My Life as a Musical
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My Life as a Musical
A moment, just a moment ago.
Holly's in Kirby's room playing Halo II.
Kirby, Marty and five other teens and young adults are the other direction
from me, playing some complicated game with cards and dice in the library.
I was playing Neopets at the kitchen table, and listening to my iTunes for
background. It's not on very loud at all, but when "Build me up Buttercup"
came on, one of the boys in the next room started singing along softly. He's
not one of the better singers, but was just singing to himself. Kirby joined
in, softly. Another couple started humming along, but they were still
playing their game. Then I heard Holly from two rooms away, come in on the second
chorus.
I didn't say a word, but wanted to share it.
Sandra
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A moment, just a moment ago.
Holly's in Kirby's room playing Halo II.
Kirby, Marty and five other teens and young adults are the other direction
from me, playing some complicated game with cards and dice in the library.
I was playing Neopets at the kitchen table, and listening to my iTunes for
background. It's not on very loud at all, but when "Build me up Buttercup"
came on, one of the boys in the next room started singing along softly. He's
not one of the better singers, but was just singing to himself. Kirby joined
in, softly. Another couple started humming along, but they were still
playing their game. Then I heard Holly from two rooms away, come in on the second
chorus.
I didn't say a word, but wanted to share it.
Sandra
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Angela S
That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing.
Angela ~ who admires musical families
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Angela ~ who admires musical families
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sharonjrt
DD, DH & I are always putting life-situations into song.
Examples:
Driving around pot holes, after being asked how they are created-
"Hole in the road, Hole in the road, Hole in the, Hole in the, Hole
in the, Hole in the, Hole in the, Hole in the road!" OR
Our Street Address- "442 What's-It Avenue!"
It is incredibly silly & fun, and a great learning tool for all of us!
Years ago, I spent a whole summer playing guitar and singing
multiplication tables with an 8 yr old niece (now grown with her own
kids). We kept singing upto only maybe the "3X". I don't believe
that rote memorization is best, but with her, it became a game that
enabled her to see the progression of number patterns, like the music
that she loved to sing. It took the fear of math out of her. For me, I
remembered having a very difficult time at that age, I even ran away
from school, after which my mom "threatened" to keep at home and school
me herself). Apparently more of my stepping stones towards unschooling!
Live, laugh, learn!
Sharon
Examples:
Driving around pot holes, after being asked how they are created-
"Hole in the road, Hole in the road, Hole in the, Hole in the, Hole
in the, Hole in the, Hole in the, Hole in the road!" OR
Our Street Address- "442 What's-It Avenue!"
It is incredibly silly & fun, and a great learning tool for all of us!
Years ago, I spent a whole summer playing guitar and singing
multiplication tables with an 8 yr old niece (now grown with her own
kids). We kept singing upto only maybe the "3X". I don't believe
that rote memorization is best, but with her, it became a game that
enabled her to see the progression of number patterns, like the music
that she loved to sing. It took the fear of math out of her. For me, I
remembered having a very difficult time at that age, I even ran away
from school, after which my mom "threatened" to keep at home and school
me herself). Apparently more of my stepping stones towards unschooling!
Live, laugh, learn!
Sharon
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In a message dated 3/28/2005 6:29:00 AM Mountain Standard Time,
sharonjrt@... writes:
OR
Our Street Address- "442 What's-It Avenue!"
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I made a little song for Kirby, when he was little, to learn our address,
because it was on the kindergarten "expected competencies" for the state. He'd
known the phone number for a long time.
When I was a teenager my mom told me a story about one of her first school
humiliations, and it was kind of a stunner because it affected my life
negatively, and so I used it to affect my own kids' positively. She said she was
six or seven, and playing on the playground during recess, singing the days of
the week the way her mom sang them to her at home. The teacher overheard,
thought it was wonderful, and when they went inside, asked my mom to sing it
for the whole class.
She didn't WANT to sing in front of the whole class. She was really self
conscious for being poor and impermanent (her family picked cotton and didn't
often stay in one place long, living in cheap little rentals or worse). She
did, but it traumatized her, so she stuffed the whole thing down.
When I was a kid I struggled to learn the days of the week just by
recitation. I used to be confused in the middle, because they didn't make any sense
to me. I asked her, those twelve years later, why she hadn't taught ME that
song. She didn't know. Maybe because she had put it where she didn't think
of it, or maybe because she was afraid it would end up getting me embarrassed.
I taught it to my kids before they had any idea what it was about, using it
for a tooth-brushing song for babies. When they only had a very few teeth,
I'd do one quadrant with each line.
