Memory Verse Psalm 46 v 1 - Training & Visual

Great verse to learn along with the Stories about the young Joseph.

You know the story of the Coat & The Dreams and  the story about Joseph being Sold by His Brothers.

This verse teaches us just what a strong, protective God we have who is present with us at all times and is the one we can always trust in.

VISUAL OF THE VERSE

When we do this with the kids I like to make the words large because it is a kind of shout out verse to proclaim what we believe about our God.

So I print it out on seven A4 cards and cut each one in half.

PRESENTING THE VERSE

Get the kids to help by holding up a card in each hand.
So because you will have 14 cards when cut you will need 7 children.

Each child is only allowed to hold up 2 cards if they can immediately learn off the two words they are going to hold.

Have the 7 kids stand in a row in the right order for the words of the verse.


TEACHING THE VERSE

Tell the children you are going to shout out one of the words and the person who is holding it must hold it up high to prove they know the words they have.

Shout out the word REFUGE and the child with that word holds it up high while you explain briefly what it means.

Do the same with any other words you feel they may not fully understand like PRESENT which they may be getting mixed up with GIFT.

Then read out each word slowly in order and have the 7 children hold them up high in the air and keep them there.

Then tell them to hold all the cards up high for the rest of the time they are learning the verse.



LEARNING THE VERSE

Everyone says the words of the verse together about 5 times.

Then each of the children with cards put one of their hands down so that only half of the wrods are now seen.

Everyone says all the words of the verse together about 5 times again.

The kids without cards will learn by looking at all of the cards.

The kids with cards will know their own words and will learn the other words by listening to the other kids beside them.

This means you can make a little competition of learning the verse by saying that you have two teams those with cards and those without cards and the winning team will be the one that has most people who know the verse at the end of the class.

Will the readers or the listeners be the best?



MAKING THE VISUAL OF THE VERSE

This is so simple to do that if you have a computer and a printer you can design and do this yourself using whatever fancy font you like.

If you would rather not have to design it then you can download a Pdf of mine and print it out.

Just sign up here and I will send you the link you need.