Showing posts with label singing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label singing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Music in September
We've been doing quite a bit of music.
I've also found this resource which I have ordered:
http://homemusicmaking.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-product-is-here-waldorf-autumn.html
We've been playing and singing the sample song together with Springy doing the singing, learning the words off by heart and me playing the guitar to accompany her. We left a message on her grandparents' answering machine the other afternoon as a surprise for them to come back to.
Here are the words (which are found in quite a few Waldorf resources - don't know who to credit with authorship):
I've also found this resource which I have ordered:
http://homemusicmaking.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-product-is-here-waldorf-autumn.html
We've been playing and singing the sample song together with Springy doing the singing, learning the words off by heart and me playing the guitar to accompany her. We left a message on her grandparents' answering machine the other afternoon as a surprise for them to come back to.
Here are the words (which are found in quite a few Waldorf resources - don't know who to credit with authorship):
"Yellow the bracken, golden the sheaves, rosy the apples, crimson the leaves, mist on the hillside, clouds grey and white, Autumn good morning, Summer good night."
Thursday, 12 February 2009
A puppy called Lily
This month has been beautiful so far. Imbolc was snowy which the folklore says means a good year ahead. Springy went out to play in the snow which was a bit wet, rather than the useful type of snow that you can make snowballs out of but still...snow is snow and it was fun.
Springy started a dance class - ballet and modern - which she loves. She's there for 1 and a half hours which I would have thought would have worn her out but it hasn't quite yet. The first time she went, we stayed to check she was all right and she was beaming away with her smiles. I got all tearful. She's now been to her second class and the dance teacher wants to move her to the next class. I'm so glad I waited until she was 7 for starting ballet because I think it's a much better age to start with formalised movement.
We have a lovely CD that we're listening to at the moment. It's called Fairy Moon: Songs of the Ring and is by Maria Sangiolo. Springy's favourite song is Meanie Mary.
http://www.mariasangiolo.com/
We got ourselves a puppy who was born 20th November 2008. She's a Shih Tzu and we have called her Lily. She's adorable - a lot of work but we've been learning how to care for a puppy and so far seem to be doing the right things. Today we introduced her to our chickens and yesterday she met the guineapigs.
She gets fed 4x per day at the moment because she's still ver little. We feed her at about 7.30am (sometimes 8am), midday, 4pm and 7.30pm (or quarter to 8). We're making sure she gets exercise. She cannot go out in full yet because she has only had one of her vaccinations (which I'm still unsure about but Parvo virus is a risk factor and nasty so I guess it's necessary to vaccinate) but we've been running with her on a leash in the garden and she mostly follows. We've found that knowing where we are going to helps.
Springy started a dance class - ballet and modern - which she loves. She's there for 1 and a half hours which I would have thought would have worn her out but it hasn't quite yet. The first time she went, we stayed to check she was all right and she was beaming away with her smiles. I got all tearful. She's now been to her second class and the dance teacher wants to move her to the next class. I'm so glad I waited until she was 7 for starting ballet because I think it's a much better age to start with formalised movement.
We have a lovely CD that we're listening to at the moment. It's called Fairy Moon: Songs of the Ring and is by Maria Sangiolo. Springy's favourite song is Meanie Mary.
http://www.mariasangiolo.com/
We got ourselves a puppy who was born 20th November 2008. She's a Shih Tzu and we have called her Lily. She's adorable - a lot of work but we've been learning how to care for a puppy and so far seem to be doing the right things. Today we introduced her to our chickens and yesterday she met the guineapigs.
She gets fed 4x per day at the moment because she's still ver little. We feed her at about 7.30am (sometimes 8am), midday, 4pm and 7.30pm (or quarter to 8). We're making sure she gets exercise. She cannot go out in full yet because she has only had one of her vaccinations (which I'm still unsure about but Parvo virus is a risk factor and nasty so I guess it's necessary to vaccinate) but we've been running with her on a leash in the garden and she mostly follows. We've found that knowing where we are going to helps.
