Announcing the Holiday Special 2020! What are your favorite holiday memories? Baking cookies, finding the perfect gift for your loved one, trimming the tree, ugly Christmas sweater parties, watching the cat play hide and seek in the wrapping papers and empty boxes on Christmas morning, and white elephant gifts all bring joy into our hearts and. homes in December. Undoubtedly, these memories are accompanied by a soundtrack of musical classics, the voices of Bing Crosby, Burl I

What rings in the Holiday Season for you? Is it the sound of Jingle Bells, a Sunday afternoon Sleigh Ride, or the scent of Chestnuts...

DIY Shaker for Elementary School Kids For Earth Day, we celebrate the earth that includes celebrating world cultures and making crafts where we reduce, reuse, and recycle. This project was one of the one's we featured in our fun-filled day at 2016 World Fest at Woodlake Elementary. We use recycled paper plates, decorate them, and create our own shaker. This is a great craft to make at home or at school with elementary school-age kids. The shaker is a musical instrument in the

The TWO TYPES of Musical Giftedness Musical intelligence was defined by Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, as "an individual who likes to sing or hum along to music, appreciates music, may play a musical instrument and remembers song melodies." Children who have an extremely high musical intelligence are prodigies. In this series, we will explore what is means to be "musically gifted," what teachers and parents can do to foster the

What is Musical Giftedness? Musical intelligence was defined by Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, as "an individual who likes to sing or hum along to music, appreciates music, may play a musical instrument and remembers song melodies." Children who have an extremely high musical intelligence are prodigies. In this series, we will explore what is means to be "musically gifted," what teachers and parents can do to foster these gifts

Back in 1983, American developmental psychologist, Howard Gardner, proposed his model that the human mind is not limited to only one or two types of intelligence, but that there are multiple ways in which a person may be “intelligent.” Intelligence is not a single general ability. It's more than the ability to work well with numbers or words but includes a range of skills and abilities. You can picture it this way, the human mind is not a calculator that is programmed to do

In the last "Music for Life" post, we learned about how music benefits us physically. Now, let's explore how learning music is good for our intellectual development. Music is beneficial to our brains. In fact, music is hardwired into us. Research shows that babies cry to the sound of common musical intervals. The sing-song chants of young children are often a series of minor-thirds. (Think "Rain, Rain, Go Away.") In the case of stroke victims, music aids recovery of verbal sk