tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286537674678126882024-03-04T21:27:30.552-08:00Make me Musical !by Susan SealeSusan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-50323097861392446642020-06-09T07:00:00.000-07:002020-06-09T07:00:01.884-07:00The Story of Ferdinand<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once upon a time we performed the Story of Ferdinand as an improvised opera! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author, Munro Leaf wrote this parable for his 5 year old son in 1936 during the civil war in Spain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a story about a peaceful, nature-loving bull who prefers sitting and smelling the flowers rather than fighting and butting heads like the other little bulls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I incorporated some of Manuela Widmer's ideas (shared at the national Orff conference many years ago) with my facilitation of the musical drama. Manuela is an Orff teacher from the Orff Institute in Salzburg. I found her ideas incredibly workable for my style of teaching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Imagine, a class of 5 & 6 year olds...full of energy and ideas!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sang the story to the children with operatic vowels and vocal trills, etc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were mesmerized at first and then they started joining in on the word "flooooooowwwwwers".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's all they needed and they were ready! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the kids wanted to be in the Orchestra and some wanted to act out the various roles. They chose their favorite places and after we performed we switched up and everyone tried a new part. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">flower music -<span style="color: magenta;"> glockenspiels and metallophones (I set them up ahead of time in C pentatonic)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hop gallop music of the bulls - shakers, woods and drums</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">hop gallop gallop gallop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">hop hop hop OLE!</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ferdinand's walking music -<span style="color: magenta;"> drums </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ferdinand's sitting music - <span style="color: magenta;">drums </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ferdinand's jumping about music - <span style="color: magenta;">drums </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the bee buzz and sting sounds - <span style="color: magenta;">kazoos and </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5 men from Madrid walking music - <span style="color: magenta;">woods</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Acting/singing roles include (this is an opera!):</b></u></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">narrator (singing like an opera star) "Once upon a time in Spain..."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chorus (whole class)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "Ole!"</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hop gallop speech piece </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ferdinand</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ferdinand's mom</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the other little bulls - play fighting with their hands used as horns on top of their heads</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5 men from Madrid - walking through the room side by side...</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">flowers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bullfighters</span></li>
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Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-77598586989792103982020-06-02T07:00:00.000-07:002020-06-02T07:00:04.821-07:00The Amazing Body Percussion List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">What to do with this list? </span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">I'd play an echo game </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">you clap, they echo your clap</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">you snap, they echo your snap</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">it's an ear/eye training but it's playful...have fun!</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">one day, I'll make a video...and post it in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/203651034074912/" target="_blank">Growing Grounded Kids Community! </a>(join us!)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>listed in general from high pitches to low pitches</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">tongue clicks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">patschen (tap thighs)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">alternate patschen (right leg, left leg)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">tap taut hollow cheeks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">rub face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">partner clap (clap your partner's hands)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hip bump with a partner </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>in 3 time, 5 time, 7 and 9 time. (a la Keith Terry)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3 = Clap Chest Chest (ladies may rather hit their stomach)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5 = Clap Chest Chest Leg Leg </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7 = Clap Chest Chest Leg Leg Back of leg Back of leg </span></div>
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Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-24495773828429708262020-05-26T07:00:00.000-07:002020-05-26T07:00:08.176-07:00hands-on learning enriches language and motor development<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Hands-on Learning Enriches Language and motor development</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Tapping rhythms (check out the body percussion posts) is important because when the hands are activated, there is more effective learning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">I encourage you ALWAYS to us the “hands-on” approach to learning. </span></span><br />
