How do you Roll on the 5th Sunday

Well, we are going to roll with ROLOS!

Yep, I am going to try the Rolos for Solos that has been filtering around the internet these days, but FIRST!!!!!! I am going to do the Back to School Review thanks to Camille's Primary Ideas

Because I do have the entire time on the Fifth Sunday:
This is how we'll roll

First we will do the Back to school review and you can find my list HERE (Completely forged from Camille with my songs replacing her pick your own songs and since I have opted [yet again] to not sign this year - I replaced the pencil idea with a highlighter idea).

This way, we sing through all the songs, so when I am ready to switch to the solos part - we have already gone over them. What I am going to do for the solos part is just ask the kids who would like to sing, that child gets to pick what they sing and I will have them sing a few lines or a verse (depending on the child) and then we as a primary will either finish the song or sing it again. I have starbursts as an alternative. And as I saw on the Facebook page, everyone gets a rolo at the end for being a good audience

HERE is my image-pilfered-from-google sign that I will post when we are done with the Back to School review

"In His Holy Name" building mountains activity

I am posting this post-singing time, but there are a few weeks in August left, so I thought I would post anyway.

So on the Chorister's Facebook page, someone posted an idea about building the song from the bottom up (which you could basically do with any song, really), so I made some mountains!

I took a piece of posterboard folded it in half, drew a line from the top middle down to about an inch from the bottom to make my mountain. (And I could have gone to Hobby Lobby and bought the gray poster board, but I am super cheap and just used a gray crayon to color the mountain except for the snow capped "top").

I thought that working from the bottom up would be a good thing and for the verses it was okay, but when I tried that for the chorus, it was disastrous and I ended up erasing quite a lot

If you look closely, you can see how much I wrote and re-wrote beneath the the letters written in marker.

Then, I cut up the verses and for junior, we built from the bottom up and put the pieces on the board, and then attached a flag at the top.
For senior, I threw all the cut up pieces from both verses on the floor and had the kids arrange the words back into their proper place. Then we played guess the words of the piece that we just took away

Thank you Facebook!

In His Holy Name Melody Map

Ho.

Ly.

Cow.

I think this took me about 4 hours. But it is so WORTH IT. Well, at least I think it is.

So, this time, I made a map with just the boxes of color (like I did for the Fourth Article of Faith) and THEN I put the words on the map in the appropriate boxes. Which I think looks really cool (because I used teeny tiny versions of the pictures that I used last week to replace the corresponding words).

HERE is my plain, wordless, picture-less melody map. (One verse, one chorus and 9a is the first verse chorus ending, 9b is the scond verse chorus ending and 10 is last part of the chorus that is tacked on the end {I don't know the technical term - please accept my apologies})

HERE is the first verse, with the chorus

HERE is the second verse, also with the chorus (even though I will probably only print up one chorus, but I just didn't feel like deleting it)

And FYI, I starred the Fermata in the chorus on the word "dead" (and included a picture of a fermata) basically so I would remember to talk about fermatas and what they are and how to deal with them {and I toyed with the idea of not including the picture, but as I stated earlier it is my FAVORITE and I could not do that}

And I just noticed some formatting problems when viewing the second verse document, but hopefully it will order itself out when you open it in non-protected view. Or at the very least, maybe you can edit the text boxes and stretch them out so that the words don't wrap around like they are doing right now.

I just don't think I can edit right now. My brain is fried - as well as dinner - it is a total fail and I sent my oldest out for pizza and bagged salad

**Last minute note: At least for my printer, both blue colored boxes (there is a light and a darker blue color) and the purple do not have enough contrast with the black words. I changed the words to yellow and they look much better**

First Week of "In His Holy Name"

If you haven't heard, I LOVE THIS SONG!! And I can't WAIT  to teach it. But, I'll be flying solo, so I'll have to make this all up on my own.
For my introduction, I will be using pictures from the library!!!!!! And it so helps that we are already learning about Jesus and they have already seen these pictures and have heard these stories. This curriculum is truly inspired! Half the work is already done (by someone else! So genius!)

