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PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing this curriculum grants the purchaser a license to use it for students and teachers of ONE choir. If multiple choirs are using this curriculum, an additional curriculum package should be purchased for each choir. Please do not reproduce these resources or share with others outside the specific choir for which they were purchased. Help us ensure that future generations will benefit from Growing in Grace Children’s Music Curriculum.

Keep on Singing: SHORT STORIES, TALL TRUTHS is a flexible curriculum for children’s music ministries, suitable for in-person teaching, distance learning, or a hybrid of both. Stay connected to children and their families with spiritual encouragement and uplifting songs and activities. With a greater degree of adaptability than traditional curriculum and more opportunities for video instruction, this engaging resource is easily integrated into the classroom or the home.

Keep on Singing: Short Stories, Tall Truths features all new content from Growing in Grace. Thematically, it draws from some of the best-known words of Jesus —the Parables. Through developmentally-appropriate songs and activities, children will delve into six parables at the heart of Christian faith. Challenge children to connect with Jesus through biblical lessons that have withstood the test of time.

The curriculum includes 11 easy-to-learn, scripture-based songs for general use, Palm Sunday, and Easter, as well as scores, student scores, teaching steps, visuals, demonstration and accompaniment recordings, and a sing-along video for each song. The curriculum also includes 10 video-based activities designed to work well in groups or for a single student, along with activity teaching steps and activity visuals. 15 KIDPages with teaching steps and 15 age-appropriate devotionals complete the package.

New Curriculum Features• The following materials are now included in the Keep on Singing curriculum:

° Song Teaching Steps ° Activity Teaching Steps ° Song Teaching Visuals ° Activity Visuals ° Session Outline Cards

Welcome to

Digital Curriculum for In-Person or Distance Learning.

Keep on Singing:SHORT STORIES, TALL TRUTHS

• A Poster Kit of professionally-printed, oversized visuals is now available for purchase. It contains all curriculum visuals larger than 8.5”x11”. Digital versions of all visuals, both PrintReady and Multi-page, are available in the curriculum visual folders. All 8.5”x11” curriculum components, including one-page visuals, songs, KIDPages, and teaching steps are printed by the user, as always.

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In-Person Teaching• Print and distribute materials to teachers as needed.• Print, assemble, and display visuals as needed. PrintReady Visuals are oversized PDFs formatted to import into multimedia presentations or to be printed on large format printers. Hard copies of PrintReady Visuals are also available for purchase from Growing in Grace in our professionally printed Poster Kit.• Printing tips:

° Ensure the Auto Rotate and Center option is checked in the print dialogue box. ° Most color items may be printed and used successfully in grayscale if a color printer is not

available. ° 8.5” x 11” visuals may be easily enlarged to 11”x17” size. ° Some materials should be printed on cardstock and/or laminated. See teaching steps. ° Print as many copies of curriculum materials and songs as are needed for your choir. ° MultiPrint PDFs combine the same type of components into a single PDF for convenient

printing.• If desired, incorporate Keep on Singing: Short Stories, Tall Truths song videos and activity videos into your in-person teaching.

Distance Learning• Create custom, digital choir sessions by combining curriculum components that meet the

unique needs of your group. Include song videos, activity videos, and a devotional to fit your schedule.

• Some activity videos begin with instructions that explain motions or information needed to successfully complete the activity. If children are already familiar with the activity, you can start the video at the time marking where the activity begins.

• Email or send printed copies of KIDPages to children to complete at home. KIDPage Teaching Steps contain puzzle answers and can be distributed to children and their families.

• Email or deliver Student Scores to homes. Children may follow the printed music as they listen to song videos or participate in online choir sessions.

• Devotionals may be shared online and/or printed and delivered to homes. • Share links for song and activity videos for families to access at their convenience. Encourage

children to watch videos and sing in between sessions. You may share links for individual videos or you may share a link containing all Preschool videos in our Keep on Singing: Short Stories, Tall Truths Preschool Spring Showcase:

Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ShortStoriesTallTruthsPSSpringVideos.