Oh! The tune is "Yankee Doodle," so if you sing the days of the week to
each line of the song, you get four 'weeks,' so the whole song is a month long.
<g> So as they came up old enough to wonder about the order of the days,
they had that song already ingrained, and when they asked what a month was, I
said four weeks, like the song (and usually a few more days, but four weeks
exactly in February).
When they got older we brushed teeth for TWO months, one month on one side
and one month on the other. And if we weren't really done, the beginning of
the last Saturday could be held out for a long, amusing time. "Thursday,
Friday, Saa...............turday."
Sandra
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sharonjrt@... writes:
OR
Our Street Address- "442 What's-It Avenue!"
============
I made a little song for Kirby, when he was little, to learn our address,
because it was on the kindergarten "expected competencies" for the state. He'd
known the phone number for a long time.
When I was a teenager my mom told me a story about one of her first school
humiliations, and it was kind of a stunner because it affected my life
negatively, and so I used it to affect my own kids' positively. She said she was
six or seven, and playing on the playground during recess, singing the days of
the week the way her mom sang them to her at home. The teacher overheard,
thought it was wonderful, and when they went inside, asked my mom to sing it
for the whole class.
She didn't WANT to sing in front of the whole class. She was really self
conscious for being poor and impermanent (her family picked cotton and didn't
often stay in one place long, living in cheap little rentals or worse). She
did, but it traumatized her, so she stuffed the whole thing down.
When I was a kid I struggled to learn the days of the week just by
recitation. I used to be confused in the middle, because they didn't make any sense
to me. I asked her, those twelve years later, why she hadn't taught ME that
song. She didn't know. Maybe because she had put it where she didn't think
of it, or maybe because she was afraid it would end up getting me embarrassed.
I taught it to my kids before they had any idea what it was about, using it
for a tooth-brushing song for babies. When they only had a very few teeth,
I'd do one quadrant with each line.
Oh! The tune is "Yankee Doodle," so if you sing the days of the week to
each line of the song, you get four 'weeks,' so the whole song is a month long.
<g> So as they came up old enough to wonder about the order of the days,
they had that song already ingrained, and when they asked what a month was, I
said four weeks, like the song (and usually a few more days, but four weeks
exactly in February).
When they got older we brushed teeth for TWO months, one month on one side
and one month on the other. And if we weren't really done, the beginning of
the last Saturday could be held out for a long, amusing time. "Thursday,
Friday, Saa...............turday."
Sandra
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In a message dated 3/28/05 7:47:59 AM Central Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:
<< I made a little song for Kirby, when he was little, to learn our address,
because it was on the kindergarten "expected competencies" for the state.
He'd
known the phone number for a long time.
When you started into the part about your mom in school, it reminded me of
something my own mother told me about. She was a school bus driver when I was a
preschooler. I remember riding the bus with her and the big teenage girls
holding me on their laps like I was a dollbaby.
All ages of kids rode her bus. One morning a small kid got on, who was new
in the neighborhood. That afternoon, after he got in to go home, she ran her
whole route and he was still on the bus. She asked him why he didn't get off
and he said he didn't see his house. So, she drove the whole route again,
asking him what color his house was, and then again, trying to keep him calm. Then
finally on the third time around, he spotted his mother standing in front of
a blue house waiving down the bus!
Mom asked the boy why he didn't get off the first 3 times, and he said, "My
house was yellow!"
His mother, having her first new house, had the house painted while he was
gone at school. Your story reminded me of that.
I just want you to know, Sandra, that Will knows the days of the week only
because of the Yankee Doodle song, which you wrote about many years ago.
Karen
SandraDodd@... writes:
<< I made a little song for Kirby, when he was little, to learn our address,
because it was on the kindergarten "expected competencies" for the state.
He'd
known the phone number for a long time.
>>~~
When you started into the part about your mom in school, it reminded me of
something my own mother told me about. She was a school bus driver when I was a
preschooler. I remember riding the bus with her and the big teenage girls
holding me on their laps like I was a dollbaby.
All ages of kids rode her bus. One morning a small kid got on, who was new
in the neighborhood. That afternoon, after he got in to go home, she ran her
whole route and he was still on the bus. She asked him why he didn't get off
and he said he didn't see his house. So, she drove the whole route again,
asking him what color his house was, and then again, trying to keep him calm. Then
finally on the third time around, he spotted his mother standing in front of
a blue house waiving down the bus!
Mom asked the boy why he didn't get off the first 3 times, and he said, "My
house was yellow!"
