repeat-after-me
"Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart." Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Say: “Let’s tell a story together. We will need to use our mouths, so let’s warm up our mouths… (move mouth and make nonsense noises). We will also need to use our hands, so let’s warm up our hands… (move hands and make nonsense gestures). Great, everybody can use their mouths and hands. Now you say and do everything I say and do and we’ll tell the story together...” Go through the story a phrase at a time and have children mimic what you say and do. Do it sitting down once and then say, “Great, we told the story. Now let’s do it again standing up.”