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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.

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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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