Tips for Using Keep on Singing:Short Stories,Tall Truths

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Curriculum materials are located in the following folders:• Overview and Clipart• Songs (full choral Score with keyboard accompaniment, Student Scores [melody and words only], and instrumental parts)• Song Teaching Steps (step-by-step directions to teach each song)• Activity Teaching Steps (step-by-step directions to teach each activity)• Visuals (Song Teaching Visuals with Checklist, Activity Visuals with Checklist, including all oversized PrintReady versions)• KIDPages (Checklist, KIDPages [worksheets for children], and KIDPage Teaching Steps [for teachers])• Session Outline Cards (abbreviated session plans outlining the use of all Songs, Activities, KIDPages, and Devotionals.)• MultiPrint (same curriculum components compiled into single PDFs for easy printing)• Devotionals• Session Outline Cards (abbreviated session plans outlining the use of all Songs, Activities, KIDPages, and Devotionals

Curriculum materials located online:• Curriculum Song Videos (video versions of curriculum songs, including song lyrics with the demonstration recording)• Activity Videos (video versions of curriculum activities)• Demonstration Videos (demonstrations of various curriculum components, including choreography, activities, and sign language) [Hyperlinks are embedded within PDF Teaching Steps.]

Recordings:• Demonstration (Demo) Recordings with voices• Accompaniment (Track) Recordings without voices• Activity Recordings

Curriculum materials are located in the following folders:

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Be Kind – Words and Music by Nan Grantham © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rightsreserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

Happy, Helping, Healing Words – Words and Music by Andrew Wesley © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division ofCelebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

Here Comes Jesus (Palm Sunday) – Words and Music by Carol Huffman Dickerson © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, adivision of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved.Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

I Know That Pleases God – Words and Music by Naomi King Walker © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division ofCelebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

It’s Time for Spring – Words by Milton LeDoux, Music by Joanne LeDoux © ℗ 2021 Billingsly Square Music, a division ofCelebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

Our God – Words and Music by Claire Russell © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rightsreserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

Rolling That Stone Away (Easter) – Words and Music by Ruth Elaine Schram and Aren Newell Williams © ℗ 2021 CelebratingGrace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

The Builders – Words and Music by Elizabeth Charles © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. Allrights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

Stories of Jesus – Based on the hymn, “Tell Me the Stories of Jesus”/Additional Words and Music by Dennis Allen and Nan Allen© ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

There’s No One Exactly Like Me – Words and Music by Becki Slagle Mayo © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division ofCelebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved.Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

Welcome, All People – Words and Music by C. E. Walz © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc.All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/SongVideoLink

KIDPAGES• Blowing Bubbles• Heart Beats• Here Comes Jesus• Hosanna• How Many Sounds• I Am Special• Missing Spring Letters

• Oh, What a Happy Day• Same and Different Eyes• Solid Rock Patterns• The Wise Builder• There’s No One Exactly Like Me• Time for Music—Time for Spring• Turn Your Frown Upside Down• Working on the Farm

CURRICULUM SONGS/RECORDINGS/VIDEOS

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Beat Bucket Beats – Created by Susan Eernisse; Traditional Folk Song; Words adapted by Dora Ann Purdy © ℗ 2021 CelebratingGrace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

“Five Little Ducks” – Words and Music by Glenn Eernisse and Susan Eernisse © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division ofCelebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

“Mister Farmer” – Words and Music by Carol Huffman Dickerson © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of CelebratingGrace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

Move and Freeze – Created by Carol Huffman Dickerson; Excerpt from “Rondo Alla Turca” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart© ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

“Praise Him, Praise Him” – Anonymous; Arranged by Carol Huffman Dickerson © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a divisionof Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved.Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

Rhythm Stick Fun – Created by Carol Huffman Dickerson; Excerpt from “Carmen Overture” by Georges Bizet ℗ Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc. © 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

