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| Flying cat gif is from Mrs Lee. We are still laughing out loud. |
New Zealand Music Month finished this week, but we still like to learn more about New Zealand music, and this new song from Fatcat and Fishface is definitely a fun song to sing. It will take a bit of time and practice to get up to speed, but will be a great feeling when we can sing it through.
Tip of my Tongue (Look for the sound track at the top of the page. It's free for the first few times - then you can buy the song on iTunes or the CD. It's well worth it.)
Some vocabulary from the song:
mollycoddle - to fuss over someone and be over-protective
cranny and nook - small places or corners
buttie - a sandwich
hoodlum - a person who is out of control or very naughty
hurtling - travelling at great speed
weasel - an animal, a pest in New Zealand
Morris Minor - a type of car
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| A weasel |
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| Morris Minor |
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| A bacon buttie |
Selfish Shellfish Lyrics and sound track. (Look for sound track at the top of the page.)
Some vocabulary from these songs:
typhoon - a very big storm
port - the lefthand side (or direction) from a vessel when facing the front.
starboard - the righthand side (or direction) from a vessel facing forward.
anachronism - something which is historically incorrect because it wasn't invented or known about at the time. For example, the flush toilet in the Wreck of the Diddley video is an anachronism because those kind of toilets did not exist on ships at the time the song is written about.
dozen - twelve
abandon - leave
core - centre
pipi - a type of shellfish found on many New Zealand beaches - especially harbours and estuaries
tua tua - a type of shellfish found on ocean beaches, bigger than a pipi
kina - a type of sea urchin found on New Zealand beaches.
Wreck of the Diddley Lyrics and sound track
Some vocabulary from these songs:
typhoon - a very big storm
port - the lefthand side (or direction) from a vessel when facing the front.
starboard - the righthand side (or direction) from a vessel facing forward.
dozen - twelve
abandon - leave
core - centre
pipi - a type of shellfish found on many New Zealand beaches - especially harbours and estuaries
tua tua - a type of shellfish found on ocean beaches, bigger than a pipi
kina - a type of sea urchin found on New Zealand beaches.
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| pipi |
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| kina |
Best Day of My Life - with lyrics
Best Day of My Life - with dance moves
Sh-Boom Sh-Boom Life Could be a Dream (The Koi Boys version)
Sh-Boom Sh-Boom lyrics - look on the "Songs we sing" tab above.
Juniors:
Looby Loo
And if we have time - A cat concerto by Tom and Jerry from 1947. The music in Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2 by Franz Liszt. Here's some interesting information about the cartoon.
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