We've just had our Book Week, this week and part of the activities include playing the Reading Song at snack time where it was hoped students would join the coordinators on the basketball court to 'read, 'sing' and 'jig along' to the music. It's been a hit all week with Friday having the most number of students joining in. I was a little late to the party but what I caught was surely priceless! And oh, it was also the Book Character Dress Up Day, hence the wonderful costumes!
The inspiration for this activity came from Florida’s Ocoee Middle School's youtube video of the same name so I did a little digging to see how it all started. It seems that when they created a video in 2009, titled "Gotta Keep Reading", from Black-Eyed Peas' song, "I've Gotta Feelin", they unwittingly spread a globally infectious message to continue reading! It is definitely an amazing example of the fluid nature of online social networking, youth exuberance and digital media. And what a wonderful message to pass on eh? Incidentally, I'm tickled pink to see the lead dancer holding my favourite book! ;)
I just love the way they've amended the lyrics (with the permission of the original artist's publishers of course!).
Gotta Keep Reading
Gotta Keep Reading
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
Pick up that book
And turn the page
You’ll never know
Just what you’ll find
Information
Or Fantasy
Drama and Art
All make you smart!
I know that you’ll have a ball
If you turn off the TV and just read them
all
Just think, with a book you’ll be so
entertained
OMS has the best readers in F.L.A
Fill up my mind
With non fiction
Let’s get the facts
And use them up
Collaborate
Graduate
Feed your brain
And then we’ll just keep on reading
And reading and reading and reading and
reading
And reading and reading
Lets read it some more
Reading and reading and reading reading
reading
Keep reading and reading and reading
Gotta Keep Reading
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
I got my book!
Do you have yours?
What is the title?
And who’s it by?
Where is it set?
Maybe in Spain?
Is it fiction?
Or is it real?
Will it be happy?
Or maybe sad?
Let’s see what happens
By reading on
Open that book
And have a look
It’s an adventure
So keep on reading that book
Keep reading and reading and reading and
reading
And reading and reading
lets read it some more
Read it and read it and read it read it read
it
And read it and read it and read it read it
read it read it
Here we come, here we go we gotta read
(read read read)
Easy come easy go now we can’t stop
Fill that shelf with those books
Way to the top
Round and round
Read those books
Around the clock
Action, Sci-Fi, Humor, Adventure
Biography, Reality, Mystery and Fantasy
Read read read read read it up
What ever you like
Read those Sunshine States
Take those Reading Counts
Gotta Keep Reading
Ooo hooo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book!
Ohh hoo…..
Nicole Nasrallah, Janet Bergh
Ocoee Middle School
© 2009 Based on “I Gotta Feelin’ ”
By The Black-Eyed Peas
(used by Permission)
So many schools have done their version of this too. Here are just some of them...
