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"If kids can laugh at something, it makes it does make it a lot less scary for them." A Maryland music teacher found a fun way to help a class of fourth-graders get over any fears of cicadas as Brood X reemerges from its 17-year sleep.
Teacher creates cicada song to make the bug less scary to students WBAL PIKESVILLE, Maryland (WBAL) — People might be talking about the cicadas, but in Pikesville, some fourth graders are singing about them. “It’s a cicada,” is the title of the No. 1 hit song going around the Krieger Schechter Day School in Pikesville, where music teacher Sara Fuld dusted off a song she wrote 17 years ago for a whole new brood to sing. “I did a lot of tweaks to it, changed some wording around and brought it out about two weeks ago for the kids to sing,” Fuld said.
People might be talking about the cicadas, but in Pikesville, some fourth graders are singing about them.