My Very Best

While learning the Essential 15 that we will be using as RULES for this year, the fifth grade teachers rewrote "The Lazy Song" to teach the rules. Practice this at home with your child and let them sing it with you. I have attached the link to the instrumental on youtube, so you can sing along. Start as soon as the music starts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAXzcDURbC8

“My Very Best”

Written by Robin Bracken, Trevor Cole, Pam Cowley, Brooke O’Neal, and Quinn Pearson

Sung to: “The Lazy Song” by Bruno Mars

Calhoun’s Essential 15- Taken from Ron Clark’s Essential 55

Today I feel like doing my very best!

Got my rules – I’m putting them to the test

I feel like picking up my own

Manners, Mom I’ll use ‘em at home

‘Cause today I’m gonna give it my very best!

I’m gonna say “Yes Ma’am,”

And “No Sir” – that’s right.

Make eye contact and super focus my sight

Nobody’s gonna take a star from me

I’m gonna clap for my peeps,

Congratulate my homies.

Respect ideas that my friends spring up on me.

‘Cause in my class we don’t disrespect

Oh, oh

Yes, I’ll do it

I’ll do it

I’ll do cause that’s me

Today I feel like doing my very best!

Got my rules – I’m putting them to the test

I feel like picking up my own

Manners, Mom I’ll use ‘em at home

‘Cause today I’m gonna give it my very best!

my very best, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh

my very best, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh, oh

Always say Thank You when given something,

Follow along and read or learn nothing.

Don’t be rude or ask for rewards

OMG, So rude!

I’m gonna turn in my homework each and every day.

Our classes we will change in a “SQOly” way,

And in the hall the line will be straight!

Yes, I’ll do it

I’ll do it

I’ll do cause that’s me

Today I feel like doing my very best!

Got my rules – I’m putting them to the test

I feel like picking up my own

Manners, Mom I’ll use ‘em at home

‘Cause today I’m gonna give it my very best!

No, I ain’t gonna stop and stare

Make mistakes but I won’t care

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

I’ll accept it and let it be

Consequences coming to me

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea-yeah!

Today I feel like doing my very best!

Got my rules – I’m putting them to the test

I feel like picking up my own

Manners, Mom I’ll use ‘em at home

‘Cause today I’m gonna give it my very best!

My very best! oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh

My very best! oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh

My very best!