CONNAUGHT HEIGHTS - Songs capture the feelings of how we love Earth
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Blog 2: Songs capture the feelings of how we love Earth
We came into Connaught School, and from Day 1 all the students knew the song lyrics, the actions and sang with a particular fervour. That is so wonderful, because then we spend our time with the kids ramping up the performance level of everything we are doing together. When children are motivated, and they sing out, and they feel the power and energy of our collective voices…that’s when their little beings move more and more inside the songs. The music acquires power and they can feel it.
Teacher Laurie Wong explains how the messages in the song amplify the experiences children having living around the courtyard garden, and tie it all together. Then the power of our collective voices reaches out to the upturned faces and hearts of family members eagerly receiving the benediction of seeing their children involved in something so beautiful, and participating with such excellence…voilá! The magic flying carpet ride is launched!
Those mason bees and that courtyard garden are carrying their messages out through these voices of nature.
“Sing for rain, sing for sunshine, just enough at the right time
Voices of Nature sing…for every living thing
Sing for snow on the mountain, flocks of birds beyond counting
Voices of Nature sing…for every living thing”
(Voices Of Nature, written by Holly Arntzen & Stephen Foster)
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