“The Old Gray Cat” – Traditional Words and Music © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. Allrights reserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

Up and Down – Created by Claire Russell © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rightsreserved. Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

Wise Builder Rhythms – Created by Susan Eernisse © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace, Inc. Allrights reserved.Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

Working on the Grapevine – Created by Susan Eernisse © ℗ 2021 Celebrating Grace Music, a division of Celebrating Grace,Inc. All rights reserved.Video Link: growing-in-grace.com/ActivityVideoLink

DEVOTIONALS• Jesus and Parables• Love Your Neighbor• Share Your Gifts• The Lost Coin• Good Soil• Thankful for Good Gifts• Be Like the Wise Builder

• Think Before You Speak• A Parade Through Jerusalem• Do Your Best• Thank You for a Beautiful World• God’s Promise to Protect Us• The Stone Was Rolled Away• Different, but Working Together• Treat Everyone the Same

ACTIVITY VIDEOS

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CURRICULUM VISUALSSONG TEACHING VISUALSTHEME POSTER• Short Stories, Tall Truths Theme Poster*

SONG-RELATED• “Be Kind” Melody Map*• “Happy, Helping, Healing Words” Visuals• “Here Comes Jesus” Visual• “I Know That Pleases God” Visual*• “It’s Time for Spring” Melody Map and Bell Chart*• “It’s Time for Spring” Melody Map and Bell Chart Pointers• “Our God” Loud/Quiet Visual*• “Rolling That Stone Away” Melody Map*• “The Builders” Visual: Foolish Builder*• “The Builders” Visual: Wise Builder* • “There’s No One Exactly Like Me” Visual*• “Welcome, All People” Bell Chart• “Welcome, All People” Visual

ACTIVITY VISUALS• Beat Bucket Beats Visual*• “Five Little Ducks” Visual *• “Five Little Ducks” Visual Add-ons • “Mister Farmer” Melody Patterns Visual*• “Mister Farmer” Seed Packet Visuals• Fruity Freeze Guys Visuals• “Praise Him, Praise Him” Visual*• Rhythm Stick Fun Visual *• “The Old Gray Cat” Visuals 1-5• Up and Down Visuals • Wise Builder Rhythm Patterns• “Working on the Grapevine” Activity Page • “Working on the Grapevine” Visual*

Denotes PrintReady/Poster Kit Visuals. PrintReady Visuals are oversized PDFs formatted for import into multimedia presentations, or to be printed on large format printers. Hard copies of PrintReady Visuals are also available for purchase from Growing in Grace in a professionally-printed Poster Kit, as pictured above.

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CURRICULUM SONGS/VIDEOS• “Be Strong in the Lord”

BeStrongintheLordSongVideo• “Do You Know” (Christmas)

DoYouKnowSongVideo• “Everybody Sing Jesus is Born” (Christmas)

EverybodySingJesusisBornSongVideo• “God Cares for You”

GodCaresforYouSongVideo• “I Am Growing”

IAmGrowingSongVideo• “I Will Praise the Lord”

IWillPraisetheLordSongVideo• “I Will Trust in You”

IWillTrustinYouSongVideo• “Make a Joyful Noise” (Thanksgiving)

MakeaJoyfulNoiseSongVideo• “This Little Light of Mine”

ThisLittleLightofMineSongVideo• “Your Word Is a Lamp”

