Stargirl Theme Song

Creating a theme for the new Stargirl school year sets the stage for an interdisciplinary
goal setting learning experience.  Here are the steps to follow:

1.  Select a Theme Song.  Ideas below:

• When You Wish Upon a Star (Disney)
• Your a Shining Star (Chicago)
• Hey Now, Your an All Star (Smash Mouth)
• A Star is Born (Hercules)

2.  Select quotes for your newsletter or to hang and post where you meet.  Encourage Stargirls to write their own original quotes.  Ideas below:

• Starlight, Star bright, first star I see tonight.  I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.                                                                                                     - Disney
• For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.                                                                                                                               - Van Gogh
• One must have chaos in order to give birth to a dancing star.  - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Hitch your wagon to a star.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson     

     
 3.  Stars have always served as guiding lights for travelers.  Stargirls will create 
      original Constellation.  

• Use a star template and cut out five stars for each Stargirl. 
• Stargirls will write one goal for each of the stars and decorate them.
• Create a Star Mobile using a hanger and yarn or paste the stars on construction paper and create a bulletin board.

4.  Research for a Star 
     Select a person you admire because he/she has conquered impossible situation.

• Write a story, poem, or song about the person you selected.
• Tell how this person inspired you.  How would your like to be more like this person?
• Make a class presentation.  Create a “Reach for the Stars” bulletin board.

5.  Remember to make time for checkpoints along the way.  
     Play the song from Disney's Frog Prince called  Almost There.  
     Post the lyrics to the song for the Stargirls to follow along.   Discuss:

• Who has accomplish one of the goals they set at the beginning of the year.  Share and celebrate success.
• Who is "almost there?"  What further steps need to be taken to accomplish your goal?
• What "trials and tribulations" were faced along the way?