(by Heidi, WI) |
Our Jr. Primary is singing this on Mother's Day this year and I taught it to
them last week.
They learned the first 2 verses VERY WELL in just one singing time session.
What I did was taught them actions to it as follows:
For the first verse:
| Mother, Dear, I love you so | sign "I Love You" in sign language and point to their mom on "you" |
| You're happy smiling face | had them put their fingers on their cheeks and smile while they sang it |
| Is such a joy to look at | had them put their hands (in circles) around their eyes like on popcorn popping |
| You make home a lovely place | had them point to their mom in the audience again. |
For the second verse:
| Mother, Dear, I love you so | sign "I Love You" in sign language and point to their mom on "you" |
| You're lovely shining eyes | had them flip their index finger off the thumb right by their eyes |
| Are just like stars that twinkle | had them move their flipping fingers they were using by their eyes up above their heads like stars |
| Way up in the bright blue skies | had them fan out their arms over their head and fall down to their sides (hard to describe this one... sorry!) |