BOCA BETH: One Song at a Time

Have you ever owned a CD where there was one particular song you just did not care for and you would intentionally skip over that song every time you played the CD?

Well I had one of those CDs and it was my own CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just could not get my head around nor my arms around the Clean Up Song / Limpia (leem-pee-ah) that I wrote and recorded for our My First Songs in Spanish music CD back in late 2002!  I eventually removed the song from the CD’s line up of songs.

Well my friends, in honor of Earth Day 2008, I want to bring that Clean Up / Limpia song back for just today, for just you!!!! 

(Sung to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Clean, clean, clean up now

Limpia means clean!

Limpia, limpia, limpia, limpia ……..

Limpia means clean!!!!!!

(Repeat again and again and again as you and the children clean up the classroom, clean up the play yard, clean up the house, whatever!!!!!)

And for some easy, quick, Earth Day ideas read below:

• Turn your play area outside into a wildlife habitat by adding a birdfeeder, planting some native plants with the children this week, and adding a small fountain for water for wildlife.  (Your preschoolers will delight in seeing who comes to visit their bird feeders and fountains.  Use the Boca Beth bilingual language cards FREE on our web site to name some of the visitors in Spanish and English.)
• Plant a tree or a bush with the children and care for it on a daily basis.  This heightens their awareness of how a small thing can make a big difference if every class or every family were to each plant one thing for the Earth.
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - we all learned the 3 Rs of recycling, and if we live it daily with the children in our care, they will learn by example.
• Make a big deal of turning off all lights as you move from room-to-room or to the outside.  Make certain your CD player is turned off, the class computer, any video game and so on so that the children witness that when something is not being used it should be OFF to save our Earth!

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth