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Bentley/Buckingham

Music Inspired By

Week 4/5 – Megan Krantz/CD Littlefield

Change Sings

Written by Amanda Gorman

Illustrated by Loren Long

Written by Leschi Elementary School

STYLE Session 2022
March – May

Dance Track

Finished song

LYRICS HERE

Chorus

Make a peaceful protest

Put pollution to rest

Make the world a better place

A calm and graceful human race

Verse

If I could change one thing

I’d make the world a better place

A giant peaceful ring

I’d make this mystery a better case

Instrumental

About the Book

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman reads inauguration poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’

Change Sings

Written by Amanda Gorman

Illustrated by Loren Long

In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by inaugural Youth Poet Laureate and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.

Change Sings is brought to life by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long, the artist behind Barack Obama’s children’s book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters. Written as a children’s anthem, Gorman’s book reminds the newest generation that they have the power to shape the word with their actions and voices.

Change Sings

Sound FX/Foley – Jak McKool

Week 1 – Geoff Larson

Here We Are

Written by Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers offers a personal look inside his own hopes and wishes for his child–a missive about our world and those who call it home.

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Oliver Jeffers

Let me Tell You What’s Going On

What’s going on right now

I don’t understand

I’ll tell you what’s going on

Week 2 – Megan Krantz

We are Water Protectors

Written by Carole Lindstrom

Illustrated by Michaela Goade

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.

Water is the first medicine.
It affects and connects us all . . .

When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth
And poison her people’s water, one young water protector
Takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.

We are Water Protectors

Carole Lindstrom

Water is strong

Cool and calm

We have a job

To keep it on

Flow on

Dear water, flow on

Week 3 – Katrina Kope

All the Ways to be Smart

By Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys

The third project from this dynamic partnership that celebrates the myriad talents that each child brings to the world. Smart is not just ticks and crosses, smart is building boats from boxes. Painting patterns, wheeling wagons, being mermaids, riding dragons… From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are.