Sing a Song

They are singing songs I don't know.

All during snack and then outdoor play, they sang, "Join hands and sing a happy song/Join hands and sing a happy song/Join hands and sing a happy song. We're thankful for the food we eat. We're thankful for the people we meet. We're one family." I can't quite tell the tune and I'm not sure I have all the lyrics, but they have sung it in various forms over and over and over again.

They've also been singing the call to circle time, or "Come Sit on a Star"--"come and sit down, come and sit down, come and sit down on a star, a star." I know the tune but not the name; I think it might be a polka or some dance tune. Mama can't identify it at all.

Apparently, there is also a clean-up song that is not the one we sing at home and a go-to-the-bathroom song. And an apple tree finger play about "two little apples smiling at me." I at least found this one when I googled it: "Two little apples hanging on a tree. Two little apples smiling at me. I shook that tree as hard as I could. Down came the apples. Mmmm were they good!" But I'm at a loss with the other ones.

At church, they've been singing a song about lighting the chalice but I haven't caught the words yet.

Of course, for any and all of these, I can check with the teacher if I'm desperate to know the song and sing along (and Bud did ask how to play the circle song on the piano, so I probably will ask for the sheet music, which I know they have). But for now, I'm letting it be their thing, their songs, something they can teach to me. It's not about my knowing everything they are learning. I want them to have the pride of teaching me, of knowing something I don't know. They are doing this on their own, even if I'm helping.

And, we're all learning.