Dear pARTnerschools community,
Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, all of our remaining rehearsals and concerts have been canceled but our teachers and students are finding ways to stay active and connected while we stay at home.
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- Students from KIPP SHARP, Annunciation Orthodox School, KIPP Sharpstown and The Awty International School are remotely and jointly rehearsing and recording the final song of their cancelled concert: “Let There Be Love”.
- Partnerschools initiated a GoFundMe campaign to assist Rucker families with food Insecurities due to COVID-19. There is still time to contribute.
- Our annual fundraiser will happen online, just like the rest of our events.
- Stay tuned for our annual reel and please consider a gift to ensure the future of Partnerschools and building bridges through music!
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Virtual Lesson Time
- Rucker Elementary School is our Starter School, a school without an existing music and art curriculum. Partnerschools sponsors a choir teacher to work with the children 3 times per week. Join Rebecca Heath Miller in one of her virtual lessons:
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Rucker ES Virtual Music Lesson 1
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The Handwashing Song
Ava Leavell Haymon, Louisiana Poet Laureate Emeritus, and Dr. Robert Nelson, Professor Emeritus at the Moores School of Music, wrote “The Handwashing Song” for one of our partnerships.
KIPP Nexus and River Oaks Baptist School students are remotely learning and recording this song. Stay tuned…
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We kids need to know why we have to stay home
and all of our friends
have to stay at home, too.
Would somebody tell us
exactly what’s wrong?
We’re all sick and tired of food from a can
and sisters or brothers
and school on a screen,
but mainly we’re tired
of washing our hands.
Washing our hands and counting to 20
and washing our hands
and washing our hands
and washing and washing
and washing our hands.
None of us knows why some curve should be flat
(exponential is WHAT?),
why we can’t touch our face,
why toilet paper’s gone, or
how long this will last.
A good explanation would go a long way,
like how does a virus
that doesn’t have legs
go to parts of the world
that I’ll never go to?
We’re anxious because the adults are all scared,
scared of a droplet
and scared of the air
and no one says why
and some people die.
Washing our hands and counting to 20
and washing our hands
and washing our hands
and washing and washing
and washing our hands.
What about preschool kids? They’re anxious, too!
They don’t know the difference
in atoms and molecules--
how can they know
what’s a virus at all?
They don’t know a microscope, they haven’t seen
cells of bacteria
fungi and such, but
they know something tiny
is creeping about.
Washing our hands and counting to 20
and washing our hands
and washing our hands
and washing and washing
and washing our hands.
We’re hearing new words that NONE of us know:
“Global pandemic,”
“COVID – 19”--
It can “highjack” your cells,
so “shelter-in-place.”
Since no definitions are coming from you,
we kids will go on
in the way all kids do
We’re sneezing in elbows
and wiping our noses
We keep “social-distance”—6 feet at least!--
and counting to 20
and washing our hands
All over the world
kids washing their hands.
Washing our hands, and counting to 20
and washing our hands
and washing our hands
and washing and washing
and washing our hands.
It’s all we can do, but it gives us some hope.
WHAT WILL WE DO WHEN EARTH
RUNS OUT OF SOAP?
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