November 17, 2013

SUB: Lindsay Ferraro --- Thank you!!! This is the same lesson plan as last week. There were very few children there, so we'll do it again. Feel free to improvise or use your own ideas. This month is all about gratitude. Today they will be doing Sharing Time first, so you'll have the opening song, then a 20 minute break. You'll have Singing Time from 11:20-11:40. I go into Nursery from 11:45-11:55 and sing the songs at the bottom of this post with them. If you would rather not go in, just tell Erin Gwilliam who can let Ellen Berry know. 

Opening Song: I Feel My Savior's Love (p74)
Closing Song: I Am a Child of God (p2)

Wiggle Songs: The Wise Man and the Foolish Man (p281)
Happy Birthday Song: Your Happy Birthday (p283)
Welcome Song: Hello Song (p260)
New Song: Children All Over the World (p16-17)
Reverent Song: Search, Ponder and Pray (109)

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Identify the doctrine: We are to thank God in all things. I am thankful for spiritual blessings.

Listening and Singing Experiences:

Junior Primary/Senior Primary

Wiggle Song: The Wise Man and the Foolish Man (p281)
Singing Time:

1. Tom the Thankful Turkey (10 minutes): 2 weeks ago the children wrote their favorite songs on the back of construction paper feathers. Using magnets, put Tom the Turkey and the feathers on the board. (Tom and the feathers are under the "table" on the stand with my other music supplies. There is large stack of feathers - use those. There is a smaller stack of feathers, we already sang those last week, keep them separate from the rest as they are.) Sing as many songs as you can within a 10 minute period. Choose Super Singers (they know the words, they are singing, they are sitting reverently) to choose a feather from the board. Whose ever feather it is gets to "lead" the Primary children in singing it using the "how to sing" sticks (those are in a red folder in the back of my plastic tub with all the flipcharts, there are boy/girl, fast/slow, stop/go, hum, etc).
2. Children All Over the World (10 minutes): Before singing song to children show them the flags on the flipchart pages and see if they remember the country as you say thank you in that language, then have them repeat "thank you" in that language with you:
• UNITED STATES (English)
• GREAT BRITAIN (English)
• SPAIN (Spanish)
• TONGA (Tongan)
• GERMANY (German)
• DENMARK (Danish)
• FRANCE (French)
• JAPAN (Japanese) 
3. Sing through once. Then break it down for them phrases at a time, using pitch leading, the flipchart, whatever you think helps them most! The flipchart doesn't have a folder but it is located in the front of my flipcharts tub. 
4. With whatever time you have remaining, you can sing more Tom the Turkey feather songs, other songs about gratitude, or you can write up your own game plan! 

Children All Over the World Flipchart 

Reverent Song (if time, or if necessary as the children go to or come in from classes): Search, Ponder and Pray (109)

Nursery (11:45-11:55am - I sing from the following list)

1. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
2. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
3. Book of Mormon Stories
4. Popcorn Popping
5. Wise Man and the Foolish Man
6. Families Can Be Together Forever
7. I Am a Child of God
8. I Love to See the Temple
9. My Heavenly Father Loves Me
10. Fun to Do

November 10, 2013

SUB: Jennifer Hammer - thank you Jennifer! 

Opening Song: Thanks to Our Father (p20)
Closing Song: The Lord Gave Me a Temple (p153)

Wiggle Songs: Hinges (p277)
New Song: Children All Over the World (p16-17)
Reverent Song: Search, Ponder and Pray (109)

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Identify the doctrine: We are to thank God in all things. I am thankful for temporal blessings. Temporal blessings are blessings we can experience with our senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.

Listening and Singing Experiences:

Junior Primary/Senior Primary

Wiggle Song: If You're Happy (277)
Singing Time:

1. Tom the Thankful Turkey (10 minutes): Last week the children wrote their favorite songs on the back of construction paper feathers. Using magnets, put Tom the Turkey and the feathers on the board. (Tom and the feathers are under the "table" on the stand with my other music supplies. There is large stack of feathers - use those. There is a small stack of 3 feathers, we already sang those last week, keep them separate from the rest as they are.) Sing as many songs as you can within a 10 minute period. Choose Super Singers (they know the words, they are singing, they are sitting reverently) to choose a feather from the board. Whose ever feather it is gets to "lead" the Primary children in singing it using the "how to sing" sticks (those are in a red folder in the back of my plastic tub with all the flipcharts, there are boy/girl, fast/slow, stop/go, hum, etc).
2. Children All Over the World (10 minutes): Before singing song to children show them the flags on the flipchart pages and see if they remember the country as you say thank you in that language, then have them repeat "thank you" in that language with you:
• UNITED STATES (English)
• GREAT BRITAIN (English)
• SPAIN (Spanish)
• TONGA (Tongan)
• GERMANY (German)
• DENMARK (Danish)
• FRANCE (French)
• JAPAN (Japanese) 
3. Sing through once. Then break it down for them phrases at a time, using pitch leading, the flipchart, whatever you think helps them most! The flipchart doesn't have a folder but it is located in the front of my flipcharts tub. 
4. With whatever time you have remaining, you can sing more Tom the Turkey feather songs, other songs about gratitude, or you can write up your own game plan! 

