Teachers’ Tips, Templates, and Tutorials
Welcome to Little JAM Sessions! You, choir teachers –KidMin leaders, children’s pastors, choir directors — are an essential part of the learning triad: Parent – Child – Teacher. Little JAM Sessions is easy and fun to teach children’s choir curriculum for littles so you can enjoy your class time. Each weekly class covers essential learning objectives in simple creative ways.
Once you purchase the curriculum, you will receive access to all the tips, templates, and tutorials associated with your resource.
- Jesus Session Objectives – Bible verse memorization, weekly Bible story, Biblical Social Emotional Learning
- Art Session Objectives – Weekly craft to for kinesthetic learners to remember the lesson, fine motor skills, creativity, understanding of colors, shapes, and shading
- Music Session Objectives – New song every six weeks to go with the Bible lesson, eclectic playlist introducing various genre
Classroom Set-Up
Ideally, your classroom will have three distinct spaces to do the three sessions. Routinely moving to separate spaces for different activities helps kiddos understand the expectations for the three Sessions.
Jesus Session
The Jesus Session is best done as circle time on the floor.
Art Session
Tables and chairs are needed for the Art Session.
Music Session
The Music Session is most manageable with rows of chairs.
Little JAM Sessions makes it easy for you with:
- Lesson plans
- Reproducible activity sheets
- Lists of art supplies
- Sheet music
- Art templates
Take a look at these HERE.
Why Preschoolers?
Preschoolers love to sing, easily soak up information, and are adorable.
Even if it’s just a few kids, people will love them and they will have fun.
- They’ll learn about worship.
- The congregation and staff will see how great a KidMin Choir is.
- And next year, you can add another grade or two. Keep building each year!
We want littles to start understanding worship from the earliest possible. Preschoolers are capable of praising God AND understanding what that means. So, preschoolers are a great place to start. If you have less than five kids in that age range, add kindergarteners.
Sometimes (especially during budget meetings!) there is a disconnect between KidMin and adult ministries. What you don’t see, you don’t know. a Preschool KidMin choir is a great way to introduce the adults in your congregation to the work being done in kids’ ministry. And preschoolers will be super cute even if they don’t do everything perfectly.
Preschool KidMin choir is a great place to start and build. You, or whoever you choose to lead, will gain confidence and skills with a very non-threatening group of littles. The following year, you can add another age group. The littles will move up, and new littles will come in, feeding your KidMin choir pipeline for years.
You can read more in the article Does Preschool Ministry Even Matter?
