My Ward Primary have been having difficulty remembering the 3rd verse of this song. We haven’t, after all, been learning it for very long.
They have been a bit restless because of school holidays here as well, so I thought I would revise the third verse AND get them active all at the same time.
We’re going to play 4 corners. Here’s what you need:-
- You might already have the verses in a flip chart, so use only the 3rd verse from that and stick one ‘paragraph/section’ up in each of the 4 corners of your room. If you don’t have the third verse to a flip chart yet, click here: Sugar Doodle flip chart or here if you don’t want to use too much colour ink: Scribd flip chart (change ‘when’ I listen with my heart to “if” I listen with my heart).
- Print out small cards for the Pianist (found here: 3rd verse If I Listen with my heart).
- Teachers (if doing this for Jnr Primary) who will help their classes and make a big deal of choosing a corner). Snrs can manage this game by themselves
How to play:-
- Everyone needs to choose a corner quickly and remain in that corner.
- The Primary Pianist will shuffle their cards, pick one, match it up to their music and play that section.
- The group who is standing in that matching corner is in the ‘hot spot’. For the Jnrs, they must sing the words in their corner perfectly (with their eyes closed?) in order to keep playing. You can choose to either let that one group sing it, or the entire Jnr Primary. Snrs need to sing the whole 3rd verse up to that part. Again, you can decide whether to let only the group in that corner sing, or the entire Primary.
- We start again – choose a different corner, or remain in the same.
I’m also going to do some fun action songs, but this will be our quick revision this coming Sunday 😀
