Song Planner
Dear friends,
Courtney Edman created this great spreadsheet for planning your songs in a Multiple Intelligences, full of variety, reach every learner kind of way. I thought I would share it here (with her permission).
Sit down and plan activities that match the feel and mood of the song... strong or gentle, flowing or marked, full of passion or full of tenderness.
Try to get an activity in each of the categories of how people take in information (which she has listed out for you on this planning worksheet).
Plan two or three or more songs at a time.
Then, when you want to teach 2 or 3 songs for 5 minutes each in your singing time, you go to your planning sheets and choose different activities for that Sunday.
I would try to contrast your activities (i.e. don't do two rhythm stick activities the same day, or two silent video activities the same day, etc.) for that Sunday.