EXTRA WINTER-HOLIDAY SONGS & VIDEOS

“Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYz7rfgLWE

“All I Want For Christmas” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmUWWVZw28E

“The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFGC_YgeQ5w

“Deck The Halls”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2T_rIZ4Pho

“Blue Christmas” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KK6sMo8NBY

“Suzy Snowflake” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frlw5efX5kI

“A Holly Jolly Christmas” 

​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_AMTbO50vU

“Christmas Time Is Here” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvK3jEXJFdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvK3jEXJFdg 

“Winter Wonderland” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcXSm51UI5M

“Silver Bells” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNIa5Uht05Y

“Sleigh Ride” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXXUXgaMtDY

“White Christmas” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flrnlq_gAfA

“Beneath The Christmas Star” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNH_coY9Lxw

“The Christmas Song” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwacxSnc4tI

“My Favorite Things”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6dd7ikrXs

"Carol of The Bells"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejHWuClB854

"The Minions Chase & Freeze Dance" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBM1snFC9E

"The Grinch Freeze Dance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Kwmm-_0h8

"Crazy Santa Dance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvmcnnqISCA

"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0MH2uPsrIs

“The Chipmunk Song” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whY9MKlvisI

"Happy New Year of the Rabbit"

(Gung Hay Fat Choy)

https://nancymusic.com/Gunghayplay.htm

CHORUS:

(Keep a rhythm patting hands together one hand up, then the other)

Gung Hay Fat Choy, Gung Hay Fat Choy

Sing Happy New Year, Gung Hay Fat Choy

1. The new moon tells us, exactly when

    (hold up one hand in C shape for crescent moon)

    To celebrate with family and friends

    (clap hands in rhythm)

2. Clean up the house and get out the broom

    (pretend to sweep)

    Sweep out the old year, bring in the new

3. Bring out the apples, the oranges too

    (hold out one fist, then the other)

    Their colors bring us joy and good luck too

4. The dragon dances, the lanterns light

    (place hands together, and snake around )

    The firecrackers light up the night

    (alternate right and left fist out with fingers opening quickly

    to mimic shooting fireworks).

"Dr. Seuss, We Love You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Pi0DhRyOA

Dr. Seuss, We Love You

Dr. Seuss we really do

Dr. Seuss, We Love You

With your rhymes so crazy

You are number one

Make us laugh and wonder

You make reading fun

Dr. Seuss, We Love You

Dr. Seuss we really do

Dr. Seuss, We Love You

We like Yertle the turtle

We like Sam I am

Like the Grinch and Lorax

And Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss, We Love You

Dr. Seuss we really do

Dr. Seuss, We Love

 You Love you (Repeat 3X)

Spring Choral Recital Repertoire 2023

Daniel Webster School Chorus 

Presents 

“Oldies and Goodies”

Spring Recital

Featuring

The First and Second Grade Members 

OLDIES & GOODIES

“The Pledge of Allegiance” 

“The Star Spangled Banner” 

Words by Francis Scott Key & Music by John Sttaford Smith

Opening: 

“The Way We Were”

Songwriters: Marvin Hamlisch / Marilyn Bergman / Alan Bergman

“A Whole New World”

Songwriters: Tim Rice / Alan Menken

“The Wind Beneath My Wings

Songwriters: Jeff Silbar / Larry Henley

“Tomorrow” 

Songwriters: Martin Charnin / Charles Strouse

“How Far I’ll Go” 

Songwriters: Lin-manuel Miranda

Finale: 

“Can’t Stop The Feeling” 

Songwriters: Johan Karl Schuster / Justin R. Timberlake / Martin Karl Sandberg

Music Director: Mr. Piero Romano

Principal: Ms. Isabel McGinley

DWS 2023 Spring Choral Recital Program

“OLDIES & GOODIES!”

"THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG "

I pledge allegiance to the Flag

Of the United States of America,

And to the Republic for which it stands:

One Nation under God, indivisible,

With Liberty and Justice for all.

"THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"

Words by Francis Scott Key & Music by John Staford Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKp29Luryc

Oh, say can you see,

By the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed

At the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars,

Through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched,

Were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare,

The bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night

That our flag was still there

O say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free

And the home of the brave!

