Putting their creativity in the driver's seat of content, knowledge, and skills.
The approach to gross motor movement and music arts infusion you've been longing for.
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From the context of the arts
Using children’s innate desire to move as they learn, this approach infuses the arts into their daily program and will increase their critical and creative thinking across disciplines by connecting thinking to movements, and movements to content. By communicating their thinking through their bodies, children’s learning experiences are transformed because they are able to demonstrate their understanding through their most practiced form of communication, movement. This approach to music and creative movement helps bridge the gap between non-verbal understanding and verbal communication.
LMT - Practical, User-friendly, Customizable!
What is LMT?
A practical approach to arts integration. LMT's short movement and music activities require no formal background in music or dance.
Why LMT?
Kids move. Kids are at their best when their bodies are in motion. Listen, Move, Think takes movement from “shaking your sillies out” to minds-on, bodies-on, thinking in space.
Where you are
My Listen Move Think! is your user interface which is customizable and ready for you to personalize for where you are today, tomorrow, and next year.
How it starts
Select a grade level from the list at the top of the page. Everything you’ll need is right on the page. I built it for you and your kids. If you have questions or suggestions, let me know.
Here are three reasons why Listen, Move, Think will work for you.
Reason #1
Your kids will love it.
Kids love to move, and this approach gets them moving in productive ways while building a foundation of music and dance skills.
Reason #2
You will love it.
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An app for you
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3-5min movement activities.
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No music or dance experience required.
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No prep.
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Responsive to your daily program and needs.
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Begin each mini-lesson from a conversation about kids' thinking.
Reason #3
Your administrator will love it.
Engaged and focused classroom experiences where every voice is heard and valued. Children's conversations lead to discussions of content in social studies, math, science, or language arts.
Where does Listen, Move, Think! fit into your daily program?
Energizer
These gross motor music activities can replace your current “shake your sillies out” songs, chants, and videos. Each time you use LMT, your kids will move their bodies in purposeful ways that meet NDEO’s standards for early childhood movement (2014) to music that was composed to increase their musical intelligence through informal listening experiences.
Read More ..Brain Breaks
When children become restless and fidgety, we provide them with brain breaks, intended to reduce their off-task behaviors and increase their attention. Even though these activities are known as brain breaks, their real purpose is body breaks. Kids need to move their bodies. Their brains are fine, but their bodies need to move. Therefore, LMT provides you with movement activities that get their bodies moving and their brains focused on a specific word that can be the beginning of an intelligent conversation about ELA or Math or Social Studies or Science.
Read More ..Transitions
Moving children from one area of the room to another, or from one content area to another can be challenging. Transitions take up a lot of time which could be used more productively or purposefully. LMT can be the thing that moves them from here to there, or math to ELA with focused gross motor and music movement activities.
Read More ..Morning Meetings
Building community is important in every classroom. Because LMT is grounded on divergent thinking, you can use it in your morning meetings to have children share their thinking with others. There are many great morning meeting activities, let LMT be one of them.
Read More ..Informal Learning
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Logic of Listen, Move, Think!
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Quick Overview of My Listen Move Think
Read More..Let's do the math because the numbers add up.
With five minutes here and four minutes there, you can increase your children’s experiences with the arts by “a lot.” It all adds up. This approach to creative gross motor movement and music will complement what you currently offer. Infusing the arts doesn’t have to take hours to prepare for and to clean up afterward. Listen, Move, Think allows your children to focus their attention on music and movement for five minutes, several times a day, building necessary aural and physical skills in music and dance.
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HOURS OF ARTS
CONTACT DR. MARK
I’d love to hear from you. This is an ongoing project that will develop and expand over time. To make this site more user friendly and meaningful for you and for others, I want you to be a part of its development.
- Are there things that you would like to see on the site?
- Are there ways that I can categorize the music so that it’s easier to locate something that you want?
- What should I do next?
Your input is valued and essential to making this a site that everyone will enjoy for years to come
