J. Lo Celebrates Children’s Graduation
Jennifer Lopez graciously celebrated a graduation for eight autistic children who were graduating from P.S. 37. The children go to school at Staten Island’s Great Kills. During the graduation the children performed “Let’s Get Loud” – one of the songs that she does.
The class was first introduced to Lopez’s music a few months ago when they had to choose a song to dance to at graduation. Teacher Kathy Amati and paraprofessional Rose Mondella showed the students the “Let’s Get Loud” video as a suggestion, and the class of eight boys loved it. They wanted to watch it every day and learned all of the lyrics and dance moves from the video.
“The kids don’t even really understand how famous she is,” said Ms. Amati. “They just really like her singing and dancing.” After some letters were sent off to J.Lo’s fan club, Amati didn’t expect much more than an autograph sent in return - but yesterday afternoon one of J.Lo’s reps called the school inquiring about the graduation ceremony time, and the singer showed up!