Thursday, February 10, 2011

Noah's Ark

Shortly before Music School began last year (2010) I remember hearing Katie say that the children's class would be writing a song, andn I thought to myself that there would be no time to write a song and teach them the theory needed to write the thing! But, I've learned one thing over the past few years, NEVER EVER underestimate a Leaptrot. Because they will always go above and beyond anyone's expectations. Katie thought that writing a song would be a good memory and keepsake for the kids in her class. The would write it, copy it for the kids to keep, and put in on the recording.


So the kids went to work! So in the day session, they talked about possible topics in class discussing their favorite Bible stories and characters. They all decided to talk about the story of Noah and building the ark in their song and began the brainstorming process. The kids shouted out everything they could think of that was the "best" part of Noah's ark - rain, animals, lions, boat, two by two, 40 days, etc. - and Katie wrote everything on a white board.

In the evening session, they got out a bunch of Bibles and read and studied the story. The outlined the facts and the order of occurences. Then they started to make things rhyme. Some times it's difficult to keep children on topic, so Brendon took over the marker and got serious with them. When the kids would get away from the topic, he would point the marker at them and bring them back to the song.



Katie had originally thought that it would be a good memory and keepsake for the kids - that we could make copies of the song and distribute it to the kids. Well, I got a call from Trey Daugherty asking for the names of all the kids that worked on the song because it had been picked up by a publishing company and they wanted to be sure that all the kids were recognized. So, congratulations 2010 Children's Class... your song is being published in a songbook!