YourWordIsaLampSongVideo

ACTIVITY VIDEOS• “Bought Me a Cat

BoughtMeaCatActivityVideo• Five Green Frogs

FiveGreenFrogsActivityVideo• Four Little Leaves

FourLittleLeavesActivityVideo• German Instrument Song

GermanInstrumentSongActivityVideo• Guess the Instrument Sound

GuesstheInstrumentSoundActivityVideo• Head, Nose, Knees, and Toes

HeadNoseKneesandToesActivityVideo• I’ve Got Rhythm

IveGotRhythmActivityVideo• Jiggle, Wiggle, Giggle, Freeze

JiggleWiggleGiggleFreezeActivityVideo• John the Rabbit

JohntheRabbitActivityVideo• Willum, He Had Seven Sons

WillumHeHadSevenSonsActivityVideo

KIDPAGES• Color the Turkey (Thanksgiving)• Counting in Bethlehem (Christmas)• Do I Hear It• Fall Counting Fun• Fast and Slow• Hidden Instruments• High-Medium-Low• I Spy a Mitten• Instrument or Not• Long and Short Sounds• Music Symbol Maze• Rhyme It• Run to the Manger Maze (Christmas)• Which One is Different

DEVOTIONALS• Be Strong in the Lord• God Cares for You• God Knew• God Made Us• God Made the Animals• Hope• I Am Growing• I Will Trust in You• Instruments Praise• Jesus Is Born• Keep on Singing• Let Your Light Shine• Make a Joyful Noise• Praise the Lord• Your Word Is a Lamp

Curriculum Components


Beat Bucket Beats• Distribute instruments without using buckets. Point to the visual and have children play and count the

eight beats aloud.

“Five Little Ducks”• Use this activity as written.

“Mister Farmer”• Use Step 1.

Move and Freeze• Use this activity as written, or use without the visuals.

“Praise Him, Praise Him”• Play Demo 30, and perform the motions for the children to mirror as they sing.

Rhythm Stick Fun• Distribute rhythm sticks to children.• Place the visual where you can see it and mirror the rhythm stick motions for the children as Demo 32 is

played.

“The Old Gray Cat”• Use this activity as written.

Up and Down• Use Step 1.

Wise Builder Rhythms• Do not use this activity with threes.

“Working on the Grapevine”• Print several copies of the Activity Page on cardstock and cut apart juice and jelly cards. Use the cards to

play a matching game, a memory game, or a rhythm echo game.

Activities Adapted for Threes

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CURRICULUM SONGS/VIDEOS• “Be Strong in the Lord”

BeStrongintheLordSongVideo• “Do You Know” (Christmas)

DoYouKnowSongVideo• “Everybody Sing Jesus is Born” (Christmas)

EverybodySingJesusisBornSongVideo• “God Cares for You”

GodCaresforYouSongVideo• “I Am Growing”

IAmGrowingSongVideo• “I Will Praise the Lord”

IWillPraisetheLordSongVideo• “I Will Trust in You”

IWillTrustinYouSongVideo• “Make a Joyful Noise” (Thanksgiving)

MakeaJoyfulNoiseSongVideo• “This Little Light of Mine”

ThisLittleLightofMineSongVideo• “Your Word Is a Lamp”

YourWordIsaLampSongVideo

ACTIVITY VIDEOS• “Bought Me a Cat

BoughtMeaCatActivityVideo• Five Green Frogs

FiveGreenFrogsActivityVideo• Four Little Leaves

FourLittleLeavesActivityVideo• German Instrument Song

GermanInstrumentSongActivityVideo• Guess the Instrument Sound

GuesstheInstrumentSoundActivityVideo• Head, Nose, Knees, and Toes

HeadNoseKneesandToesActivityVideo• I’ve Got Rhythm

IveGotRhythmActivityVideo• Jiggle, Wiggle, Giggle, Freeze

JiggleWiggleGiggleFreezeActivityVideo• John the Rabbit

JohntheRabbitActivityVideo• Willum, He Had Seven Sons

WillumHeHadSevenSonsActivityVideo

KIDPAGES• Color the Turkey (Thanksgiving)• Counting in Bethlehem (Christmas)• Do I Hear It• Fall Counting Fun• Fast and Slow• Hidden Instruments• High-Medium-Low• I Spy a Mitten• Instrument or Not• Long and Short Sounds• Music Symbol Maze• Rhyme It• Run to the Manger Maze (Christmas)• Which One is Different