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Christmas Fairs and St Nicholas
Springy left her clean boots by the fireplace on Friday, 5th December 2008. In the morning St Nicholas had left her a matchbox card Ark and a mandarin orange. We gave her a little hen egg cosy (made from the pattern in the book Feltcraft) from us.
We've been to a few Christmas fairs in recent weeks. The Steiner school fairs are always so lovely, both in atmosphere and the community that surrounds many of the Steiner schools. We heard harps playing, Christmas carols which we joined in with and so on. Springy also met King Winter and received a gift of stone.
We're going to be doing some soap carving. All you need is a plain block of soap e.g. Simple soap in white and some biscuit/cookie cutters. You push the cookie cutter onto the soap and then cut around the shape with a knife. It's a nice thing to do for children 7 and above and it can make some nice gifts.
This morning Jack Frost has been about. Springy went out into the garden with her croc shoes on and thought it was great fun to hear the crackling of the lawn and also to see her breath. I had to call her back in because it was so freezing and she was out there in pyjamas (no sense of temperature or self preservation at this age). We had to take a kettle of hot water out to the bird bath because it was frozen and a poor wood pigeon was trying to peck through the ice.
Springy is really happy today - she kept skipping yesterday and is currently babbling away with some dolls. She chose a little white felt fairy as a special gift yesterday from us. She's only about an inch high (the fairy doll, not Springy) and has a little wire wand with a star on.
We've been to a few Christmas fairs in recent weeks. The Steiner school fairs are always so lovely, both in atmosphere and the community that surrounds many of the Steiner schools. We heard harps playing, Christmas carols which we joined in with and so on. Springy also met King Winter and received a gift of stone.
We're going to be doing some soap carving. All you need is a plain block of soap e.g. Simple soap in white and some biscuit/cookie cutters. You push the cookie cutter onto the soap and then cut around the shape with a knife. It's a nice thing to do for children 7 and above and it can make some nice gifts.
This morning Jack Frost has been about. Springy went out into the garden with her croc shoes on and thought it was great fun to hear the crackling of the lawn and also to see her breath. I had to call her back in because it was so freezing and she was out there in pyjamas (no sense of temperature or self preservation at this age). We had to take a kettle of hot water out to the bird bath because it was frozen and a poor wood pigeon was trying to peck through the ice.
Springy is really happy today - she kept skipping yesterday and is currently babbling away with some dolls. She chose a little white felt fairy as a special gift yesterday from us. She's only about an inch high (the fairy doll, not Springy) and has a little wire wand with a star on.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Feeling better
Springy and I are both over the worst of our colds. Springy had a temperature most of last week and we had to take it very easy. She missed swimming and Beavers and we hardly went outside.
We've been practising The Fork and the Spoon - a song from the Oak Meadow First Book of Recorder. I'd love to do more violin and piano lessons with her but just cannot afford it at the moment.
Today was nice - Springy and I played dominoes (she won...twice) and then The Hedgehog Game with the variation being that we had to add up the dice values in French.
I told her the Shingebiss story again tonight (from the link below):
Shingebiss' Song:
(Am) North Wind, North Wind, (G) fierce of feature,
(Am) You are still my (G) fellow (Am) creature.
(C) Blow your worst, you (G) can't scare me.
(Am) I'm not afraid, and (G) so I'm (Am) free.
Springy has read up to book 21 of the Rainbow Magic series which means that she is on the last book of the entire boxed set (from The Book People).
We've been using our peg loom to make a possible rug (in a synthetic pink wool - lovely and soft but not very natural!). When I say a possible rug I mean that if it turns out big enough then it may end up as a rug but it's about the width of a scarf.
We baked foccacia bread this morning and C made soup (with kidneys - smell terrible but at this time of year we need their nutrients). Today at lunchtime we were out in the garden with the bantams and the guineapigs. I pruned the other butterfly bush and tidied up a few areas in the garden. Part of me dislikes tidying up too much because it is those places where insects tend to settle down and hide for the winter but at the same time I need the garden to look as if it belongs to a home, rather than just a piece of wildlife scrub.
Springy has some nice new front incisors growing and one wobbly tooth (as well as a gap on the bottom 2nd left incisor).
