Next month's theme is: Jesus Christ Is My Savior and Redeemer. I love the song "To Think About Jesus" on page 71 in the CS. It has a beautiful message. My kiddos don't know it so I'm going to use it for my opening song all month. Hopefully, by the end of the month they will know it or at least be familiar with it. I'm even going to use it this week on EASTER for my opening song.
Easter is coming up and I want to do something special for Primary singing.
So here's what I have planned. I found a great lesson in the Gospel's Principle book. I edited it and divided it into 9 narration cards with pictures. Then I chose 9 songs to go with each pictures.
I have a couple different options for you to choose from depending on your technology savvy.
Option #1: NO TECHNOLOGY INVOLVED
You can place them around the room and tell the kids you are going on a journey to learn about the life of Jesus.
This is a sample of what the narration cards look like.
Click HERE & HERE to download the lesson plan and narration cards.
Option #2: A Little tech savvy!
Instead of just singing each song, you can download the songs from the YouTube channel and play and sing-along with them. But you will need a computer and projector.
Here is an example:
Option #3: This is for the really daring tech savvy person!
I put together a slideshow with all the pictures, scriptures, narration cards and sing-along videos.
You will need a projector and computer to show it. Also, good internet connection at the church for the videos. (That makes me nervous because ours isn't always that good). I'm going to download all the videos to my computer for a back-up just in case.
It will take at least 20 minutes. The videos alone are about 19 minutes but some of them have additional verses that you might want to cut to save time.
I made it in google slides. After you have the slideshow, if you go to file then click 'make a copy' you can edit it. You can change songs and do whatever.
Whichever one you choose, I hope your children feel the love of Our Savior as you sing and learn about Him at this Easter time.
I had a mini panic attack when I realized Easter is the end of March. Then I had a major panic attack when I realized I only have 3 more Sundays to practice our songs to sing in Sacrament meeting. (In Utah county, we will miss one Sunday for the Provo City Center Temple dedication). I've calmed down considerably now that I know what songs we're doing and I've got everything prepared. We are doing 'Hosanna' CS page 66 and 'Jesus Has Risen' CS page 70. Both songs are short, repetitive, and very easy.
I'm going to teach the descant for 'Hosanna' to my oldest girl class. It's really easy and I've got great singer in there. They LOVE doing harmony and descants. I'll go into there class the last 5 minutes and work on it. They have very helpful teachers that can help them too.
Then we are going to use the handbells on 'Jesus Has Risen'. The introduction goes really well with the bells to sound like chimes.
Here's the chart I made:
It does go higher than the normal set of 8 handbells to a high D and there is an A# (Bb).
I also made a flip chart to teach everyone the words.
