UNO

To learn "The Lord Gave Me a Temple" (pg 153) I wanted to find an activity that would have lots of repetition, but also mixing up lines so they could learn them separately.  Came across a version of UNO that I thought might work on this blog HERE.

I made the board very similar, a big poster board, with 4 colored sections: red, yellow, green, blue.  I put pictures for each section of the verse, and broke each section into two lines (they used 3).

I then got my trust UNO cards out from the game closet and went through deck, only using the 1s, 2s, skips, reverse, wild.  I put the cards in an order that I liked, so they could work on a few lines before we mixed things up.

So if they drew a blue 2, we would sing the 2nd line in the blue section.  If you got a skip, you could pick a line to remove from the board.  If you got a reverse we would reverse to a section of the song they picked and sing it again.  Wild they could choose what they did.  Anyway, as we went along over and over through the song, parts were removed so they had to keep remembering what was there.

I think overall this was good because they learned the song better, but the mix-up was a bit confusing even for me and I think it could have been more organized.  Doesn't help when I keep messing up the lines myself!  I do think this UNO board could be adapted very easily to other songs, I put plastic over the top so I could change pictures/words for other songs.