Are you thinking of getting a Christian tattoo to declare your love for God? Let's jump into these minimalist Christian tattoos for women. 1. Yeshua Tattoo
Every now and then, it's necessary to read christian quotes that will motivate you in your walk of faith, impact you, and transform your life. As I was going through a whole bunch of christian quotes, I came across quotes that made me GULP big time, quotes that made me smile, quotes that encouraged me,
How do we keep the sacraments simple-yet-not-simplistic? Joe Paprocki, author of "Living the Sacraments," shares some thoughts.
Today I’m going to share some actual, real-life retreat schedules with you. I hope you’ll find them helpful as you plan. Keep in mind, they aren’t perfect! You’ll want to tweak them to best suit the needs of your women and your location. Two-Night Retreat Schedules I’ve pulled out three of the two-night schedules that…
Great handouts and helps for LDS Primary 1 Lesson 43: We Have a Living Prophet
Learning how to cut boys hair at home doesn't have to be difficult. With this easy step by step tutorial, you'll be mastering DIY boys hair cuts in no time!
"God's Little Explorers" is a great Christian preschool curriculum. It combines life skills, music, art, scriptures, and the ABCs at an affordable price.
Unfortunately, teachers are competing with electronics to get students' attention. I share 20 ways you can catch their attention in this post!
Here are Christian Vs Catholic Beliefs! Which religion is better? Is Christianity and Catholicism the same? Let's dive deep into the differences of these two!
Hello to my Preschool People! I’m sharing a lesson on friendship today through the story of David and Jonathan. This is a great lesson if you are a weekday preschool teacher to integrate with a “friendship” theme in your classroom. […]
It's tough teaching kids how to sit still and be reverent during church. I've physically carried a screaming child out of a church service more than once - and I'm the pastor's wife. Here are 4 tried and true ways to help kids make the transition from the nursery to big church without electronics!
One of the most wonderful things about homeschooling for me is that I can choose what each child needs to succeed. I can pick curriculum that we enjoy and that is appropriate for the way the kids learn best. The thing that I have to remember, though, is that each child is different. They do
When I read The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod, the title said, “The not so secret guaranteed to transform your life…” I’m an avid reader, so I decided to read it, but to be honest, I didn’t really expect it to transform my life. But…I didn’t even finish the entire book before I saw HUGE […]
When your child hates writing, handwriting practice can be tough. Help them out with these tips and ideas to help them gain handwriting confidence.
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Discover the 10 powerful Bible verses for fighting sexual temptation that I'm passing to my teenage son to avoid the trap of sexual temptation and sin.
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I really thought that I was gonna sit this one out. Despite how I strongly feel about it all, if you're
I’ll never forget the day I converted to Judaism — after all, it was one of the best days of my life!After years of studying, learning, and teaching, I finally achieved the goal I’d had from the age of 16. But while it was an amazing day, it was also a hard one. The day […]
If you want to learn how to pray, or if you want to grow in your faith and prayer life--try the simple ACTS prayer structure! I'm sharing how the ACTS prayer structure helps me in my personal daily prayer time, and I hope it blesses you!
Coffee filter flowers are SO PRETTY and easy to make! They're a great adult or kids craft that can be used for party decorations or gifts!
