"Happy" for Mary Dietrich 6/2/14

As a surprise for Mary Dietrich's retirement, the student body did a flash mob of Pharrell Williams' "Happy" at the Monday morning assembly on 6/2/14. Here are some of the elements and practice that went into the performance, starting with an email:


From: BUBB VOLUNTEER
Date: May 6, 2014 at 9:55:33 AM PDT
To: cathy cheng , Karey Walker , Leslie Barber , Neelam Patel , "Rosanna D'Costa" , samir Freiha , Vinita Alwyn , Anna Hammer , Jeannie Tsai , jennifer Brierly , Lisa Kafka , Mindy Haus , nancy Cho , Teresa Proffitt , Terri Burtin , Allison Devenney , Amy Fazio , Caroline Raynaud , Marie-Claude Theriault , Mary Wong , Nicole Chang , Pam Prodromou , Patricia Jimenez , Punam Gollamudi , Taylor House , Joleen Wilkening , Julie McGrath , Lorena Gomez , Maggie Carpenter , nicole player , Sandra Klemens , Amy Flaskerud , Annett Inacker-Trail , Karen Price , monica rogers , Samantha Johnsen , Julie Jackson , Penny Lynch , "Shell D'Augusta"
Subject: operation "HAPPY" - PLEASE READ!

Hello Room Parents,
The end of the year is fast upon us and we have a surprise retirement gift for Mrs. Dietrich. We need your help along with the teachers to make "Operation Happy" happen. All teachers are aware of this dance and have agreed to be a part of Mrs. D's retirement celebration. The celebration will take place on the last Monday morning assembly on June 2nd at 8am - we are planning a flash mob dance to the song "Happy" by Pharrell Williams as a way to let the students participate in Mrs. D retirement. The students will start the dance and some parents will hold up a "Happy Retirement" sign in the back.

We need you - our wonderful and generous room parents to help your class learn the dance. Start with your child and help create excitement that way. Please work with your teacher to find a time that best suits them to help the students learn the dance in the classroom. Some teachers may take it on themselves but please offer to help as we are striving to have 100% student participation. Below is the dance tutorial video for our end of the year flash mob for Mary! As you can see from the video, the moves are pretty straight forward and not too difficult. Hopefully practices will be easy and fun. We want the kids to have fun and help celebrate Mrs. D's past seven years at Bubb.

Also, mark your calendars for whole school/all grade level practices when Mary is at the district office on Tuesdays May 20th and May 27th. Right now the teachers thought practicing right before recess on these days from 9:45-10:00 would be best.

Check out this video on YouTube: (featuring your fabulous instructor Caitlyn Devenney!!)
http://youtu.be/vrKHsr90k8g (Yes, the link should work.)
If you need some help with the dance or scheduling it or have any questions please contact Sheryl Anderson at sheryl@cgland.net.

Thank you again for all your hard work and let's have some fun in honoring our Principal,

Sheryl


As noted above, whole school practice sessions were scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th and Tuesday May 27th. Below are some pictures of those practice sessions and one video.

And finally, there are pictures and a video for the wonderfully successful event itself on Monday, June 2, 2014. (This is just a rank amateur video - hopefully other, better ones surface!)

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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The team could not get the sound system to play from a smartphone until after the recess period had ended!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

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Practice session on 5/27/14

Monday, June 2, 2014

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Flash Mob to "Happy" at Assembly on 6/2/14

Prepared by Rick Van Mell, vanmells@ix.netcom.com.