Primary Week 2 - Improvement!

As I told you last week, this week's lesson was on Missionary Work!
I did end up making little misisoanry badges, with the help of my future SIL, and I heard they were a BIG hit!
One little boy who tried not to come to class ending up walking out of class with his chest puffed out, saw his Dad and starting to point proudly at his chest wheer his badge was... Gorgeous!
I also got thier folder's ready and each child has a different colour. There was one name on the roll who hadn't been in a while and I thought about leaving hers till next pay, but knowing my luck if I did that she would show up! So I didn't, and guess what... She showed up yesterday! So hopefully having her own folder and badge all printed ready for her made her feel more welcome.
I also found it interesting yesterday that my niece was so quiet. She is usually pretty talkative, except around new people, but she has been in this class now for 6 months, I'm the only new person and well, I'm not new to her... It was so strange, so I'm not sure what to do there.
But as for thier focus... Having teh folders and the hand outs ready for them to look at as we moved through the lesson really helped. When I told them the scripture stories I half acted them out as I walked around the room (I also put thier chairs around a table so they couldn't move around... HAH!). When teh lamanites pulled out thier swords I'd pretend to pull one out too... the kids had thier eyes glued to me, it was fantastic!
We did colouring in and letters for the missioanries and I told teh kids that after Primary had finished they could take thier pictures and go find the Missionaries to give it to them... Wow did they love that. They all came up to me when Primary was over jumping excitedly for thier picture/letter, one boy got so excited he ran off with the others before he even got his picture to give to them. It was really awesome to see them so excited about giving.
I prayed alot this past week for help with my class, to be able to teach them and for them to understand/listen. I truly feel my prayers were answered... It is a scary age-group to teach nad I'm still not fully confident, but they are a funny age-group too.
This coming week we are expanding on Missionaries so we'll see what we can come up with!