DEVOTIONALS• Be Strong in the Lord• God Cares for You• God Knew• God Made Us• God Made the Animals• Hope• I Am Growing• I Will Trust in You• Instruments Praise• Jesus Is Born• Keep on Singing• Let Your Light Shine• Make a Joyful Noise• Praise the Lord• Your Word Is a Lamp

Curriculum Components


Preschool Tips and Extras

Early Arriver Ideas• Make name tags. (Nametags can be found in Curriculum Companion: Preparations, Programs, & Plusses

for Children’s Music Ministry which can be purchased online at: growing-in-grace.com.)• Repeat an activity the children have enjoyed and could do independently.• Do a “freeze” movement activity. Play a Demo or Track recording and have children move to the music.

Pause the recording randomly and have children “freeze.” Resume the recording and continue as time allows. Option—give specifi c suggestions to freeze as a baseball player, a guitar player, the Statue of Liberty, etc.

• Place some rhythm instruments in a circle. Have children sit by an instrument, pick it up, and play it on the steady beat to a Demo or Track recording. Pause the recording, have children place the instrument down, and move to the next spot and pick up a new instrument. Resume recording and continue as time allows.

• Make an additional set of Animal Cards from the What Do See? Activity, or Vegetable Cards from the Chop, Chop, Chippity Chop Activity, and play a memory game.

• Place the Five Voices Visuals or the Emotions Visual on the fl oor. Have children take turns dropping a bean bag on one of the voices or emotions and repeating a phrase from a song they are learning with the appropriate voice or expression.

• Have children move up and down to match what you play on the step bells. • Attach a large piece of butcher paper on the wall with crayons nearby. Allow children to free-draw or

give suggestions for drawing something related to the parables theme.• Place books in a quiet area.

Special Items Alert• Hula Hoops® for “Plenty” Song Teaching Step 1 in Session 6

Thanksgiving or Christmas Sharing Time• Choose the songs and activities children will share.• Send invitations to parents three weeks before and reminders the following weeks.• Prepare refreshments, if desired.• Gather extra chairs if sharing in your regular choir room.

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Notebook CoverThe front cover of the Preschool Overview may be printed for use as a notebook cover for your printed Growing in Grace Keep on Singing: Short Stories, Tall Truths Curriculum.

Notebook Spine LabelPrint and trim along the dotted line to use the image on the left as a notebook spine label.

Scripture quotations marked ERV are from Easy-to-Read Version. Copyright © 2006 by Bible League International. Scripture quotations marked ICB are from the International Children’s Bible ® Copyright © 1986, 1988, 1999, 2015 by Tommy Nelson™, a division of Thomas Nelson. Used by permission.

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SONG TEACHING STEPS

“Here Comes Jesus” Song Teaching Steps, page 1 Keep on Singing: Short Stories, Tall Truths Spring—Preschool© 2021 Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved.

“Here Comes Jesus”MATERIALS NEEDED• Score• Student Pages• Demo 5• Track 6• “Here Comes Jesus” Visual• Colorful ribbon in one-yard

lengths, one per child• Plastic shower curtain rings,

one per child• G and E resonator bells and

mallets• Rhythm sticks, two per

child (or tick-tock blocks, if available)

PREPARATION• Print visual.• Make ribbon streamers by

folding ribbon lengths in half and attaching them with a slip knot to plastic shower curtain rings.

1. Teach the Chorus (mm. 11-18).• Display the “Here Comes Jesus” Visual and tell the Palm Sunday

story: Jesus rode a donkey into the city of Jerusalem. People placed their

coats on the road to make the ride smooth for Jesus. They waved palm tree branches and shouted, “Hosanna!” to worship Jesus, the King.

• Distribute ribbon streamers.• Demonstrate singing the chorus (mm. 11-18) and moving a streamer

back and forth overhead in an arc for each Ho-san-na (pronounced hoh-zah-nah).

• Repeat, having children sing and move their streamers with you.• Cue Demo 5 to measure 11, and sing with the streamer movements.

