Primary

At the beginning of the year, I was called to be the Primary Chorister. I was so nervous! Very excited but a little overwhelmed. The first few weeks were rough, and the poor kids had to suffer through my jitters and uncomfortableness. Then my awesome sister in law emailed me some links of blogs and other websites that are designed for primary choristers. They are AMAZING!!! They have a bunch of suggestions and they actually go along with the primary outline, so they will give ideas on how to do the song for that month. I have got some great material from them. I am addicted to them and look at them all time. I love to see what they have suggested or planned, and then I just run with it. It has helped me so much. And it has made it so much fun. So far we have done some great things and I think the kids, and myself, are enjoying it. I feel lucky to have this calling. Here are the addresses to the websites I look at:

http://www.thecrazychorister.blogspot.com/
http://primarysingingtimeideas.blogspot.com/
http://ldsprimaryposters.blogspot.com/

This month's song is Follow The Prophet. I thought a fun thing to do to help the kids learn the verses would be to have a time machine and have the prophets come visit us. (This was an idea on one of the websites too, but I thought of it before I read it, so I am taking credit. :) So with the help of my WONDERFUL, most AMAZING and FABULOUS husband, we successfully had a time machine and Adam and Moses come through to talk to our primary. It was a big hit. I loved it and so did they.

Here is the time machine Ben and I built


And the dial to turn it to the dispensation we wanted. (I foresee us using it again)


We had Adam come through first


And then Moses


It turned out so great- thanks to Ben-he is such a great sport and so good to me. The kids were just amazed and it was a lot of fun. One of the little kids even went up to Ben after church (Ben was in his regular clothes) and the kid said to him, "I know it was you. I don't know how you did it, but I am going to figure it out." It was hilarious.

I really love this calling. It is so fun. I love being able to teach the children through music, and to see their testimonies shine through as they sing. One of the primary chorister websites says "Think of it this way...you will be the only teacher in a primary child's life that will be able to say that the primary kids you taught still know the lessons you gave them word for word." I like that. :)