HERE is where you can find the text of the song on lds.org

1. When Jesus lived upon the earth,
He showed His love for all mankind.

(at this point, you could show a picture of Jesus being born, but I am going to skip straight to his adult years starting with the picture of Him and Mary and Martha - you know, because it is cool)

                                                       (this image can be found HERE)
 

He blessed the faithful through His pow’r
and made them whole again.

for this, I chose the woman at the well picture which I will have to print unless I buy another gospel art picture book (my original disappeared into thin air) and I wanted a picture that seemed to fit the healing aspect of the verse a little bit more, but I really use all of those for the chorus

                                                          (this picture can be found HERE)

Chorus: Jesus cleansed the leper  

this picture was used in a sharing time and I had never seen it before. But it came from the library, so I am really excited to use it (especially since the first counselor already went over the story associated with it - see half the work done already!) However, I can't seem to find it on lds.org, so hopefully you can locate it in your library without a problem

                                             (hopefully this link will work: click HERE)

and helped the blind to see.

this classic was used in the same aforementioned sharing time

                                                  (this picture can be found HERE)

Jesus healed the sick in Galilee.

Yes, I am totally going to rip from google images and just print a cute map. Sorry. I know I have disappointed someone (I might actually head back to the library and see if I can pull up a map of Galilee from there, but that does require effort, so I may just click "print" instead)

                                        (this picture can be found HERE)
He laid His hands upon each head; Yes, yes, I know this is a picture of Him ordaining the apostles rather than blessing sick people, but I still think it totally works. However, I couldn't find it in the library today which means I'll have to print it - or rifle through the manual pictures (Isn't it super awesome how the lds.org site tells you ALL the places you can find each picture?! More genius!)

                                                     (this picture can be found HERE)
He blessed the deaf I found this picture on google image search and didn't know that it was LDS until I clicked the link. Do you remember those books that told of bible and book of Mormon stories that were illustrated and had captions for each picture (you know, obviously meant for children)? I think that this comes from those. The link takes you to a page with three pictures, but I like the first one best and will use that one. This one will definitely need to be printed

                                                        (you can find this picture HERE)

and raised the dead;The only thing I can say about this one is that it is my favorite picture of Jesus EVER

                                                        (this picture can be found HERE)
He blessed the lame to walk again in His holy name.

2. It comforts me that I’ll be blessed
as hands are laid upon my head I found this picture in the library and it obviously came from manual kit, but I could not find it on lds.org

                                                         (this picture can be found HERE) 

               (There is another picture of priesthood blessing the sick on lds.org found HERE)
by worthy men with heavn’ly pow’r
to make me whole again. For this, I wanted a distinct picture of the men giving the blessing, rather than just their hands. This could totally be represented by the priesthood blessing the sick picture that I just mentioned which can be found in the Sunbeam manual picture packet, or a various number of other pictures, but I particularly liked this one (even though it is not linked to lds.org)

                                                       (this picture can be found HERE)
And the best thing about this song is that it is one of those
"This is what Jesus Did
Chorus
This is how it relates to me
Chorus"
songs!  I love it!!!

August Planning

So, I am writing this in the beginning of July - because crazily enough, I have time - so I am going to use it.
But that does mean that this will be bare bones. Once August does arrive, because I will be working activities for "In His Holy Name" from the February 1996 friend and probably will not have time to post a planning post.

So, as stated I will work on "In His Holy Name" which can be really hard to find, but it is beautiful, so I just can't give it up.
I finally, finally found a youtube video of it HERE
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And I am really excited about this song. But I do realize that I will be making all the activities myself since I am probably the only one in the world doing this song for August

You can find my schedule HERE

You can find a partial document of the songs I will be posting (I already have some of these songs for posting and I am super lazy and did not find and format the other songs that I had printed previously)
HERE

Fourth Article of Faith Melody Map

So, these Melody Maps are HARD to make. But I like them. I think they help me. But I am not sure if I am the only one that they help. However, I decided to make one for my May song anyway.

For May, I just felt that The Fourth Article of Faith was the best choice. However, if you have ever sung this song (or any of these odd Article of Faith songs), you will most likely agree that the timing is WEIRD. So for that reason, I decided that a melody map would be essential.

And because of the funky timing, I decided to color code the types of notes (e.g. quarter notes are green, half notes are purple, etc) I did also put on the side of the paper a key to guide me where to place the different notes (you will notice that b and c, for example are closer to each other than c or d, and that is because I tried to space the notes as they are spaced on the piano [b natural and c natural are only a half note apart whereas c natural and d natural are a full note apart] - now I may have gotten this incorrect, so please accept my apologies and please please please correct me (as I will probably never know better enough to correct myself)). 

