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Singing English for Families with Children with Developmental Delays will start March 29.
Song Game Development Project
Running January 2008-June 2008
The Song Game Development Project will use song games in several languages to engage children and parents in meaningful developmental play intended to support family literacy and kindergarten readiness. The song games will be based on the Sound to Symbol methodology and will carry the cadence of the languages chosen, involve developmentally important social interactions and incorporate sensory motor game movements that support healthy child development.
This project will provide a program of song games that will educate parents in interactive play with their children using Singing English as the template and also using song games from their own primary language group. This approach will provide parents with a structure for play with their children that they can see will support their child's development and is supportive both of the mother tongue as well as of learning English. The program will be specifically designed to support kindergarten readiness. Follow-up home visits will provide on-going family support to integrate the song game play into daily activity.
Public Lecture sponsored by Living Language Oct. 10, 2007
Transforming Our Money/Transforming Our Community
Location: Canadian Memorial United Church
Corner of West 15th Ave & Burrard St
Vancouver
Date: Wednesday October 10, 2007
Time: 7:30-9:30pm - One Hour Lecture and One Hour Q&A
Price: $25 Concession $10 discount tickets only available at the door.
Tickets available on line at www.solari.com or at the door.
Contact livinglanguage@shaw.ca for more information
PRESS RELEASE: Sept. 9, 2007
Two sides of the one coin --- Our Money and Our Community
Catherine Austin Fitts believes that bringing intimacy to how money works transforms our world. She provides a unique perspective on our money and our communities. She views our current financial system as a Tapeworm Economy
“In a Tapeworm Economy, a small group of insiders consolidate political and economic power at the expense of people, living things and our environment in a manner that destroys real wealth. A Tapeworm Economy is one in which it is considered acceptable to make money from doing things that cause the Popsicle Index to go down. Those who achieve money and power by driving the Popsicle Index down are considered socially acceptable, even admired. In investment terms, it is an economy with a negative return on investment. It is parasitic in nature.”
Catherine Austin Fitts has experienced this economy directly. Her background includes: Wall Street: Managing Director and member of the Board, Dillon Read & Co. Inc.; Government: Assistant Secretary of Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner; Entrepreneur: President and founder of Hamilton Securities investment bank. Catherine has designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led portfolio strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities.
Her work called her to question the integrity and liveliness of our economic practices in terms of their impact on the lives of real people who live in real communities. She claims that the first step in moving to financial intimacy is to reduce our complicity and to navigate away from The Tapeworm. The second step is to identify opportunities to reduce risks and shift power and resources in decentralizing ways to ourselves, our family and our network and to a wider world that represent excellence and sound investments of our time and money.
To take these steps, it helps to see The Tapeworm clearly and how Tapeworm political and financial interests --- both overt and covert -- are woven throughout our lives, our networks and assets.
Living Language Institute Foundation of Vancouver is pleased to present a public lecture by Catherine Austin Fitts. She will be speaking on Transforming Our Money/Transfoming Our Community on Oct. 10, 2007.
Successful Summer Institute!
Posted August 26, 2007
Participants at the LLIF Summer Institute on Oral Based Literacy, held in Vancouver, August, 2007
Dr. Fleurette Sweeney presenting
Yuriko Ishikawa working with Dr. Sweeney during the Singing Japanese sessions.
Two participants, one from Japan, one from Canada
Dr. Kadi Purru engaged the group in performance theatre
August 26, 2007
PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE OF VENUE FOR:
Living Language Institute Foundation Summer Institute:
'Oral Based Literacy',
August 20-24, 2007
The Institute will now be held at the combined locations:
Creative Minds Child Care Centre,
5351 Camosun Street
Vancouver,
V6N 2C4 and
Southlands Elementary School
5351 Camosun Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V6N 2C4
Accommodation for participants from out-of-town
Special group rates have been arranged with:
The Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel
1041 S.W. Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6L6
Tel: 604-263-1555
Single or Double occupancy, Non-smoking
$98.00 plus tax
Each participant should book directly with the hotel under the heading
Living Language Institute Foundation
Announcing The Living Language Research Symposium
August 20-24, 2007
Adjudicated by:
Teresita-Salve Tubianosa, PhD
Gunma Kokusa Academy
69-1 Nishi Hon-cho, Ota City
Gunma, Japan 373-0033
At the invitation of the Living Language Institute Foundation a group of scholars will gather for a Research Forum during which they will share scholarly conversation, relevant research, and insights gathered from the practical experience of persons currently working in the field of education.
