Look What I Can Do!

Music

Les Enfants

Search "Les Flash mob des prodiges" on www.youtube.com

Watch this amazing group of kids blow the roof off a mall in Paris. Ask your child to identify the different instruments and see if he or she can demonstrate how they are played. Clap the beat with the audience from the video. See if you or your child can hum the melody from the piece (it’s one of the more famous marches from Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.)

Mindfulness

Taco Breath

Take a moment to become aware of your breathing. Concentrate on drawing the air in through your nose and letting it out through your mouth. Now, breathe in through your nose and before you exhale through your mouth, roll your tongue* into a taco and force the air through the hole. Repeat this taco breath five or six times and notice whether your breathing has slowed down at all.

*if your tongue doesn’t roll, gently squeeze your lower lip into a taco shape and exhale.