Hi 4th and 5th grade Target Friends,
You will receive a letter this week about Arts Night. Please return it to me by Fri., Oct. 30th.
Here are the words to the songs we are singing. Please memorize them.
"The Dendrite Song" (tune of "Clementine")
Use your dendrites, use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain.
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.
Axons send out, Neurotransmitters
To the dendrites all around
Across the synapse, Jumps the impulse
New ideas can now abound.
Stimulation is what the brain needs
To make dendrites stretch and grow.
New connections make us smarter
In what we think and what we know.
Use your dendrites, use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain.
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.
"I've Been Working On My Neurons" (tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad")
I’ve been working on my neurons,
All the livelong day.
I’ve been working on my neurons,
Just to make my dendrites play.
Can’t you hear the synapse snapping?
Impulses bouncing to and fro,
Can’t you tell that I’ve been learning?
See how much I know!
"Ya Gotta Shake Your Brain!" (Rap)
In Target class…when your brain goes blank
You gotta pool ideas / into a “Think Tank”
If everyone makes / a contribution
You soon will have / a smoothe solution.
Soooooooo. (4 beats)
(Chorus)
Ya gotta shake your brain, Ya gotta figure it out.
There’s no need to scream and shout.
Ya gotta use that stuff / you got up stairs.
You gotta activate / what’s under your hair.
(4 beats- slap legs right, left, right, left)
Boys—Ya gotta shake your brain.
Girls—Ya gotta shake your brain.
All—Ya gotta shhhhaaakkkee (4 beats) your brain.
4 beats (clap on legs---R, L, R, L)
Ya gotta stretch your skills, go out on a limb.
On days when your lightbulb’s growing dim.
Get out of that “box” that limits thought
Don’t let your spirits get caught….
Soooooo….(4 beats)
Repeat Chorus
Please practice these songs so that we are heard clearly. It's going to be great!
Mrs. Mack
