Song of the Week

Any teachers out there? When I was in the classroom, my students had a poems and songs binder. Every morning, we would read/sing three or four selections - it was amazing how this daily exercise would build fluency and vocabulary. Every week or so, I would introduce a new selection to add to the rotation.

Well, I wish I was still in the classroom, because I discovered an awesome candidate for Song of the Week. (May require an hour or so in transcribing the lyrics, but totally worth it.) This is Ojibwe rapper Tall Paul doing "Prayers in a Song," which is in English and Ojibwe, and about restoring the Ojibwe language. Not only is it a catchy song that I'm sure my former students would have loved, it's a great chance to teach Native and non-Native students alike about Native Language Restoration projects like the one currently going on in the Ojibwe Nation.