HOSANNA Acrostic Presentation
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By Marilyn
Traditionally, our Sunday School children do a short presentation in church on Palm Sunday - instead of their regular Children's Message - before heading down to Sunday School.
This year, the children decorated large letters that spell Hosanna on Bristol board. The following poem was displayed on the screen and the congregation read it with them. They also sang the first course of Jesus Christ Superstar's "Hosanna."
We took two weeks to do this - the first week was practicing the song and decorating the letters. The second week was song practice, assembling the letters (we cut them out of one piece of Bristol board and glued onto a contrasting colour for strength), and making noise makers from recycled water bottles that were donated to us. We filled the water bottles with gravel to emphasize the rocks crying out.
H – He's coming on a donkey
O – on his way to Jerusalem
S – So many people cheering him!
A – All of them making lots of
N – NOISE!!
N – No, no, no! Say the Pharisees. Make them stop!
A – All the rocks & stones will cry out if they stop!
HOSANNA!!
The chorus verse we used from JC Superstar was:
Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
Hey J C, J C won't you smile at me?
Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar
(youtube was a big help here as I am not musically inclined. Thankfully our talented pianist knew the song off the top of her head to play it on Palm Sunday.)
Hi Marilyn,
Great idea to tie the noise makers to the rocks crying out. 
Thanks for the photo!
--Carol
Instead of posters, we're going to use arm/hand shapes (like in The Village People's "YMCA") to represent the letters, changing them at the beginning of each line, to keep the youngest ones engaged.
