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Post by CarrieS on Jan 29, 2009 14:10:47 GMT -5
What have been your favorite ways to review songs? Games? Visuals?
Thanks!
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Post by thinkfirst on Jan 30, 2009 20:20:33 GMT -5
Everyone stands up.
Everyone participates including teachers.
As everyone starts singing, if you forget the words, you sit down.
Put a sticker or some small reward for the children left standing that first round.
Review for a few seconds and stand again.
Give rewards again for the second round.
By the 3rd or 4th round, most everyone will have it down and you don't need rewards.
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Post by avsfan on Jan 31, 2009 17:23:26 GMT -5
I like that idea, thinkfirst.
Some other favorites are hide-a-note (or hide whatever) while children sing loud and soft (hot/cold).
• "Before and After." All I did was make some word strips with phrases from different songs. Some that we are learning and some others that they know. They draw a slip and read it. Then the group tries to tell what phrase comes before and what phrase comes after. Then we sing it. Sometimes to get it they have to say the whole song but they can usually figure it out. In senior, if they need some help we will deduct some points. It makes them really concentrate on the words. I give them 5 points if they get the phrase before and 5 points if they get the phrase after and up to 10 points for how well they sing the song. When we are done singing, I tell them the score and they decide if they want to try again for a higher score. I watch to see if everyone is singing, if they are watching me, if they are involved in the music, etc. to decide the score. Since Senior primary likes to compete, I tell them how many points the junior made and let them try to beat it. In junior we just tried to see how many points we could get.
• Pick a Class to sing a line of the song—everyone starts singing—when you point to a class, they sing alone. Move quickly to keep them on their toes.
Stop and go with any type of visuals. I 'inherited' a yarn ball with red and green sections. The kids sing on green and sing IN THEIR HEADS on red.
I also use an egg carton that has different ways of singing (underwater, like a robot ,etc) with a bean or something in there. A really good singer gets to come shake it for 3 seconds, and the bean lands in one of the cups (labeled 1-12). I have a corresponding chart that tells me how we sing. They really like this. The BEST OF ALL TIME is the "woodpecker" cup, because we sing each word staccato, and they HAVE to know the words to sing it that way.
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Post by avsfan on Jan 31, 2009 17:39:12 GMT -5
Another idea:
Yesterday I used cotton balls and called them snowballs. As the children sang really well, a member of the presidency would drop the cotton balls into my music vase, a big clear glass vase with music on it. They seemed to enjoy watching it fill up with "snow."
I've done something similar with 'pom poms' It was ME vs. the children. I had a vase and they had a vase. As we were singing a song, if they were loud and strong and singing with warmness, I would drop fuzzies into their vase. As the song continued, if they dropped it a little and I was the one remembering the words, I would drop warm fuzzies into my vase.
This was great because of course I controlled the level of warm fuzzies in both vases. I think we reviewed 1 song over and over while they tried to get their level up. You could also review multiple songs this way.
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Post by CarrieS on Feb 1, 2009 12:21:47 GMT -5
these are wonderful! thank you!
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Post by natgirltn on Feb 9, 2009 10:48:59 GMT -5
My favorite review tool for Jr. Primary has been one of my empty #10 food storage cans. I removed the top and bottom (I have a "safety" can opener so the edges are safe) and put one of the white lids on the top. I cut it the lid like a pie shape so I take various "friends" (puppets--often correlating with the seasons) and they come out ONLY if the kids are reverent and singing beautifully. The little kids love it---they sing their hearts out, and if they sing amazingly well my "friends" will dance to the song. Simple but it never seems to get old and holds their attention amazingly well...plus gives them incentive to sing --if they forget the words or stop singing my "friend" does retreat back into the can until they sing well again.
