Do you turn on motivating music while cleaning the house?
(I certainly do, and I'm willing to be most of you do as well.)
I'd like to suggest you do that for your children - but make the music classical. The benefits of this are two-fold:
Cleaning up is accomplished.
Classical music is secretly inserted into your children's memories (you can e...
“Music — what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!” ~ Marie Augusta von Trapp
If you are familiar with The Sound of Music, the von Trapp family had a strong culture of music. Their family bond was strengthened by music, and ultimately music saved their lives.
When my daughter was just two years old I took her to a performance of the ...
Last summer, in an effort for my husband and I to relive our own childhood, we introduced our five children to the 1992 film, Newsies.
We do things like that often… Buying the them ‘retro’ remake of toys we had when we were kids, blaring songs from our high school years that we had ‘burned’ on cds and having family movie nights of all the clas...
Do you have a child who exhibits a natural love of music?
Does your child sing, whistle, and hum (constantly!)? Do they drum on any and everything? Does listening to music bring them great joy and happiness?
If you have a musical kid you oftentimes just KNOW it, right?
For these children it is important to nurture their love and curiosity wit...
This year marks 250 years since Ludwig van Beethoven's birth.
Celebrations around the world will pay tribute to this pioneer of not only the piano, but also large symphonic works.
Beethoven was also the pioneer of strong emotion in music - he took listeners from the very predictable and structured Classical Era of music - into the emotional wor...
Halloween is a prime time for creepy music, stories, and instrument activities.
You don't have to be a music teacher - or even knowledgeable about music - to implement these ideas.
(In fact... if you have little to no musical knowledge, read on - because this post is for YOU !)
Disclaimer: I don't like super scary things for Halloween. The worl...
I teach at a Christian school to very small classes, and both my older group (11-14) and younger group (5-10) loved the amount of options for the Christmas carol listening calendar! Carol of the Bells and O Come, O Come Emmanuel especially led to lots of great discussion about what makes music sound victorious, joyful, and rich. Thank you Mary!
