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Category: Story Songs

Anansi and Storytelling Musical Magic!

Liz Buchanan August 11, 2022 August 11, 2022Story Songs 0

Storytelling is a compelling art form that engages children in a story in a different way than a picture book. Storytelling has many valuable benefits, not the least of which is that the listener must mentally envision the story. My work as a music specialist has been greatly enhanced by…

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Songs to Get Ready for Winter!

Liz Buchanan November 8, 2021 November 8, 2021Music Education, Science Songs, Story Songs 0

It’s early November and the season is definitely changing, at least it is where I live in northern Vermont. It’s a good time to sing with children about how animals get ready for winter, using songs such as my “Nuts for the Winter,” which features my little stuffed squirrel, Chipper….

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“Royal Children” retells Sleeping Beauty

Liz Buchanan July 6, 2020 July 25, 2020Music Education, Story Songs 0

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…

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Stand Up to the Bully

Liz Buchanan May 14, 2020 May 15, 2020Finger Plays, Music Education, Reflections, Story Songs 0

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…

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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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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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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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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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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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