April 2012

Sing Your Heart Out: It Is Time To Sing a Song

April 30, 2012

This week I am on vacation from my job as a music therapist at UCP’s Early Beginnings Academy. Yay! But, I’m not off from my work at Wholesome Harmonies! So, I decided this would be a great opportunity to share some new songs with you! Each day this week I will share a new song, [...]

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Playing a Rainbow: Color-Coded Notation for Xylophone

April 27, 2012

One of my favorite session activities is using color-coded notation to teach children how to play xylophone, piano, and hand bells. Here is a video of two children I see for individual music therapy using color-coded notation to play the xylophone (or as my nephew calls it, the “ex-lophone ). I didn’t need to give them much [...]

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Look, Look…Take a Look!

April 24, 2012

When I come up with new activities for my sessions at UCP’s Early Beginnings Academy, I often consult the teacher’s lesson plans. Not only do they give me lots of great ideas for new song topics, but it ensures that my sessions are directly lining up with and supporting the classroom curriculum. This week, some [...]

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Tuneful Teens Has ARRIVED!

April 22, 2012

Launch Day is here and Tuneful Teens has arrived!!!! I am thrilled to announce that his resource is available, since it has been four months in the making! In case you missed my announcements all over Twitter and Facebook, Tuneful Teens is an ebook jam-packed with intervention ideas, song ideas, sheet music and templates for [...]

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Miami Music Therapists Unite…for a Book Club

April 20, 2012

The Miami Music Therapists have been very active lately. We’ve jammed together, sung at Open Mic Night, and swapped songs and resources. Last Friday, we had another get-together: we gathered as a book club to discuss the very popular “Sing You Home” by Jodi Picoult. This was a great opportunity for us to discuss our thoughts on the book and [...]

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