Children All Over the World Flipchart 

Reverent Song (if time, or if necessary as the children go to or come in from classes): Search, Ponder and Pray (109)

Nursery (11:45-11:55am - I sing from the following list)

1. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
2. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
3. Book of Mormon Stories
4. Popcorn Popping
5. Wise Man and the Foolish Man
6. Families Can Be Together Forever
7. I Am a Child of God
8. I Love to See the Temple
9. My Heavenly Father Loves Me
10. Fun to Do

November 3, 2013

Opening Song: I Love to See the Temple (p95)
Closing Song: My Heavenly Father Loves Me (p228)

Wiggle Songs: If You're Happy (p277)
New Song: Children All Over the World (p16-17)
Reverent Song: Search, Ponder and Pray (109)

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Identify the doctrine: We are to thank God in all things. I am thankful for my body, and I know that it is a temple.
Listening and Singing Experiences:

Junior Primary/Senior Primary

Wiggle Song: If You're Happy (277)
Singing Time:

1. Tom the Thankful Turkey (2 minutes): Introduce Tom the Thankful Turkey by explaining that he is thankful for music and how it can help us feel Heavenly Father's love. The Primary songs are written specifically for that! To feel God's love. We are going to write our favorite Primary songs on the back of each feather and sing those during this month. If your feather is chosen, you can choose how we are going to sing the song using our how to sing sticks. We may even get to sing some of the Primary songs more than once since we might have the same favorite song as someone else! Teachers, you get to participate as well! 
2. Write Favorite Songs on Feathers (5 minutes): Have teachers help those who need it to write their names and favorite songs on their feather. While children are doing this, ask the pianist to play softly in the background some of her favorite songs. 
3. Sing Some! (5 minutes) Sing as many as possible during time allotted.
4. Children All Over the World (10 minutes): Before singing song to children show them the flags on the flipchart pages and have them guess the country as I say thank you in that language:
• UNITED STATES (English)
• GREAT BRITAIN (English)
• SPAIN (Spanish)
• TONGA (Tongan)
• GERMANY (German)
• DENMARK (Danish)
• FRANCE (French)
• JAPAN (Japanese) 
5. Have the children repeat the "thank you" after each country. Sing just the different languages section together, at least twice. Sing the entire song with the children using flipchart.

Children All Over the World Flipchart 

Reverent Song (if time, or if necessary): Search, Ponder and Pray (109)

Nursery (following Jr. singing time, go into Nursery and sing any of the following songs with them)

1. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
2. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
3. Book of Mormon Stories
4. Popcorn Popping
5. Wise Man and the Foolish Man
6. Families Can Be Together Forever
7. I Am a Child of God
8. I Love to See the Temple
9. My Heavenly Father Loves Me
10. Fun to Do

November 4, 2012

Opening Song: My Heavenly Father Loves Me (p228)

Closing Song: I Hope They Call Me on a Mission (p169)

Songs: Thanks to Our Father (p20), My Heavenly Father Loves Me (p228), Children All Over the World (p16)
2013 Program Song: My Heavenly Father Loves Me, verse 1 (p228)
Wiggle Songs: If You're "Grateful" (If You're Happy, p266)

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Identify the doctrine: Our Heavenly Father loves us, and to remind us, He has given us daily blessings.

Help the children understand it with Listening and Singing Experiences:

Junior/Senior Primary

Wiggle Song: If you're grateful and you know it...clap your hands, stand up, stomp your feet, do all 3!

• Junior Primary: sing after "Thanks to Our Father" activity.
• Senior Primary: first thing! 

Attention getter: One of my favorite foods at Thanksgiving is the turkey! I especially love the juicy dark meat, yum! So, turkeys always remind me to be thankful. I brought my turkey gratitude book today to share with you. Share turkey gratitude book (visit link for an idea of what mine looks like).

1. Sing the first verse of "Thanks to Our Father" (p20). Invite the children to sing it with me, use pitch leading. 
2. I have left blank pages at the end of my book. I'm going to sing you more of the song (verses 2-3), and let's fill the rest of my book with the things we sing about (eyes, ears, hands, feet, clothes, food, father, mother, baby). For Senior Primary: book will already be filled out. Challenge them to remember all 6 things from verse 2. For verse 3, talk about what the blessing of eternal families means to them individually.
3. Practice verse 2 of "My Heavenly Father Loves Me" using flipchart.
4. During the month of November, I challenge you to say "thank you" more than ever. And, to make saying "thank you" a little more fun, I'd like to teach you how to say it in 6 different languages: Spanish, Tongan, German, Danish, French and Japanese (show flags from each country)! For Junior Primary: have kids repeat back each thank you phrase as you point at the corresponding flag. For Senior Primary: show kids the real spelling of each phrase (on large word strips) and have them guess how to pronounce it. Then have them repeat back the correct pronunciation. 
5. Sing "Children All Over the World". Point to either the corresponding flag or word strip for each thank you phrase. Repeat at least 2 times. Have kids stand up whenever they sing a "thank you" phrase.
6. Fast Finisher: Songs of the Heart

Nursery (following singing time, go into Nursery and sing the following songs with them)

1. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (jump up on "beam", start crouched down)
2. I Love to See the Temple (use simple hand gestures for words)
3. Families Can Be Together Forever (draw circles in the air, switch arms, reverse direction)
4. I Am a Child of God (clap then pat knees to keep beat)