Music Class at the Library

Music Class at the Library

This morning I made music with an enthusiastic crowd at the Boston Public Library’s  Copley Branch.   Billed as an infant/toddler sing along these music classes are offered free to the public by the library.   There are often over 60 children with their caregivers in attendance.  That makes for a musical experience that is quite different from my drop-in classes which can have as many as 12 children but typically are half that size.

I enjoy both formats.  The library crowd can be loud and chaotic but you haven’t lived until you’ve played Ring Around the Rosie with a group that size!  On the other hand, my small studio classes give me the opportunity to build relationships with the children and caregivers I’m making music with.

Big crowds and small gatherings are both wonderful ways to share music with each other.  I hope to see you soon at one or the other!

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Halloween Fun in the Highlands

Halloween Cupcakes & Giggles 

Green Planet Kids, Bread & Chocolate, and Giggle Kids Music are co-hosting a yummy, musical, fun, Halloween event. Please join us to:

  • Decorate a cupcake at Bread & Chocolate - the wonderful Bakery/Cafe, in Newton Highlands!
  • Costume Parade to Green Planet Kids – your favorite Award-Winning Toy Store!
  • Sing, Wiggle & Shake with Giggle Kids Music – Newton’s only Drop-In Music Program.  

Sunday, October 30th @ Noon, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, or 3:00 pm.

Free, but we have limited space.

Please call Green Planet Kids to register your child @(617) 332-7841.

*If you get their voicemail, please leave your name and telephone number.  They will call you back to complete your registration. 

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Way up High in the Apple Tree

The Highs and Lows of Apple Picking

This time of year we do a lot of apple picking in music class.   It is a wonderful way to learn about musical opposites High & Low and Up & Down.  We sing Lynn Kleiner’s setting of the popular preschool rhyme Way Up High in the Apple Tree to show how apple trees grow strong and tall and how the apples fall down off the trees.   A jaunty musical trip through our imaginary orchard helps us associate high musical pitches with the physical sensation of stretching up to pick an apple. Likewise, picking up apples that have fallen to the ground helps us associate low musical pitches with the physical sensation of stooping down to pick up an apple. With my preschool students we use a glockenspiel as an apple picking ladder to hear the ascending and descending pitches as we climb to pick our apples.

We also learn about other things during our apple picking journey.  In Shake the Apple Tree we learn about sharing apples with others.   In Farmer Brown had 5 Green Apples we learn about counting, subtraction and taking turns.

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