This year I decided to do two short mother and grandmother songs for Mother's Day, and then also two short father and grandfather songs for Father's Day.
For mothers we're doing "Dearest Mother, I love you" (CS206), which is actually a really sweet little song.
Because of a lack of inspiration, and also because I haven't used this method for a while, I just taught the words the old fashioned way - I wrote them up on the board, and then the kids got to take turns choosing which words got erased until it was all off. For the juniors I was going to draw four big pictures on the board (a pair of lips speaking, hands, a stick figure mother, heart).
We had hardly any teachers there on Sunday, so at the last minute we ended up combining junior and senior primary, so I wrote up the words, and then draw the four pictures at the end of the lines, and they got rubbed off last.
The children got the words really quickly, and they loved repeating it over and over while the words disappeared. It just shows that the old methods work, but I think only if you use them sparingly...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Grandmother
This year I decided to do two short mother and grandmother songs for Mother's Day, and then also two short father and grandfather songs for Father's Day.
For grandmothers we're doing the first verse of "Grandmother" (CS200).
For senior primary I'm going to teach it very simply, but using a method that worked really well for "The Family" last year.
I've put each of the 4 lines on a separate page
and they're really short, so it will be easy to learn the lines.
Then once the kids have them, I'll choose one (probably whoever was singing well) to go out of the room while everyone else chooses a word from one of the lines that we'll leave out when we sing.
The child will come back and sit on a chair facing the other kids, and I'll stand behind with the page, and show the kids which word to leave out. Then when they sing it, the child in front will have to figure out which word they left out.
They'll probably all want a chance, so we'll get to repeat it a few times, and use a different line each time to have a word left out.
For the juniors I'm planning on just using simple actions (kiss, hug, smile, see, every child, whole wide world, you). Our juniors are very young, so they need actions usually to help them remember the words.
For grandmothers we're doing the first verse of "Grandmother" (CS200).
For senior primary I'm going to teach it very simply, but using a method that worked really well for "The Family" last year.
I've put each of the 4 lines on a separate page
and they're really short, so it will be easy to learn the lines.
Then once the kids have them, I'll choose one (probably whoever was singing well) to go out of the room while everyone else chooses a word from one of the lines that we'll leave out when we sing.
The child will come back and sit on a chair facing the other kids, and I'll stand behind with the page, and show the kids which word to leave out. Then when they sing it, the child in front will have to figure out which word they left out.
They'll probably all want a chance, so we'll get to repeat it a few times, and use a different line each time to have a word left out.
For the juniors I'm planning on just using simple actions (kiss, hug, smile, see, every child, whole wide world, you). Our juniors are very young, so they need actions usually to help them remember the words.
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