tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494118661816136592.post7621812023968099590..comments2023-10-28T07:36:04.064-05:00Comments on Mrs. Price is Right about Homeschooling: Make a joyful noise--Singing Scripture and other SubjectsBetsy Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03425274490034775170noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494118661816136592.post-69588453851619346902012-05-10T09:03:02.586-05:002012-05-10T09:03:02.586-05:00Thanks for sharing. It's great to hear from a ...Thanks for sharing. It's great to hear from a voice of experience like you!Betsy Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03425274490034775170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494118661816136592.post-37100145808178044322012-05-10T08:30:21.721-05:002012-05-10T08:30:21.721-05:00Excellent! This is the ONLY way to memorize scrip...Excellent! This is the ONLY way to memorize scripture for me!! (And I'm an adult.) I put every single AWANA scripture for Michael to familiar songs: hymns, kids' songs, campfire songs, contemporary songs, patriotic songs -- it took a LOT of songs because that's somewhere over 300 scriptures!! And he learned every one (better than I sometimes!) <br /><br />Some of them are very short scriptures, especially in the earlier years (4 years total) -- others are pretty looong! So I chose music accordingly. You really have to work sometimes to get the words to fit -- squishing several words into one note at times, or drawing a word out... takes a lot of work, and sometimes I had a verse pretty well memorized by the time I made it work. But that was ALL worth it to me! <br /><br />Also about "piggy-backing" -- we remember those verses waaaay better than learning a new tune. AWANA actually has CDs that put their songs to music (at least the earlier years.) I tried to use that at first, but it didn't work as well. The melodies all started sounding the same. (not to critize AWANA which is an amazing program!)<br /><br />The only thing to be so careful of are copyright laws: I can't share most of my work with others via recording it for them because it would be illegal. Only those that are public domain. In fact, when my daughters were young, we made a "tape" (yes,that's giving away ages!) of the songs we learned, together with two other families. It was a blast -- but a lot of work getting copyright permissions!!!! (Sometimes we weren't allowed, and had to re-learn a scripture to another song right before production.) After that, we made a list of public domain songs and chose from THOSE for our second tape recording. <br /><br />Thanks for this blog -- as you can see, it's close to my heart as sooooo important!Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11588180353809816329noreply@blogger.com