This week I have been thinking about which songs I want to teach in primary. Last year we got to the last 2 weeks and only knew a few Christmas Songs. I spent a lot of time on Where Love Is after the program. Last year we learned the first verse to Stars Were Gleaming. It is a fun song with lots of rhyming words and pictures I could draw on the board. We tried it today and Yay! The kids remembered most of it. Today we learned Once Within A Lowly Stable. I have a terrible habit of leaving for church with only a small idea of how I want to do singing time. Somehow the spirit still guides me and primary turns out okay.
This song talks about a stable, sheep and oxen, loving mother, baby, manger, Mary Mother, and Baby Fair. So I pulled those words from the song and wrote them on some 1/2 index cards. At the library I found two pictures of the Nativity and I lightly taped the words - with numbers on the other side - to the pictures. I had the primary listen while I sang the song and asked them to tell me the word behind each number. I sang it until all the words were showing, then had them sing with me a few more times while we took all the words off.
Junior primary understood right away what I wanted and made the connection between the picture and where I had the cards taped. Good for them! One song down, two or three to go. Next week I want to do Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus. For the opening song this month we are singing The Shepherd's Carol and for an activity song we are doing one verse a week of Have a Very Merry Christmas!
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