I’ve just posted the “Sleeping Beauty” – Revisited video to my YouTube channel. Here’s more about the background of the song and the video. Early in my music-teaching career, I learned the “Thorna Rosa” circle game that reenacts the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. I probably learned the game at…
I got inspired to write a song about the Three Billy Goats Gruff by a classroom of preschoolers, especially the boys in the class. The classroom copy of the book featured the language that’s in my song, spoken by the third Billy Goat to the troll: “Well, come along, I’ve…
During the COVID19 pandemic, Miss Liz’s music classes have moved online. You can see the fourth “Musical Fun with Miss Liz” at this link. It features several songs from her 2010 CD, Singing All the Way Home. I hope someone’s reading these posts! If you are a parent or teacher…
During the COVID19 pandemic, Miss Liz’s music classes have moved online. You can see the third “Musical Fun” video at this link. This post recaps earlier posts from this blog about the “Two Little Robins” song and offers some stick-puppet materials! I never tire of singing my version of “Two…
During the COVID19 pandemic, Miss Liz’s music classes are moving online. You can see the second “Musical Fun” video at this link. This post offers more info about singing and instrument play with rain sticks. Rain sticks are a fun instrument for creating the sounds of rain and flowing water….
During the COVID19 pandemic, Miss Liz’s music classes are moving online. You can see the first video “Musical Fun” class at this link. This post offers more info about the songs and activities for movement and instrument play. Let’s get moving! This is the first of a series of articles…
My friend and fellow early childhood musician Susan Salidor of Chicago recently posted “Five Rules of the Subversive Preschool Music Specialist” (copied in full at the end of this post). She encouraged her fellow music teachers not to shy away from singing about social justice and to encourage self-respect, kindness…
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….
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…
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…
