by Devmelodies | Feb 25, 2011 | Activities, Early Childhood, Music, Music Therapy, Songs
This week at The Learning Center we are discussing transportation and all of the fun things that go with it! This was the perfect time to bring out one of my old favorites from my internship. At the time, we were working on making choices (given three options, choose...
by Devmelodies | Feb 15, 2011 | Activities, Early Childhood, Learning Through Play
One of the things I love most about being a MOM is that I get to really celebrate holidays with my child. For Hannukah we made sure to introduce her to the lighting of the candles, saying the prayers, and even opening the presents on each of the eight nights. For...
by Devmelodies | Feb 9, 2011 | Activities, Early Childhood, Music, Music Therapy, Songs
With Valentine’s day coming up, I thought it best that I too add a little something into the Activity/Song mix. My husband and I are big fans of Bob Marley, more my husband than myself, but I thought I would take one of his “ballads” and adapt it for...
by Devmelodies | Feb 8, 2011 | Activities, Early Childhood, Learning Through Play, Music, Music Therapy, Songs, Tutorial
Back in November I had attended the American Music Therapy Association’s National Convention in Cleveland, OH. While going to many different concurrent sessions, I also had the opportunity to meet Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink who are pretty fine uke players. ...
by Devmelodies | Feb 7, 2011 | Activities, Early Childhood, Learning Through Play
I was at the Children’s Discovery Museum a few months ago playing with my daughter and saw the most amazing thing! I was set up at the most perfect height for the itty bitties, there were several different colored items involved, it was an ever changing array...
by Devmelodies | Jan 15, 2011 | Activities, Early Childhood, Learning Through Play
Earlier this week the weather team was talking about all of this possible snow that was to fall… we came out with less than 4 inches. It was enough for Farrah to shovel at daycare (that’s right… hard labor) but it was too cold to venture out by the...