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Composed and Performed byJanine Collymore’s 3rd Grade Class andElisabeth Gibson-Mueller’s 4th Grade Class

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Roger ClapInnovation School

Eyes on Bullying Cantata

We Create Like Poets Cantata

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Piggy, Not Ham

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Kathrine, Adam, Daniel U, Kelyce, Anyla and Corrinawith Kumi Donaghue, Cantata Singers

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I'm the big bad wolf and pig isgy small and he will not

tell all.at

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ham. The big bad wolf bul

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lies me. He does not

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I justwant to be friends

wolf, withthe big bad wolf.

with the big bad wolf, with the big bad

I am a wit tnessand I saw the big bad

wolf liedbul pig gy Af ter I called pig gy names, feltI sad and too bad. I

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I Don't Want Wolf to Bully Me TooJalen, Cayden, Mia, Joana, Jordyn, Aniyah B. with Jane Wong, Cantata Singers

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My name is Wolf, and I hate Math, liveI at home with my fa mi ly, 'cos I

don't have no com pa

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in his face. He do esn't want to tell his mom,Why?

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Are you o kay? oh, but Why

thoughal I don'twant Wolf to bul ly me,

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too. I don't know

what to do?


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I can tell Wolf to Leave him lonea

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I'm the big bad wolf! Ha, ha, ha! Come and get

me if you

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can! Peo ple bul lied me

bad wolf! Hey,

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and now I bul you!ly

you bul

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lied me but

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why did

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you bul ly me?

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Hey, you

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liedbul me but

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and sad whenyoudid that to my fri

first I was laugh ing but then I felt bad.

end. That'snot real ly nice! At

I'm hop ing to be your friend.

May be pig gy can step up for him self. Big bad wolf, please be nice!

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wroteHe withfree verse, rhy thm, and

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rhyme. He wrote a lot in a lit bittle of

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Text by Shel Silverstein

Put Something In(A Light in the Attic)

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Draw craa zy pic ture, Write a nut ty po em.

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is a voice in side of you that whis

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