Seminary Olympics - Week 1

In honor of the Olympics this year I decided that every Friday we would have our own Seminary Olympics! I divided the kids into "countries" and they designed their country's flag. The first Friday in February we started off with a parade, which some of the kids really got into, and then did several events.

Jack, Abi, and missing Sydney. I can'tremember what they named themselves.

Savannah, Julia, and Everett - the Jevannahites from the land of Moron.

Molly, Lydia, and missing Emily - the Femaleites from the land of Bountiful.

Spencer, Xander, and Preston - the Destroyerites from the land of Nephi.

Sydney, Claire, and Harrison - the Almighties.

Grace, Emma, Skyler, and missing Jessica - from the land of Zarahemla.

First event of the morning - the Golden Plates discus throw!

Second event - without using your scriptures, put the cups with names of the books in the Book of Mormon in order.

Skyler kept saying how easy this event was until I realized he hadn't been listening to the "do not use your scriptures" part. There he was, reading them in order from his open Book of Mormom, ha ha. Needless to say, this team received a penalty!

Of course Jack had to get a little creative with the cups!

The last event of the day I don't have any pictures of but the kids all sat against the back wall with their scriptures. I would read out a hint of one of the DM verses. Whoever found the actual verse in their scriptures had to run up to me, show me where it was found, and them race to grab the prize on the other side of the room. It got quite competitive, ha ha, and was a ton of fun. 

Grace had brought in our Olympic torch at the start of class and decided to pose for some pictures.

It was definitely a fun opening day!