The focus of the discussions will be to explore the potential of the Sound to Symbol Methodology as an effective tool for counterbalancing the dominance of English in the education of persons living in multi-lingual urban neighbourhoods such as now exist in the city of Vancouver, B.C. The proposed schema for bringing this about is encapsulated in the notion of co-lingual education as developed by the Living Language Institute Foundation.
Summer Institute 2007: Aug. 20-24, 2007
Living Language Institute will offer a Summer Institute: 'Oral Based Literacy', August 20-24, 2007 in Vancouver, B.C. There will be daily sessions in song-game repertory, observing for learning, and the Sound to Symbol methodology and its interdisciplinary applications. Daily sessions will also focus on the underlying philosophy of "living language” which we call a 'pedagogy of the heart'. In addition there will be sessions in story telling and community drama.
The Institute will also feature a research symposium in which we explore applications of Sound to Symbol Methodology as it applies to different languages and to differently-abled children.
A special feature of the Institute will be our Guest Instructor: Yuriko Ishikawa, Associate Professor of English Language, Sano Junior College from Japan, where she has used song games for over 25 years to assist Japanese children to learn English. She will also demonstrate Singing Japanese as part of the continuing research into the use of the Sound to Symbol methodology in multi-language learning.
Other Instructors include:
Dr. Fleurette Sweeney-President of the Living Language Institute Foundation and one of the main developers of the Sound to Symbol Methodology. Fleurette has been teaching for over 50 years and is a truly inspirational teacher.
Annette Coffin - Music educator, who apprenticed with Dr. Sweeney and who is currently Elementary Music Coordinator for the Coquitlam School District
Dr. Kadi Purru- Drama educator, who brings a wealth of experience in the development of community theatre.
Kate McCabe - Executive Director, Creative Minds Childcare who has used SSM within early learning programs and elementary schools.
Carolyn Sullivan- Story teller and Montessori instructor who uses story telling within early learning programs
Dr. Kathleen Forsythe - winner of the 2006 Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Kathleen is an expert in the Observing for Learning methodology. She will also be leading the work in the use of the song games with children on the autistic spectrum.
Who should attend:
* Elementary school teachers especially those interested in oral based literacy
* Music teachers and music therapists
* Teachers in multi-lingual classrooms
* Early Learning educators
* Drama teachers
* Movement education specialists
* Researchers
* Those working with children on the autistic spectrum who are interested in how song games can be used with these children
* Those working with non-English speaking families to prepare children to enter kindergarten
Cost: $400.00 for 30 hour course. Each day will be 6 hours.
Daily lunch: $60.00 extra (optional)
Time: 8:45 AM – 3 PM Monday, Aug. 20- Friday, Aug. 24, 2007
Venue: Creative Minds Child Care Centre, 5351 Camosun St., Vancouver, V6N 2C4
Accommodation is the responsibility of participants.Accommodation for participants from out-of-town
Special group rates have been arranged with:
The Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel
1041 S.W. Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6L6
Tel: 604-263-1555
Single or Double occupancy, Non-smoking
$98.00 plus tax
Each participant should book directly with the hotel under the heading
Living Language Institute Foundation
For more information and an application form, contact: LivingLanguage@shaw.ca
LLIF Summer Institute Preliminary Schedule
| Daily sessions in song-game repertory. Song games are at the heart of the pedagogical practice of Living Language Institute |
8:45-9:30 |
Coffin, McCabe, Sweeney |
Observation of Children with Guided reflection in Observation for Learning
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9:35-10:45 |
Observing for Learning and discussion
Instructor: Kathleen Forsythe
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Daily sessions exploring the underlying philosophy of Living Language, described as a ‘pedagogy of the heart. This will form the lived experience of the Summer Institute as we generate among the participants a self-renewing learning community of care.
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11:00-11:50 |
Fleurette Sweeney Kathleen Forsythe |
Daily sessions in the Sound to Symbol Methodology and its interdisciplinary applications: preschool and early learning, elementary classrooms, multilingual learners, children with developmental delays
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11:50-12:40 |
In groups according to preferred focus.
Coffin, Forsythe, Ishikawa, McCabe, Sweeney
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| Sessions in Community Drama alternating with Singing Japanese. A noted Japanese educator, Yuriko Ishikawa, familiar with SSM will demonstrate the use of the philosophy and song study techniques using traditional Japanese folk songs. |
1:10-2:10 |
Singing Japanese: Yuriko Ishikawa
Drama/ Story telling: Kadi Purru/ Carolyn Sullivan
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| Community song-game experience and vocal health |
2:10-2:40 |
Coffin, Sweeney et al |
| Reflection booklets |
2:40-3:00 |
Submitted daily to Sound to Symbol Instructors |
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