And then in the real world.......
--- In primusic@yahoogroups.com, "Susan Talbot" <talbot.susan@...> wrote:
>
> I don't use food treats as a reward doing a good job singing. I just don't
> go there. My goal for myself (which I don't always reach) is that the
> experiences I give the children through my teaching will be of such a
> caliber that food rewards are a step down and unnecessary. The music is,
> itself, the reward. Singing activates the brain in a way few other
> activities do. It connects us with other people satisfying the need to
> belong. It resonates with our spirit in powerful ways and invites the Holy
> Ghost to dwell in us. As I teach I want to invite the children to value and
> cherish these aspects of the music experience. And honestly, I don't "work
> hard" all year to get ready for the program. I work hard all year to make
> sure the children are filled up with rich, deep, soul -satisfying
> experiences in music. They come to the music because it does something
> spiritually for them.
>
>
>
> As the program gets close I talk about sharing our testimony through our
> singing; about helping the people in our ward feel the spirit. A music
> teacher friend of mine does not call it a performance when she does a
> program with her students. She calls it an inform-ance, the children are
> informing their audience about what they have learned. I think of the CSMP
> like that. But the children are doing more than informing the audience about
> what they have learned, they are sharing the reality of their testimony of
> the gospel. After the presentation I talk with them about what I felt while
> they were singing and about what they felt. Since we have been talking all
> year about feeling the Holy Ghost the children are able to identify feeling
> the spirit as they bore testimony through song. The Primary Presidency has
> sometimes had members of the ward come in and talk about what they
> experienced during the presentation which helps the children know they did
> touch members of the congregation. I want the children to recognize that
> they feel "filled up" spiritually when they testify of truth and that this
> is an experience to be sought after.
>
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