World Cup Song

These are the words for the World Cup 2010 song. You download the video from YouTube or Itunes or watch the one I added in above. (mom and I figured out how to embed videos today!)

I am learning to sing the song and I want to learn to play it on my guitar. The singer, K'naan, is a Somali artist who lives now in Toronto, Canada. The football version of the song is called "Wavin' Flag: Celebration Mix." The original song is called "Wavin' Flag." The original song doesn't have anything to do with football but the World Cup has different words and the words are about the beautiful game....soccer, that is.

It goes like this:

Oooooooo, ooooooooo, oooooooooooo,

Oooooooo, oooooooo, oooooooooooo,

Give me freedom,

Give me fire,

Give me reason,

Take me higher,

See the champions,

Take the field now,

Unify us, make us feel proud,

In the streets our,

hands are lifted,

as we lose our,

inhibitions,

Celebration!

It surrounds us,

Every nation,

all around us,

Singing forever young,

Singing songs underneath the sun

Let's rejoice in the beautiful game

and together at the end of the day

we all sing:

When I get older, I will be stronger,

they'll call me freedom,

just like a wavin' flag.

And then it goes back...

and everybody will be singing it!

and we all will be singing it!

Haiku

1.

In the rocky waves

a beautiful ship sailed by

as the morning passed

2.

In a dark forest

the calm wind blew a maple

after the night fell

3.

Brown grass covers me

I reach up to the blue sky

all in the morning

Haiku is a kind of poetry but it's very different than poetry. A haiku poem has five syllables at the first line, seven syllables at the second line and five syllables at the last line. As you can see, the poem is three lines. It is a poem about ONE time, not like: now, later, it just happened, after that, or last week. The lines answer these questions: Where? What? When?

Safari Hunt

Happy New Year!

It has been a looooonnnnnnggggg time since I wrote on my blog. I made a deal with Mommy that I would write something new every week as part of my literacy and ITC homework.

My present to everyone for the New Year is a card game that I made mostly by myself called "Safari Hunt." See if you can download the nine page PDF using one of these two links:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24669115?secret_password=j6s64ej3bqij5539wxq

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24669115/Safari-Hunt-Low?secret_password=j6s64ej3bqij5539wxq

Do you want to know about this game? I just kept asking my mom to make a present on the computer and finally mom let me and that's the idea I had. I was just thinking of the game and how it would be. I had to find all the pictures using Safari/Google Images and I had to learn how to make the card shapes and fit the photos on the card shapes in "Pages" (the Mac version of Word). Also I had to learn a lot about the animals. Then, I made up the rules -- it's a little bit like "War"-- and I did the typing myself, even after I smashed my finger in the door. OUCH!

*We uploaded the lower-res PDF using "Scribd." This is a bit of an experiment, so please let us know if it will print OK, if the resolution is fine, etc. It was originally a massively large file....20MB. I think our next ITC lesson will be how to manage jpeg file sizes and managing documents. It turns out that trying to convert something back to a manageable size after-the-fact is a total headache.