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Post by avsfan on Feb 9, 2009 11:05:36 GMT -5
My favorite review tool for Jr. Primary has been one of my empty #10 food storage cans. I removed the top and bottom (I have a "safety" can opener so the edges are safe) and put one of the white lids on the top. I cut it the lid like a pie shape so I take various "friends" (puppets--often correlating with the seasons) and they come out ONLY if the kids are reverent and singing beautifully. The little kids love it---they sing their hearts out, and if they sing amazingly well my "friends" will dance to the song. Simple but it never seems to get old and holds their attention amazingly well...plus gives them incentive to sing --if they forget the words or stop singing my "friend" does retreat back into the can until they sing well again. I like this! I'm going to do it. Jr. would love this. |
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Post by versiculouno on Feb 20, 2009 23:21:58 GMT -5
These are wonderful!
Our kids also like "Name that Tune" or "Stop and Go".
Another time I also used plastic cups as bowling pins. I placed them all in a row with a song or verse inside, and which ever cup they knocked over, we sang that.
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Post by bradybunch on Feb 22, 2009 0:07:30 GMT -5
One thing I did to change up how I review a song is to bring a large dice made from a cardboard box, and the number on each side represents one fun way to review the song. So a child rolls a 1 - we play hide the note while singing the song we are reviewing. Rolls a 2 - we pick a style to sing the song (fast, slow, boys only, staccato, etc.). Rolls a 3 - we sing it while clapping a rhythm, etc.
I usually have one of the sides be "teacher performance" - the kids LOVE to hear just the teachers singing.
I love all the ideas posted here for review, and I'm going to add some of them to the options for when they roll the dice.
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Post by pach on Feb 24, 2009 15:52:48 GMT -5
I like to play tic tac toe with mine. If they sing the line really good they get an X if not I get an O...They like it and sing really hard so that I don't win. Also whenever I start to do any sort of game and they get a little rowdy I remind them that they have to be reverent otherwise we will just start singing form page 2 in the Childrens hymn book. I've only had to do this once, ever since then they know that it is not a threat but a promise.
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Post by calgarymomto3 on Feb 24, 2009 20:31:07 GMT -5
LOL pach, that is too funny about starting from pg 1 in the songbook. I did that too when I was chorister. And like you, I only had to do it once, and then they knew I meant business.
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Post by 9sfine on Feb 27, 2009 14:59:34 GMT -5
Thanks! I want to review with my Sr Primary and they seem to be bored lately. They are learning really quickly, and there are some fun ideas!
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Post by jkkd80 on Feb 27, 2009 15:14:03 GMT -5
This week for HFAF in Senior Primary, I wrote the first letter to each word on the chalkboard and we sang the song. Then I choose good singers to roll the dice and erase that many letters. Each time we did something different - first time: sing the whole song, 2nd time: skip the words that the letter has been erased; 3rd time: sing ONLY the words that the letter has been erased, 4th time: whole song again since most of it was gone by now. The kids really liked it and at the end were even "cheating" to get big numbers to try to get all the letters erased.
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Post by versiculouno on Feb 28, 2009 23:59:17 GMT -5
Pach, I love the Tic Tac Toe idea! I think our kids would love that!
A friend told me this one, and I am planning to try it out... tape record junior primary singing the song you are reviewing, then play it for senior. Then tape senior and play it for junior (the following week). My friend told me the kids loved hearing themselves and sang better since they were being recorded!
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Post by Tanya on Mar 14, 2009 13:21:11 GMT -5
My favorite review activity is to get all my visuals and cut a poster board to fit all my visuals in a order on it. I then get my brother-in-law(he is great at drawing) to draw a funny picture that goes with the song. For HFAF he drew a house that sled off a sanding beach, floating in the water. he made it real fun with fish and people peeking out off the windows. We colored it bright colors. then covered it with the visuals.
As the kids sang the song good we would take some visuals down showing part of the picture hidden behind it. The kids were so willing to sing the song over and over again just to see the picture on the back.
If the kids didn't sing good we wouldn't take any visuals down-this only happened once. After the picture was fully revealed I got a chance to explain what the picture meant and the propose of the song. I loved this and it works great for SR and JR Primary!!
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