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Summer Night Sounds
Right now, I’m sitting near an open window and listening to a nighttime chorus of katydids and crickets in huge numbers. Want to listen, too? How many night insect sounds can you identify? Besides being relaxing music from nature, children find it incredibly interesting to learn about insects and how they create their songs. Make Continue reading
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Birds, Music, Classroom Management
No one has ever put together music with nature’s music like Robert J. Lurtsema. If you love classical music and lived in eastern New England from the 1970s to the 1990s, Robert J woke you every morning with these incredible sounds. He used his own recordings of birds to create a soundscape using, in this case, Continue reading
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Grandparents and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
Your two granddaughters come to visit while their mother copes with a new baby. Every morning, you pour mountainous bowls of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for each one before they come downstairs. You set out spoons and the yellow milk pitcher. You have firm ideas about the propriety of leaving the cereal box on the table, so you put it back in Continue reading
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