Barenaked Ladies Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 08 May 2013 02:55:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Barenaked Ladies Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Chris Hadfield Sings With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Schoolchildren https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/07/chris-hadfield-sings-with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-schoolchildren/ Wed, 08 May 2013 02:55:59 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10297 I’m watching history happen, right in front of my eyes.

It’s 12:30 Eastern Time on Monday, May 6.

On my computer screen, I’m watching a live satellite feed from space.

An astronaut is singing and playing guitar. He’s singing a song he wrote (with Canadian songwriter Ed Robertson from the band the Barenaked Ladies) called I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)?

But the really exciting part is something I can’t see. Hundreds of thousands of children in Canada and throughout the world are also singing, right at this moment, singing the very same song.

It’s part of Music Monday, which is an annual event in Canada that began in 2005. Each year, a song is chosen and school children across the country learn it so they can sing it at the same time on the same day.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Debuts Song From Space https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/02/10/1-astronaut-chris-hadfield-debuts-song-from-space/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/02/10/1-astronaut-chris-hadfield-debuts-song-from-space/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:38:30 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=9122 Before he left for the International Space Station, Hadfield wrote a song with singer Ed Robertson.

It's called I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?). ISS can also stand for "International Space Station," which is fitting since the song is about what it's like to leave the Earth and go into space.

Hadfield has done some incredible things during his time on the ISS. He has made his experience in space accessible to the people on Earth.

He has tweeted messages, conducted live media conferences, sent photos and kept people up-to-date on what the astronauts on the Space Station are doing.

What Hadfield is doing is unique. No astronaut has ever brought space so close to Earth before.

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