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166. Your Face Your Hands Your Voice

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So much more transfers through the face, hands and voice than we realize. Children need to see a face connected to the sounds and meaning of words. ‘Smart technology’ cannot do this. A image on a screen cannot project and radiate the feeling of language.

Literacy is a living art. A human face tells a story, relates a context, produces a whole theater surrounding a word or even a single letter. Young language learners hunger for the song and color of words that human expression naturally produces.

Two of the most powerful desires in the universe are communication and connection.

Children need to see your face and hear your voice in all its micro-expressive subtlety and warmth. It comes through the eyes. It comes through the vocalizing of sounds and what the mouth and tongue are doing. They need to see and hear it. Blind language learners will tell you they are acutely aware of what the mouth does to produce words and how distinct words land in the ears.More

164. Song of the Senses

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Practical and awesome Human Body education is seriously missing from most public and private school curricula in the USA. Why?

Well, here’s something that remedies this in a small but effective way. We call it Human Body School.

Today’s blog is a kind of ‘dispatch from the edge’ of arts integrating exploration of our amazing human bodies.

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147. Foster Emotional Intelligence

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The newly released “Human Body School” CD by Talking Hands Talking Feet, the teaching artistry of Songs To Educate, gives children an opportunity to learn about their bodies and their inner life through catchy, fun and theatrical songs. Teachers and parents can use these songs to bring human body studies alive whilst enhancing emotional intelligence.

The album is a whole body curriculum. Every single song is an enjoyable workshop. For example, the song “Feeling Language” has a wonderful
lesson plan designed to foster emotional fluency and intelligence in primary school aged children. The summer blockbuster movie “Inside Out”
has brought the subject of emotional ‘intel’ front and center in the minds of many parents and teachers.

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146. A Brilliant Way to Teach The Human Body

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Human Body School is a springboard for daily arts integrated education activities as well as a curriculum based performing arts program. Songs To Educate also offers professional development workshops where we can come and show you how to do it.

Imagine primary grade children learning the human body by ‘theaterizing’ how it works. Imagine learning about the heart by being the heart, circulatory and respiratory systems; or understanding what happens to the food we eat by enacting the digestive system from top to bottom. That’s Human Body School.More

144. Spring Performances Light Up School Curriculum

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Talking Hands Talking Feet shows how to bring the curriculum alive through interactive performing arts programs, culminating with three Spring performances in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Teaching subjects through song and movement arts is transforming children’s learning one classroom at a time. Establishing this cutting edge teaching methodology has been the mission of Paul and Melanie Zeir, cofounders of Songs To Educate and their internationally recognized record label, Talking Hands Talking Feet, since 1997.

This Spring, Talking Hands Talking Feet celebrates its tenth anniversary creating curriculum based performing arts programs in Santa Fe, New Mexico public and independent schools. These twelve week arts integrated programs culminate with school and community performances of a very special nature.

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143. Sing Bi-lingual

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Santa Fe, New Mexico is a proud bi-lingual city with over 400 years’ Hispano-Mestizo heritage and a more contemporary Latin-American cultural influx. Santa Fe Public Schools attempts to accommodate native Spanish speakers through a variety of programs such as Dual Immersion, Bilingual and English Immersion classrooms.

Talking Hands Talking Feet, the teaching artistry of Songs To Educate, champions bilingual learning through many of their original songs as a means of enhancing neural development and encouraging multi-cultural diversity. It is especially true of their “Human Body School” performing arts program, where human anatomy vocabulary is enhanced by both the English and Latin origins of words. The “Human Body School” 12 week program, currently underway at Nava Elementary School in Santa Fe, will culminate with a community performance in mid May.

It has been proven that bilingual and multi lingual learning environments encourage neurological development.

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142. Inner Space, The Final Frontier

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Talking Hands Talking Feet inspires educators to rethink human body education through its innovative and theatrical “Human Body School” arts integrated program.

Talking Hands Talking Feet, the teaching artistry of Songs To Educate says, “Inner Space…is the Final Frontier”. Understanding human body mechanics is one thing. Understanding the organic intelligence implicit in the body’s dynamic systems is quite another. Human Body education can be an incredible journey of discovery.

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140. “Feeling Language” Encourages Emotional Intelligence

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The new tune “Feeling Language” is one of 25 songs from Talking Hands Talking Feet new CD “Human Body School” scheduled for release in Spring 2015.

To enjoy “Feeling Language”, click here to watch the “Feeling Language” video and listen to the song.

“Human Body School” songs and movement theater are an exciting way to learn human anatomy and body systems. It’s an arts integrated approach. We are showcasing songs ‘hot off the press’ that will appear on the CD release. One of the newest songs on the album is called “Feeling Language”.More

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140. “Feeling Language” Encourages Emotional Intelligence
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