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Author: Liz Buchanan

Highlights of 2019 in my Musical Life

Liz Buchanan December 17, 2019 December 18, 2019Music Education, Reflections 3

It was an eventful year in 2019. Here are some highlights! In the first half of the year … A big highlight of my year was singing a South African song with children at the Children’s Own School (a Montessori primary school in Winchester, MA) in the Spring of 2019….

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Opposites in October – Part 2

Liz Buchanan October 17, 2019 October 17, 2019Movement, Music Education 2

October can be a month of opposites. Where I live, sometimes the weather is warm in October, and sometimes it feels quite cold. Sometimes the wind blows softly and sometimes it’s loud, whipping and whistling through the trees. Sometimes the leaves move fast, dancing and whirling, and sometimes they float…

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Opposites in October – Part 1

Liz Buchanan October 8, 2019 October 8, 2019Movement, Music Education 0

Introducing children to musical opposites is a great way to introduce basic musical concepts such as tempo, dynamics and pitch. It’s also a good way generally to introduce the concept of opposites. Children can learn about the concept of opposites with my song, “The Opposite Game,” which is on my…

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Had a Bad Day in Music? Read This.

Liz Buchanan September 26, 2019 September 27, 2019Movement, Music Education, Reflections 8

This is for all the music teachers who have endured a “bad day,” especially at the start of the school year. I have been teaching music for young children for more than twenty years, and those days still happen to me. One of them was today. But upon reflection, most…

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Start School with Songs for Literacy

Liz Buchanan August 11, 2019 August 11, 2019Finger Plays, Phonological Awareness 1

The days are ticking down to the beginning of school. I hope all teachers of young children are excited to get everyone learning right away with … SONGS! If anyone needs a reminder about the value of music in early learning, here’s why music is an ideal tool, especially for…

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Singing African Songs with American Children: Joy!

Liz Buchanan June 22, 2019 June 22, 2019Music Education, Reflections 2

Singing songs from Africa deepens cultural understanding as children learn that the continent of Africa is not a monolithic place but home to 54 countries, widely diverse cultures and perhaps as many as 2,000 languages. Many African songs are also just fun to sing, often carrying special energy and joy!…

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Sing a Song of Spring

Liz Buchanan March 20, 2019 March 20, 2019Finger Plays, Music Education, Phonological Awareness, Science Songs 3

What better way to celebrate spring than with singing? Well, frolicking in the great outdoors, of course, but singing is great fun, too! I wrote my “Song of Spring” with four-year-old children at a Boston area school. We talked about things we like to do in the spring and used…

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Counting on Spring!

Liz Buchanan February 27, 2019 March 5, 2019Finger Plays, Music Education 0

Counting is often one of my themes for early childhood music in early March because … I’m counting on spring! Here are a few of my favorite counting rhymes. The first one features snow, because here in New England, the snow is still coming down in March 🙁 Five Little…

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Make Stories Come Alive With Music

Liz Buchanan February 11, 2019 February 13, 2019Story Songs 0

“When children dramatize, move to, or create music to represent a story, they become actively involved in working with the ideas in the story … As they translate the words to art forms, each story comes to life.  Indeed, the act of transforming or translating is fundamental to attaining understanding…

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A Merry Christmas Tree

Liz Buchanan December 18, 2018 December 20, 2018Reflections 8

A few days ago, I experienced a small Christmas tree disaster, truly a first-world problem. I was on my own putting up the tree, and could NOT get it to stand up straight. I must have tried for an hour, straining my hands on those screw-things on the stand, tightening…

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