His mother, having her first new house, had the house painted while he was
gone at school. Your story reminded me of that.
I just want you to know, Sandra, that Will knows the days of the week only
because of the Yankee Doodle song, which you wrote about many years ago.
Karen
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In a message dated 3/28/2005 9:33:29 PM Mountain Standard Time,
tuckervill2@... writes:
I just want you to know, Sandra, that Will knows the days of the week only
because of the Yankee Doodle song, which you wrote about many years ago.
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Cool!
It's a sad story, and I feel sorry for the little baby my-mom in it.
And then I feel sorry for the baby ME in it.
But my kids, and yours, they had an easy fun experience because of it,
ultimately.
Sandra
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tuckervill2@... writes:
I just want you to know, Sandra, that Will knows the days of the week only
because of the Yankee Doodle song, which you wrote about many years ago.
-------------
Cool!
It's a sad story, and I feel sorry for the little baby my-mom in it.
And then I feel sorry for the baby ME in it.
But my kids, and yours, they had an easy fun experience because of it,
ultimately.
Sandra
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Katy Jennings
We have a days of the week song too, we sing the days once in english and then once in spanish. Also songs for the planets, continents, states, etc. I think it is fun. My public schooled niece who is 3 years older than my son often asks him to sing one of them for her to help with her homework.
Katy
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Katy
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sheila
What a BEAUTIFUL picture that is. It made me smile!
Sheila
My Life as a Musical
A moment, just a moment ago.
Holly's in Kirby's room playing Halo II.
Kirby, Marty and five other teens and young adults are the other direction
from me, playing some complicated game with cards and dice in the library.
I was playing Neopets at the kitchen table, and listening to my iTunes for
background. It's not on very loud at all, but when "Build me up Buttercup"
came on, one of the boys in the next room started singing along softly. He's
not one of the better singers, but was just singing to himself. Kirby joined
in, softly. Another couple started humming along, but they were still
playing their game. Then I heard Holly from two rooms away, come in on the second
chorus.
I didn't say a word, but wanted to share it.
Sandra
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Sheila
My Life as a Musical
A moment, just a moment ago.
Holly's in Kirby's room playing Halo II.
Kirby, Marty and five other teens and young adults are the other direction
from me, playing some complicated game with cards and dice in the library.
I was playing Neopets at the kitchen table, and listening to my iTunes for
background. It's not on very loud at all, but when "Build me up Buttercup"
came on, one of the boys in the next room started singing along softly. He's
not one of the better singers, but was just singing to himself. Kirby joined
in, softly. Another couple started humming along, but they were still
playing their game. Then I heard Holly from two rooms away, come in on the second
chorus.
I didn't say a word, but wanted to share it.
Sandra
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Nisha
LOL one of our family funnies,is that our daughter sings about peeing
and pooping A LOT and has since she started using the toilet. LOL
And it's not just random bits of songs, she has made up entire songs
about it. I don't think we've let her see us giggle about it, but it
really is funny and cute, and evidently she really does know how her
body works. (the pee song includes a little bit about her bladder
being full, and when it is, you gotta go pee. LOL)
Nisha
--- In [email protected], "sharonjrt"
<sharonjrt@y...> wrote:
and pooping A LOT and has since she started using the toilet. LOL
And it's not just random bits of songs, she has made up entire songs
about it. I don't think we've let her see us giggle about it, but it
really is funny and cute, and evidently she really does know how her
body works. (the pee song includes a little bit about her bladder
being full, and when it is, you gotta go pee. LOL)
Nisha
--- In [email protected], "sharonjrt"
<sharonjrt@y...> wrote:
>us!
> DD, DH & I are always putting life-situations into song.
> Examples:
> Driving around pot holes, after being asked how they are created-
> "Hole in the road, Hole in the road, Hole in the, Hole in the, Hole
> in the, Hole in the, Hole in the, Hole in the road!" OR
> Our Street Address- "442 What's-It Avenue!"
> It is incredibly silly & fun, and a great learning tool for all of
>
joy guffey
Would you be able to send me the Lyrics to the Days of
the week song English/Spanish. And the others also if
it is not to much trouble. Thank You so much.
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the week song English/Spanish. And the others also if
it is not to much trouble. Thank You so much.
--- Katy Jennings <kjennings95@...> wrote:
> We have a days of the week song too, we sing the__________________________________
> days once in english and then once in spanish. Also
> songs for the planets, continents, states, etc. I
> think it is fun. My public schooled niece who is 3
> years older than my son often asks him to sing one
> of them for her to help with her homework.
> Katy
>
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> removed]
>
>
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