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Today’s preview of the Sing With Our Kids website: Flash Mobs (sort of!)

Today I'll give you a preview of the LIVE project part of Sing With Our Kids. There will be nine months of free events taking place all over the community of Mercer Island.  These will be events any community could do, so you can follow along and do the same things in your own community! All ideas and planning details will be the for you to use! Tweet Events (think of them as sort of like flash mobs) will be just one of the groups of events going on. They will be designed to bring attention to early learning in unique ways that are fun, quick, and highly visible! Here are just a few examples of Tweet Events (there are bound to be more as our imaginations get going):

1. Supermarket Snake- families will be invited to meet at each of our 3 community supermarkets and hold hands to form a snake that will go through every isle while singing a marketing song! We'll stop along the way to identify letters (supermarkets are a great place for letter hunts!).

2. Book Store Boogie- similar to market, but of course, we'll be making our way through the book store- also a great place for letter hunting!

3. All-Island  Ring Around the Rosy
 Once a month a meeting place and time will be announced, and we'll form a circle and sing. The group will increase in size every month, and by the end of the project in May,  we can try for the Guinness Book of World Records (currently around 900)! These will be done in highly visible public parks.

4. Neighborhood Sing-alongs.  These will be coordinated to happen at the same time all over the community. Sing along-lyric sheets with guitar chords for traditional songs will be available to print out from the website. We'll select 10 "endangered" folk songs and sing to revive them!

During each of the Tweet Events, we'll have parents pull out their phones, take a picture,  and tweet it out the the world! The  goal will be to increase awareness of early learning through community singing by holding these unique events. Sounds like a lot of wild and crazy fun, doesn't it? Of course, let me know if you have any ideas!