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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:30 PM EST

Hello! Heidi here from across the Atlantic Ocean in PA, USA! Nice, sunny day here! How's it over there? Don't say rainy! :) XO #Kinderchat

EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:30 PM EST

Freeeeeezing and frosty here in bonnie Scotland. I did see Santa tonight though so I'm happy :) #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:32 PM EST

Just so everyone knows I am on pain meds bc I had oral surgery this morning! Which might help explain my blunder tonight! :) #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:32 PM EST

Santa!! Well he will brighten anyone's day for sure! :) #Kinderchat

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:33 PM EST

oh bless you! Hope you're ok! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:33 PM EST

So I tried to preschedule tweet Qs so I could be ultra organized #Kinderchat But of course I scheduled them for the wrong times!!! haaa

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:34 PM EST

So if and when Qs appear out of order- THATS WHY! :) XO #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:35 PM EST

I have scheduled tweets tonight so Qs will be on the way throughout the chat! :) #Kinderchat In meantime, pour the wine and chit chat!

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:35 PM EST

oh boy I messed up!! Am on pain meds and mixed up scheduled times for Qs! :) I will fix as we go bc can't edit FYI! Apologies! #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:35 PM EST

Q3 Do you find parents, administrators, teachers knowledgeable of music's unique role in literacy? #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:35 PM EST

Yes! I'm a bit of a mess tonight! :) #Kinderchat

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:37 PM EST

Nah, it's an easy mistake to make - you're good :) #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:39 PM EST

Now I just have to respond to the Qs! haha! :) Is it a holiday there? No break til Christmas right? #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:40 PM EST

Tonight's umbrella topic is "Research and Readings"! Would love to chat about relationship bt music and literacy #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:40 PM EST

Q4 What are some specific ways you incorporate music into your literacy program? #Kinderchat

EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:40 PM EST

I technically finish uni after my exam on Wednesday, though I have an assignment due the following week #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:41 PM EST

Oh my gosh that's fantastic!! We should have a party!! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:42 PM EST

That's been a long time coming- you've worked so hard!! Congratulations! You must be over the moon! #Kinderchat

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:44 PM EST

Oh... sorry I mean i'm done for christmas. Still got 2 years to go :( #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:45 PM EST

Here is a quick article to read on literacy and music to get us started! :) https://t.co/gKXCjGQOXf … #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:45 PM EST

Q5 How often or do you use musical instruments in your teaching? #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:45 PM EST

haaaaa oh boy!! :) #Kinderchat Here I was all excited! haaa

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:45 PM EST

I wish it were true!! #Kinderchat

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:46 PM EST

@hechternacht I try to use musical instruments a lot - liven up a song time or add another element to story time. #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:48 PM EST

I think the connection between music/literacy is definitely not emphasized enough!! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:49 PM EST

And you are so right about music livening up a story!! #Kinderchat

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:49 PM EST

I agree. Music seems to be forgotten sometimes or not taken seriously #kinderchat

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kim_benham Dec 5 @ 3:49 PM EST

#Kinderchat We love occasional African drumming sessions!

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:50 PM EST

Q1 So how is music infused throughout your setting? #Kinderchat

EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:50 PM EST

My next placement is with an organisation that goes into schools and nurseries to do music lessons. Can't wait! #Kinderchat

kim_benham Dec 5 @ 3:50 PM EST

We have instruments out quite often. Also writing has a certain rhythm/flow like music 🎶 #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:51 PM EST

That is a difference bt US/UK edu programmes I see all the time is UK using "story" as such a vital element #Kinderchat

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 3:51 PM EST

#Kinderchat I find my 'newcomer' ch (EAL) respond well to music.

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KMarkPet Dec 5 @ 3:51 PM EST

Eight ways writing 'teaches' reading to under 5 year olds https://t.co/kpuq6Ao3vh #kinderchat #literacy

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:51 PM EST

Oh that sounds fantastic!! #Kinderchat Do you go to placements throughout your whole program?

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 3:52 PM EST

#Kinderchat I think it's a matter of confidence for some.

