Faith verse 1

This is a song that I remember learning as a child in primary.  I love the visual images that are used to teach about faith and how they are all very understandable to primary aged children.  When I sing this song it produces a visual image in my mind so I decided to use those visuals to help teach the song to the primary children.

Music Lesson: I will start by telling the children, "faith is a word we hear a lot at church, but it is sometimes hard to understand what faith means.  We are going to learn a song today that will help us understand the meaning of faith.  The name of the song is Faith and I am going to play a recording of it while I draw a picture on the chalk board.  As you listen to the words and watch the pictures I am drawing try to think about what it means to have faith."

Then I will play the song faith with the words which you can download at lds.org or play on your digital device from the gospel library app.  As I play the song I will draw picture clues on the board that will help the children remember the words of the song.  You could also just sing the song if you can draw and sing at the same time or ask someone else that knows the song to sing while you draw.

My picture will look something like this:

Faith is knowing the sun will rise, lighting each new day. (I am going to also write the words faith is... inside the sun, but I forgot for my picture.)

Faith is knowing the Lord will hear my prayers each time I pray.

Faith is like a little seed: If planted, it will grow.

Faith is a swelling within my heart. 

When I do right, I know.

Once we have listened to the entire song and have the drawing on the board I will then have our pianist play through each phrase while we sing the words using the pictures as our guide.  We will continue to sing the song until the children start to catch on and know the words pretty well. 

  Then I will invite a child who has been singing well to come up and draw a picture clue for a phrase of the song (they can replicate my drawing or draw something of their own) and the rest of the primary will guess which phrase it goes with.  Once we guess we will sing that phrase. We will continue this having different children draw as the primary guesses until I feel  the children know the words well.    

After we are finished singing I will ask the children, "now that we have learned the song faith what do you think it means to have faith"? We will finish up our discussion and end the lesson.