2. Teach the Verse (mm. 3-10).• Echo sing measure 3 (Here comes Je-sus) while playing the melody

on the resonator bells (G-G-E-E).• Allow children to take turns playing the pattern as all sing.• Echo sing meas. 7 (Clip, clop, clip, clop) in the same way.• Sing the Verse (mm. 3-10) and have children join you in singing

meas. 3 and 7.• Echo sing the entire Verse in two-measure phrases.• Review the Chorus without the streamers.• Play Demo 5, and sing the entire song excluding the final two

measures.

3. Teach the Ending (mm. 20-21) and act out the story.• Echo sing the final phrase (mm. 20-21), then sing the Verse the

second time through, taking the Coda in measure 9.• Display the visual and review the Palm Sunday story: Jesus rode a donkey into the city of Jerusalem. People placed their

coats on the road to make the ride smooth for Jesus. They waved palm tree branches and shouted, “Hosanna!” to worship Jesus, the King.

• Tell children they will act out the story.• Choose a child to be Jesus. Distribute streamers to others.• Play Demo 5.• Have the child playing Jesus walk back and forth in front of the group as

all sing. Have the group wave their streamers on the hosannas during the chorus.

• Choose another child to be Jesus and repeat as time allows.

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4. Add rhythm sticks.• Echo sing meas. 7 (Clip-clop-clip-clop).• Lead children to discover that Clip-clop-clip-clop imitates the sound

of the donkey’s hooves as it walked.• Demonstrate playing rhythm sticks or tick-tock block (if available)

and singing meas. 7.

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• Distribute rhythm sticks (or tick-tock blocks, if available).• Have children practice singing and playing measure 7 several times.• Play Demo 5, and sing.

5. Sing with ribbon streamers and rhythm sticks. • Assign some children to play rhythm sticks on the clip-clops in meas.

7 and others to wave streamers on the Hosannas in meas. 11-12 and 15-16 of the Chorus.

• Sing and perform with ribbon streamers and rhythm sticks Use Demo 5, Track 6, or piano accompaniment.

6. Review and polish.• Review the Verse and the Clip-clop-clip-clop rhythm stick pattern.• Review the Chorus and the Hosanna streamer movement.• Ask volunteers to tell the Palm Sunday story in their own words.• Perform the entire song with Track 6 or piano accompaniment.

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KIDPAGE TEACHING STEPS

Here Comes JesusMATERIALS NEEDED

• Here Comes Jesus KIDPages• Game tokens, one per child—small, individually wrapped candies, fun foam pieces, coins, etc.• Number cube • Demo 5 (optional)

GUIDING CHILDREN• Distribute a KIDPage and token to each child.• Remind children what happened on Palm Sunday—Jesus rode on a donkey into Jerusalem

as people cheered and waved palm branches.• Have children take turns rolling the number cube, and moving their token the appropriate

number of spaces. Have them say, “Hosanna, here comes Jesus,” each time they have a turn.

• Explain that the winner of the game is the first one to reach end end (Jerusalem) on their gameboard.

• Clear the gameboards and play again as time permits.

OPTION• Play Demo 5 (“Here Comes Jesus”) as children play the game.

Preschool KIDPage Teaching StepsHere Comes Jesus

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SONG TEACHING STEPS

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“I Know That Pleases God”MATERIALS NEEDED• Score• Student Pages• Demo 7• Track 8• “I Know That Pleases God”

Visual

PREPARATION• Print and prepare visual.

1. Move to the steady beat.• Ask children to pantomime various working actions as others guess

what work is being done (chop a tree, drive a truck, stir in a bowl, etc.).

• Play Demo 7, Verse 1, and perform a work movement to the steady (dotted-quarter-note) beat.

• Practice a friendly motion (shaking hands, waving, etc.).• Play Demo 7, Verse 2, and perform a friendly motion to the steady

beat.• Practice a helping motion (sweeping, picking up toys, etc.).• Play Demo 7, Verse 3, and perform the helping motion on the steady

beat.

