[HANASHIR:9448] Re: Torah in song for 5-6 year olds

[Ilana and Mark Axel <axelsinchicago...>]

I agree about "shnayin shnayim"! One warning though to
folks who are careful about their Hebrew
pronounciations and meanings. Sam set the words to the
chorus in a stress distribution that makes the word
"teva" mean "nature" rather than the intended meaning
of "ark". I have taught this song by slightly moving
the stress by changing "El ha-te(va)" into a triplet
which allows for the stress to fall properly on "va".
Same with the next line rhyming phrase of "zachar
un'kevah" by shortening the last syllable of "zachar"
so the stress of "n'kevah" falls on the last syllable.
If these things don't bother you, please ignore and
forgive me, but they disturb my ear so I have indulged
myself a bit here.
Ilana Axel
--- Meris Ruzow <meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com> wrote:
> Raquel (and others):  Yes there are a lot of words
> in "Shnayim Shnayim" (Sam
> Glaser's song about Noah); however, the kids only
> sing on the chorus for
> that one.  They sing WITH the recording and I have
> to say it's one of their
> favorite songs.  They love doing different things
> with music through the
> year and that's one song that we like to sing along
> WITH instead of having
> me play for them.    It happens to work well from
> K-3ish.   The kids HAVE
> learned about sanitation (and cleaning up the
> ark).... etc.  As Carole so
> eloquently put it in another email, if explained,
> acted out and truly
> understood, kids are capable of more than we think! 
> Maybe because it's a
> day school situation I have more time with them than
> a supplemental school
> situation.  In any event, the chorus alone is a
> wonderful "get into the act"
> part of the song and it's truly a hit in our school.
>   The older kids didn't
> enjoy this one as much because they thought it was a
> tad "babyish."  But the
> beauty of that cd is that there are songs for all
> age groups which makes the
> entire production so worthwhile.    Happy listening
> everyone!
> Meris Ruzow
> meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com <QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com>
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Date: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:19 PM
> Subject: [HANASHIR:9432] Re: Torah in song for 5-6
> year olds
> 
> 
> >Meris -  the songs on Kol Bamidbar ARE great
> ....for OLDER kids... too many
> >words for K. (not to mention too many big, hard
> words "salvation",
> >sanitation", etc.)
> >The "regular" (not music) teachers play it in the
> classroom tho as
> background
> >music and of course some kids learn the songs
> subliminally. :)  Since I
> teach
> >older kids as well, I like to do new things every
> year so I save those.
> the
> >b'reishit song, by the way, I don't use because
> there are mistakes in it.
> (it
> >happens)
> >
> >and I think "rise and shine"  is on the Zim tape. 
> Our K does a whole unit
> on
> >Noach.  (day school)
> >
> >Raquel
> >
> >
> >
> 
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