Heroes of the Scriptures

This is a great song published in the Friend magazine in 1998 you can find it HERE.  This song teaches about scripture heroes and I love it because in just a few words it identifies a characteristic that the chosen scripture hero has and how we can be like them.  I taught it to my primary children as a "scripture song" see my post HERE on how I am using scripture songs in my primary this year.

Music Lesson: I began by asking the question, "What is a hero"? I gave the children an opportunity to answer and of course got a lot of talk about avengers, capes and super abilities. :)  But the children were also able to identify character traits in every day people that could be heroes as well.  The definition I wanted the conversation to eventually get to was "a person who is admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Someone that we look up to or want to be like".  

Then we identified people in the scriptures who we thought could be considered heroes and why. 

To teach the song I posted the following pictures one at a time on the chalk board.  We briefly talked about each person's story and then sang their line of the song with the picture before adding the next line.  

                                         

Download all of the pictures HERE

I only taught the first verse of this song, but the children liked it enough that I could have definitely taught the other two verses the same way.