2. Teach Verse 1.• Display the “I Know That Pleases God” Visual.

• Draw children’s attention to the green section of the visual.• Echo sing Verse 1 in four-measure phrass pointing to the images on

the visual on the first beat of each measure.• Sing with Demo 7 performing a working motion (chosen by the

children) on the steady beat.

3. Teach Verse 2.• Review the words and motions for Verse 1 using the visual as

needed.• Draw children’s attention to the blue section of the visual.• Echo sing Verse 2 in four-measure phrases pointing to the images on

the visual on the first beat of each measure.• Sing with Demo 7 performing a friendly motion (chosen by the

children) on the steady beat.

4. Teach Verse 3.• Review the words and motions for Verses 1 and 2 using the visual as

needed.• Draw children’s attention to the pink section of the visual.• Echo sing Verse 3 in four-measure phrases pointing to the images on

the visual on the first beat of each measure.

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• Sing with Demo 7 performing a helping motion (chosen by the children) on the steady beat.

5. Reviw and polish.• Ask children to use words from the song to complete these phrases:

° A good _____ (worker) does not _______ (complain). ° A good _____ (friend) shows their _______ (love). ° A good _____ (helper) does their _______ (best).

• Review the motions chosen for each verse.• Sing with Track 8, or piano accompaniment.

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ACTIVITY TEACHING STEPS

Up and Down Activity Teaching Steps

Up and DownMATERIALS NEEDED• Demo 35• Up and Down Visuals• Step bells (optional)

PREPARATION• Print visuals and cut apart.

1. Listen and sing up and down with Demo 35.• Display Up and Down Visuals. Have children identify each one and

decide if it depicts upward or downward movement. (boy climbing tree—UP, slide—DOWN, snow/sled—DOWN, kite—UP, leaves—DOWN, airplane—UP)

Teaching TipThis is the order of the pictures referred to on Demo 35.

• Play Demo 35, and have children listen and sing up and down as directed.

2. Sing up and down without Demo 35.• Display Up and Down Visuals. • Point to each visual and have children sing the appropriate up or

down melody as learned from Demo 35.• Distribute visuals to six children. • Have each child sing the appropriate up or down melody.

Teaching Tip• If fewer than six children, have each child choose a visual.• If more than six children, repeat until each child has had a

turn to sing, or distribute visuals to pairs of children.

Extension• Display step bells and demonstrate playing up and down.• Display each visual and have children take turns playing

up or down on the step bells. (NOTE: The recording is in the key of D, which will not match the sound of the step bells.)

• Use this extension as an early arriver activity.

Up and Down Visuals

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SHORT STORIES, SHORT STORIES, TALL TRUTHSTALL TRUTHS

LIFE LESSONSLIFE LESSONS from thefrom the PARABLES OF JESUSPARABLES OF JESUS

Preschool DevotionalLove Your Neighbor

DEVOTIONAL 2—PRESCHOOL

Love Your Neighbor

Scripture: In everything, do to others what you would want them to do to you. Matthew 7:12 (NIRV)

Devotional: The Bible says we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Someone asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”, and Jesus told this parable:

A man was traveling down the road when robbers attacked him. They took his clothes and left him hurt and lying on the ground. Later, two different men saw the man that was hurt but just kept walking by.

If those two men had been the ones hurt, do you think they would have wanted someone to stop and help them?

Then a third man walked by. He felt sorry for the hurt man and helped him. He bandaged his scrapes, put him on his own donkey, took him to an inn, and took care of him.

The third man went out of his way to help another man whom he did not even know. Jesus wants us to understand that anyone who needs help is our neighbor, and we should be kind to them. Who can you help today?

Prayer: Dear God,Help us show love for all people. Help us to be willing to help even when it’s hard or takes time. When we see someone who needs help, we pray we would treat them as we would want to be treated.Amen.

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