Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. September 5, 2012—What Makes a Great Teacher?   Every year children are placed with a particular teacher and then the conversations begin among the parents. They want to know if their child has been placed with the best teacher or not. They are concerned because they want their child to

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music    Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. August 29, 2012—The First Day of School!     Every town does things a bit different, but for the town where I live, today is the first day of the new school year.  I always ask my piano students as the new school year approaches if they are excited

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. August 22, 2012—The Cummington Fair!   Everyone knows the new school year is right around the corner. Summer is winding down.  For me, the ultimate ending to a fabulous summer and the indicator that school is about to begin, is the local country fair.  As a child, I absolutely loved

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music   Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. August 15, 2012—Night Time   I find myself sitting here at my computer at the end of a very long day.  I have the windows open and I can hear the crickets and tree frogs singing their chorus out in the darkness of the night.  It is a peaceful

Fern Michonski / Fern’s Music   Pre-School Music Education Expert: The Children’s Advocate for Love and Kindness, Inspiring Creativity and Joy. August 8, 2012—NASA’s Curiosity   While the rest of the world is watching the Olympics, NASA has been having their own Olympics, celebrating a Gold Medal touch-down of the Curiosity onto the surface of the planet Mars!  Sunday night Curiosity touched down on the service of Mars, sending a