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Help Me Make a Beautiful Spring Video!

Liz Buchanan May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018Uncategorized 0

It’s spring! Here in New England, we have a beautiful sunshine-y day outside, daffodils are blooming and everyone’s frolicking and eating popsicles. I’m making a video of a spring song that I wrote with a Pre-K class a few years ago. I plan to post it on my Youtube Channel,…

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Spread Kindness Everywhere

Liz Buchanan February 26, 2018 February 28, 2018Music Education, Reflections 8

Be a kindness rock star! The poster on the left by Karen Salmansohn provides my motto for behavior management for music specialists or teaching artists or any adult who visits classrooms. (Substitute teachers, there is a special place in Heaven for you.) One of the biggest challenges for any teacher…

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For Fun & Literacy, Visit Dr. Knickerbocker!

Liz Buchanan February 9, 2018 February 9, 2018Movement, Music Education, Phonological Awareness, Songwriting 1

I just made a new video of one of my favorite literacy songs, “Dr. Knickerbocker.” Find it now on my youtube channel, LizBuchananMusic, by clicking here. “Dr. Knickerbocker” is somewhat ubiquitous in kids’ music circles, having been featured on at least two children’s TV shows and in numerous books. It’s…

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The Children’s Music World Needs You!

Liz Buchanan November 25, 2017 November 29, 2017Music Education, Reflections, Uncategorized 5

Memo to musicians under 40, of all musical styles and persuasions: Could you share your music with kids? Please? I’m reaching out especially to those of you who don’t look or sound like me, a white female of a certain age, who strums my acoustic guitar and sings folk-y type…

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Music & Arts Fun for Late Fall

Liz Buchanan October 25, 2017 October 26, 2017Movement, Music Education, Reflections, Science Songs 1

Here’s a series of fall arts activities that include movement, music, art and poetry. These activities are perfect for arts integration into curriculum, offering children a chance to reflect on fall colors and the change of seasons, as well as botany and earth science related to seasonal change. These lessons…

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Why Integrate the Arts?

Liz Buchanan October 6, 2017 October 11, 2017Movement, Music Education, Reflections, Science Songs, Story Songs 4

I recently watched a video about arts integration at the Two Rivers Charter School in Washington, D.C. Second graders created giant Jackson Pollock-style paintings while learning about the physics of flight; fourth graders learned about their local rivers by enacting the history of a river through poetry, movement and drama….

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Fun Song & Story Acting with Chicken Little

Liz Buchanan August 8, 2017 August 8, 2017Story Songs 2

It’s great fun to engage children in stories with music and acting. Elsewhere on this blog, you can find posts about my musical versions of stories such as “The Three Little Pigs” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Click on “Story Songs” to find several examples. These musical dramas don’t…

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Making Musical Links with Literacy

Liz Buchanan August 3, 2017 September 15, 2017Finger Plays, Music Education, Phonological Awareness, Reflections 0

I love making music with kids aged 3-6, especially pairing music with early literacy learning, which is a natural fit. I once taught at a preschool where the director told me: “Just have fun singing with the kids,” implying that they’d pick up the literacy learning elsewhere in their day….

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Musical Learning with The Three Bears

Liz Buchanan January 14, 2017 January 14, 2017Music Education, Story Songs, Uncategorized 0

The story of the Three Bears is a fun way to help children learn about high, medium and low pitches. This idea is not original to me (I’ve referenced some lesson plans below), but I found a way to involve students playing different instruments and repeating lines of the story….

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Seek & Find the Joy in Music!

Liz Buchanan December 26, 2016 December 26, 2016Music Education, Reflections 5

Seek the joy! It’s one of the guiding principles of the elementary school I helped to found in the summer of 2015. It’s the core principle of my music classroom. Recently, at a pre-holiday gathering, our school staff all wrote shout-outs to each other. I saw “joy” repeatedly in the…

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