We all have christmas programs coming up, so I have been trying to teach a few different CS christmas songs to the primary kids instead of always singing the same three songs. Picture a Christmas and Little Jesus is the goal for this sunday.
Here: http://primarysingingtimeideas.blogspot.com/2010/11/picture-christmas.html is a very helpful link. I used many of the pictures provided here and substitued a few different ones. I took a 5 x 7 picture frame from home and plan to teach the song how she suggested at the linked blog. Which is, basically, having the children take turns framing each picture in the appropriate order and mixing it up each time.
However, I'm also adding some hand motions. For example, every time we sing "picture a" we'll make a rectangle in the air with both hands. And "baby Jesus" we swing our arms like coddling a baby. I'm hoping by adding motions they will help the words stick a bit more as I know for a fact I taught this song last year but the children claim they don't know it (which means it didn't stick).
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