“The Way We Were”

Marvin Hamlisch / Marilyn Bergman / Alan Bergman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NqBWLeP9f4

Memories

Light the corners of my mind

Misty watercolor memories

Of the way we were

Scattered pictures

Of the smiles we left behind

Smiles we gave to one another

For the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then?

Or has time re-written every line?

If we had the chance to do it all again

Tell me, would we?

Could we?

Memories

May be beautiful and yet

What's too painful to remember

We simply to choose to forget

So it's the laughter 

We will remember

Whenever we remember

The way we were

The way we were

“A Whole New World”

Tim Rice / Alan Menken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Il-9TTNtmI

I can show you the world

Shining, shimmering, splendid

Tell me, princess, now when did

You last let your heart decide?

I can open your eyes

Take you wonder by wonder

Over, sideways and under

On a magic carpet ride

A whole new world

A new fantastic point of view

No one to tell us no

Or where to go

Or say we're only dreaming

A whole new world

A dazzling place I never knew

But when I'm way up here

It's crystal clear

That now I'm in a whole new world with you

Unbelievable sights

Indescribable feeling

Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling

Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world

A hundred thousand things to see

I'm like a shooting star

I've come so far

I can't go back.

I’m in a whole new world

With new horizons to pursue

I'll chase them anywhere

There's time to spare

Let me share this whole new world with you

A whole new world

That's where we'll be

A thrilling chase

A wondrous place

                     For you and me

“The Wind Beneath My Wings”

Jeff Silbar / Larry Henley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uryK_Mb68

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohh…

It must have been cold there in my shadow

To never have sunlight on your face___

You were content to let me shine, that's your way

You always walked a step behind___

So I was the one with all the glory___

While you were the one with all the strength___

A beautiful face without a name for so long

A beautiful smile to hide the pain___

Did you ever know that you're my hero___

And everything I would like to be?___

I can fly higher than an eagle,___

‘Cause you are the wind beneath my wings.___

It might have appeared to go unnoticed___

But I've got it all here in my heart___

I want you to know I know the truth, 

of course I know it___

I would be nothing without you___

Did you ever know that you're my hero,___

And everything I wish I could be?___

I could fly higher than an eagle,___

For you are the wind beneath my wings

Did you ever know that you're my hero,___

You're everything, everything I wish I could be?___

Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,___

'Cause you are the wind___

 beneath my wings.___

Fly,___ fly,__fly___away, you let me fly so high___

Oh, Fly, ___fly,___fly___high against the sky

So high I almost touch the sky

Thank you, thank you, 

Thank you, You are the wind beneath my wings___

“Tomorrow”

Martin Charnin / Charles Strouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZq-G6wEH6k

The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow

Bet Your Bottom Dollar That Tomorrow 

There'll Be Sun

Jus’ Thinking About Tomorrow

Clears Away The Cobwebs And The Sorrow

 'Til There's None

When I'm Stuck With A Day That's Gray And Lonely

I Stick Out My Chin And Grin And Say

The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow

So You Gotta Hang On 'Til Tomorrow, Come What May

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Love You, Tomorrow

You're Always A Day Away

The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow

Bet Your Bottom Dollar That Tomorrow 

There'll Be Sun

Jus’ Thinking About Tomorrow

Clears Away The Cobwebs And The Sorrow 

'Til There's None

When I'm Stuck With A Day That's Gray And Lonely

I Stick Out My Chin And Grin And Say

The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow

So You Gotta Hang On 'Til Tomorrow, Come What May

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Love ya, Tomorrow

You're Only A Day___ A___ Way

“How Far I’ll Go”

Songwriters: Lin-manuel Miranda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo

I've been staring at the edge of the water

'Long as I can remember

Never really knowing why

I wish I could be the perfect daughter

But I come back to the water

No matter how hard I try

Every turn I take, Every trail I track

Every path I make, Every road leads back

To the place I know where I cannot go Where I long to be

See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me

And no one knows, How far it goes___

If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me, One day I'll know

If I go, there's just no telling how far I'll go___

I know everybody on this island

Seems so happy on this island

Everything is by design

I know everybody on this island

Has a role on this island

So maybe I can roll with mine

I can lead with pride, I can make us strong

I'll be satisfied if I play along, But the voice inside sings a different song

What is wrong with me?___

See the light as it shines on the sea? It's blinding

But no one knows, How deep it goes___

And it seems like it's calling out to me So come find me

And let me know, What's beyond that line? Will I cross that line?

