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To get successful in life, a good job and sound education are the two most essential requirements. At times one gets stuck up with the work so much that s/he can not dedicate its lion’s share of time to attending the campus classes. But now, with induction of online education or e-learning programs, getting quality education beside other assignments have also been possible. Most importantly, online programs are run by highly cr Read the rest of this entry »

The key requirements of the knowledge seekers are competitive outlook, craving for more information and zeal to outshine in the academics. Furthermore, with the combination of technology and learning, many students are looking for more from different quarters of the world of education. They do not want to compress themselves to a specified study support. This support, they can get in their traditional schools but they yearn to Read the rest of this entry »

I’m starting the new year with an old song, “The Bear Went Over the Mountain.” I looked in my copy of Tom Glazer’s Treasury of Songs for Children (Doubleday, 1988), as well as in Wikipedia, and it doesn’t appear to have any kind of story behind it. It’s just a silly song set to the tune of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” (which means of course that you can use the uke chords I offer here for that song, too).

I’ve often used this song for toddler and preschool storytime sessions in which I brought out the big box of rhythm instruments – the drums, tambourines, shakers, and sticks – and descended with the children into sonic chaos. But it’s a fun sonic chaos, since most young children don’t really get the idea of a beat, but they sure enjoy making noise. The trick, of course, is “Can you, as song leader, guide this noise, and have the children follow your directions?”

I would encourage the kids to beat, shake, or pound their instruments whenever I’d reach the spot indicated by “dramatic pause” in the lyric sheet. I’d pause in the song, strum the uke percussively (rest your fingers, lightly, over the strings and strum yourself a drum roll), and shout out, “Faster!” or “Slower!” or “Louder!” or “Softer!” and then…. “Stop!” And then I’d go right into “To see what he could see…”

It’s fun. Try it.