Beyond Supplies: Strategic Summer Investments That Strengthen Classrooms
Summer “spend-down” season is here. Like many early childhood leaders and administrators, you may be asking the same question: How can we make the most of our remaining budget?
Summer “spend-down” season is here. Like many early childhood leaders and administrators, you may be asking the same question: How can we make the most of our remaining budget?
This time of year can be a blend of endless joy and excitement mixed with over-sugared, over-tired kiddos with BIG feelings. Here are three resources to help you get to the end of this month without feeling like you need a big glass of eggnog and a long winter’s nap to recover.
Learn more about how using developmentally appropriate music can help support building capacity in critical areas.
How is everyone doing out there? Spring has sprung in Virginia and with the warmer temperatures and everything blooming, I find myself swinging back and forth between feeling a sense of invigoration, to feeling ready for a good nap.
Music making and learning plays a critical role for young children, providing abundant benefits for their cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
When we sing together, dance together, and enjoy music together, our bodies release certain types of hormones and chemicals (dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins, oh my!).
When working with young children, January can often feel like we’ve somehow traveled back in time to the beginning of the school year, and we have to start from the beginning with setting up routines and expectations.
Here are some ways to use music to help get your kiddos back into the swing of things while also enjoying a playful activity together that fosters love, joy, learning, and connection.
Welcome to December, a very special month of the school year, filled with lots of over-sugared, over-tired, and over-stimulated kiddos. Throw in a dash of the cold and virus season, and you’re really set up for…well…maybe not our finest time of the school year.
After her presentation, it was exciting to have teachers stop by the booth seeking us out to tell us that Mary’s presentation was the best – inspiring, fun, and packed with new, relevant information they could start using with their kids as soon as they were back in the classroom!
Young children are developing their language skills with every interaction, every conversation, and every activity all day long. Super boost their language development by sharing songs and fingerplays!
Music Mary explains how sharing music with our students is one of the most powerful tools we have to support early literacy skills.
The beginning of a new school year is the perfect time to build a happy, healthy classroom community that will thrive all year. How can we use music to support this? Music Mary explains how and why music is so important for ourselves and our students.