MusicMan was absent today, and he had his sub do a karaoke duel. (Which would have been his lesson anyway, I’m sure.) It looked like SO much fun, so when I came back into the room, I told a kid I wanted to sing. He told the sub, and she said, Sure! It was all Disney, and there were a few Miley Cyrus songs I knew. (Emphasis on “few”.) Two boys wanted to “versus” me, and long story short: I kicked their butts. As in I got twice as many points as they did. (Supposedly it can tell if you’re saying the right words and singing the right tune.) The kids in the audience were all, “Ms. Institutrice, you rock!” The two boys kept saying, “I can’t believe Ms. Institutrice beat us!” I was like, “Hey, what do you think I do in my car? Sing!” 
They got a kick out of that.
I got to sing again during our word work lesson to introduce the suffix -ous. I had a few on the graphic organizer, and they had suggested a few, but they were forgetting a big one. I said, “You’re not gonna make me sing again, are you?” They thought of a few more, but still not this one, so I started singing, “G… L… A… M…” and someone shouted, “Glamorous!” and we all sang it. And then it was stuck in my head all day.
Except when I was rockin’ out to the lunchtime radio blasting great songs from 1989. Ah, pop metal, how I miss you.
Foxy, foxy!
8675309!!!!
Did you know that number was actually poor girl’s phone number? She sued or something and now that number can never be used again….ever!
Really? I never heard that!
But, I was talking about Heavy Duty Heavy Metal like Dr. Feelgood, The Cult’s Firewoman, and Once Bitten, Twice Shy.
Behold the power of music. I’m surprised how well kids behave when I bring my guitar in and play when they are doing independent work.
Also, the Jenny #. It’s still out there and recently a DJ bought the phone number on ebay.
http://www.newser.com/story/49592/for-a-good-time-buy-867-5309.html
Too much fun! We sang a song one of my colleagues wrote about geography and hemispheres to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive” today! (My favorite part is hemi-hemi-hemi-hemi-hemisphere! Hemisphere!) I WISH we had karaoke!
WORK IT, MS. I!!!
ooh need the lyrics to that song ASBESTASICAN!!!! We could use it!
Yes, please send us the lyrics! I should put up my songs for decimals (two I wrote, one is from Instructor, but they all work). After hearing a song that I hadn’t heard in a good ten years or more, and knowing all of the words, I am convinced that everything we teach should be set to music.