Each child will need a piece of cardboard covered with construction to lay their words on!

THANK YOU CARDS - Provide children with a tri-fold card made out of construction paper for them to write or draw a simple THANK YOU card to someone they would like to THANK. Stickers and markers will make for good decorations and maybe a piece of gum to glue onto one of the folds to give away.

CLASS THANK YOU'S - Each class member can take a turn at DOING something for another class member, who will in return say a loud THANK YOU! If teacher feels the children won't be able to think of anything, the teacher can have each child pick a slip of paper that will have an idea for what they can do if they need help.

THANK YOU SPOTS - Large poster board can be on the focal wall of the classroom that all the children can see as they enter the room. After the lesson today, the teacher can have all the children take turns in going to the poster and writing THANK YOU on one of the spots and their own initials! Children can be creative in how they write their own THANK YOU -- different colors or THANK U, THX, thank you; THANK YOU, THANX or in another language. Questions and discussion about the SPOTS in our lesson and who said THANK you to Jesus! Other languages: Brazil (Portuguese) obrigado; Japanese Ookini; Chinese zikomo; Spanish gracias.

THANK YOU TREE: On a piece of construction paper, children can trace their arm and spread-out hand that will form a tree and branches. Each child can draw some leaves on the "fingered-branches" and write THANK YOU in various decorative ways, and take home to hang for a fall picture and a remembrance of how important it is to say THANK YOU 2 JESUS (which can be the title of their TREE page).

"U" are in JesUs and JesUs is in U so we are very THANKFUL! Find words that have "U" in them - crUcified, JesUs, resUrrection, etc. Children may be able to find other words with "U" in it to remind them all that we have to be THANKFUL for!!! "U" have other things to be thankfUl for --- because Jesus said that "U" can pray; U were thought long before U were born; 4 U Jesus was born and died; His great love 4 U!

Song: "Praise Him, All Ye Little Children" - Anonymous