See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me

And no one knows, How far it goes___

If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me

One day I'll know,___ How far I'll go___

Can’t Stop The Feeling”

Johan Karl Schuster / Justin R. Timberlake / Martin Karl Sandberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru0K8uYEZWw

***I got this feelin' inside my bones

It goes electric, wavy when I turn it on

All through my city, all through my home

We're flyin' up, no ceilin', when we in our zone

I got that sunshine in my pocket

Got that good soul in my feet

I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops (ooh)

I can't take my eyes up off it, movin' so phenomenally

Room on lock, the way we rock it, so don't stop

And under the lights when everything goes

Nowhere to hide when I'm gettin' you close

When we move, well, you already know

So just imagine, just imagine, just imagine

Nothin' I can see but you 

When you dance, dance, dance

Feel a good, good creepin' up on you

So just dance, dance, dance, come on

All those things I shouldn't do

But you dance, dance, dance

And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance, come on

***Ooh, it's something magical

It's in the air, it's in my blood, it's rushin' on (rushin' on)

I don't need no reason, don't need control 

I fly so high, no ceiling, when I'm in my zone

'Cause I got that sunshine in my pocket

Got that good soul in my feet

I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops (ooh)

I can't take my eyes up off it, moving so phenomenally

Room on lock, the way we rock it, so don't stop (stop, stop, stop)

Under the lights when everything goes

Nowhere to hide when I'm gettin' you close

When we move, well, you already know

So just imagine, just imagine, just imagine

Nothing I can see but you 

When you dance, dance, dance

Feel a good, good, creepin' up on you

So just dance, dance, dance, come on

All those things I shouldn't do

But you dance, dance, dance

And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin' (yeah)

Break it down

I can't stop the, I can't stop the

I can't stop the, I can't stop the

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin'

So just dance, dance, dance

I can't stop the feelin' (yeah)

Got this feelin' in my body

Got this feelin' in my body 

Got this feelin' in my body, come on___

Members of the DWS Chorus 2022-23

First Grade Students: 

Lyanna O’Connell Isabelle Luo

Ved Doshi       Harper Hochreiter

Sofia Papacharalampous Gabriella Montano

Alexander Hodge Albert Barber

Ada Melgarejo Lana Harvey

Aria De Natale   Olivia Torres

   Hiandra Sanchez

Second Grade Students: 

*DWS Chorus Members 2021-22

*Juan Franco *Adira Abbett

*Christian Hernandez *Hannah Mayers

*Sabine Abdullah     *Sachi Rastogi

    *Aria El Kenany *Kyra Batta

*Joudia El Adili         *Kyle Cheplic

*Ella Cortez *Tiana Becovic

*Rosalee Ewen *Alessandra Solari Lillo

Emma Hundley Ricardo Watson

Aliah Serpa Michael Estevez

Aaliyah Laury Ariana McLaughlin

Chiara Maccio-Sienra          Alia Mora

Anastasia Waldon

Board of Education Members

John Cannata - President   Jennifer Bolcar - Vice President 

Ildefonso Acosta Giovanni Ahmad  

Linda Cabrera      Meg Carson

Marissa Dennis   Julian Brian Mera 

Richard Pinal 

School Administrators

 Matthew Whitford, Business Administrator/Board Secretary

Mr. Eric Crespo, Superintendent of Schools

Ms. Francesca Amato, Assistant Superintendent of Schools

Mr. Alfred Orecchio, Assistant Superintendent of Schools

Mrs. Isabel McGinley, Principal, Daniel Webster School

Mrs. Suzanne Mera, Principal, Theodore Roosevelt School

Mr. Robert Ferullo, Principal, Weehawken High School

Ms. Stefanie Cirillo, Assistant Principal, Weehawken High School 

Dr. Nicholas DeStefano, Director of Academic Programs & Student Achievement

Ms. Jenna Wendolowski, Supervisor of Counseling  

Mrs. Jackie Cullinane, Supervisor of Special Education 

Ms. Brianna Regan, Coordinator of Behavioral Programs

Mr. Brian Calligy, Supervisor of Technology

Mayor and Council

Mayor: Richard F. Turner

Deputy Mayor, 2nd Ward Councilwoman: Rosemary J. Lavagnino

1st Ward Councilwoman: Carmela Silvestri-Ehret

3rd Ward Councilman: David J. Curtis

Councilman at Large: Robert J. Sosa