If The Savior Stood Beside Me V1+2 Song Correlation + In-Depth Questions

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Column 1 (blue): lyric from If The Savior Stood Beside Me
Column 2 (red): question
Column 3 (*black): song the goes with the lyric

(the columns didn't copy over very well...)

V1:
Do How should we treat others? *Jesus Said Love Everyone 61
Think What commandments can you think of? (love one another, honor parents) *Keep The Commandments 146
Follow What things would Jesus do? *Jesus Once Was a Little Child 55
Live How many days a year should you live righteously? (365) *The Church of Jesus Christ 77

V2:
Say How should we talk to others? *Hum Your Favorite Hymn 152
Words Tell me some nice things you could say to your friends and family. *I’ll Walk With You 140
Try When can you share the Gospel? (mission, home, at play, etc) *I Hope They Call Me On a Mission 169
Speak Reverently How do you talk in the Church? Where else can you speak reverently? *Reverence is Love 31

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*I will be using this as an Easter Egg Hun with If The Savior Stood Beside Me, just an idea*:

1. Write the lyrics on the board (or a poster board), minus the keyword lyrics.
2. Write the on paper eggs (keywords on front + questions and songs on back).
3. Hide them around the room.
4. Invite a child to find an Egg. Put the keyword where it goes in the blank. Sing that verse of If The Savior Stood Beside Me - then ask the question (get answers) - then sing the song on the egg.  

If The Savior Stood Beside Me posterboard V1

If The Savior Stood Beside Me posterboard V2

egg fronts - the glitter doesn't photograph very well.
egg shapes are also harder to cut than I thought they would be...

egg backs

*some ideas from this fabulous document

If The Savior Stood Beside Me - Arrangements and Background

DeFord Music offers these arrangements of If The Savior Stood Beside Me.

Background for the song, which was written for the composer's daughter's baptism, can also be found on that site.  It's worth reading.  :)

If The Savior Stood Beside Me - Penny Games Lesson Plan

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LEARN THE SONG - If the Savior Stood Beside Me

• Put word strips up one by one.
• After all are up - ask the children to take them down (roll a die to see how many to take down). Until they are gone.  *MAYBE USE THE FLIP CHARTS FROM OCD CHORISTER
• Repeat for all 3 verses.

EXPLAIN
A good way to remember something is to put a penny in your shoe. Then, whenever you feel the penny you’ll remember whatever it is you’re supposed to remember. At the end of Primary I’m going to give you all a penny to put in your shoe. Keep it there every day this next week and every time you feel the penny think to yourself, “would I want the Savior seeing or hearing what I am doing right now?".

PLAY "PENNY GAMES" (and sing while we’re playing!)

Penny, Penny, Who Has the Penny? (JR & SR)

• Children pass around a penny (maybe have a few going around). A child comes up to the front. Kids sing, pennies are passed around. Pianist stops somewhere in the song. Child at front guesses where a penny is.  If the person has a penny, they have to finish the lyrics. If not, they don’t have to. Repeat.

Penny Pinchers

• Split Primary into Teams.
• Pick a child from each team to come up. They are the “Penny Pinchers”.
• All children sing while the Penny Pinchers pinch as many pennies as they can and carry them to their Team’s collection container.
• *Tell the children that if I, their Teachers, or the Presidency catch someone not caught not singing I will have to take coins out of their Team’s collection container.

Penny Rolling

• Flatten a long cardboard tube (paper towel tube)
• Roll a penny see if they can knock down objects - see how many they can knock down while we sing.

Penny Bucket (SR)

• We sing while children try to walk from one side of the other with a penny on your shoe. Get the penny in the bucket without using your hands.
• Have a few lines on the floor. If the penny drops you only have to go back to that line.
• *Tell the children that if I, their Teachers, or the Presidency catch someone not caught not singing I will have to take coins out of their Team’s collection container.

penny rolling (turned into penny bowling when I found these miniature bowling pins!)

penny pinchers

HANDOUT:

A penny with this poem:

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Flip Chart for If The Savior Stood Beside Me

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OCD Primary Chorister has THIS FLIP CHART and idea for teaching If The Savior Stood Beside Me by covering up word strips with cute pictures (both of which, word strips and pictures, are in the downloadable PDF in her post).