Sharing Love - Lesson 1.11 - Value and Objective

Aug 26, 2026

Lesson 1.11 Sharing Love focuses on helping children understand that love expands: more love means it grows rather than being used up. Activities connect the idea of welcome, feelings of being welcomed or unwelcome, and a guided silent sitting where love is imagined spreading to family, friends, people everywhere, nature, and animals. A story, “A New Baby Is Coming,” addresses a child’s worries about a new sibling and explains why mothers’ love does not diminish.

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Reading Time6 min

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Sharing Love - Lesson 1.11

Quotation/Theme for the Week

Silent Sitting

Story Telling: A New Baby Is Coming

Questions

Group Singing

Group Activity

Extension Exercise / Links to Other Subjects

Literacy Hour

Value: Love Lesson 1.11 SHARING LOVE Objective: To understand that love expands. The more love there is, the more it grows Key Words: concerned, time, wind, sky, welcome, growing-up, needs, habits, young, younger, old, older, oldest QUOTATION/THEME FOR THE WEEK YOU ARE WELCOME Discuss how it feels when someone says you are welcome. Have you ever felt unwelcome? What was that like? How can you make others feel welcome? SILENT SITTING Steps 1, 2 (See page 40) Step 5: As you listen to the music, let a feeling of love grow in your heart ... Let the love spread throughout you ... Direct the love to your family to your friends ... to people everywhere ... to all the plants, flowers and trees ... to all the animals ... Imagine you are covered in a beautiful light of love ... How happy you feel. Step 6. STORY TELLING A NEW BABY IS COMING by Tessa Hillman hen mother told Susan that she was going to have another baby, Susan Wfeltbabby,pleasuld sheedsantilldhcaovnecernedtime forabouSusnth?e newWouldss. Ih her molove Suernjadstaas much? How could she? Surely she would have to share her love between three children instead of two and there would not be as much love for Susan? This worrying thought took Susan to her father who was busy mending the car. “What is the trouble, Susan? You look rather upset. Why do you frown so?” “Daddy,” she said.“When Mummy has the new baby, will she still love us just as much? I can’t see how she will be able to. She will have to share her love with all three of us, and with you too!” “Ah, so that is your big problem for today. Well, Susan, certainly Mummy will have to share her time between the three of you. That is true. But love is different from time. There are only so many things you can fit into a day, before you run out of time. “But love is different. Love is like a colour, or like the warm wind. It just is. It surrounds you, like the blue of the sky. If someone else sits next to you, you still see just as much sky, don’t you? You still feel the warm wind whether you are by yourself, or with other people. The wind is not used up because there are more people. The wind is still there just as much. “Love pours out of Mummy for you and your brother. She did not love him less when you were born. He did not lose Mummy’s love when you came along, but he gained someone else to love himself. When this baby is born, do you think Mummy will stop noticing whether you are happy or sad? Or if you have a splinter in your finger, will she say,‘Go away, Susan, I am loving the baby at the moment’? “No. She will care for you just as before. She will always love you the same because you are her daughter and you have a place in her heart. You can show her how much you love her by helping her with the work and then she will have more time to show you how she loves you. But whether she has time or not, does not change the fact that she loves you. “So don’t worry, my child. You will not be forgotten when this baby is born and you will discover how nice it is to love babies. You will feel a lot of love for your new brother or sister. You will find that you enjoy holding the baby and stroking it and playing with it. Babies are very good at loving and they love everyone who loves them. Their smiles are one of the sweetest things in the world.” QUESTIONS: 1. What name would you give this story? 2. What was Susan worried about? 3. When she told her father about it, what did he say to her? 4. Do you think mothers will love their children less when a new baby is born? 5. How did you feel when you heard the story? 6. Did it remind you of anything? 7. Say what the story means to you. GROUP SINGING TO ALL THE LITTLE CHILDREN (music and lyrics by Sara John) To all the little children in the world To all the little children in the world We send them lots of love, We send them lots of peace, To all the little children in the world. (Chorus)

FAQs

What is the weekly theme for Lesson 1.11 Sharing Love?

The theme is “You are welcome,” along with discussion about how it feels to be welcomed and how to make others feel welcome.

What happens during Silent Sitting in this lesson?

Children listen to music while imagining love growing in their hearts and spreading to family, friends, people everywhere, plants, flowers, trees, and animals.

Why does the story “A New Baby Is Coming” reassure Susan?

Susan worries her mother will love her less, but her father explains that love is different from time and is not used up when new people arrive.

Aug 26, 2026

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