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Studies have shown that we retain 10% of what we are told, 40% of what we read. Retention goes beyond 90% when children learn this information in a song. We maximize the memory retention with hand motions taught through videos that coincide with each song. We are offering schools the same music, choreography, and narration that has been performed by a chorus of nearly 8,000 children and broadcast to a worldwide audience.
Who teaches the Hope of America songs?
In many schools, teachers on a team take turns working with the whole grade level group of students. While one teaches, others monitor and assist. In other schools, a music specialty teacher teaches the songs and the classroom teachers support the learning by practicing a song or two each day using a few minutes before recess or after social studies. A few groups have a before or after school choir program where a teacher or parent volunteer works with self-selected students. The recordings, videos, and handouts make teaching the songs and actions easy!
Besides the program in May, how else can Hope of America songs be used?
Some schools use songs like “Thank you Military” or “American Heroes” for their school’s Veterans Day assembly, featuring their sixth graders who learned the songs as fifth graders. Others use “Founding Fathers” for Constitution Day celebrations in September. Hope of America songs are great to feature in grade level events like history fairs or colonial day celebrations. And of course many schools treat their whole school to a Hope of America preview program in a schoolwide assembly in April or May.
Our Method
All contest
Upload a recorded video of speech to youtube
Music
Have your students sing along with the vocal models
Hand actions
Can make the program more fun and enterainting