What is your definition of joy? If you consider yourself to be a joyful person, please share some thoughts on how you came to this “joy-filled” state of mind and how it manifests itself in real life. I will use any shared comments in my next ATP session to stimulate the creative/lyric writing portion. Thank you for your help.

This week’s video will focus on joy. Do we have a right to be joyful? Is joy ever inappropriate? How does music effect your level of joy? We will be learning the song, “I Wish That I Could Fly”

Lyrics:

I WISH THAT I COULD FLY

I WISH THAT I COULD FLY

I WISH THAT I COULD HOLD YOU UP

AND SHOW YOU ALL THE CLOUDS CLOSE-UP

I WISH THAT I COULD FLY

I WISH THAT I COULD FLY

HAVE YOU SEEN A PAIR OF WINGS

I CAN’T SEEM TO FIND MINE

WILL YOU HELP ME FIND MINE

Greetings Music Lovers!

This week on AROUND THE PIANO/Character Building Through Music, we will be exploring the concept of Friendship.

I will teach the song, “Good Friends,” and invite you to dialogue with me about how friendship might play into your personal code of character

GOOD FRIENDS

V1:

Quiet as a little kitten.

Or loud as an elephant

Slow as molasses

Or faster than the fastest wind

You and I can stand alone

Or we can be good friends

V2:

We can stand on first impressions

But I think this is worth the wait

Peace might cost moments

But hope is worth much more than hate

Will you teach me how to reach you

So we can be good Friends

Bridge/chorus

I like having a good friend that’s new

Someone who will like me

For who I am now

Not who I once was or might be

For me not for who they think I should be

V3

I can’t tell what you are thinking

And you can’t see into my heart

Trust might come easy

Maybe we just have to start

Can we build on understanding

So we can be good friends

You and I can stand alone

Or we can be good friends

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If you know what all the acronyms mean, you get a gold star⭐️

More sights and sounds of MD!

3rd-grade-ches-igu-music-day-1.mp3

ches-4th-grade-learning-wia-of-myself.mp3

ches-solfege-with-2nd-graders.mp3

Music makes it real🎶🎼🎹

Thanks to Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council and Prince George’s County Public Schools!

Stay tuned for more sights and sounds…

ches-day-1.mp3

We can tailor Around the Piano sessions to fit your schedule, population, objectives and budget.  However, it is the goal of every Around the Piano program that participants will have a positive experience with group singing, and growth in the following areas: 

·        Increased individual confidence and feeling of acceptance within the group setting

·         Appreciation of music as tool- for communication,  improving health and wellbeing, expressing and preserving culture, connecting diverse populations, teaching concepts, and sharing stories

·         Self-awareness through inquiry and exploration of a Personal Code of Character

·         Group synergy/team building through increased empathy, cooperation and collaboration

·         Improvisation and creative problem solving

·         More Joy, more laughter, more music

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This program was made possible by support from the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council!

Integrating Group Singing and Character Education into a Social Studies Class!

Special Thanks to Ms. Olivia Hubbard and the awesome 7th graders in her class, Ms. Emily Wise, Principal Womack, the entire staff and student body of Robert Goddard Montessori School, and the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council!!

Contact us for information about how to bring ATP to your school or organization.

SING YOUR HEART OUT, AND SOMEONE WILL HEAR YOU!