by Nicole Soh / I WONDER WHEN HE COMES AGAIN

I taught this song today and I thought I'd share what I did. There were about 6-8 of the children who already knew it so that helped, but they were all singing the first verse by the end of the 15 minute singing time.

I made up little cards (about 4 x 5) and drew pictures on them to go with the phrases:

*question mark (I wonder?)
*an angel
*snow covered hill (drew the hill outline with dusty blue pen then colored the sky so the ground was still white)
*spring scene (green grass, flowers, blue sky)
*grey sky with stars, one bigger and brighter
*sun/moon (I split the page with a diagonal line and put one in each corner)
*bird in a nest with music notes
*picture of Christ with children (VERY rough sketch, I would have preferred using one of the primary pictures from the library)
*the words "suffer them to come to me."

First I started by asking if the children ever thought about what it would be like when the Savior comes back to earth. Day? Night? Winter? Summer? Raining? Then I started adding in ideas from the song...."do you think all the birds will burst into song?", "do you think there'll be a bright star in the sky", etc. After we talked about it for a few minutes I sang the song for them. I could see some of the children mouthing the words along with me, which is always a good sign! Then I asked them what things the song wondered about. As they remembered phrases "herald angels", etc, I'd put the card up, in order. They were able to remember most of the things in the song.  Then I repeated the words to the song all the way through, then phrase-by-phrase having the kids repeat after me. After that we sang it through two times. Nearly all the kids sang (except the few who never do anyway) and it sounded really good! I ran out of time, so next week we are going to do it again using an idea from this list; mixing up the order of the cards and making someone put them right while we all sing.