I talked to the class briefly about why dreams matter to me. I told them how I had two big dreams as a teenager. I wanted to have a band and I wanted to make movies.
Both dreams came true, sort of. They didn't reach the scale I had envisioned some 30 years ago, but I do get to play music with my kids in church every week in our worship band and I get to make videos with students on my job.
So dreams definitely matter! I assured them their dreams might look different as they grow older, but the dreams in their mind now are there for a reason.
For the project the teacher and I had the students draw pictures of their dreams. I asked my daughter (16 years old) to write a simple chorus about dreams for the young students. I took her lyrics, fleshed out a couple lines and added the music.
We taught the song to the students and recorded them singing. I used GarageBand to add the rest of the arrangement and I edited everything together with Corel VideoStudio.
If you want to use the song, here are the notes and chords.
Here is the full video we finished with one class. I worked with them for three class periods and spent a good amount of time during the weekend putting this together.
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