PROJECT 7 - GLOBAL CONNECTION - NATIONAL ANTHEM AMERICA/BELGIUM

Global Connection
Belgian National Anthem study. From America to Belgium

I arranged to have a Skype lesson with my Belgian friend's 2nd grade class. The teachers name is Fien De Jonckheere. She lives in Roeselare and is currently a teacher at Vrije basissschooltVlot Lichtervelde. Fien teaches elementary school and is fluent in English. I would like to have her students tell us a few facts about their national anthem. Then have them sing it for my students.  Then I will have some students from Southern Regional High School play our national anthem for them as a flute duet. They will also play their anthem for them. 
This region of Belgium speaks Flemish. The version I found of the Belgium anthem has both the French words and the Flemish words since part of the country speaks French and part Flemish. Apparently it is in an old Deutch that they no longer speak so teaching the children was not easy. They sang it once with youtube accompainment and a second time on their own. 

Here is the video of our lesson:

Here is the Belgian National Anthem:

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