Archive for February 21st, 2009
Glissandoing Rocket Ships
Posted by: Cathy Portele on: Saturday, February 21, 2009
This week in one of our Our Time classes we were doing bell exploration before our play along and one of my sweet students decided that his bells were rocket ships. He kept making them slowly go up in the air and then slowly come back down. As he raised and lowered the bells he [...]
The brain – what a fascinating organ!
Posted by: Cathy Portele on: Saturday, February 21, 2009
A fellow KM educator sent out this article about the value of mental training for the brain. It really is quite fascinating! According to Professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, David Richardson, “The brain is the only organ designed to change in response to experience. Musical training changes the structure of the brain and [...]
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