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Singing All Day at Home

Liz Buchanan April 9, 2020 August 27, 2020Movement, Music Education, Reflections, Story Songs 0

If you’re a parent reading this, I hope these months of the pandemic have given you some opportunities to share extra special experiences with your children. I know it can be pretty tough at times, especially if you are trying to do that other job (the one where you might…

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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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Singing Through the Cold Winter Days

Liz Buchanan November 24, 2018 November 8, 2021Movement, Music Education, Science Songs, Story Songs 1

It was a bit too cold on Thanksgiving this year in New England, a reminder that real winter is just around the corner. You can find some of my favorite winter songs and stories on this blog. Leo Lionni’s classic story of Frederick the mouse is always great. You can…

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Shake It Down to Your Bones

Liz Buchanan October 18, 2018 October 18, 2018Movement, Music Education 3

Hello, all you teachers and other musical people getting ready to sing some awesome songs for the Halloween season! It’s less than two weeks away. At our Children’s Music Network conference last weekend, some people wondered if we should stop singing the song “Dem Bones,” given concerns about singing old…

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Waltzing to an October Beat

Liz Buchanan October 9, 2018 October 9, 2018Movement, Music Education, Science Songs 0

This is an October song that I enjoy every fall with young children. The tune is at this link. October, October, leaves orange, green, red, yellow, brown. October, the wind blows. Leaves falling down, down to the ground, leaves fall down to the ground. With its ¾ meter, this is…

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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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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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