Author Archives: Childrens Music

Teaching Kids to Work Together

We live in a very selfish society. More and more people are looking out for themselves and not their fellow man. It’s understandable at times, I’m not trying to be judgemental. The economy is struggling,  the personal touch we used … Continue reading

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Bring in the Laughter

This is a serious time in the world and in the educational community. Schools are closing, kids are struggling and teachers are sometimes over worked and battling against so many distractions that kids are facing. Teachers bring all of that … Continue reading

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Parents: The Backbone to Learning

In my opinion, you can have a bad teacher and a bad school, but a bad parent is ten times worse. While I believe most teachers, schools and parents do a good job or at least try to, I believe the most … Continue reading

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Teachers: Take a Break

One of the most under appreciated occupations in society is our teachers. Many of them buy materials on their own dime while underpaid, spend long hours going over lesson plans, then once in the classroom they do multiple jobs at once … Continue reading

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Throw the Change Up

If you like baseball as I do, the game is more interesting when a pitcher can throw 95 miles an hour three times in a row but can also throw a 75 mile an hour change up. We all know that … Continue reading

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Kids love Colors

Yellow usually means slow down and of course red means stop and purple means… Prince? OK, bad joke, but my point is colors have meaning, they set the mood and can be very useful in the classroom and with helping kids … Continue reading

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Kids Love Rewards

We all want to be validated in some way and kids are no different, in fact, they need validation even more than adults. A great way to validate their efforts especially in the classroom is to reward them. This doesn’t … Continue reading

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Teach with the Senses

We all learn through touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell. When you enter a room with cookies baking, the sense of smell immediately takes over, then you see them coming out of the oven, then you touch the warmth of the cookie … Continue reading

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All Kids are Smart

What do we mean? All kids are smart? All kids? What about the kids that get poor grades or those that struggle in class? Well, if the only criteria of smart is what a kid does in school,your really missing … Continue reading

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The Safety Song

Discover and Learn has a fantastic fun tune called “The Safety Song”. The song features a character called “Dr. Discover”, who will be revealed in cartoon form at a later date, and his sidekick “Aynton”, who happens to be named after the son … Continue reading

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