It’s December first and that means the beginning of our countdown to Christmas, the best day of the year! We have gotten out our many advent calendars, including a new one this year. I found a puzzle calendar where you build a mini puzzle each day. The images are gorgeous and then 50 pieces is… Read More It’s A Small World Advent Dec 1
A Simple Advent Plan for Kids with suggested activities and music.… Read More Simple Advent for Kids
I have created five youtube playlists to accompany my Simple Advent for Preschoolers. If you haven’t grabbed your FREE DOWNLOAD read the original post here. In addition to the memory verses and the bible reading for each week of advent (including a fifth week to teach about Three Kings Day) I have included songs to… Read More Playlists for Simple Advent for Preschoolers
Recently while visiting the family for Thanksgiving, my mother-in-law had taught my two boys a simple memory verse. She had a felt board, a song, and a memory verse to teach the creation story and repeated it daily the entire week were visiting. I was amazed at how quickly they learned it. Even my… Read More Simple Advent for Preschoolers
Xylophone Fun Christmas Edition During my teaching I found a need to create a curriculum for my students to teach them basic music reading skills. Most of my little students were learning to identify and match colors and letters. They were also learning basic reading skills. I found that my students, mostly students with special… Read More Play Simple Christmas Songs with Xylophone Fun
Happy Holidays Everyone! A year ago I created my first online resource: Xylophone Fun eBook which comes in Volumes 1, 2 and Christmas. (Stay tuned for Volume 3.) This is a resource I created to offer a basis for introducing music reading in preparation for beginning piano. Children are able to first match color and… Read More Xylphone Fun Christmas – Updated!
Have you and your kids starting baking Christmas cookies? Well, it might be a little early, but if its on your Christmas to-do list why not consider using it as a teaching time? Here is a little song or poem that you can chant about Gingerbread cookies. Here’s what to do: 1. Make some gingerbread… Read More Christmas Cookie Time: Five Gingerbread
Just in time for the holidays – our newest edition of Xylophone Fun! Included in this ebook are visuals, xylophone layout, tips on how to use the resource, links to purchase a xylophone or desk bells, and 7 simple Christmas songs! Songs included are: Bohemian Bell Carol Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Jingle Bells Angels… Read More Do you hear what I hear? Its beginning to sound a lot like Christmas!