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:53 PM EST

Even looking for articles and research on the topic- I couldn't find specifics #Kinderchat Tho I didn't dig for hours!

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:53 PM EST

mostly direct teaching placements (my nxt 1 of them is in early years - Yay!) but this one is a bit different #kinderchat

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kim_benham Dec 5 @ 3:53 PM EST

You can also get rhymes in different languages on YouTube, ask parents to pick some #Kinderchat

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:53 PM EST

True. Though I don't think you need to be any sort of expert to bring a little music into a story #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:54 PM EST

Yes!! The reading of both and how each translates symbols into sound- so interesting to think of like that! #Kinderchat

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 3:54 PM EST

#kinderchat lovely to find common music - the smile on their faces says if all.

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:55 PM EST

Q2 Let's get into the mood and share some songs that you use frequently! What ways do these help in classroom and/or kids? #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:55 PM EST

You mean like rhyming words in English and French or? #Kinderchat

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 3:55 PM EST

#Kinderchat me neither but for some it seems to be.

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:56 PM EST

English Language Learner? #Kinderchat Music definitely invaluable there!!

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GeoffBilling Dec 5 @ 3:57 PM EST

hello! 5 little monkeys swinging in a tree is a class favourite. Focus is 1 less. #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:57 PM EST

I usually invent songs!! Singing the directions to things helps me stay calm and they actually DO IT when I sing them? #Kinderchat

CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 3:58 PM EST

#Kinderchat yes, the term keeps changing!

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EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 3:58 PM EST

Love that song. Also love 5 speckled frogs/ current buns/ little men in a flying saucer... all counting songs #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 3:58 PM EST

Nice one!! #Kinderchat Also hi to you Geoff!! :) Hope your year is going well?!

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 3:59 PM EST

#Kinderchat @hechternacht can't forget 'We're going on a bear hunt' for music & literacy.

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:00 PM EST

Oh boy I'm doing this on pain meds and just realized I messed up the times!! :) Please forgive!! XO #Kinderchat

GeoffBilling Dec 5 @ 4:00 PM EST

very well thank you. How are you? #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:01 PM EST

I can say "time to clean up" and everyone sorta cleans up. But when sing, "Come on- clean up now" as fast little diddy-THEY GO! #Kinderchat

GeoffBilling Dec 5 @ 4:02 PM EST

tried this today: 5 little men in a flying saucer..really loved the sight so woosh they came to stay! 😊#onemore #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:02 PM EST

Ok! Though had a root canal and oral surgery this am so am not at my best tonight!! :) #Kinderchat Pain meds are helping! :)

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GeoffBilling Dec 5 @ 4:04 PM EST

crikey! Hope you feel better soon! Is oral surgery where they just talk to you though? 😉 #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:04 PM EST

Singing to remember things also great technique!! #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:05 PM EST

I wish!! Oh man!! I was brave but was sweating!! :) #Kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:05 PM EST

"It's good to be good" as a gentle reminder for behaviour. 5 little teddy bears for maths/counting down 5 to 1 #kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:05 PM EST

hi, by the way from Yorkshire! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:06 PM EST

Thinking more about how music punctuates story- like Peter and the Wolf #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:06 PM EST

Love thinking how music can help us learn multiple languages too! #Kinderchat

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 4:07 PM EST

#kinderchat oh yes, young ch respond beautifully to music in story

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:07 PM EST

Hi Sarah!! :) Great to see you again!! :) #Kinderchat

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GeoffBilling Dec 5 @ 4:08 PM EST

😬 take it easy! You shouldn't be running #kinderchat you should be eating ice cream!

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:08 PM EST

I had an autoharp that I used to make up rambling stories w them- they LOVED! Transfixed! #Kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:08 PM EST

glad to be hear having survived supper with santa with half my village tonight! #kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:09 PM EST

hear? tut tut....here #kinderchat

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 4:09 PM EST

#kinderchat I think young ch are much more receptive to music & accept it in random places.

