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Don't you hate it when you get a really annoying song in your head? I teach kindergarten and special education, but I'm also the K-5 music teacher at our school. Some of the songs we sing are great and others.. well, not so great.

My grade 4/5 group is quite creative and they enjoy "composing" and performing songs with actions. Today I introduced a song called Ko Ay E or something like that. It's a song from the Maori tribe in New Zealand and there's a stick dance that goes along with it. I taught the kids the song and then split them into groups, where they had to create their own stick dance to go along with the song.

The kids really liked it but the song itself is extremely annoying. Its melody is almost like a lullaby and very very catchy. Unfortunately, it got stuck in my head during that class and I can't seem to get it out. What's worse, I've played it over and over in my head to the point that I can't actually remember the words. It's something like Ko Ay E, Ah Ta O, something something something.

Argh!!! Thankfully I'm having a couple of girls over to paint Ukrainian easter eggs. They should be here any time now. I'm hoping they'll be able to distract my brain from this stupid song.