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Well fellow music leaders, it's time to teach the final assigned program song for the year, "I'm Trying to Be like Jesus". This song is one of the many on my Favorite's List. Below is a flip chart I made for the song. Print the chorus twice if you want one for the second verse. I also have a visual imagery version that can be used on the board if you want something different than a flip chart because it's FUN to change things up now and again. I just haven't had time to print and cut it out (busy-busy week) so I will post that hopefully by Friday night after work or Saturday morning when I will also post some simple presentation ideas for the song. So sorry I haven't had time to get this all posted earlier in the week. Last year I actually had two children sing this in the program as one of our extra songs we usually add to the program repertoire. One from JR and one from SR and each sang a verse solo and then they both sang the chorus together. I just used the music from the songbook—no special sheet music. I have some fun memories of practicing it with them and pretending my tall candlestick was the microphone. They did a beautiful job. It was so hard not to cry listening to their beautiful voices. Okay, I admit, my eyes watered up, but hey, there were many others too. It is soooooo wonderful feeling these kids' spirit through music. I just love it!!! This year, to change it up a bit, I am having a CTR 7 child sing a solo of the first verse of "Jesus Once Was a Little Child" and then the Primary will go into "I'm Trying to Be like Jesus" and my little soloist will finish with repeating "For these are the things Jesus taught." I'm just planning on using the music from the songbook. However, since both songs are in different keys, I will probably have "Jesus Once Was a Little Child" sung in the B flat key to match "I'm Trying to Be like Jesus". Here is a link to convert it to a B flat version. Just scroll down the left panel until you get to the "Key" section and then click on the "lower" arrow a couple of times until you get to B flat. My pianist might want to play the songs each in their original keys instead and just do a transitional short piece between the two. I'm letting her experiment with that to see what she feels comfortable with. I'm thinking it might sound better and be easier to keep them both in the same key. Just experiment and see what you like best. For the pianist, I will put together a copy of each of these songs and also mark it to repeat the end part "For these are the things Jesus taught" on the "I'm Trying to Be like Jesus" for when the soloist repeats that at the end. That should make it easier so the pianist won't have to flip back and forth in the songbook. Oh, how I love to challenge these kiddos and see them grow in their musicality. I usually don't get volunteers for solos or singing groups, but with a little coaxing and working a little with them and a big friendly smile, they eventually say yes when asked and then they are so proud of themselves afterwards. So, there you have a couple of ideas if you are looking for a different way to present the song in the program. I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus-FC-Nalani
Discipline is an area that we all struggle with from time to time. We want to accomplish our goals, improve our health, and get consistent in our walk with God, but there’s a major component missing from our effort and that is discipline.
Lord Jesus, life in this world hurts. And we know you understand our afflictions, grief, and sorrows more than anyone else (Isaiah 53:4-6). We pour intense love into our pets, and when they are tak…
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The book of Proverbs is amazing. They’re life-changing, meaningful, extremely useful, and can make a difference in your kids’ life. Here are 15 of the best Proverbs for kids. In here you’ll find a list. While you’re reading some of these Proverbs for kids, I’ll be giving you special comments and insight in some of ... Read more
I've been using student-led warmups at the beginning of my elementary general music lessons for years now and I am a big fan! I've gotten a lot of questions about the warmups I do and how I do them, and over the last few weeks I've been sharing my favorite activities for lesson warmups in my K-6 general music classes (26 in all!) that focus on important musical skills and concepts. In this post I've compiled all of my posts on how I set up and manage the student-led warmups in general, all of the different activity ideas, and the visuals I use to run them. First of all, my warmup activities start as soon as students start coming into the room- it's more like a "do now" where I don't wait for the class to all be seated before I start. Once I get it going, I hand it off to the small group of students assigned to lead warmups (the job rotates throughout the year) and they take over, giving me time to finish setting up, pull aside a student who needs a checkin, etc while the others are engaged in the activity. Here's the full post on how I run my warmups: Besides the benefits from a management perspective, I've found the warmups very helpful for student learning because it gives me an easy way to quickly touch on those skills and concepts that need regular "drilling" for students to attain and maintain fluency, especially steady beat, rhythm, pitch, reading notation, and music vocabulary. In each of the posts below you'll find 4 or 5 different activities I use with different grades to practice these fundamental skills and concepts in quick and easy (and fun!) ways: All of these can truly be done without any special slides or equipment, but I got several request to share the slides I use- for those who want something ready-made at your fingertips to implement all of the different warmups mentioned above, here they are: If you haven't tried using warmup activities at the beginning of your elementary music classes, I highly recommend trying them out! It took me a long time to be convinced I should do it, but I have been hooked ever since I started. If you have more ideas for activities, or questions about anything, please leave a comment below.
I’d like to introduce you to the 7 novels releasing this summer that I’m excited about. A couple of them I have read, and one I am reading at this moment. The others I can’t wait …
Differentiation can be hard and time-consuming! Learn to tier your lessons so that you can meet the needs of all your students!
