Category: Music
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Six Songs about Kindness
Start singing! – Here are 6 terrific, singable songs about treating others with caring and kindness. 1. In the End Only Kindness Matters 2. Kindness Changes Everything 3. Kindness is a Muscle 4. K is for Kindness 5. Try a Little Kindness (Glenn Campbell) 6. Kindness is Cool Do you have a kindness…
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Preventing Conflict Activity: Name Calling Hurts
You probably think name calling is something only children do. After all, name calling is one of the most common ways that conflict starts between children, especially on the playground out of the eye of the teacher. What child hasn’t been called a name? However, name calling doesn’t end on the playground. It pervades our…
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Making Peace Journals: A Teach Peace Now Activity for All Ages
There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.— Elise Boulding Lesson: Peace Journals Objective: To become aware of the role each one of us plays in creating a peaceful world and to record one’s thoughts about it. Peace journals can be kept by everyone. This is…
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I Got to Know – A Guthrie Song that Says It All
American songwriter, Woody Guthrie, was born in 1912 in Oklahoma. His songs documented the trials of the dust bowl years and the depression, the labor movement and the anti-war movement. His most well-known song is This Land is Your Land has been sung by millions. However, the following song I Got To Know deserve as much recognition.…
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The arts are a universal language of peace
by Joan Koster, author Growing Artists: Teaching the Arts to Young Children We may not understand the words in a song or the techniques in a painting from another time or place, but we can feel the artist’s humanity and feel what is important to him or her. In this way we can cross boundaries…