Another year is past and a new year is here! I always like the beginning of a new year – completely blank pages that we can fill with our hopes and dreams. So many of us make many resolutions and goals, only to keep them for a few weeks, then return to our old habits […]
I love this time of year, but it gets a bit crazy with all of the special holidays colliding in the fall. We go from Halloween to Veterans Day to Thanksgiving to Christmas and then on to a New Year! Wow – I get a bit of whiplash trying to keep up with programs, lessons, […]
I grew up around music and pianos. I fondly remember a old upright piano in our dining room that Mom gave piano lessons on. When I was just a small child, I would sit on the floor in the living room playing with dolls, while Mom gave lessons. When at age 4 I began to […]
Make new friends, But keep the old, One is silver and the other gold! Friends are one of the most important choices we make in life. The above picture is of a group of girls I grew up with. We have sung together our whole lives! My Mom organized our first singing group when we […]
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Every year I teach my music classes Super power words throughout the school year that help them in every day life situations. We start the school year with the word and song Organization. After a summer of a relaxed and varied schedule, it takes teachers and students a while to get back into an organized routine. The song Organization is […]
This summer the movies “Wonder Woman” and “Spider Man, Homecoming” were some of the block buster hits. Cartoonist Stan Lee and The Marvel Entertainment Company have created many super heroes that possess a variety of super strengths. Many of us are enamored with these super heroes who possess amazing powers! It’s fun to think […]
One of the first group activities we learn as children is making a circle. Many children’s games are based on making circles. Making a circle represents group cooperation and participation. One would think that making a circle would be one of the easiest things to get a group of children to do. WRONG!!!! If you […]