Families Can Be Together Forever
It's puzzle time! A colorful, large, simple puzzle will help me teach this simply beautiful primary song. In preparation, I will make a distinct outline on the chalkboard to guide the children in placing the puzzle pieces. You could draw a shape with chalk. I cleaned the portion of chalkboard where I wanted the puzzle placed. (Our chalkboard is pretty chalky :) To introduce the song I put on some funny looking, over-sized ears over my ears. They're flesh-colored plastic with indentations all over them to make them look like ears. That acts as a cue to the children that it's time to listen and not to talk. I invite them to count how many times I sing the word family/families while they listen to me sing it all the way through once (both verses = more counting). Then I pick 5 names from the basket, one at a time, and each child gets to add their puzzle to piece to the chalkboard. In junior primary I put corner pieces down further on the wall so that li