<div>Thanks Heather!</div><div>sounds like you have my similar approach to teaching</div><div>helping children to learn without them knowing they are being taught!</div><div><br></div>tips on singing? hmmm....thats a tough one! can't help ya there!<div>
awww...i don't think i it takes a <i>good singer</i> to sing and get kids excited.</div><div>I think it <i>does</i> require a degree of personal koo-koo-craziness. <img src="cid:wildblue_net.361@goomoji.gmail" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; " goomoji="wildblue_net.361"></div>
<div>and not being afraid of being caught acting silly. That and<br> a strong inner conviction that if they really learn this silly thing</div><div>they'll never forget it. It will be stuck in their head if they need "that word"<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">or that sentence structure or whatever.</div><div class="gmail_quote">i guess</div><div class="gmail_quote">for me, most songs sort of evolve over a period of time</div><div class="gmail_quote">but then some die and just get tossed back into the pile of notes.....</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">some songs come from simply repeating over and over certain sentences,</div><div class="gmail_quote">using and exaggerating aspirations, nasals and glottal stops.</div><div class="gmail_quote">sometimes the language will just sing itself into being..... and those are the best.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">I don't use any known or established tunes but just let the water drum and sentences</div><div class="gmail_quote">kind of point the way. But i'm also learning and singing many traditional songs</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">which i think might help me to maintain some kind of direction...but who knows!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">ske:noh</div><div class="gmail_quote">Richard</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Heather Souter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hsouter@gmail.com">hsouter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Taanshi, Richard!<br><br>Congratulations!<br><br>It is always delightful to hear about how you are using ways to teach language that allows learners to discover the grammar for themselves! This is a wonderful approach for all learners/emerging speakers and not just those in an early education setting. I have composed a little song to help teach the different verbs for eat (Animate intransitive, Transitive Inanimate and Transitive Animate) in our language Michif. The people who have learned it start to intuitively understand the differences.... I just wish I was a better singer and songwriter, LOL! Any tips?!<br>
<br>Eekoshi pitamaa. That is it for now.<br><font color="#888888">Heather</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Richard Zane Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rzs@wildblue.net" target="_blank">rzs@wildblue.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">kweh Mona,<div>tizhamëh! (thanks!) yes! i am planning to come! it should be fun!</div><div><br>
</div><div>after teaching pre-schoolers this morning practicing their "arm song"</div><div>I'm introducing them to "incorporating <i>verbs</i>" for the parts of the arm. </div>
<div>I-my-arm-<i>grab!</i><br>I-my-arm-<i>shake!</i></div><div><i>they love it! and don't even realize they are </i></div><div><i>getting a technical lesson in basic-wendat/iroquoian linguistics</i></div><div><i>which of course should be the whole point in early education,anyway...</i></div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">too fun listening to them laugh and shaking or grabbing their little arms!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">ske:noh</div><div class="gmail_quote">
Richard</div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mona Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mona@alliesmediaart.com" target="_blank">mona@alliesmediaart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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