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Hold out your hands with fingers spread apart or hold up the Hands Image. Lead a discussion with the comments and questions below:

● I would like everyone to please hold out your hands like this. Children respond.

● Let’s count together to ten on our fingers. Watch me and we will wiggle each finger as we count. Everyone counts to ten.

● Good job everyone! You can put your hands down now. What are some things you can do with your hands? Write, color, pick up things, catch a ball, hold things, wave, etc.

● In the next video, two new robots who visit Quantum Labs do something important with their hands. Do you think they feed a pet, make a finger painting, talk with their hands, or dig a hole to plant a flower? Children guess.

● Let’s watch the video to see if someone guessed correctly!

Leave the question unanswered until it is revealed in the video.

Play Video (A Sign of Friendship)

A Sign of Friendship

After the video, ask the following discussion questions:

● Who was afraid of meeting new people? Widget.

● What do Gears and Ollie both have that is different than the other robots? Wheels for feet.

● How do the new robots communicate differently? With their hands, they use sign language.

● Raise your hand if you guessed the new robots talked with their hands. Children respond.

● Why was it difficult for Widget to use sign language? She doesn’t have hands.

● Widget wouldn’t give up! What did she do to welcome the new bots? She learned sign language and projected a video of two hands.

● What did the new bots like that was different about Gears? His lightbulb.

Optional Activity

Have a person who knows sign language teach the children how to sign “Hello” and a few other words. You may also have the person sign the words to “Jesus Loves Me” as the children sing the song.

Optional Activity

Widget chose to find a way to talk with the new robots even though they communicated in a different way. Gears decided to give it another try too! Because they didn’t give up, the robots felt welcome and loved. Now let’s learn to communicate in a different way! Let’s say hello or good morning in some different languages.

Slowly say each greeting and have the children repeat it together, repeat again. Choose as many as from the list below and add others as desired! If any children in the class speak a different language, ask them to share and teach that greeting.

United States: Hello

China: Ni hao

Japan: Konnichiwa

Germany: Guten-tag

Spain: Hola

India: Namaste

Africa (Swahili): Jambo

Argentina: Buenos Dias

France: Bonjour

Ukraine: Pryvit

Israel: Shalom

Italy: Ciao

Russia: Dobre Dyen

Optional: After learning the greetings, say a country and ask children if they can remember how to say hello in the language for that country.

Jesus accepts and welcomes all people into His kingdom, no matter where they live and what language they speak. To be like Jesus, you must accept and welcome others, no matter how different they may seem to you.