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<br />Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-54781732994048136682020-05-19T07:00:00.000-07:002020-05-19T07:00:03.510-07:00Playing handdrums<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I invested in a large bin of small hand drums (20 drums each about 8 inches across) from Empire Music many years ago. Now I have a hand drum for each child and each parent in my under 3's program. And it's soooo much fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">1. explore using our hands in a variety of ways to create a sound on the drum</span> (tickly, rub, scratch)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3. explore using the drum in unconventional ways using our imagination</span> (drag, roll, skate, fly, blow, wear it like a hat, eat from your drum, eat your soup, eat your cereal)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How would those few children you spend minutes with each week <b>gain exposure</b> to using their <b>voices and bodies creatively, expressively, thoughtfully, joyfully</b>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The brain wires itself most happily and easily through song and rhythm.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Setting a foundation for early musicality happens in these young ages. We don't get to see the results of our efforts for almost 2 decades...so it can seem pointless at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did you know...when the child is still in the womb the first teacher is sound!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The baby is born already in the habit of learning through sound and doesn't even have to be exposed to Mozart for this to happen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even newborn babies have non-verbal ways to let you know they like a song. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children learn to speak more easily through song. So easily in fact, that I have had experiences where mamas withdraw a one-year old from an english-speaking class because the child was learning English too quickly. Mama wasn't ready for her mother tongue to be replaced!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well....I moved this blog from blogger to a wordpress site in 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of that was done in coordination with the <span style="font-size: medium;">publication of my ebook, <a href="http://www.musictherapyebooks.com/product/growing-grounded-movement-and-songs-to-organize-the-brain/" target="_blank"><b>Growing Grounded: Movement and Songs to Organize the Brain. </b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then my life took a couple of unexpected turns. I retired from my group work with children and decided to release my obligation to maintaining a blog. Make Me Musical disappeared as I took down my wordpress site in 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm regretting that decision only slightly right at this moment (lots of amazing content lost forever!) but looking on the bright side that <b>this</b> blogger site with all my work up to 2013 still exists and it's still extremely useful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have recently been invited to create a new music and movement program for children at a local music school. The purpose of creating that program is to have a live training ground to train new teachers in my unique and integrated way of teaching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you find some useful resources here for your nurturing, healing and educating work with children. </span><br />
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<br />Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-76981118950707830902013-04-28T14:33:00.000-07:002013-04-28T14:33:47.094-07:00Make Me Musical has moved!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-32044547911499632252013-04-01T20:58:00.000-07:002013-04-02T11:27:22.227-07:00Making a difference in a child's life thru music and movement<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-80323149594160484622013-03-23T08:40:00.002-07:002013-04-01T22:09:38.365-07:00How to Get Updates from Make Me Musical<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Wonderful Readers!<br /><br />I have been away from <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.ca/p/welcome.html" target="_blank">MakeMeMusical</a> for almost a year. A year!?! Yikes!<br /><br />So,
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this past year<span style="font-size: large;"> but</span> I won't be saying it in today's post. </span></span><br />
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writing with some urgency about something else!<br /><br />If you haven't already signed up, you may wish to take action now and <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.ca/p/monthly-newsletter.html" target="_blank">SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER....HERE.</a><br /><br />Why?? Cause....<br /><br /><b>Google is terminating the RSS function which (if you are receiving this message in your email) you have subscribed to.</b><br /><br />If
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be receiving blog posts from me in your email inbox. If you're fine
with that, then you don't need to do anything.<br /><br />If you wish to
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you have to make sure you have signed up for the newsletter. The
newsletter will soon be the ONLY way you will continue to receive free
resources and updates on the blog.<br /><br />Because of this change initiated by Google, I have decided to make yet another change myself. And I am excited about it!<br /><br />I
am moving <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.ca/p/welcome.html" target="_blank">MakeMeMusical</a> to an alternative platform called wordpress.
