Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Song Review - "As a Child of God"


For old times sake, I thought I would share with you all what I did to review “As a Child of God.”  I put the phrase pictures up on the board and asked a child to leave the room. I asked another child to choose one of the pictures to remove. We shuffled the remaining pictures around a bit to make it harder to spot, but if the guessing child is young, you may want to leave the pictures as they were. When the child came back into the room, we sang the song again to help them discover which picture was missing. Naturally, I asked the child to give the answer in the exact words of the song. If the children had a hard time, we sang the missing phrase together and then repeated the whole process.

The other review activity I had prepared was a “Pop Quiz” with questions about the song. The questions were written on orange slips of paper and placed in an Orange Crush bottle.  A child shook out a question and then had to answer it in the exact words of the song. Naturally, we had to sing a little to help them out. The pop quiz is just a fun way to help the children review and focus on the words of the song.


This year I have only five older kids and the rest are quite young. I think they need a little more time with our new song, before I ask them to learn a hymn. Since they already know "Stand for the Right," I'm going to trade months and teach "Choose the Right" in March. I'm currently planning a great "dramatization" to teach "Choose the Right," with kids holding props surrounding and singing to a child in the middle of the circle. I'm hoping that the mental images of acting out the song, together with the props, will help the little ones especially. I'll share when I get all the props ready. It will be too late for most of you, but I'll share anyway.

2 comments:

wendospendo said...

Thank you so much. Your ideas have been lifesavers for me as I have had my calling in primary. I am always looking for ideas and am grateful for all who still post and help me out. Thanks again. I will have to try this since we are still rusty on "As A Child of God."

Rochelle said...

Thanks for the advice. We have a huge Jr. primary with the majority of the kids 3-5 yrs. old. I really like the idea of switching out the songs. I hate learning long songs back to back. I'd rather they new 1 song really well than 2 songs sort of sketchy. I'm with you so share share share please!

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