A very nice thing about this particular song is that it is in the key of C major (I think) and there are no accidentals included in the song. Which makes it easier to map.

HERE is my melody map for the fourth article of Faith. Enjoy!

Follow the prophet cards expanded

So ------- let's talk about how computer illiterate I really am.

It is actually quite bad.

And a bit embarrassing.

But I really know absolutely nothing.

All I wanted to do was tile an image. And that isn't too terribly difficult............IF...........you have a pdf. (Because if you have a pdf, all you do is go to print then in that neat little box you select the poster button and from there you enter a number into tile scale (200 gets you 6 blocks [or pages in this case]) and then you hit print and your printer (if it has enough ink) really does the rest. You do have to cut off the margins, but really it is an AWESOME tool)

But I didn't have a pdf. I had a jpg.

And how do you convert a jpg to a pdf? I still don't know. At least without spending money for some converter program (and even the "trial version" will convert an image that has an annoying "sample" watermark or even more annoying ad like box describing how it is created from a trial version.)

So I used my non-existent knowledge (or at the very least vastly inferior knowledge) of windows photo viewer and paint to kind of in an archaic and caveman like way blow up this very awesome jpg:

found from the March 2010 HERE (you need to keep scrolling - it is the 2nd picture in the article)

 

I saved the file from lds.org. Then I double clicked it which opened it in Windows photo viewer. Once in Windows Photo Viewer, I clicked the open tab. From the drop down menu, I clicked open in paint (I bet there is a way to bypass this step, but please bear with my ignorance.)

 

Once it was open in Paint, I clicked the select tool.  I used it to highlight just one of the cards. I then clicked the crop button. Then I clicked resize. In my version of Paint, when you click resize, the default selection is percentage. I found that if I highlighted one of the boxes where 100 was and changed it to 300, it would produce just about the right size.

From there, I inserted each cropped and enlarged image into word, so I have a page for each "card".

Now that I have 9 standard page size images, next week I will use Primary Note 29's spin the chair idea for review.

I haven't printed this yet, and I may find some of these images in my sunbeam picture packet and just print the words and slap them on the picture to save ink (of course some of these images - like that fantastic Jonah one that defies description - are not in my sunbeam picture packet)

HERE is my document of each of the pictures in the above jpg on individual pages.

Please excuse my incompetence in this computer stuff.

He Sent His Son melody map

Have you seen these melody maps cropping up everywhere? I would link to some, but as this an 11th hour activity (literally - it is 11 o clock in my area of the world - yes on SATURDAY NIGHT!), you'll just have to imagine with me.

I made a melody map for He Sent His Son!

Is it perfect? Absolutely not! Does it probably need work? Definitely! Aren't you so glad that google docs are editable? I know I sure am!

So click on this last minute lesson (if you don't mind all of its flaws)

Melody Map for He Sent His Son

I Know My Savior Loves Me

So I have been looking for things to introduce "I Know My Savior Loves Me" - we already have a poster that someone made years ago, but I thought I could find a way to put a new spin on it.

And boy did I find it.

Get your tissues ready and if you wish me luck to read this story to the kids in January without breaking down into a blubbering blob: I will do the same for you.

Sugardoodle: one of my favorite cheat sites ever: has a post from a sister who wrote a story for the kids to imagine what it would be like to be a Nephite child when Jesus came to America. I can't even think about it without tearing up - much less reading it OUT LOUD.

You can find that story HERE

As per her suggestion, I will use several pictures found in the gospel art book (which you can download in its entirety from the lds.org website - how awesome is that ?!) I will use pictures numbered 81-84 (which are actually pages 93-96 in the pdf). I am sure I have some of those floating around in my vast mumbled collection of church items, but it sure is nice to know that I now have the entire Gospel Art Book digitally available at the click of a button (or mouse - or touchpad  - or actual screen if you have a fancy dancy touchscreen computer like my husband does [but he won't let me touch it])

The Yearly Planner, Take Two

So in hopes of correcting the Mac problem a reader was having, I have uploaded my yearly planner in pdf format to google docs. You can find it HERE.

If anyone has a problem with this one, please let me know!

UPDATE * In the process of posting the bare bones of my planner to the previous post, I realized that I had all the dates in December listed incorrectly. (They are the dates for this year actually.) I have corrected it and will re-upload both documents (in word and pdf formats) HERE for word and HERE for pdf.

What's Up, Mac?

