I Know That My Savior Loves Me

I am teaching, "I Know That My Savior Loves Me" for the month of May.  This song was a program song in 2010 and can be found HERE as well as in the above link.

In May the Come Follow Me in Primary curriculum focuses on how much the Savior loves us and how we can return to be with Him and our Heavenly Father.  The suggested songs are Keep the Commandments, Families Can Be Together Forever and I Am a Child of God.  Since our primary children are really familiar with these particular songs I wanted to teach something new that had a similar message and this song does that perfectly.  However, I will be singing the suggested songs as review songs and using Keep the Commandments as our scripture song for the month.  You can see how I use scripture songs in primary HERE.  You can watch a video of the fun actions I put to Keep the Commandments HERE.

I really love the song, "I Know That My Savior Loves Me" because it reminds me of a story being told.  It starts out by saying, "A long time ago in a beautiful place, children were gathered round Jesus."  The wording makes me think of a bed time story, "a long time ago".  The words are so personal and help the children understand that Jesus is a REAL person who loves them and lives.

Last week I introduced this song during the last 10 minutes of singing time by singing the chorus to the children and then teaching them the sign language.  The signs are really simple and the children picked up on them fast.  By the end of the 10 minutes most of the children were able to do the entire chorus.  You can watch a YouTube video of the sign language HERE.  I am only teaching the sign language for the chorus, but the video shows signs for the entire song.

The versus to this song I am going to teach by using THIS flip chart that I found on Susan Fitch's website.  I printed the flip chart and put it together in a spiral bound scrapbook I had on hand to make it look like a book.

Make sure to print the pages double sided so that when you turn the pages it looks like an actual book.  If you can't find a book like this you could also put it together by stapling the edges together, using book rings or having it bound at a copy shop.  You could also just put it in a binder, but because of the page orientation the pages won't turn like a standard book.  I also had to use the custom scale feature when I printed so that the pictures would fit within the book nicely.  I printed at 70% for the book I was using.  

Music Lesson: I will begin by asking the children if they like to read stories and if their parents read books to them.  I'll let them share for a few minutes what types of books they like to read.  Then we will discuss how some stories are real and some stories are true.  I will explain that I'm going to read them a story about something that is true.  I will then read the book that I made.  Once I finish reading the book we will talk about how we know the things in the book are real and why knowing they are real is important.  Once we finish the discussion I will use the book again, but this time to sing the song. Then we will add the chorus and sign language, which we already learned last week.  I am going to introduce both the first and the second verses when we read the book, but will probably focus on singing the first verse one week and the second verse the next week.

I am teaching this song on Mother's Day so I am going to play the game "Sing Your Heart Out" to help the children sing the song multiple times without getting tired of it.  You can find my post on how to play this game HERE.