Picture Review

I was recently asked if I do something different every week in Primary singing time.  Absolutely not!  I have several activities for each holiday, many, many review activities and I definitely use ideas over again, especially the ones the children love.  "Singo" is a favorite as is any matching activity. 

This week I am gathering one or two pictures that I used to teach all the songs so far for the program (a picture per song or verse).  I will put them on the board and ask a child to choose a picture and tell what song it belongs to.  We will then sing it.  I try to choose pictures that don't totally give the song away so the children have to think a little.

Wagon Train

The closer we get to the Sacrament meeting program the more we need to keep up all the songs.  In honor of "Pioneer Day,"  I'm making a wagon train that will go across the board.  Decide how many songs you would like to review.  Cut out enough covered wagons to equal the number of songs you would like to review.  Remember you can use one wagon per verse if you want a longer train.  Tape the titles on the back of the wagons. 

Tape the wagons across the board and have the children take one at a time off and sing that song.  Or you can place the wagons on the floor in a line in "ready" position to start the trek to Utah.  Have the children make the wagon train and place one wagon up on the board and sing the song on the back.

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Why are we baptized?

"Baptism" on p. 100 can always use some review.  There is a lot of doctrine taught in those 3 verses.  I like to use the picture of John the Baptist in the Jordan River with Christ for the first verse.  Help the children know that it was Jesus who asked to be baptized.

In the second verse Jesus explains to John why he is being baptized.  John knew that Christ was perfect and did not know why he need to be baptized.  I use a question mark for this verse as a prompt.

The third verse explains what we must do:

• witness faith in Jesus word
• be baptized
• show obedience as Jesus did

Use a picture of a child being baptized and one of a child being confirmed.

Baptism

The song for this month is "Baptisms" p. 100.  I have taught this song several ways.  The senior primary will learn from the idea in the 2014 Outline for Sharing Time, p. 27.  The "Who, When, How and Where" are great helps in remembering the order of the song as well as teaching about Christ's baptism.

Younger children (as well as the older one) will relate to the pictures.  Obtain these pictures from the library:

• Jesus and John the Baptist
• map showing Judea
• Jordan river (point to the water that Christ is standing in, draw a picture of a river, point to the Jordan river on the map)
• On a piece of paper write "Law" on the top.  Underneath list a few laws:
• Repent
•  Be Baptized
• Receive the Holy Ghost
• Keep the Commandments
• Draw a large "?" on a paper
• Picture of heaven - see picture on the bottom of p. 27 in the 2014 Outline for Sharing Time
• Picture of a child being baptized
• Picture of children with Christ

Display the pictures as you sing the verses or have them all on the board and point to them as you sing.  It is best to sing one phrase at a time several times so the children remember the words and relate them to the pictures.  You can never repeat too much!