Dearest Mother, I love you

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...