Tomorrow is the 5th Sunday and so there is not a Sharing time outline for the day. I usually like to support the theme being taught with singing because I believe that if we can sing it we remember it.
I am so lucky to have two sisters who are also Primary Choristers! It rocks to be able to call and chat about our ideas, sharing, improving, as we go! We share a dropbox folder that is AWESOME! We all laugh that if we just wait until late Saturday night, and then sort the box by the date, the new things for tomorrow will pop up to the top, and we'll be ready for the day! If you're a chorister, email me and I'll add you to our dropbox! I don't have time or want to set up a website to list all our flipcharts, music, etc! I don't have time for that but dropbox works great!
So for this week, I am taking my magnetic fishing pole. I have redone the flipchart I had for Oh What do you do in the Summer time. I am going to cut the pictures out and stick them on the backs of the fish. I will have them fish for the pictures as we sing,and then match them to the flipchart pictures on the clothes line.
I am going to take my scout American Flag and have Jr. do the pledge of Allegiance with me. I love the set of Brite Music titled Take Your Hat Off. I have the CD running here in my home, my kids all sing all these songs a lot! Thanks Janeen Brady for blessing our lives! I think I will take my songbook, and teach the kids the We Hold These Truths Song even though it is not approved resource.
Then I have recreated someone else's America the Beautiful flipchart. I like my flipcharts to be portrait so my book binding doesn't pull so hard. I have broken more binders than I can count because it gets so heavy. I think for Sr tomorrow I am going to print two copies of the song, and cut the pictures out on one, and have the kids put them in the right order as we sing it.
Last week in primary I took out the cheep paper plates I store in the music closet and we used them as drums to pound the beat to the song. I will use those again tomorrow. They love them. I first saw that at Primary Music workshop, and my kids love them! I also used a tiny set of finger chimes and when the signal chime was given, then we didn't sing out loud, we sang in our heads, then when the signal was given again, we sang out loud. Everyone wanted a turn to give the signal. I will pull those out again tomorrow if I have time.
The other thing I am tucking in my bag is a squirt bottle. I think it will be fun to squirt the kids as they are singing. I want to motivate them to sing, so I am not sure how I will use it, but I think will start by squirting the boys not singing, and then move it to squirting those who are singing the best!