WEEK ONE Praise him with the timbrel and the harp
Mr. Clef was designed by Dan Wheeler for this program
Two Half circles represent the two elements of music melody and rhythm. The conductor inside pointing his directors staf toward the heavens represent playing music with heart to God.
PRAISE HIM WITH THE TIMBREL AND THE HARP
Keyboards for Christ Music Program
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12 weeks of Excitment for your community, and church!
1. Lesson Objectives: To share the gift of music with children. To teach them about Biblical Musical Instruments in relationship to God's Word. To incorporate the scriptures into exercises to teach the children the 10 commandments of God. To teach children two elements of music, simple melody and rhythm. Ensemble teaching both melody and rhythm allowing the children to play in a group setting. Teaching the children about Unity.
Lesson Plans: A. Scripture B. Crafting of Biblical Musical Instrument C. Learning Rhythm and beat D. Learning about sound and waves teaching the children how to listen with the ear to everyday sounds around them. E. Plate and finger prep for beginning melody. F. Teaching the children where HOME is and about the black and white keys on a instrument. Basic notation taught in a low key way, incorporating number into the letter of music, using colors to represent the Time values, teaching chords, and simple songs through the use of keyboards, or piano, to show children how to listen with the heart and not just what they see.
Now let us begin to make a difference in some childs life......
Materials Needed for this lesson: Bible,Coffee Can plastic lids, or foam plates, paper plates,hand hole punch or several if you are going to let the kids punch the holes themselves in the lids or plates, crayons, stickers some with bible scriptures if possible, rubber balls, pennies,keyboard, or keyboards, piano, round container for water, water, pencils, refreshments like cookies and coolaid. You can have a sign up sheet in your church and have people donate things you need. Get the whole church involved in the program.
Tambourine used in Scripture (timbrel; or tabret, pl.). You can select the scripture you want
Genesis 31:27; Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34
I Samuel 10:5; 18:6
II Samuel 6:5; I Chronicles 13:8; Job 21:12
Psalms 68:25; 81:2; 149:3; 150:4; Jeremiah 31:4
Teacher reads this out loud:
4"Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD."--
Have the children repeat "Praise him with the timbrel
Explain to the children what a Psalm is.
First let us define what the word "Psalm" or "Psalms" mean:
A collection of sacred poems forming a book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture.
Sort of like a hymnal ( HAVE a HYMAL or SEVERAL to pass around the class)
Often capitalized [Middle English, from Old English psealm, from Late Latin psalmus, from Greek psalmos, literally, twanging of a harp, from psallein to pluck, play a stringed instrument]
A sacred song or poem used in worship; especially : one of the biblical hymns collected in the Book of Psalms
Q: Do you know what Praise IS? A: To be thankful, full of JOY, happy, ackowledge God for who HE IS.
Hi My name is Mr. Clef and I will be here throughout the Keyboards for Christ Program to help teach you about Music. A conductor is the person who helps lead the parts and direct the instruments. So lets get started. (Mr. Clef is a copyrighted symbol of the Keyboards for Christ Muisc Program)
Music, just what is music? The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Its all around you, music. There are the sounds of creation, in the songs of the birds. Music can make you happy, or sad. Let the children tell you what sounds they listened to that very morning or day. The purpose is to start the children to learn how to take time to listen to God's creation and the sounds around them in their everyday living. The program is to teach children to learn to hear and play music from more then just notes. The ear is the passage to the heart and the eyes to the soul.
You will be amazed at the answers you will get, from Dad singing in the shower to a bird on the back porch. That music can be found all around them if they take time to stop, look, and listen. Make sure that the children know the difference between music and sound.
STL. Q-What about sound?
Sounds, how are they made?
( Take a container of water, and have each child drop a penny into the container and explain to them how sound is like the waves made by the penny, the waves are like sound, they travel to the ear.) The ideal thing is to use a TUNING FORK if you have one. Have each child strike the fork and place it into the water and watch the vibrate. This way the child feels and sees.
Tuning forks can be purchased for under $5.00 Click on the picture to go to the page that explains this whole activity to show children about sound.
Sounds are made by vibration. When something vibrates it creates waves that pass through the air to your ears.
Musical instruments make sounds by striking, blowing, plucking or by playing with a bow.
Some sounds are created naturally and others are created electronically. Any object which vibrates will create a sound. The sound could be musical or it could be noisy; but regardless of its quality, the sound was created by a vibrating object.
In music we have what is called ELEMENTS and in the Keyboards for Christ Music Program we will learn 2 of these elements. 
Melody 
Rhythm
