Sunday, March 14, 2010

Singing Time Sundays - Memory Match

I'm really struggling this month with "Follow the Prophet". There are SO many verses and SO many words in each verse. And even though I've only chosen 5 of the 14 some odd verses to teach, I'm just not sure how to get the kids to know all the words of each one. I think I've finally made the decision to split the primary into 4 groups, each group will get one verse and then the entire primary will sing the verse about Pres. Monson. So I think from here on out, I'm going to just focus on the final verse. (Well, that's the plan as of now anyway.)

Today we did a "Memory Match" game. For the jr. kids I split each verse into two phrases (with pictures and words both printed) and then they had to come choose two papers to try to make a match. (Matching the first half of the phrase to the 2nd half.) I used the same pictures from last weeks visuals, but I wish I would have just printed two of the exact same pictures to match. It would have made more sense to the non-readers I think.

For the sr. kids, I did words only, no pictures. They weren't tricked at all by this (which means they know the song Hooray!) and matched up the phrases no problem.

I also focused on the rhyming words in each phrase, hopefully that will help them remember the words a little better.

3 comments:

Deanna said...

I thought it was great! :) I think this song is tricky, too...as far as teaching it. I was trying to remember how I was taught the different verses, and I'm pretty sure repetition played a HUGE part...so keep it up!

Deanna said...

I thought it was great! :) I think this song is tricky, too...as far as teaching it. I was trying to remember how I was taught the different verses, and I'm pretty sure repetition played a HUGE part...so keep it up!

Tamie said...

i'm w/ you: follow the prophet is a GREAT song with awesome verses, but there are JUST SO MANY of them. so what i'm doing this year is having a signer teach the kids the sign language for the chorus; we are learning the 1st and last verses and then (depending on what i decide---still haven't as of yet) 3-4 kids singing solo's on different verses.
i like to spotlight the kids that can sing...it went really well last year when i had two sunbeams sing "seek the lod early" -- the congregation LOVED it.
so that is what i am doing for that song.