The Whole School students created and sang a song facilitated and mixed by Kosmic T, Tanin Shunter.
The project was fun, challenging, fulfilling and we are amazed by the results!
Kosmic T is a professional recording artist, founder of Kootenay Rites Of Passage and has had the honour of mentoring youth in the Kootenays for over 10 years. Individual and group sessions are available and if you are up to supporting local artists get in touch!
This project was supported by an Artists in the Classroom grant disbursed by ArtStarts in Schools and funded by the Province of British Columbia and the BC Arts Council. Thank you for your support ArtStarts in Schools!
Ultimately, a BIG THANK YOU goes to the Whole School teachers for helping the students continue to learn and grow.
This is the kind of learning that kids hold on to and cherish all their lives!
Sacred earth protects and nurtures everyone
Fills us with beautiful dreams that have just begun
From a seed comes a tree
It teaches us how to be
We are the voice of the forest
The voice of the sky,
The voice of the water as it flows on by
We protect nature
We stand for the trees,
They give us the air that we need to breath
We are all connected
In mother nature’s heart
All my relations is where we start
bridge:
Stars, sky, sun and moon
Protect the trees and the plants that bloom
The trees are our elders
The trees are our friends
They offer us shelter and
They offer us breath
Chorus:
Trees, trees protect the trees,
Love to forest, go to the chorus
Trees, trees, protect the trees,
Our mother nature, we gotta save the…
Trees trees protect the trees,
Home of the bird, the bear and the beaver
Trees trees protect the trees,
Home of the wild, we know we need the ….
Trees, trees teach us please,
Bring the magic from the breeze
Keep the glorious animals alive
So we can keep learning how to survive
Trees, trees teach us please,
Bring the magic from the breeze
Keep the healthy forests alive
So we can once again learn to thrive
Because of global warming
The trees are burning
are we really learning
As the world keeps turning?
The ice is disappearing, it’s all melting down,
The ocean levels rising, taking the town
Mass extinction happening, like never before
The animals are leaving us more and more
What can we do to save mother earth?
Feel in our hearts what it’s all worth
Bridge & Chorus
Old growth forests
Beginning of the chorus
Slow down on the cutting
Takes notes from the tortoise
Save the trees, don’t cut them down
We want to watch them grow from the ground
We need the trees they have the key
To teach us to live in harmony
Start in your heart
It’s a new story
Look to mother nature
In all her glory