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Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 107
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 4:31 am: | 
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Primary (elementary?) school/preschool teacher friend has asked me:
'Here's my problem, I need to come up with a song that can accompany a kid's picture story. The theme of the story is that the teacher is missing and the kids suggest wild and wacky things that may have happened to him, ie cut in half with a chainsaw, run away to sea, taken daughter to hospital, rode away on a motorbike, taken to prison for drink driving etc etc etc. Any suggestions for suitable songs to accompany such a story?'
I can't think of anything just now but figured all you creative and parent types on MOL might ... all suggestions welcome!
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Carla
Citizen
Username: Elbowroom
Post Number: 75
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 6:41 am: |
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"cut in half with a chainsaw" "taken to prison for drink driving"
Sounds like a fun, worthwhile project for children! I'm sure I'll come up with something! |
Handygirl
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Username: Handygirl
Post Number: 688
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 9:32 am: |
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Your kidding, right?
If my kids came home singing a song about their teacher being cut in half with a chainsaw I would move them to a new school. Seriously. Yikes. |
Soparents
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Username: Soparents
Post Number: 308
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 9:42 am: |
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I'm with handygirl. I'm all for encouraging a childs imagination, but chainsaws and drunk driving????
How about gone to sea to ride on a whale, up in the air in an airship, gone on a safari, gone exploring in caves for buried treasure, up in a spaceship chasing a comet?...
You said this was for primary/prechoolers, so wouldn't something like the above suggestions work?
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Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1959
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 12:39 pm: |
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Man, you guys are really sticks in the muds. I'm going to encourage my kids darker side. |
Tom N
Citizen
Username: Tjn
Post Number: 113
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 12:56 pm: |
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I'm with Alleygater! Sounds like the classic "Gashlycrumb Tinies" except it's not the kids who are gone. (And they were gone for good.) Is this teachers name Miss Goth by any chance?
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/7535/gorey.html
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mickey
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Username: Mickey
Post Number: 440
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 2:34 pm: |
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Oh where oh where has my teacher gone, oh where oh where can he be?
Is his head cut off?, is his car impounded?, oh where oh where can he be?
Is his daughter sick?, is he wrapped around a tree?, oh where or where can he be?
Is he serving time, is he maritime? oh where oh where.......
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Shannon OReilly
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Username: Soreilly
Post Number: 15
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 2:48 pm: |
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where is teacher, where is teacher
there she is, there she is
pushing up the daisies, csi rotating
runaway, runaway |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 112
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 4:26 pm: |
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Well, it's a serious project and it sounds as if it's something that the kids may have devised as a creative writing project in class. Don't tell me you haven't heard of kids watching horror movies or of hearing/reading Krummelpeter horror nursery rhymes from the 1800s in Germany???? I don't think therte are huge amounts of details in this projectf, and the request was simply for songs to help illustrate significant points, so one of my first thoughts was 'What shall we do with a drunken sailor?'. I thought you might have further thoguhts.
I love the two customised contributions, and will pass them on. Thanks! Any ideas on tunes??? |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 113
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 4:31 pm: |
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Silly me, of course the tunes are obvious as I can't stop singing them to myself!!!!! |
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