Week in WA

June 25, 2008 at 9:48 am | In 1 | Leave a Comment

I am having a wonderful week. I have done several workshops with children and still have a few to go. My week has filled up very quickly. The kids over here are so cute. Basically there are beautiful kids wherever I go in Australia. It’s such a joy to see smiling faces of little people as they pretend to be Mrs. Bunny, or Mr. Teddy, or as they wriggle and jiggle their way around the room.
I’ve also enjoyed meeting teachers and assistants at childcare centres and kinders (or kindy’s as they are called in the West). The welcome has been warm, and I will be glad to come back one day.

The tightrope song

June 18, 2008 at 11:03 am | In 1 | Leave a Comment
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Finally, the new website is up and running. You may notice that I have the teaching material for one of our songs. It’s the tightrope song, and is a fabulous piece for helping children to be able to practice their balance and help to develop body awareness.
Each of our cd’s have an accompanying book that provides the main purposeand learning outcomes including musical outcomes and cross curricular outcomes. It also has notes that teach the songs step by step. I always found it great to have the learning outcomes already there for me when I was teaching in Kinder.
Do you have children in your class or at home that have poor body awareness and/or poor spacial awareness? You can tell through a number of different ways. They may walk over other children instead of walking around them. They will bump into others when doing a group activity. When they draw a picture of themselves, they are most likely to draw their head with arms and legs coming out of the head – no body.
One way to help children become aware of their bodies, and of the space around them, is to do lots of songs that include moving around the room in many different ways including walking, running, skipping, stomping, jumping and hopping.
Until next time, keep singing

Perth

June 16, 2008 at 9:30 am | In 1 | Leave a Comment

On Saturday I will be flying to Perth for music workshops. I will be away until Sunday week, and am looking forward to meeting teachers from over there.
If anyone reading this is from Perth, please consider coming to one of the workshops. They are a lot of fun.

 

Website

June 16, 2008 at 9:27 am | In 1 | Leave a Comment

It’s finally up and running. What a relief. My new website went live at midnight last night.
I am very grateful to my son, Steve, for all the hard work he put into the site.
Now I feel that I can relax a bit.

89.9 Light FM

June 14, 2008 at 3:35 am | In 1 | 2 Comments

I have been given the priviledge of being Clayton’s guest on One on One this coming Monday between 11am and 12 noon.
I thought it would be scarey talking on the radio, but when we recorded the interview on friday, I found that it was quite fun. Clayton is great at asking the right questions, so I didn’t feel uncomfortable, or that I really had to think hard to get the right answers.
I hope to put the interview up on my blog after the event (if I can work out how to do it).

New Website

June 14, 2008 at 3:17 am | In 1 | Leave a Comment
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I have been so busy over the past couple of months that I have been very slack in doing my blog. This weekend we are hoping to have the new website up and running. It has been long overdue. My son Steve has been working on it on and off since February.
It’s been a bit hard as he move to Broken Hill in March. I went up to see him last week and we spent all saturday afternoon and evening working on the new site. It was a very good feeling.

Keep checking because it’s coming very, very soon.

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