Easter Sunday

I'm going to make singing time for Easter Sunday really easy this year.  I'll get some plastic Easter eggs and put names or pages of Primary songs in each egg.  They I'll hide the eggs around the room, choose a child to find an egg and then sing the song that's inside.  Easy peasy.

When He Comes Again

Because I'm having a baby in June and because our Primary already knows If the Savior Stood Beside Me pretty well,  this month I'll be teaching When He Comes Again in addition to the song our Ward Music Leader asked the Primary to sing for Easter Sunday - Did Jesus Really Live Again?

We'll use a flip chart I found HERE and an idea from Sugardoodle to learn When He Comes Again.  It'll go something like this:

In Jr. singing time I'll gave the children a piece of the flip chart (there are 12 pages for the 2 verses) - but not in order.

They'll look at their pictures (and words if they can read) and then we'll sing the first line and the person who thinks he/she has it raises a hand and I'll have him/her come and hold up the picture. Then we'll sing from the beginning including the next line and the person who has that one comes up, etc.

For the 2nd verse - I'll take away all the first verse pages and have all the 2nd verse page holders come to the front and get in the order they thought it might go. Then we'll sing the 2nd verse and see if they were right. If they weren't, they'll rearrange. Then we'll sing it again.

In Sr. singing time -  I'll give the first verse out in the wrong order to 6 children. Some others who don't have pictures will rearrange the kids holding the pictures how they think it should be - they'll have the length of time it takes to play the song on the piano. Then they'll hide their pictures from everyone and we'll sing the verse. Then they'll show the pictures again and decide whether this was their final answer.  And then we'll sing the verse with the pictures showing. We'll do the same for the 2nd verse.

Review Game with Dice

I got the idea for this game called "Doubles" here.  Thanks to Camille's Primary Ideas for always being a great place for fun ideas.

I didn't order the big dice like she did, I just used regular sized dice.  Other than that we played the game just like she described on her blog:

"For Senior Primary, I'll divide the Primary into 4 teams (we had 5 teams and didn't have colors) - red, yellow, blue and green.  Each team will get 2 dice in their color (so I'll only be using 8 of the 12 dice).  I'll divide the chalkboard into 4 sections and write the team colors on each section for score keeping.  The teams will probably want to move their chairs into a circle so the dice can be quickly passed, or you can have everyone move to the floor in a circle, or just have one child from each team come up to the front of the room and roll there - it will probably depend on the size of your Primary.  I can't decide what I want to do.

To play, we'll start singing the first song, I Am a Child of God.   One child from each team will start rolling their 2 dice.  As soon as a team gets doubles, they will shout out "DOUBLES."  The singing will immediately stop, and that team has to quickly come up with the rest of the phrase of the song.  If they get it right, their team will get a point on the chalkboard.  If they do not, we continue on with the song  with no points.  The dice will be passed to the next teammate after anyone on any team rolls "doubles." We'll continue to sing all the verses of all our songs.  Hopefully everyone will get a few chances to roll the dice.

My ideal would be to get through all 8 verses of these songs twice but we'll see how rowdy things get.

For Junior Primary I think I'll just have 4 kids come up at a time and roll their dice.  When someone gets doubles, we'll stop and the Primary has to help that child come up with the rest of the phrase.  So no teams.  Once doubles are rolled, the 4 kids will be rotated to a new group of 4.  Hopefully each child will be able to roll a few times and we'll again, get through all the verses of all the songs twice.

note:  If I'm finding doubles are not being rolled quickly enough, I'll add in the 3rd dice to each team which would obviously increase the odds of rolling doubles."

We sang  I Am a Child of God and My Heavenly Father Loves Me.  The Sr. Primary loved this game and it did get a little rowdy.  The Jr. Primary probably had fun too, but it was harder for them to understand the concept of "doubles" (especially the little kids).  It's a fun review game that I'd reserve for Sr. Primary next time.

Conversation Hearts

Last week I taught the kids the 1st verse to My Heavenly Father Loves Me by using pictures with the Jr. primary and adding scripture verses to the pictures for Sr. primary.  This week I'll teach them the 2nd verse with a flip chart and then drill the words into their little brains with a "heart attack".  I'll print out conversation hearts like the ones found here.  I'll cut out the hearts and put directions for how to sing the song on the back of each heart.  For example, on the backs I'll write "Boys Only" or "Girls Only" or "Sing Verse 1" or "Sing Verse 2", etc.  I'll have the hearts taped up around the room and use the choosing sticks to have a child pick a heart and then do what it says on the back.

Thanks to Brittney for the conversation heart printables!

Review idea

http://singingasongisfun2do.blogspot.com/2012/12/easy-end-of-year-review.html

This idea reviews songs learned throughout the year.  I'm posting it here so I don't forget about it in Nov. or Dec.

Truth or Consequence

I played this with the kids quite a while ago and since I'm looking for something fun and easy for tomorrow, this will be perfect.

Here's the link for Truth or Consequence with a big thank you to the Sister Patterson for doing all my work for me!

I'll use her songs, questions, and challenges, but I won't have the kids scoring extra points during the song; we'll just sing it and move on to the next easy/hard question.

Review Time

It's time to start reviewing for our program.  Ours isn't until November so we have plenty of time.  Tomorrow we'll be doing an easy game called "You be the Conductor.".   As conductor, they need to do 3 things:

1.  Know the words and sing them loudly to the Primary

2.  Wave their conductor stick as we sing

3.  Make sure the other kids are singing.  If kids are not, the conductor can point them out with their conductor stick (we'll see if this one flies.  I don't want hurt feelings).

So after I introduce my activity, I'll pick a conductor and let them come up and choose a fun conductor stick (i.e. a wand, light saber, ruler, etc).  Thanks to Singing in Primary for another great idea!

*Next week we'll be playing "Who, What, How".