In Harmony Therapeutic Services is excited to offer accessible, engaging, and arts integrated residencies, offered both in person and virtually through secure HIPPA-compliant platforms. Designed to align with Ohio’s literacy, mathematic, and social emotional content standards for grades bands K-2, 3-5, and 6-8, programming addresses the learning gaps in literacy, mathematics, and social-emotional learning (SEL) that many students are facing and will continue to face as a result of this virtual learning period.
Alphabet Action is a fun and interactive 26-week music enrichment residency for emerging readers, which pairs the letters of the alphabet with stories, music, movement, and phoneme sound manipulation, all while laying the foundation for beginning literacy. Alphabet Action is designed to help students acquire, understand, and reinforce the alphabet letters and their sounds, and how to relay that to print through a collection of phonics and action songs. The purpose of the collection is to use music as a powerful yet enjoyable tool to help all students gain knowledge about alphabet letters including their names, sounds, and how to print them.
Music Mindfulness is a social-emotional learning program for individuals of all abilities in preschool. Led by a board certified music therapist, the program explores basic emotions such as happy, sad, mad, calm, scared, confident, and brave, and how they look, feel, and sound through singing, movement to music, and instrument playing. Students will learn how to recognize and navigate emotions of themselves and others. Original songs and recorded music will be used throughout the program. The program connects with Ohio’s Early Learning and Development Standards for pre-kindergarten students. This program is highly adaptable and is best suited for residencies six weeks in length.
Rock’n Read, a 12-week arts-integrated residency program, is a collection of music and literacy lessons based on 12 storybooks. Led by a board certified music therapist, this program features original songs and musical activities that integrate music and literacy skills to improve and support comprehension skills, sequencing skills, new vocabulary, and so much more. Students will love the interactive lessons which give them an opportunity to sing, move, and play instruments while they are learning.
Storybooks included in this residency:
Led by a board certified music therapist, Sticks! Building Math and Music Connections with Rhythm and Beat is a fun and interactive six-week residency program that strengthens the connection between math and the musical elements of beat and rhythm. Using craft sticks, rhythm sticks, and a good beat, students will engage in weekly activities targeting the following common core standards:
Students will experience, explore, and expand their knowledge of patterning, sequencing, and reading rhythmic notation through prescriptive interventions including echo singing/playing, listening, playing, and composing a variety of 4-beat rhythms to create their own rhythmic ensemble parts by week six.
Led by a board certified music therapist, Music Speaks: Poetry with a Beat is an eight-week arts-integrated residency program designed for grades K-8. Music’s predictable structure and strong connection to storytelling and poetry through lyrics, mood, and imagery make it the perfect vehicle for students to explore the use of literary devices to support self-expression.
Analyzing the text of lyrics from a variety of musical genres and poetry selections, students will learn various literary devices and techniques such as alliteration, mood, meaning, and rhythm. In addition, students will share and discuss their ideas, practice explicating poetry, and culminate this residency by applying the literary devices and techniques learned to write their own music and poetry set to a beat. The following content standards are also supported throughout this residency:
Led by a board certified music therapist, My Social Emotional Self is an innovative six-week arts-integrated residency program designed to explore character themes that support positive social and emotional awareness and growth within ourselves and our greater community. Using active listening, lyric analysis, improvisation, and choral singing, students will explore the themes of perseverance, self-control, integrity, courage, respect, and citizenship in a space that honors the individual and social harmony.
Social Songwriting is a social-emotional learning (SEL) program for individuals of all abilities in grades 4-12. Led by a board certified music therapist, this program explores social-emotional concepts like responsibility and social awareness through lyric analysis and discussion, and relates these topics to current events and/or academic materials such as books or films. The group is then guided through the process of pairing discussion points to digital musical sounds that are mixed and arranged into a song representing the group’s experience with the SEL concept. This program is highly adaptable and is best suited for residencies 8-12 weeks in length.
The music enrichment programs listed above were developed with support by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.
