Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
One of the things I felt strongly about when thinking about teaching my primary kids with “I Am a Child of God” was that if each of them is a Child of God, then that means everyone they interact with is also a Child of God and should be treated with lo…
Downloaded from: http://aprimarysingingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/pat-graham-workshop.html Last Saturday, thanks to the lovely ladies on the Primusic site letting me know about it, I attended a workshop given by Pat Graham, who knows just about as much as there is to know about the Primary Children’s Songbook! It was WONDERFUL. I found that a lot of what she said is found in her book, the green Songbook Companion, but seeing it in practice made…
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Downloaded from: http://aprimarysingingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/full-year-2013-schedule.html Since I was SO nervous about this calling, I went into super-planning mode. I ended planning out the year’s general song plan, along with an idea of which activities I want to go along each week. Here is a little sample of January’s schedule. You can get the whole thing at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/primusic/files/ (search for “Chorister Schedule”), or leave your email address and I will
Downloaded from: http://aprimarysingingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/hello.html Hello everyone! I am a BRAND NEW Primary Music Leader. I cried for a week after getting the calling. It’s the first calling I’ve EVER been tempted to say no to – I was terrified. But now that I’m in it, I’m actually coming to LOVE it! Now this doesn’t necessarily mean I’m GOOD at it, but I do work hard. Any good ideas I have are…
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Downloaded from: http://ocdprimarychorister.blogspot.com/2013/01/activity-teaching-whole-family.html I want my primary children to take their songs home and teach their families. While we’re learning a new song, I sometimes take out these family cards to help us practice. We take turns singing the practice song as each of the family members would sing it. Dad sings an octave too lowBig Brother marches while he sings.Grandpa has trouble hearing, so he sings extra loud.The dog…
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Have you ever noticed that when you try to do something fun, the kids go psycho? I mean, here you are, trying to carry out your best laid plans and they are acting like it’s Halloween, or Christmas Eve, or even worse…Easter. Seriously! &n…
Today we built a Child of God. I used some cut outs that I created last year.This is what they look like when completed. I did Junior and senior primary each a bit differently.JUNIOR:We are working on learning all 4 verses of “I Am a Child …
I just finished this video last night and I’m so excited to share it with you! I first sent it to Ryan Maag and asked his permission to use his song. He is happy to share it on the video and loved hearing the song again, he said it brought back sp…
I just stumbled across Simply Fresh Designs.com and saw her adorable free printables.She has a Binder Cover with a Calendar, a Wall Calendar Template and 5″x7″ I Am a Child of God subway art all available to download for free. Wonderful! Thank you Heat…
We went around the world singing!! We learned how to say the word “sing” in different languages and then learned a little bit about that country as well. Then we sang the song “Sing a Song” CS-253 replacing the word “sing” with the new lang…
For Senior Primary we decided to challenge their minds! I used the Thesaurus and “tweaked” the words to our favorite Christmas songs! They then had to guess what the song was. Once they guessed we would sing it!1) Orbs Radiating…
We worked SO hard on our program. Then we worked SO hard for the ward Christmas program! I decided that the kids needed a break! So we had a day of singing fun!I picked a few songs that I felt comfortable allowing the kids to be “sill…
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