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Song of the Week...and other announcements

SONG OF THE WEEK
As we head into another week of remote learning, I was thinking about what I would be doing with some of our Whittier Wildcats at this time of year. At this point, the whole school would probably be focusing on songs for our Spring SLAM- our performances featuring Spanish, Library, Art, and Music. The third graders' SLAM is entitled "This Land was Made for You and Me". Students had already started learning the song, but I thought it would be a lovely song to sing this week. My singing partner sang this song for his 3rd grade spring concert at Mann last year, so he volunteered to join in.

Click here to sing along





OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Chorus members- we will be having a lunchtime Zoom this week at 11:30. The time has changed from 12 to 11:30.   I will be sending the link soon.


4th and 5th graders- Starting this week you will have an assignment to submit to me for music. There are directions how to take a screen recording of this week's assignment (the GarageBand canon assignment on bottom right square of the board). After you take a screen recording you can load the recording into your Google Drive and share it with me at akaria@op97.org


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