“Want To Be Smart?” by “Miss” Emily Aronoff Teck
Track # 5 from Good Choices, Volume 2
Inspiration Text
“Who is wise? The one that learns from every person …” -Pirke Avot 4:1
“Want To Be Smart?” Activity
Ask students to brainstorm all of the things that people have taught them. Then encourage students to take turns teaching one another. Break into small groups or partners so that different students can share their unique knowledge. Remind them to show respect, taking turns listening and sharing. Affirm that they can be excellent teachers, and give examples of times that you (as an adult teacher) have learned important and interesting things from listening to other people and children. Teach them that a famous rabbi said that everyone can be smart, as long as they are willing to learn from everyone.
Lyrics
CHORUS
Do you want to be smart? Yes, I want to be smart.
Do you want to be wise? Yes, I want to be wise.
Do you think learning is fun? Yes, learning IS fun.
Then learn from everyone! Learn from everyone!
Just ask a teacher,
How do you learn each day
To help all your kiddos?
She’ll say her students show her the way!
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Just ask a new mommy,
Who teaches her right now
To take care of her child?
She’ll say her baby shows her how!
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Just ask your rabbis
How the ideas get in their mind.
They’ll say their inspirations
Come from many things of different kinds.
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If you could ask a baby
How they learn so much,
They’d tell you they learn something
From everything they touch!
Eizehu, Eizehu
Chacham, Chacham
HaLomed, HaLomed
M’kol Adam M’kol Adam
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