It will not be a free platform, I will pay for it but I will also be in
complete control.<br /><br />The best thing about this change is that I will
be able to offer more to you in the way of resources for your work with
children. Blogger had many limitations and it often meant I couldn't
share things I wanted to share with you.<br /><br />So, in a few weeks, the
move of my site will take place and then I will be back blogging and
sharing more creative ideas about music, movement and creativity.</span></span><br />
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Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-27905878323675124552012-05-26T11:16:00.000-07:002020-04-23T11:17:09.843-07:00Good-bye Musicalia...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It turns out the new lease for my Musicalia space was going to create an unsustainable workload for me. I was unable to sign. These last few months have been a stressful, agonizing time and I have made the decision to close Musicalia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 31 (the end of this month) is the end of Musicalia. Our last day of classes and celebrations is May 18 and the movers are scheduled the next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just a quick note to wish you all a Happy Earth Day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Canada, Earth Day has become Earth Week for some organizations. It sure didn't start out that way. Earth Day began in the days before cell phones and internet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a happy memory and an honorable contribution to the children of our world. Read more about <a href="http://http//www.makememusical.blogspot.ca/2011/04/meet-founder-of-earth-day-canada.html">the origins of Earth Day in Canada HERE</a>.</span><br />
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May the wind always be at your back.<br />
May the sun shine warm upon your face,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">More St.Patrick's Day activities </span><a href="http://makememusical.blogspot.com/search/label/Celebrate%20-%20St.Patrick%27s%20Day" style="color: #38761d;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div>Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-45489762937884723872012-03-13T13:00:00.001-07:002012-03-13T13:19:05.189-07:00Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Music and Movement Games, Songs, Dramatic Play<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPa2R_3yqZa6ADbuXrxV8HklFGMdLft8z686FHBdH6VQRzzalIPXvwfPj5cKIl-YHsZrzgi4EdMpWcRpMJNqXGO3l3fCKm8uiiqTcBQyaVfDNl3AlWVtDQwd8GT-fXcjVDsUZ1Iw0qSj1m/s1600/leprechaun+and+piano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPa2R_3yqZa6ADbuXrxV8HklFGMdLft8z686FHBdH6VQRzzalIPXvwfPj5cKIl-YHsZrzgi4EdMpWcRpMJNqXGO3l3fCKm8uiiqTcBQyaVfDNl3AlWVtDQwd8GT-fXcjVDsUZ1Iw0qSj1m/s1600/leprechaun+and+piano.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">St.Paddy's Day is almost upon us! Usually I include lilting tunes in my lessons at this time of year but I'm home sick in bed this week. There'll be no singin' 'n leppin' Irish-style this week for me. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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I've been taking part in <a href="http://www.rhythmforgood.com/" target="_blank">Kat Fulton's</a> <a href="http://www.onlinezennn.com/" target="_blank">Online Zennn</a> website building course, working on my new studio website. I LOVE <a href="http://www.onlinezennn.com/" target="_blank">KAT'S COURSE</a>! I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to build their confidence while building their own site.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all need a little motivation sometimes. This is something I recently made for a young fiddle student. It's a practise pillow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Find a pillow that will be adored. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">2. Collect several buttons that will be adored. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. </span><span style="font-size: large;">String the buttons onto a skinny ribbon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were going to use beads but then I found adorable doggie buttons and fancy flower buttons. Perfect for an 8-year old girl who just happens to have a new puppy she is completely in love with. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">If the button hole is too tiny for the ribbon to slide through, use tiny safety pins and attach to the buttonhole.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Then string the closed pin onto the ribbon and slide with the pin.</span></div>
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<tr style="color: #38761d;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">There's even a "Susan-head" button. That's to remind this little girl that her teacher (that's me...Susan) thinks she's wonderful and has faith in her and that she CAN DO IT.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. Use this practise pillow as an abacus to keep track of boring repetitions in technique work (some kids do find playing a scale or finger exercise to be dead boring) or tricky bits in a song that need to be memorized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every time she plays that tricky passage she's focussing on, she gets to move one of the cute buttons over to the other end of the ribbon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We know children feel great once they've mastered something but sometimes they just need a little help getting there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was the perfect solution for this little girl. She can display her cushion on the pretty side when she's not practising and then flip it over and manipulate those fancy buttons on days she needs a little boost. </span></div>
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Have you seen the recent cover of the The New Yorker? </div>
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My husband thought the pianist and I had remarkably similar hair. </div>
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If you click on the picture to make it larger you might be able to read the caption he wrote</div>
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"Susan and Moka rehearsing at home"</div>
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If you've ever been to an Orff workshop you'll know how integral body percussion is to the learning process. I was taught (over and over) that you don't need the actual Orff instrumentarium to teach an Orff program. Body percussion, speech and singing, improvisation and dance were really the foundational building blocks of an Orff program.<br />
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In my early days exploring these foundational building blocks I LOVED body percussion. I used it everywhere and at all times of day in my classroom (I was a classroom teacher then).<br />
