Back to School Review

I love how easy other bloggers make this calling. 

This week I'll be doing a back-to-school review singing time.  I spent a small fortune on all my kids' school supplies last week and will be happy to put them to good use before they take them to school on Wednesday.

Here's the original post . Thanks Singing on Sunday!

PREP:

Gather the following items: backpack, eraser, glue, markers, ruler, calculator, pencil, scissors, sharpener

Tape the following instructions on all the items except the backpack (that's just for holding everything):

ERASER: “Erase" (don’t sing) the words “choose” and “right” in the song Choose the Right.

GLUE: Glue your legs together and your arms to your sides so you hold really still while we sing I Feel My Savior's Love.

MARKERS: Only sing Nephi’s Courage when you are wearing the same color as the marker that is held up.

RULER: Measure the volume as we sing Stand for the Right.  Point to 1 inch for softer up to 12 inches for louder.

CALCULATOR: Count how many times we sing the word “every” in Every Star is Different.

PENCIL: Have a child come up and use the pencil to lead the song As a Child of God.

SCISSORS: Sing When I am Baptized legato (smoothly) as if it were a piece of paper for the verse.  Then when we sing the chorus, cut it up by singing staccato (choppy).

SHARPENER: Sharpen the song by enunciating each word for I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus.

Before primary, hide the 8 objects around the room.

ACTIVITY:

Tell the kids you need help getting ready for school and need to find your school supplies.  Have the primary help you find the hidden items.  As they are found, follow the instructions taped on and place them into the backpack.

Summertime

Every week we sing the Hello Song to visitors.  I've been meaning to teach them a new welcome song for a year now, but haven't had the opportunity until now.  I'm excited to teach them We Welcome You tomorrow and will just do it using a flip chart I found on Sugardoodle.

Since that's pretty short we'll also be singing Oh, What Do You Do In the Summertime? by reviewing the words (we sang it last year) and then singing again playing SING-LIKE-A.... with the idea I found here. 

If they catch on to the song pretty fast and we want to move on, we'll review some program songs by playing SING-LIKE-A.

*Update: This singing time was SO MUCH FUN!  The kids really enjoyed learning new songs by singing in different voices and being included by getting to choose the circle describing the way to sing.  I'm sure I'll do this again when review time for the program comes around.

Next Week

I'll be doing a version of THIS next week.

Review Pictionary

We're going to be playing Pictionary this Sunday to review our January - June songs.  Very simple with no prep. - Love it.

All I need is my fun, colored chalk and a rag (I'll dampen it before Primary) so the kids can wipe their hands when they are finished drawing.

For Sr. Primary I'll divide the kids into 2 teams.  I'll pick one of the 6 songs and whisper it to 2 kids from each team.  They'll then draw the song on the chalkboard.  Once it's guessed, we'll sing it.

For Jr. Primary I'll ask the teachers to do the drawing, and probably have the songs listed on the board.


Thanks, Singing In Primary, for a fast, fun idea!

Happy Father's Day!

I know I wrote that our primary would be singing Love At Home for Father's Day, but our primary president suggested this song instead:  My Father Taught Me.  Our Jr. singers were so cute singing Daddy's Homecoming and the Sr. kids did this one in Sacrament meeting today.  It turned out very nice.

For singing time I reviewed Nephi's Courage using these awesome pictures.  I had the younger kids put the pictures in order as we sang the song.

And then, because it's Father's Day, I had the kids put together a picture of a dad as we sang some of their favorite songs.  I really like how the dad turned out; it just seemed to capture the expression I see on so many fathers.  I also took it into the nursery and they loved it, too.  Of course, I can't take full credit for it because I found the idea here.  Happy Father's Day!

Love At Home

I'm so glad I can look online for ideas.  I didn't want to do a song from the Children's Songbook for Father's Day so I went looking around and decided that our Primary will be singing "Love At Home" from the hymn book.  Here's the flip chart I found on In the Leafy Treetops... blog.

This is what I want to do next week.  I love reminding myself.