Well, please let me admit that I am just about computer illiterate.  I can cut copy paste and play minesweeper, but that is just about it. So when I got a comment from a Mac user saying that she was unable to open my file, I thought:

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............

Yep, that was all I thought.

I really have no idea how to upload a Mac Downloadable file. So I did the next best thing thing I could think of:

Copy and paste all of the information directly to the body of this post.

I may try to post a pdf of it soon (I really have no clue if google docs will accept a pdf file or if I have to go back and upload on scribd), but for right now, copy and pasting is all my lazy self has attempted (and it's not even complete - hopefully I will update the last four months soon).

January

Theme: “We Believe in God the Eternal Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ”

Scripture: Articles of Faith 1:1

Song of Month: I Know That My Savior Loves Me (Outline)

Birthday Song: Feliz Cumpleanos verse 1 p. 282

Welcome Song:  Hello Friends! p. 254

                             

January 4th:

God is the Father of my Spirit

Opening Song:   I am a Child of God p. 2

 

January 11th:

Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Opening Song: This is my Beloved Son p. 76

 

 

January 19^th:

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ Love Me.

Opening song:   I feel My Savior’s Love p. 74

January 26^th

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ Love Me.

Opening Song: I’m Trying to be like Jesus p. 78

 

February

Theme: “Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer”

Scripture: John 3:16

Song of Month: He Sent His Son C.S. p. 34

Birthday Song: Feliz Cumpleanos verse 2 p. 282

Welcome Song:  Hello Song p. 260

February 1^st

Jesus Christ is My Savior and Redeemer

Opening Song: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus p. 57

February 8^th

Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all mankind may be saved.

Opening: He Died that we May Live Again p. 65

February 15^th

Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all mankind may be saved.

Opening song: Did Jesus Really Live Again p.64

February 22^nd

 

Jesus Christ was resurrected and I will be, too.

Opening song: On A Golden Springtime p.88   

March

Theme: “God Speaks Through Prophets”

Scripture: Luke 1:70

Song of Month: Follow the Prophet C.S. p. 110

Birthday Song: Your Happy Birthday p. 283

Welcome Song:  Our Door is Always Open P. 254

March 1^st

Prophets are called by God.

Opening Song: Build an Ark September 2010 Friend

March 8^th

Prophets testify of Jesus Christ.

Opening Song: Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus p. 36

March 15^th

There is safety in following the prophet.

Opening Song: Keep the Commandments p. 146

March 22^nd

God Speaks through Prophets

Opening Song: Latter Day Prophets p. 134

March 29^th

Opening Song: To think about Jesus p. 71

April

Theme: “Jesus Christ Restored the Fulness of the Gospel Through Joseph Smith”

Scripture: Articles of Faith 1:6

Song of Month: The Church of Jesus Christ C.S. p. 77

Birthday Song: Happy, Happy Birthday p.284

Welcome Song:  Here We Are Together p.261

April 5^th

GENERAL CONFERENCE  Easter

April 12^th

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith

Opening Song: The Sacred Grove 87

April 19^th

Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God

Opening Song: The Golden Plates 86

April 26^th

Jesus Christ restored the Gospel Through Joseph Smith

Opening Song: This is My Beloved Son p. 76

May

Theme: “Principles and Ordinances of the gospel lead me to Jesus Christ”

Scripture: Articles of Faith 1:4

Song of Month: Fourth Article of Faith C.S.p.124

Birthday Song: Have a Very Happy Birthday (1^st verse) p. 284

Welcome Song:  Come with Me to Primary p. 255

 

May 3^rd

My Faith In Jesus Christ is Strengthened when I obey.

Opening Song: Faith p.96

May 10^th Mother’s Day!

I can repent.

Opening Song: Mother, Tell Me the Story p.204-205

May 17^th

When I am baptized I covenant with God.

Opening Song: When I am Baptized p. 103

May 24^th

When I am Confirmed I receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

Opening song: The Holly ghost p.105

May 31^th

Opening Song: The Fourth Article of Faith p.124

June

Theme: “The Holy Ghost Testifies of the Truth of all Things”

Scripture: Moroni 10:5

Song of Month: The Holy Ghost – C.S. p.105

Birthday Song: Have a Very Happy Birthday (2^nd verse) p. 284

Welcome Song:  Our Primary Colors p.258

June 7^th

The Holy Ghost is the Third member of the Godhead.

Opening Song: The First Article of Faith p. 122

June 14^th

The Holy Ghost speaks in a still small voice.

