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(marker scratching)

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(stamp clicking)

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- Hello!

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It's Mo Willems.

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Author, illustrator, and thanker.

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Today is May 28th.

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It is the final Thursday in May,

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and therefore the final
Thank You Thursdays.

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This is just something that
we do in the month of May.

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I am so appreciative that
you have been here all month

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and that you have been thanking,
and drawing, and singing,

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and all kinds of stuff.

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It is pretty exciting stuff for me.

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So, let's see who we're
going to thank today.

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There's so many different types
of people that we can thank.

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So, let's go to the Thank-O-Rama spinner.

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(finger snaps)

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Oh, yeah, look at that.

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Lots of interesting and
good people to thank.

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All right, in order to
figure out who to thank today

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we have to spin the spinner,

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and the way to spin the spinner is

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when I count down from three you yell

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usually spin, but let's
do something else today.

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You yell...

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turnip!

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All right, ready?

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Three, two, one...

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Turnip!

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(spinner clicking)

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Oh it's going, it's
spinning, it's spinning.

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It's spinning a little bit more

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and now it's stopped
and where did it stop?

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Wow.

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(fingers snapping)

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Teachers.

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Teachers are amazing!

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It has not been easy to
be a Teacher this year

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and Teachers are reaching out
and doing whatever they can.

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They are improvising, finding
new ways to help teach things.

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I am very appreciative of Teachers.

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I had a bunch of Teachers

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who were really important
to me when I was younger,

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who got me really excited about history,

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and got me excited about writing,
and all kinds of things--

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even animation!

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So, I'm going to make sure
that I make a good drawing,

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good poster to stick in
my window for Teachers.

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So again, let's pause if
we don't have markers.

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Any kind of markers or
pencils, it doesn't matter.

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And later we have some scissors.

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And then also if you don't have it

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a big piece of paper, right.

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Okay.

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I'll go get that.

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And play!

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Okay, here we go.

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Got my big piece of paper.

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Let's see, Teachers.

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That's that a letter T.

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That's a little bit easier maybe.

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Last week was Scientists,
whew that was tricky.

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All right, I'm going to do a big line.

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And a big line like that.

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That's my letter T.

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What should I...

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Oop...going to put that
back in there. I'm excited.

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Well.

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Oh, I know what I'm going to do.

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I always make my characters
birds. There we go.

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And this is going to be a special bird

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that is a Teacher bird,

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and it's reading a book.

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Actually, it's reading a
book with a Piggie in it.

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And it's reading a book
with an Elephant in it.

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It's really enjoying reading that book.

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And it's making big sounds.

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It's going wow, like that.

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And there's one of its legs,

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and there's another of its legs.

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And it has a tail.

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And let's give it a little
bit of a fun chest, like that.

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Like a robin or so.

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All right.

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The Teacher reading one of my books.

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And then just in case
someone sees this drawing

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and they're like

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what's that bird-like thing doing

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reading Elephant and Piggie?

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Why is that happening?

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We write:

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Thank

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You

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and this time I left room on the bottom

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Teachers.

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And that fits just perfectly.

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Now, write my name

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so people know that I drew that.

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You can write your name.

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I have this fun little date stamp.

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28, yup.

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Put the date on it.

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And now, who I'm thanking this week. See?

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It says, Thank You Teachers.

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And it's got my name on it, there.

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Yeah?

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Would you hold yours up?

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Let me take a look at yours real quick.

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Oh, yes!

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I like the different type
of Teachers you've made.

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That's pretty great

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and you've got it big and
you wrote your name on it

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so now you can stick it in a window.

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And Teachers are easier.

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Maybe you can show it to your Teacher

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when you have class tomorrow.

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Well. Great way to thank
a Teacher is to thing...

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to sing the thing.

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The thank you thing

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that I wrote the words to

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and my friend and composer
Debbie Wicks La Puma

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wrote the music to.

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Say hi, Debbie.

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(fingers snapping)

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- Hi everyone!

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(fingers snapping)

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- So, here we go.

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Before I sing the Thank You Song

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I think I want to have an instrument.

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Well.

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Debbie Wicks La Puma
helped me with the music

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for "Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical."

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She did not write the music,

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but she helped me make the music better

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which is what a Teacher does.

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A Teacher doesn't do your
work or show you what to do.

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A Teacher helps you find
a way to do it better.

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So we want to make sure

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we've got a good
instrument for the Teacher.

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And I think for my solo
I'm going to do a bongo.

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Bongo.

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And that's pretty fun.

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So what we're going to do...

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we have our piece of
paper real tall like this

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and we're going to make a
tall, skinny number eight.

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That skinny number eight.

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It's like a number eight that
got stuck in an elevator.

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It got smushed a little.

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I'll put that there.

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Now I put it sideways and then
I do like a robot letter U

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which is just more rectangular.

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Another robot letter U.

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It's rectangular.

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And as long as I've got some other colors

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I can put in a W

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and I can put in an M for Mo Willems.

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But it still looks like a bongo

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and that is my bongo drum.

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Now I have scissors. You can...

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If you're a good scissorer,
I'm not a great scissorer,

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if you're a good
scissorer you can scissor.

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Maybe you need a grown-up
to help scissoring

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or maybe there's somebody
else in your house

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who's just a great scissorerer.

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You can say hey great scissorerer!

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I made a bongo so I can
say thank you to Teachers

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because that's traditional.

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Teachers, they love the bongos.

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Little known fact.

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And can you help me cut it out?

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And then maybe that super
cutter can do that, right.

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I'm going to take these
pieces and put them over here.

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I'll save them for later.

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Because there's going to be a
time that I'll want to doodle.

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I have my Mo Willems bongos!

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I'm ready for my bongo solo.

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Let's get my friend Battery out here

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to help me sing the song.

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Are you guys ready?

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We're going to be thanking Teachers.

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- Battery, hi.

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- Hi, Battery. Nice to see you.

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I'm ready to sing.

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All right, here we go.

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(happy piano music)

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♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers. ♪

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♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪

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♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪

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♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers. ♪

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♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪

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♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪

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Come on, everybody!

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Sing!

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Thank the Teachers. They're so great!

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Thank the Teachers!

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Get ready. Bongo solo.

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(bongo solo)

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Oh yeah!

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Excellent!

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(clapping)

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Great work. Great thanking.

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Great bongo-ing.

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Thank you for spending this month

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having a Thank You Thursday
with you has been a lot of fun.

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Even when things are tough,

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there's always someone or
something to be appreciative of.

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And right now I am appreciative of you.

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Thanks.

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Bye-bye.

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(bongo solo)

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(festive piano music)

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪

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♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪

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♪ by singing this song for you! ♪