I have been SO excited to write this blog post! A few weeks ago, I took a trip to Target and as always came face to face with the Dollar Section. This is extremely well planned out on Target's part, because before you can get to any other section of the store, you must pass [...]
I love being a music therapist for children with special needs. One of the main reasons is that I have the opportunity to create fun, educationally relevant songs and interventions. The administrators and teachers at UCP love that I am able to support the curriculum by creating songs that target specific academic concepts and are catchy and easy to memorize. I've [...]
Feelings are a very important topic for my students at UCP. Now that the children in the Kindergarten class can express how they're feeling, we hear "I'm mad!" or "That made me sad!" ALL day long. They're getting a lot of practice with expressing their feelings. Here's one of their favorite songs to sing during music [...]
Watch to see how you can use items from the outdoors in your music therapy sessions! Pod guiros! Podshakers! What are YOUR ideas?