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The child Is made of one hundred. The child has a hundred languages a hundred hands a hundred thoughts a hundred ways of thinking of playing, of speaking. As we were going along with our animal study this week, something else was happening in afternoon music. Lauren has been song-writing with the afternooners, completely unrelated to our study--until this week. Harper had a song she wanted to write about cheetahs. When asked what she knows about cheetahs, she told about how they hunt. You see, we had just learned from a book prior in the day that when cheetahs hunt, they first creep slowly and quietly, then run, then leap/pounce upon their prey. Lauren, however, was unaware of any of this. When Lauren asked Harper what words she wanted in her song, she said, “I want to move to it.” Lauren worked with Harper to get it just right. “She dreamed up the concept, picked the chord, and determined the necessity of different strums for different moments.” Returning to the classroom, Lauren excitedly told me about a song Harper wrote and how it was a different process than the others she’d worked with so far--preschool teachers often talk excitedly about such things! She had her own reasons for her interest as a music teacher/songwriter. As she was telling me about the song, I saw our somewhat abstract philosophy being played out in a very concrete way. There are a hundred languages and a hundred ways to express learning—speaking, writing, drawing, painting, dancing, singing , moving, and creating songs/music.
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Tricia Windschitl
5 day teacher |