Stories That Stick

Singing Stories: Integrating Music into Storytelling with Jocelyn Manzanarez

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Laura chats with Jocelyn Manzanarez, founder of Circle Time Success and incredible singer. Through her Seattle based early childhood music education program and online resources, Jocelyn is bringing the fun back to teaching and learning with music and movement. Laura found Jocelyn a few years ago and has since been incorporating her music into her stories. Together they discuss the impactful blend of storytelling and music.

Highlights:

  1. Benefits: Laura and Jocelyn discuss how incorporating music and stories in educational settings can engage children, foster creativity, and build foundational skills
  2. Practical Tips: They share practical tips for educators and caregivers on embracing their creative side, using music and stories to capture children's attention, and utilizing resources like books and instruments to make learning dynamic and inclusive.
  3. Personal Reflections: Laura and Jocelyn share about how they found storytelling and its role in their lives as they grew. This conversation emphasizes storytelling’s power in creating lasting memories and inspiring imaginative thinking.

    4. Tune in to hear a rundown of the importance of storytelling and music in education and ways to blend them together. Grab some insights and encouragement to incorporate these elements into your teaching or caregiving practices.

    Connect with Laura: @little.stories.that.stick & website

    Connect with Jocelyn Manzanarez: @Circle_Time_Success_Kids & circletimesuccess.com; musicallyminded.net

    Books referenced: 

    • Three Singing Pigs: Traditional stories
    • Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades Prek-6 by Judy Freeman
    • We Are The Dinosaurs! by Laurie Berkner
    • Dinosaurumpus! by Tony Mitten
    • One Duck Stuck: A mucky ducky counting book by Phyllis Root 
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