We've been practising The Fork and the Spoon - a song from the Oak Meadow First Book of Recorder. I'd love to do more violin and piano lessons with her but just cannot afford it at the moment.
Today was nice - Springy and I played dominoes (she won...twice) and then The Hedgehog Game with the variation being that we had to add up the dice values in French.
I told her the Shingebiss story again tonight (from the link below):
Shingebiss' Song:
(Am) North Wind, North Wind, (G) fierce of feature,
(Am) You are still my (G) fellow (Am) creature.
(C) Blow your worst, you (G) can't scare me.
(Am) I'm not afraid, and (G) so I'm (Am) free.
Springy has read up to book 21 of the Rainbow Magic series which means that she is on the last book of the entire boxed set (from The Book People).
We've been using our peg loom to make a possible rug (in a synthetic pink wool - lovely and soft but not very natural!). When I say a possible rug I mean that if it turns out big enough then it may end up as a rug but it's about the width of a scarf.
We baked foccacia bread this morning and C made soup (with kidneys - smell terrible but at this time of year we need their nutrients). Today at lunchtime we were out in the garden with the bantams and the guineapigs. I pruned the other butterfly bush and tidied up a few areas in the garden. Part of me dislikes tidying up too much because it is those places where insects tend to settle down and hide for the winter but at the same time I need the garden to look as if it belongs to a home, rather than just a piece of wildlife scrub.
Springy has some nice new front incisors growing and one wobbly tooth (as well as a gap on the bottom 2nd left incisor).
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Friday, 1 February 2008
Morning Songs
I've been searching for some good morning songs. The one that we most often sing (and this is one I used to sing years ago when I was a SALT assistant) is:
"Good morning, good morning
How are you today?
Good morning, good morning,
This is what we say"
We also sing:
"I wake in the morning early, and always the very first thing,
is I sit up in bed and I lift up my head
And I sing, and I sing,
When I wake in the morning early"
(Ref: Sing Through the Day with CD).
I found this one (no reference though): Sun wake up its time to talk about another day I wonder what your life will bring upon a goldem way Sun upon the shining Sun upon the way Sun upon the golden way We also like to sing "Morning has broken..."
Down is the Earth
Up is the sky
Here is/are my family/mummy/friends
And here am I
I was reading the Times yesterday (we had lunch in a cafe and they have newspapers there so it was nice to choose from a selection) and there was a feature on a survey of parents and over 80% of them didn't sing to their children. We never stop singing here - singing in the shower, singing in the car, singing whilst washing up, singing whilst going to sleep and so on. We still do nursery rhymes and finger plays and make up our own funny songs ... lots of las, lots of tra las and so on. I could not imagine our lives without singing (and you don't have to be a good singer to sing - singing is about feeling and joyfulness). I think it is very sad that so many people grow up without anyone singing live to them from their hearts (rather than for a profit-driven concert or public display or CD/radio etc).
"Good morning, good morning
How are you today?
Good morning, good morning,
This is what we say"
We also sing:
"I wake in the morning early, and always the very first thing,
is I sit up in bed and I lift up my head
And I sing, and I sing,
When I wake in the morning early"
(Ref: Sing Through the Day with CD).
I found this one (no reference though): Sun wake up its time to talk about another day I wonder what your life will bring upon a goldem way Sun upon the shining Sun upon the way Sun upon the golden way We also like to sing "Morning has broken..."
Down is the Earth
Up is the sky
Here is/are my family/mummy/friends
And here am I
I was reading the Times yesterday (we had lunch in a cafe and they have newspapers there so it was nice to choose from a selection) and there was a feature on a survey of parents and over 80% of them didn't sing to their children. We never stop singing here - singing in the shower, singing in the car, singing whilst washing up, singing whilst going to sleep and so on. We still do nursery rhymes and finger plays and make up our own funny songs ... lots of las, lots of tra las and so on. I could not imagine our lives without singing (and you don't have to be a good singer to sing - singing is about feeling and joyfulness). I think it is very sad that so many people grow up without anyone singing live to them from their hearts (rather than for a profit-driven concert or public display or CD/radio etc).
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