Opening Song: The Still Small Voice p. 106

June 21^st Father’s Day!

The Holy Ghost Can Guide and protect us.

Opening Song: Listen, Listen p. 107

June 28^th Independence Day!

By the Power of the Holy Ghost we may know the Truth of all things.

Opening Song: Search Ponder and Pray p. 109

July

Theme: “I Can Follow Jesus Christ’s Example”

Scripture: Luke 18:22

Song of Month: Come Follow Me - Hymns p.116

Birthday Song: Have a Very Happy Birthday (3^rd verse) p. 284

Welcome Song:  We Welcome You p. 256-257

July 5^th

Jesus Christ Always Obeyed Heavenly Father.

Opening Song: Baptism vs. 2 p. 100

                                

July 12^th 

Jesus Christ Went about doing good.

Opening Song: Jesus Said Love Everyone p. 61

July 19^th

Jesus Christ’s example teaches me how to live.

Opening Song: I Feel My Savior’s Love p. 74

July 26^th

Jesus Christ’s example teaches me how to live.

Opening Song: I’m Trying to be Like Jesus p. 78

August

Theme: “Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He is a God of Miracles”

Scripture: 2Nephi 27:23

Song of Month: In His Holy Name - Friend February 1996

Birthday Song: Your Happy Birthday p. 283

Welcome Song:  Hello Song p. 260

August 2^nd

Jesus Christ is a God of Miracles

Opening Song: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus p. 57

August 9^th

Jesus Christ can Heal the Sick

Opening Song: When He Comes Again p. 82

August 16^th

Jesus Christ Has Power over death.

Opening Song: He Sent His Son p. 34

August 23^rd

Miracles Come to those who have faith

Opening Song: I Pray in Faith p. 14

August 30^th

Opening Song: Oh What do You Do in the Summertime? P. 245

September

Theme: “I Obey Jesus Christ Because I Love Him”

Scripture: John 14:15

Birthday Song: Happy, Happy Birthday p.284

Welcome Song:  Here We Are Together p. 261

September 6th

I show love for Jesus Christ when I keep the commandments.

Opening Song: Keep the Commandments p. 146

September 13^th

I show love for Jesus Christ when I keep the commandments.

Opening Song: Give, Said the Little Stream p.236

September 20^th

My Love For Jesus Christ Grows When I pray.

Opening Song: I Am Like a Star p. 163

September 27^th

My Love For Jesus Christ Grows When I search the scriptures.

Opening Song: Scripture Power

October

Theme: “The Mission of the Church is to Invite All to Come Unto Christ”

Scripture: Moroni 10:32

Birthday Song: You’ve Had a Birthday p.285

Welcome Song:  Our Door is Always Open p.254

October 4^th GENERAL CONFERENCE

Following the Prophet will help us come unto Christ.

October 11^th

Sharing the gospel helps others come unto Christ.

Opening Song: I hope they Call  Me on a Mission p. 169

October 18^th

We Come unto Christ by repenting when we make a mistake

Opening Song: I Will Follow God’s plan p.164

October 25^th

Temple work helps me and my family come unto Christ.

Opening Song: Families Can Be Together Forever p. 188

November

Theme: “When We Serve Others, We Serve God”

Scripture: Mosiah 2:17

Birthday Song: You’ve Had a Birthday p.285

Welcome Song:  Hello Song p.26

November 1^st

Jesus Christ taught us how to serve others.

Opening Song: I lived in Heaven 4

November 8^th

Jesus Christ taught us how to serve others.

Opening Song: For Health and Strength 21

November 15^th  

When I serve my family, I serve God.

Opening Song: The Family is of God

November 22^nd

When I serve my neighbors, I serve God.

Opening Song: Father We Thank Thee for the Night 8

November 30

Opening Song: Have a Very Merry Christmas 51

December

Theme: “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”

Scripture: Doctrine &Covenants 72:66

Birthday Song: Happy, Happy Birthday p. 284

Welcome Song:  Come with me to Primary p. 253

December 6

Jesus Christ Came to Earth as promised by the prophets

Opening Song: Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus p. 37

December 13

Jesus Christ is the Savior of the Earth

Opening Song: Away In a Manger 42-43

December 20

The Son of God was born on earth.

Opening Song: Stars Were Gleaming 37

December 27

Jesus Christ will come again.

Opening Song: Did Jesus Really Live Again p. 64