"He Sent His Son" Jan. 2014

This is one of my favorite Primary songs so I am very excited to teach it :)

My schedule:
Week 1- Learn
Week 2- Dynamics
Week 3- Games/review

Here is a link that has a step by step lesson plan that might be helpful from SugarDoodle.net.

Week 1 - Learn the song:
I taught this song for fun within the last year or so, so I'm going to use the same clipart I used to teach it back then (it looks like this; although I think I got it from somewhere else originally), but add some scriptures to it. What I did is flip over the corresponding picture so that you couldn't see the art and wrote the scripture reference on the back. This way when we get to that phrase in the song we have to look for the answer in the scriptures and then can flip over the picture and sing the phrase.

The "phrases" flipped over and corresponding scriptures that I chose are:
"He sent his Son, a newborn babe" - John 3:16
"He sent his Son to walk with men on earth, that we may know" - John 13:15
"He sent his Son to die for us" - Luke 24:46
"and rise with living breath" - Mosiah 16:7-8
"Have faith, have hope" - Alma 32:21
"live like his Son, help others on their way" - 3 Ne. 27:21
"What does he ask? Live like his Son." - Moroni 7:48 (to be read at end of song as a testimony)

For Jr. I will probably just read the scriptures and then have them sing the phrase, but for Sr. I will have them look them up and read the scriptures out loud and guess what the next line (or answer) could be about.

Week 2 - Dynamics:
This week we will be reviewing the song by adding dynamics. I may have them practice dynamics by switching between soft/loud and other such dynamics. Then, we will actually apply the dynamics I'd like to have sung at the program presentation. We'll have many months to review this song and these dynamics so I really want to make this song beautiful with that detail.

Week 3: Games/review:
This week I just want to make sure they remember the words of the song by playing games (TBA, maybe groups singing questions vs. answers) to make the review fun. We will only sing through it a couple of times and then will be learning a new song just to build our repertoire. Don't forgot to add the dynamics at least the last time through!

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