Music does bring us joy. We listen to it, sing it, perform it, stand in awe of it. Whether we are musicians or not, there is a place in our hearts for music. The holidays are no different. I love using music in many ways during the holidays: as we decorate our tree I like [...]
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Thursday night I attended an All-Beethoven concert at the Fraser Performance Studio at the WGBH building in Boston. It was an intimate setting where the radio station was recording a tribute to Beethoven to be aired on his birthday! (It was awesome and I will elaborate in another post.) So many musical organizations plan for [...]
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Special Announcement! It’s finally here – a new addition to The Inspired Classroom’s book store…. and it’s a good one too! Celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven in the Classroom: A Resource for Classroom Teachers and Music Teachers Alike by Elizabeth M. Peterson This eResource is built for any teacher who enjoys music, especially that of Ludwig [...]
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This week, I wrote a guest post for Jessica Balsley’s website Art of Education. She is an art teacher who provides many resources and ideas for other teachers interested and invested in arts education. I decided to stay with my focus on arts integration and cater to her major audience – art teachers. Here is [...]
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My mom and I went to the symphony on Tuesday evening. We saw Yo-Yo Ma perform DVOŘÁK’s Cello Concerto. It was, in a word, amazing! It was the way Yo-Yo Ma performed the music. He didn’t play it, didn’t even perform it, he experienced it right there in front of us making the music simply [...]
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You can imagine my excitement when I read about how an attendee from my presentation at #RSCon11 decided to use some of the music integration strategies in her classroom – and found great success. Stephanie Shouldis (@WizardOzTeacher) did just that. She was there for my 30 minute webinar entitled “Integrating Music with Literacy to Help [...]
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The school year is in full swing and reading is filling the air in my fourth grade classroom. We read independently, in groups, with partners, as a whole class, as a read aloud, online and hopefully at home as well. Let’s face it, reading is a very important part of an elementary school classroom. But [...]
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I was first introduced to this phrase when I was getting my masters in Arts and Learning from Endicott College. My inspiring professor, Stephanie Grenadier, put these words (from Shaun McNiff’s book) into motion for me. She showed me what they meant by allowing me to follow my own creative process through my classes with [...]
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Each year, my school celebrates a special, yet under-acknowledged anniversary in our country’s history. September 14, 1814 was the date when Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that became our National Anthem while witnessing the battle at Fort McHenry. Three years ago, I approached my principal and colleagues with the idea of bringing the tradition [...]
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