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Today begins the official documentation of my new project, Sing With Our Kids.
This project started innocently enough... I was asked to present at the Connect the Dots Early Learning Conference held in Seattle last year. The assignment seemed harmless enough; give a fifteen minute talk on my passion for early learning, TED TALK style. And oh yes, offer an idea that could change the world. Wow... no pressure there! Needless to say, my mind went on quite a journey preparing for the talk, and without taking you through all the gory details, let's just say that the seed for the Sing With Our Kids Project was born.
Sing With Our Kids is a pilot project for early learning through community singing (there's a mouthful!). We'll be building a free resource website with songs, information, and videos for early learning. But here's what makes Sing With Our Kids really unique. I'll be doing a nine-month in my own community, documenting all the ways singing together helps our children grow. We'll be singing in the library, at the book store, at the market, and even in parks and back yards. The project will kick off in the fall with multiple Parent Ed talks, so everyone will know why we are singing. Teachers will be able to send parents to the website where they can hear the same songs they are using at school. And grandparents and other relatives will be able to sing the same songs when they are with their grandchildren, whether it's in the same room, or across the globe! We'll all have access to the same songs and information. Sing With Our kids is based on a simple idea; That we learn to sing by singing together, and that in order to sing together we have to know the same songs.
This project has already put me in touch with so many new and old friends, and everyone has a story to share as we talk about songs and how they have effected each of us. So the project has begun, even before it's begun! I hope you will follow this blog, follow the project, and become part of the plan to sing with our kids!
This project started innocently enough... I was asked to present at the Connect the Dots Early Learning Conference held in Seattle last year. The assignment seemed harmless enough; give a fifteen minute talk on my passion for early learning, TED TALK style. And oh yes, offer an idea that could change the world. Wow... no pressure there! Needless to say, my mind went on quite a journey preparing for the talk, and without taking you through all the gory details, let's just say that the seed for the Sing With Our Kids Project was born.
Sing With Our Kids is a pilot project for early learning through community singing (there's a mouthful!). We'll be building a free resource website with songs, information, and videos for early learning. But here's what makes Sing With Our Kids really unique. I'll be doing a nine-month in my own community, documenting all the ways singing together helps our children grow. We'll be singing in the library, at the book store, at the market, and even in parks and back yards. The project will kick off in the fall with multiple Parent Ed talks, so everyone will know why we are singing. Teachers will be able to send parents to the website where they can hear the same songs they are using at school. And grandparents and other relatives will be able to sing the same songs when they are with their grandchildren, whether it's in the same room, or across the globe! We'll all have access to the same songs and information. Sing With Our kids is based on a simple idea; That we learn to sing by singing together, and that in order to sing together we have to know the same songs.
This project has already put me in touch with so many new and old friends, and everyone has a story to share as we talk about songs and how they have effected each of us. So the project has begun, even before it's begun! I hope you will follow this blog, follow the project, and become part of the plan to sing with our kids!
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