Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Every spring, I have my 4th, 5th, and 6th graders write their own song for their spring concert. In the past, they have chosen a poem to set to music and arrange. This year, we walked (and crawled, and struggled) through the process of starting from scratch, with just an idea, and then helping it grow into a song. As might be expected, the results were delightful and unexpected. This one is particularly fun, written by forth graders. It has a spooky, minor key tune, sung acapella:
The Badger and the Grizzly
'Twas in a mountain forest
on a dark and gloomy night
a badger met a grizzly bear
and challenged him to fight
Said Griz, "Are you sure, Badger?
I'm too big and strong for you!
I'm the meanest creature in these woods:
I'd beat you black and blue!"
Said Badger, "You may be big,
but I'm not scared of you:
I'm quick and fierce and headstrong.
You'll be sorry when I'm through."
Just then they heard a rustling
coming from the trees.
The two began to tremble,
and got shaky in the knees.
<Badger> "I think I hear a trapper!"
<Griz> "Or a hunter with a gun!"
<Badger> "Or maybe it's a bull moose!"
<Griz> "I don't want to meet either one!"
The Badger and the Grizzly
ran away in fright.
The meanest creatures in the woods:
So much for their fight!
And what was it that scared them so,
and caused them both to flee?
Just a tiny chipmunk
scampering through the trees.
Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
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Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Tonight is the big night. We'll be finishing up the concert with Three Little Birds (by Bob Marley), complete with four fourth graders on Sweettone C's playing the countermelody. Wish us luck!
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Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Thanks for the smile!
Wish us luck!
