May 13, 2012

Opening Song: Love is Spoken Here (p190)
Closing Song: Love One Another (p136)


Wiggle Songs: Hinges (p277)


Program Song: When I Am Baptized (p103) - Introduce today!
Review Songs: Songs of the Heart
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Identify the doctrine: Jesus Christ teaches me to choose the right. I can choose the right by being baptized.


Help the children understand it:

1. Sing Wiggle Song.
2. Listening and Singing Experiences:
   
   Junior/Senior Primary
• Attention getter: Raise your hand if you like to see rainbows in the sky after it rains. They are so beautiful. Sometimes I like to take a deep breath and smell the clean air when it rains. I like to look around and see how pretty the green leaves are and how everything looks so fresh and beautiful. Today we are going to learn a song about rain and rainbows.
• Tell the children that the melody of a song can paint a picture. Ask the children to watch me pitch-lead as I sing the first verse, and to think about what picture the melody of this song creates. If they have a guess as to what picture it creates (a rainbow), tell them to put their hand on their heads. 
• After children figure it out, reinforce the idea by adding ascending and descending notes on a chalk rainbow on the board. (draw a simple rainbow on the blackboard and place notes along it - great for Senior Primary). 
• Invite the children to hum the first verse while I sing it, ask them to draw a rainbow with their fingers in the air as we sing/hum.
• Invite the children to sing the first verse with me, have them still create a rainbow as they sing with their hands. Use flipchart pictures as necessary.
• Now to focus on the chorus: Sing the chorus to the children, ask them to listen for the phrase that sounds the most like rain falling (as Earth right after rain). 
• Sing the chorus with the children.
• Sing first verse and chorus together. Include movements.
• If kids are still engaged, practice the song using "how to sing" sticks.
3. Sing Songs of the Heart (in purple box)

Help them apply it in their lives: I know that our Savior Jesus Christ has taught us the way to return to our Heavenely Father. We must be baptized, just like Jesus Christ was baptized.