We went last night to a special showing of the new documentary Waiting For Superman as a staff after our staff meeting . It was interesting and, I have to admit, a little exciting to be out with my co-workers in the theater, all of us there thinking that we are “great teachers” and yet [...]
I worked on my word wall today. Click on any of the thumbnails in this post to see a bigger picture. It is truly a conglomeration now of music and movement words! I started last year with alphabetizing my list of music words and using wet erase markers to write them on the glass of [...]
Music Education Can Help Children Improve Reading Skills ScienceDaily (2009-03-16) — Children exposed to a multi-year program of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers, according to a new study.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210110043.htm# ScienceDaily (2009-02-11) — Music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on reading and mathematics achievement in early childhood and adolescence. But, then again, we all know this already ~S
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