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:10 PM EST

Nothing cold or hot! Good day to start a diet I think! :) Am afraid to eat! She literally sewed up my teeth! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:10 PM EST

FLying men in a saucer!? Sounds fun- bet they love that one!! #Kinderchat

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kim_benham Dec 5 @ 4:10 PM EST

"Punching" out songs for rhythm. We punch into the air for Humpty Dumpty. #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:11 PM EST

Oh that sounds fun! #KInderchat We had tree lighting and hot chocolate here! :) #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:12 PM EST

Alternately affected by music that is more "noise" than helpful?! Can really set off mood sometimes! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:13 PM EST

haaa! I know- I am being a baby about it and sort of enjoying it! :) I am usually brave but not today! :) #Kinderchat

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aofradkin Dec 5 @ 4:13 PM EST

New Post: Playing with number lines in kindergarten https://t.co/YI7D4WACjE #mtbos #mathed #kinderchat #elemmathchat

sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:14 PM EST

31 chn and 20 parents with food, party games the big man himself and a good old chinwag. Christmas can start now #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:14 PM EST

hear/here! It's a music chat so that must just be the spirit shining through! :) #Kinderchat

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CiarnaC Dec 5 @ 4:14 PM EST

#Kinderchat perhaps it's that aspect that puts some off!!

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:15 PM EST

Do you find parents, administrators, teachers knowledgeable of music's unique role in literacy? #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:15 PM EST

finding beat and rhythm of words is so powerful! #Kinderchat Tapping along to nursery rhymes, etc- directly affects!

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:16 PM EST

not always - rhymes and music seen as a circle time 'filler' rather than key aspect #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:17 PM EST

ooo what's a chinwag?! Is it a thing? or a way of being? #Kinderchat I am famously naive to terms!! :)

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:17 PM EST

crucial part of phonics programme here is tapping/clapping rhythms prior to segmenting words #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:18 PM EST

Yes!! Exactly!! Meanwhile it's one of the best things you can do to help improve literacy skills! #Kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:18 PM EST

haha! chat..... wagging of the chin. Talking too much. Usually a female thing #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:18 PM EST

I always say they learn despite our best efforts haaa #Kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:20 PM EST

so much in music about rhythm, timings, pattern, rhyme...all so so vital #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:20 PM EST

Q4 What are some specific ways you incorporate music into your literacy program? #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:20 PM EST

Q6 What about chant, rhythm and beat and reading? How do you see related? #Kinderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:20 PM EST

gotcha!! Like gossiping--- chinwagging! Yum! :) #Kinderchat Will have to use that one! :)

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:21 PM EST

I wish there were more research available to public about how affects! Not enough out there on early literacy! #Kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:22 PM EST

yep exactly that. No idea where the term comes from *runs off to Google* #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:23 PM EST

I do use for a poetry unit and also for early reading of books- make them into songs so kids can learn, point to words and sing #KInderchat

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:24 PM EST

I love those terms!! So funny to learn what is different! They say "toques" in Canada for hats! #Kinderchat

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NewAuburnSchool Dec 5 @ 4:24 PM EST

Checkout these excited faces from Mrs. Bergh's class! #NewAuburn #penpals #gingerbreadexchange #Kinderchat #Kindergarten

hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:25 PM EST

Q5 How often or do you use musical instruments in your teaching? #Kinderchat

EarlyYearsIdeas Dec 5 @ 4:25 PM EST

https://t.co/aC3wQSdYrU #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:25 PM EST

Exactly! And as curriculum is pushed down, kids doing more of what doesn't work and less of what DOES! #Kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:27 PM EST

hahaa I got a tweet from a dentist bot #Kinderchat

sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:27 PM EST

here's one for you - no idea how much truth there is in it! https://t.co/7EVpBesYBc #kinderchat

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hechternacht - Moderator Dec 5 @ 4:28 PM EST

Oh I have never seen this!! So great!! :) #Kinderchat

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sarahearlyyears Dec 5 @ 4:29 PM EST

Tell me about it - top down pressure is horrible. https://t.co/QjBSdTJ20d. It's not hard! #kinderchat

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