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Jennifer

Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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Today Marjorie, Miriam and Jennifer discuss reading with Melisa Nielsen of Waldorf Essentials. Melisa is a Waldorf educator, parent coach, and homeschooling mother of 5 children, two of whom have spectrum struggles. The Waldorf approach to early education  is very similar to Miss Mason's own approach. Both methods are developmental, experiential in nature and honor the individual child. Melisa comes with a wealth of ideas for helping parents teach reading.

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• 1:00 - Introduction to Melisa Nielsen
• 2:55 - An overview of Melisa's Waldorf-centric way to teach reading
• 6:39 - Shellie Davidow readers
• 7:45 - Is there a reason you introduce vowels after consonants?
• 9:18 - What if a young child wants to read?
  - Jodie Mesler's Living Music program
• 10:15 - How do you actually teach the letters?
• 15:07 - What is the best age to start? What do you do with young children wanting to learn to read?
• 17:43 - What are the most common problems moms come to you with and what is your advice?
• 27:23 - At what point do you say you need outside help?
• 43:05 - What non-reading parts of the day should you definitely not skip that would support reading indirectly ?
• 46:14 - What are your recommendations for children who are reading very early?
• 51:04 - Nature Minutes

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Jennifer

Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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On Part 2 of our discussion about singing and the Solfa, we continue our chat with RaeAnna Goss, singing teacher, homeschool graduate, homeschooling mother, and Charlotte Mason follower, who has created Solfa Sofa, an early years approach for introducing singing in a CM-friendly way. (Part 1 can be found here.)

We were also joined by Crystal Hosea of The Legends of the Staff of Musique, but we invited Crystal back for another episode about her own CM approach to combining story and music, which will air in a couple of weeks.

Recorded April 15, 2019

Show Notes:

• Heidi Buschbach0:26 Free Resource Ideas
  • Children of the Open Air
  • Sing Solfa
  • Solfa Sofa
• 3:00 Paid Resouce Ideas
  • John M. Feierabend and Conversational Solfege
  • The Kodály Center at Holy Names University
  • Organization of American Kodály Educators
• 5:02 Should you use a certain set of songs to teach?
• 6:35 Canadian Resources
  • Kodály Society of Canada
  • Music Play with Denise Gagné
• 7:15 Crystal Hosea of The Legends of the Staff of Musique
• 8:14 Dalcroze and Movement
• 9:01 Miriam’s experience with Children of the Open Air
• 10:13 An overview of Solfa as learned up to Form 3
• 10:45 What to do in the upper forms
• 11:24 Skills to learn in the lower forms
• 15:34 Ear Training (PNEU article: A Few Remarks on Teaching Music by W.H. Leslie)
• 17:36 Starting with an older student
  • Article referenced by Heidi Buschbach for older beginners
  • Outschool
• 19:42 Solfedge, Solfa and Solfedgio
• 20:46 Find the joy and protect your children’s voices
• 27:07 Fun resources
  • Music K-8 Magazine
  • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  • The Kodály Center at Holy Names University
  • Workshops with chapters of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association
• 29:46 Nature minutes
  • Coyote’s Guide To Connecting with Nature Book Discussion
  • Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms

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Jennifer

Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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On this 2-part episode, we were joined by RaeAnna Goss, singing teacher, homeschool graduate, homeschooling mother, and Charlotte Mason follower, who has created Solfa Sofa, an early years approach for introducing singing in a CM-friendly way.

We were also joined by Crystal Hosea of The Legends of the Staff of Musique, but we invited Crystal back for another episode about her own CM approach to combining story and music, which will air in a couple of weeks.

Other ideas and resources mentioned in the podcast:

• 0:00 Introductions
• 4:25 The Curwin approach, Tonic Solfa, and the Modulator
• 9:50 Difference between Curwen and Kodály, and why Raeanna supports Kodály
• 11:15 What is the Kodály approach?
• 14:30 What would a singing lesson look like in CM’s time?
  • 3 minutes of voice training
  • 5 minutes of modulator practice
  • 3 minutes of sight singing
  • 7 minutes of rhythm work
  • 4 minutes of ear training
  • 8 minutes to practice songs
• 17:58 John M. Feierabend and Conversational Solfege
  • “Children should be tuneful, beatful, and artful.”
• 20:28 An overview of the progression of singing through Forms 1 and 2
• 24:25 Resouces at Solfa Sofa that can help with early years
• 26:30 Forms 3 (part-songs and rounds), and higher (descants, classical repetoire)
• 28:55 Losing joy in singing and moving more into theory and other music approaches (PNEU article: A Few Remarks on Teaching Music by W.H. Leslie)
• 33:14 Perfect Pitch and Moveable Doe
• 35:05 Shortening Form 1 lessons and help them find their singing voice

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Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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Marjorie and Jennifer share with Miriam an overview of Miss Mason’s approach to writing and then tell their personal stories of struggle in the difficult area of composition.

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Jennifer

Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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Marjorie and Jennifer reflect back on what a CM education looked like for their high school students.

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Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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Miriam wonders why Wildwood introduces the study of formal grammar later than many other approaches.

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Jennifer

Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

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Today we muse on what it means to use a CM education with advanced and struggling children, and eventually reflect on how we can reframe what it means to be ahead or behind.

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Jennifer

Jennifer Gehman is a co-creator of Wildwood Curriculum, a certified teacher, and a facilitator with the Neufeld Institute. She lives and plays with her partner and five children in Canada. Though four of her oldest have graduated from homeschool they still ask her to edit their university papers. Her youngest is still learning in the living room.

www.connectionsforlearning.ca