Science Experiment Review

Tomorrow for Singing Time, I thought we would do something fun.  The kids know My Heavenly Father Loves Me, pretty good.  So I thought we would review it, I am a Child of God, and When I am Baptised (because they all know that song from last yr.) 

This is what were doing, I got the idea here:  http://primarysingingtimeideas.blogspot.ca/search?q=coloring#

How it works:

1) Fill several clear containers (I used plastic drinking cups) with about 3/4 cup water and 1/3 cup vinegar. (the ratio can be varied, but more vinegar= more fizz= more fun! PLACE CONTAINERS on a BAKING SHEET, as this WILL MAKE A MESS!!!!

2) place one small drop of food coloring on a metal spoon (don't use clear, since you can see the color on the other side), then place a heaping teaspoon of baking soda on top, or enough to make sure the food coloring is covered.



3) Have a child come up and pick a spoon to stir in a cup of "water".   It will fizz like crazy!  Once the fizz has settled down, the color will show up.  I'll make a chart showing what we will do when certain colours are discovered.

 eg. 
Red - Sing I am a Child of God  
Blue - Sing My Heavenly Father Loves Me  
Green - When I am Baptised  
Yellow - Pick a favorite song. 
I might do a couple more colours, so more favorites can be picked. 



I'm sure that the kids will LOVE this fun experiment!!

Word Strip Review

This was our last week of January, which means our last week to review I am a Child of God.  Really, they don't need the review, they all know the song great!  So I thought I'd try and have some fun with them!

What I did was got 4 word strips for each verse.  On each strip I wrote one of the phrases in the verse.  eg. #1. I am a Child of God  #2. And He has sent me here  #3.  Has given me an earthly home  ect.  Then I had kids, one at a time come and choose a strip, and decide where it went in the song - which verse, and in what spot of that verse.  The one trick was that they couldn't get any help.  And if it got put in the wrong spot, it had to stay there. 

Once all the word strips were placed, we sang the song like that- mistakes and all! The seniors thought this was pretty funny to do.  With the seniors, I also put 4 extra word strips in, to really try and trick them.  It was really simple, and fun for the kids.  Once we sang it, we made any corrections, and then sang it the "right" way again. 

Nerf Gun Singing

This year, I made a list of all the songs that the kids know, and what I want them to know.  There are probably 50-60 songs on the list.   So today, I picked 4 of those songs, ones that they dont know 100%, and that is what we practiced. 

We started by singing through I am a Child of God a couple times.  Just to review it.  Then we moved on to our activity.

I brought in a magnet board, with a target drawn on it.  The outer 2 rings were divided into 4 sections each.  In the outer ring, I had written the numbers 1-4, and the 2nd ring was numbered 5-8.  Does that make sense??  The middle I left without a number.  If you have a white board in your primary room, you could just draw the target on that.


I also brought a small nerf gun, with 3 bullets - the kind of bullets that stick to my board.  As soon as I pulled out the gun, everyone got excited - especially the boys!

 I picked a kid, and had him stand back from the target - age approperate - and had them shoot.  If they hit one of the numbers, we sang that song.  Like I said, I had picked 4 songs, and those are the ones that we sang.  If they hit the bulls eye, they got to pick their favorite song.

This is always a fun activity.  But not super reverant...

Memory

This week I knew that a lot of kids would be gone for the long weekend, so I just wanted to have fun with the kids who were here.  So I made a memory game.

I warn you now, that I am no artist.  And I really didn't feel like spending the time on-line to look for pictures, and printing them off.  Soo, I drew some cards.  They are nothing special, but they worked.

Pretty self explanatory, every time they got a match, we sang the songs that were written on the back.  Some of them were review, and some of them were just fun songs.  I'll definitely be saving these, and using them again.

Jr. - 9
Sr. - 9

Stickers

Last week I just wanted to review a couple of the songs that the kids don't know the 2nd verses to, but I wanted to make sure that I kept them motivated.  We started by singing the song through a couple times to make sure that they knew the words, then I pulled out some stickers.  I bought those small star sticker that teachers give out, and told the kids that if I saw them singing really well,then they would get a sticker. 
I know that this doesn't sound very motivating, but I promise - IT WORKS!!  I walk around the room and put the stickers on the kids faces if they are singing really good.  Really, I give one to everyone.  The boys love to have them stuck to noses, or glasses.
I love this as a review.  I've also seen people do this with round red stickers and tell them they have the singing chicken pox.
Simple, but fun.

Jr. - 10
Sr. - 10

Mr. Potato Head

This week I really slacked, and didn't think about Singing Time, until 8pm Saturday night.  I needed something quick because I was going to a movie that night, and didn't have time to prepare anything fancy.

So what do I do when I don't have a lot of time?  I go to my kids toy room, and see what I can find, that I could make work for a Singing Time game.

I pulled out, and dusted off the Mr. Potato Head.



I pulled out a bunch of different body parts, - eyes, nose, mouth, arms, hat, feet... - you get the picture, and taped a paper with a song title written on it to each body part.  I stuffed all of this into an old gift bag, and called it a night!

Today at Primary, the kids took turns picking a part and putting it on the body, and we sang each song.

E-A-S-Y!

I did mostly fun songs, because in the summer I don't want to only review, and you never know how many kids will be there.

Fun, and easy!

Jr. - 8
Sr. - 7