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If you were to ask me now why use body percussion (B/P) this is what I'd say...<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">It's fun!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">It improves concentration abilities.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Children love to make sounds with body percussion. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">It can be an energetic or emotional release to perform body percussion.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Using body percussion helps children to get inside the rhythm. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Once a rhythm has been internalized it can be expressed and played on their instruments with more ease.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Playing echo games with body percussion builds a rhythmic vocabulary in the body.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Playing simultaneous mirror games with body percussion improves ability to focus and increases awareness of subtle body movements.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">You can use B/P to "conduct" instrument play with non-pitched percussion instruments. </span></li>
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<li>use B/P to develop vocabulary for body parts (e.g. say "clap" when you "clap")</li>
<li>use B/P to bring awareness to the body's musical capabilities(e.g. clap a crescendo)</li>
<li>use B/P to build confidence (e.g. when we are all clapping together we create a feeling of fun and community and safety)</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At Musicalia...we move!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There is a dedicated movement board with charts, words, pictures and it changes weekly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have posted charts and a giant metronome made by moi, also movement charts from Nurturing Pathways, Kindermusik, and lists of words inspired by Anne Green Gilbert's "Creative Dance for All Ages".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First we use our bodies to make each letter "B" "O" "D" "Y"...etc...</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I post the words for different shapes with a simple line drawing like this...</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"> use our bodies creatively</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">use percussion...any ones we want</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">play a 8-beat phrase and stop together</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">play in ensemble and have fun</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">make choices about what and where we play and have it all be okay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">feel good and smile</span></li>
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Have you ever found yourself in a snowy land?</div>
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An icy town with snowflakes grand?</div>
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If you ever find yourself in a snowy land</div>
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just pick up an instrument and join the band!</div>
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<i>(what will we play? body percussion? shakers? trumpets?)</i></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Using non-pitched percussion (shakers, scrapers, skins, woods, metals)</span></span></div>
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Have you ever found a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">shaker</span></b> in a snowy land,</div>
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an icy town, with snowflakes grand?</div>
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If you ever find a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">shaker</span></b> in a snowy land,</div>
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just pick up a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">shaker</span></b> and join the band!</div>
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Have you ever found a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">trumpet</span></b> in a snowy land</div>
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an icy town, with snowflakes grand?</div>
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If you ever find a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">trumpet</span></b> in a snowy land,</div>
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just pick up your <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">trumpet </span></b>and join the band.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(just a note...yesterday the sweetest 6 year old boy brought a trumpet to class and we sang this song and he tooted along with the band...oh my goodness...too sweet...and he really sounded fabulous with the drums!)</span></i></div>
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Have you ever found yourself in a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">stomping </span></b>land,</div>
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an icy town, with snowflakes grand?</div>
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If you ever find yourself in a <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">stomping</span></b> land,</div>
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just <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">start stomping</span></b> and join the band!</div>
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Susan Sealehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06253684954133941550noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628653767467812688.post-12079609135087512312012-01-03T13:26:00.000-08:002013-04-01T20:30:24.346-07:00The Winter Woods have come down!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b> I painted this mural of the winter woods near Cair Paravel (from "The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe" story...in case you're wondering) at the request of a group of children a few years ago. It's a big installation process to hang so it stays for all the Christmas parties once it's up.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b> This year one of the mom's asked if I would sell it to her for their family weekend ski home. I declined...we all love it so here at Musicalia...as you can see below...</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Today Musicalia is officially 19 years old!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I wrote my <a href="http://makememusical.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-birthday-musicalia.html" target="_blank">first Happy Birthday post last year</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and then continued with about 120 posts since then. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There are really 2 major things I did this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">how to use Garageband,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to upload my garageband creations to Bandcamp (thank you, Rachel Rambach), </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to use Skype (thank you <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-founder-of-earth-day-canada.html" target="_blank">my dear husband, Nigel</a>),</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to work my new iPhone (I love my ocarina app!), </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to use iPhoto and iMovie, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to use Facebook </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">...including creating </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/MakeMeMusical?sk=wall" target="_blank">a dedicated page</a> (maybe you'd like to "LIKE" me???)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to use a video camera and create videos,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">uploading to YouTube,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to work with web designers, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">learning to create with Wishlist Member, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to make a PDF (yes, I didn't even know how to do this),</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to use dropbox,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">how to upload photos to Flickr, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">how to use picnik (thank you, Rachel Rambach!),</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">gave up on my Bamboo tablet...oh well...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">signed up for Twitter but I still don't really know how to use it...oh well... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">how to add an accent on my computer to my </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">French student's names (this was my most satisfying skill-bit this year!), </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">learning how to use <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.com/p/monthly-newsletter.html" target="_blank">Aweber to create a newsletter</a> (thank you to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Neurosong?sk=app_7146470109" target="_blank">Kimberly Sena Moore </a>for her encouragment with this),</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">creating advertizing to post on <a href="http://listenlearnmusic.com/" target="_blank">Rachel Rambach's Listen & Learn site,</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">became a member of Rachel's <a href="http://listenlearnplus.com/" target="_blank">Listen & Learn Plus Premium site for members </a>(so great!) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Rachel was amazing, helpful and oh so techie-savvy:) she helped me many times </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">You know...I really just tried everything I could think of! </span> </b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">I was daunted but quietly determined so in the end I really have many more skills than I ever could have imagined I would ever have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">I took </span><a href="http://www.rhythmforgood.com/2011/04/congratulations-online-zen/" style="color: #bf9000;" target="_blank">Kat Fulton's Online Zen course</a><span style="color: #bf9000;"> </span></b></span>and learned how to build a wordpress site and I'm in the process of building Musicalia a new wordpress site right now! I actually had a new site built by a web developer this past year but the site is not behaving the way I'd hoped so I'm just going to build a new one myself <b style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Thank you, Kat!)</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I was fortunate to spend most of July in <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-salzburg-studies-have-begun.html" target="_blank">Salzburg, Austria studying Orf</a>f at the Internationl Orff Conference and the International Summer Course at the Orff Institute and the Mozarteum. This trip was surreal for me (a dream more than 2 decades old) but oh so great! <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I have decided that 2012, the 19th year of Musicalia,</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span>I am already thinking ahead to next January 1, 2013 and the big 20 year celebrations I hope to have for Musicalia! I don't know what we'll do yet and maybe all that will happen is I will have some t-shirts printed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Right now I'm in the midst of re-negotiating my lease and it's challenging (my payments appear to be going up by more than 30%! ...gulp...) </span><span style="font-size: small;">I hope Musicalia will survive this negotiaton process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few weeks ago my cousin, Erin, asked if I would be willing to work with her to create a special Christmas gift for our Baba (that's our <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.com/search/label/music%20and%20the%20elderly" target="_blank">97 year-old Ukrainian grandmother</a> and there's a more <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-thanksgiving-to-those-of-us-in.html" target="_blank">recent pix of her here</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Erin doesn't live in Victoria so we planned to get together when she came home for some pre-Christmas visiting this week. We had a couple of hours to explore different instruments and our voices and this is what we came up with. Erin is playing ukulele, I'm on guitar and we're both singing. Of course, our families are loving it:). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">We presented this song on CD to <a href="http://www.makememusical.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-thanksgiving-to-those-of-us-in.html" target="_blank">Baba</a> last week just before Christmas. </span></b>Baba immediately began singing along to the recording in a strong voice. It was moving and wonderful! It seemed her singing was coming from deep inside her...truly magical. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This is a song I grew up hearing</span></b> my grandmother, her sisters and their daughters sing. It seems to embody a connectedness between the generations for me and it holds a special place in my heart for sure. Neither Erin or I speak Ukrainian so we recorded it as best we could and it turned out to be the perfect way for our grandmother to sing along to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #6aa84f;">I am sharing it with you</b> along with a wish that 2012 be filled with as many <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">beautiful</span></i></span>, <span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">c r e a t i v e</span></b></span>, <span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">musical</span>, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">meaningful</span></span>, <span style="font-size: small;"><i style="color: #cc0000;"><b>festive!</b></i></span>, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">celebratory</span></i></b></span> moments you can possibly squeeze in! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Happy New Year! </span></b></span></div>
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