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Subject: Re: [MK8]Variety Show annoyances

From: Suzanne Olmsted

Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:18:07 -0400

FYI, Puff the Magic Dragon is NOT about any kind of drugs! Listen to
both Peter and Noel (Paul's) versions of explanations. Let's knock
that rumor out!!
Sue in Maine

On May 17, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Beth Jahn wrote:

> I'm not in charge of the student variety show (thank goodness), but
> I do
> help out a little here and there with things like watching
> auditions and
> helping students find karaoke versions of things. We have a bunch
> of 2nd-3rd
> grade pop icon wannabees and they all want to do songs that I just
> don't
> feel are appropriate for 7 and 8-year-olds to be singing. You know
> what I
> mean... Anyway, I've convinced one 2nd grader to do Puff the Magic
> Dragon
> (no comments about drug references! I like to think of the song as
> a fairy
> tale) instead. She's excited and I have music that will work. There
> are a
> couple of other acts that I don't think will be so easy to sway
> toward a
> folk song or other appropriate piece. I wonder if perhaps I pick a
> couple of
> MK8 songs (ones I probably haven't taught in class or haven't done
> for a
> number of years) and let them choose one, they may get excited. Is
> this an
> o.k. use of the MK8 songs? I teach all the kids in this school.
> Does anyone
> have suggestions of pieces that kids can learn quickly and would
> think was
> fun for a variety show? I have all 20 volumes of the magazine, so
> I'm not
> limited there.
>
> Beth in MN
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