At primary school, there is an often an opportunity for children to ‘show and tell’: to bring an item into school to show the class and to talk about what this item is and what it represents. It’s an ideal opportunity to find out what the child likes and to encourage speaking and listening skills.
Today’s song is a re-working of a classic: ‘Go Tell It.’ It urges us to spread the good news that Jesus Christ is born. Spreading that message was the job entrusted to the shepherds and the wise men and is now entrusted to us. Let’s go and tell!
‘Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
While shepherds kept their watching over silent flocks by night
Behold throughout the heavens there shone a holy light.
Well, the shepherds feared and trembled
When lo above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Saviour’s birth.’ (‘Go Tell It’, Aaron Shust)