Music Period A 2/2/16

     Our first day of electives, we focused on Psalm 100 to open up our thoughts and discussions about worship. The kids need to memorize verse 1 this week- "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth." In class we talked about what it means to give another person praise, and what it means to give God praise. We wrote down all the ways we could think of to worship God, and we will be using this list in the weeks ahead, jumping in to the heart of worship.
     We also started honing in on learning how to sing, with singing warm-ups, paying attention to our breathing and the sounds we are making. We will continue working on this skill during the next few weeks, as we learn lots of new songs. This week we sang 'God is so Good', 'Lord, I Lift Your Name on High', 'Father Abraham', and 'Gadol Elohai'.
     A very popular instrument, played in many of our favorite Bible Stories, is the tambourine. So, we went to work constructing our own, which we will finish next week. The tambourine will be a great help in making a joyful noise to the Lord!