Choosing Time - Review

Choosing time can be fun for the children and also help you know the songs they know and love. Often times the songs are the very songs that you have been working on for the up coming program. If your pianist is comfortable with playing any song the children choose, let the children have free rein on choosing. Otherwise, use a controlled choosing time.

I have several posts that have ideas for choosing times: back-to-school, fall,etc. The following is a generic choosing time that will work anytime you need.

• cut out 8 or more circles from colored paper. (You can use different shapes if you would like.)
• Write a song title on the back of the circles (I include the page number for ease of your accompanist)
• Tape the circles to the board or around the room 
• Choose a child to pick a circle and sing the song.
• Always make note of the songs that need a little more review so you can work on it another time.
• Try to keep this activity moving so you sing as many songs as possible.

How many ways do we try to be like Jesus? As you help the children prepare for the Primary Sacrament Meeting Program, review the songs that you have learned. As you sing each song, ask the children to find phrases or clues in the songs that remind us to be like Jesus.

End with "I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus" - both verses.
Reviewing the songs that you have learned will help the children remember them as well as polish them for the program. Memorizing the words is important. It helps internalize the meaning of the song. If the children know the songs well, they will sing them often throughout the week. They will come to love them and be able to call upon their meaning as they need.

I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus - 2nd verse

The second verse of this song puts into action how we can be like Jesus.
Use the following pictures from your ward library:

• people/children doing service
• Picture of Christ - I use the picture of Christ's appearing to the Nephites or the resurrected Christ
• a child praying and/or studying

1. Sing the second verse while you show the pictures for each phrase.
2. Ask the children to sing the first phrase of the second verse with you 2 or 3 times.
3. Then show the picture of Christ and sing the second phrase with the children 2 or 3 times.
4. Show the child praying or studying and sing the third phrase a few times with the children.
5. Sing the second verse with the children.  
6. You can have the girls sing the first phrase, boys the second and teachers the third.  then rotate who sings each phrase.
7. Sing the whole song as a review.

I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus

This is a great song to have in the children's repertoire. This is what we are here on earth to become - more like Jesus.

Find several pictures of people serving others. Include deacons passing the sacrament, collecting fast offerings as well as Jesus serving and blessing others.

• Sing the whole song.
• Then sing one phrase at a time and have the children sing it with you a few times.
• Continue through the first verse.
• Sing the whole verse with the children.
• After, remind them of the importance of being like Jesus.