Susie, What Are You Thankful For?

In Kindergarten music class, one of the goals is to begin to help the students match vocal tones sung to them by the  teacher.  One of the little exercises I am using this year is to sing the child’s name and then sing , in a sing-songy question to which I have already demonstrated aContinue reading “Susie, What Are You Thankful For?”

WHATS IN A NAME THE EVOLUTION OF SUCH

It’s true …that overworked phrase.  But it works close to home for me. I wasn’t very old when I started questioning the wisdom of my parents, who supposedly named me after 2 grandmothers.  Grace, on my father’s side and Mary on my mother’s side. Mary Grace.  Ai-Yi-Yi!  My parents always called me Mary Grace andContinue reading “WHATS IN A NAME THE EVOLUTION OF SUCH”