A fire evacuation song for kids
A Dutch site about children, pregnancy and the likes, peuteren.nl is offering the free download of a song children can sing when they leave a burning school building or during a fire drill.
According to the site, the story goes that someone somewhere wondered if there was a song the kids could sing to keep their focus on getting outside in a stressful situation. Here’s ‘Het Ontruimingslied’ (‘The Evacuation Song’), easy to sing for Dutch kids as young as two-years-old.
Someone who works with kids please tell me if this is a brilliant idea or just plain weird, I honestly don’t know.
An excerpt:
We moeten nu naar buiten
Stap voor stap in de rij
Iedereen verzamelen
De deur is al nabij
(roughly)
We have to go outside
Step by step in a file
Everybody gather together
The door is not too far
For the Dutch teens who do understand German, there’s always the punk rock classic by Extrabreit, Hurra hurra die Schule brennt (Hurrah Hurrah The School is Burning).
(Link: nieuws.nl)
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