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Noodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNot a Normal CatNew Episode! New Book! Singing! Storytelling! Songwriting! Exclamation Points!!! This surprise episode drop is in celebration of Dan's new book, We Share This Earth. It's a rhyming book with beautiful illustrations featuring specific places around the globe and the people who live there.✪ We begin with the Echo Song We Share This Earth that uses text from the book of the same name to bask in the warmth of our global community. The song is available as a single wherever streams get streamed.✪ Next up, we write a story together during a game called You Make...2024-04-0511 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsBreezes BlowingThere's never a bad time to sing about Autumn and learn some Spanish but there are particularly good times, and one of those is now.✪ We begin with a Clap It Back song in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. We use the power of rhythm and song to teach you the common Spanish phrase for "I want to eat a snack in a fort with you." You will never be hungry and lonely in a fort in a Spanish speaking country again. De nada.✪ Next up, we get in the Fall spirit with an Echo Song...2023-09-2813 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNo Birds To Describe YouWe are celebrating the release of Dan's new book We Share This School by getting together to sing and rhyme and clap along with a new episode of Noodle Loaf! Our Clap It Back this week unusually unusual, even by our standards here at Noodle Loaf. Practice your rhythmic awareness while learning such important non-facts such as "Turnip is short for Turtle Nipple" and "Rutabaga is short for Ruth Bader's Bagel." This rhythm game also explores 4/4 and 3/4 time somehow. ✪ A special Tiny Song appearance by Kinetic Lawns with a live version of their song "No Bi...2023-06-2114 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsThe 100th Episode Song Share CelebrationTHIS IS OUR 100TH EPISODE! If it is your first time listening I suggest starting with a different episode.  If it is your 100th time listening then hooray for us! To celebrate this milestone, we turn the mic around to our listeners and listen to them singing their favorite songs from the show as well as songs that they have written.  We got kids from all over, like The Bronx, Scotland and New Zealand, singing songs they wrote.  Anywhere you go in this world kids are making up songs and singing them together because singing together is just about the...2022-06-2231 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsWorking TogetherAnyone cane name a problem, but can you name a solution?  Anyone can make a doodle, but can you make up a song about yours?  Press play and find out! Our Echo Song this week is We Can Fix It, a song that makes the case for problem solving.  It's a fabulous life skill with a catchy hook.  Have fun singing along to this groovy song! ✪ Take out your pencils because we've got a Guided Doodle! You won't know what it is you are drawing.  You may never know.  But I do and more importantly, fun will...2022-06-0813 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsBeach BirdIt's new album week! And it is also AAPI month! So much to celebrate, such a good time.   Our Echo Song this week is I Got a Bicycle, an ode to two wheels and our planet.  This is a Noodlino favorite song that made it on to Echo Songs, Vol. 2 now available in all the music places! Get on your bike and ride! ✪ Next up, we've got a round of Trivia in honor of AAPI Month.  It's called Bird or Traditional Asian Instrument and it is a great way to learn about some musical instruments from...2022-05-2514 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsMoon DustDinosaur songs, truck stories and even an ode to napkins.  Something for everyone! (Especially people that like music and games) This Clap It Back manages to squeeze in tributes to a few of the many celebrations happening this month like International Drum Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, National Bike Month and American Cheese Month.  What a great way to gain a strong sense of rhythm! ✪ We're also celebrating the release of Echo Songs, Vol. 2, a new collection of echo songs from the podcast.  Here is a fan favorite song, I Am a Lonely T Rex, about...2022-05-1113 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsFeeling So SereneWe won't let all these April Fools hoaxes keep us from having some interactive educational music based fun! A delightful Clap It Back about rainbows and love (dedicated to the governments of Texas and Florida.) Develop rhythmic awareness while committing to a more compassionate world. ✪ A Tiny Song called Mozzarella Sticks that is a round for kids AKA a canon for kids.  Try it out and share what you got by tagging @noodleloafshow! ✪ Our Echo Song this episode is called Outside and it is about how soul nourishing the browns and greens of the fo...2022-04-0113 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsReally Old RadiosCome for the eyeball dance, stay for the tongue twister song.  It's about a very well built boat built by billions of babies.  Babies can't build boats you say?  Can so, you just need one billion of them.  This show is actually a music education multi-vitamin.  True facts.  You'll see. We begin with Dance Dance Noodleution, a movement isolation game that puts your limbs in direct competition with each other.  The Great American Extremity Dance Off.  ✪ This Echo Song is a real tongue twister.  Very Well Built Boat will not only held develop your sense of pitch bu...2022-03-1612 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPants Pants PantsIn today's episode we question our pants, celebrate the enormous gifts of James Baldwin and work together to make up a story about a creature who lives in a tree.  Clearly a certain streaming service should have put their production dollars into Noodle Loaf instead of that other podcaster guy.   We kick things off like we kick off our pants after a long day spent jogging in a rain storm, by questioning the need for pants in the first place.  This Call and Response game was inspired by some listeners who sent in a song they made up...2022-02-0914 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsOnomatopeiaMusic people! You have arrived just in time to make rhymes, sing songs and do some creative movement games all with your host in chief, Dan Saks.  Today's episode raises a glass to celebrating Autism Awareness month way ahead of schedule.  We'll also be toasting old school flows and the art of snowman building.  If none of that makes sense it's because you haven't listened to the show yet. So do that pls.  This Rhyme Time is a little different than our usual version.  In this one, your job is to channel your inner Run DMC to antic...2022-01-2613 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSticky Sneaker Baby BumpLots to sing and dance about today like salty soups, sticky sneaks and bananas.  Flying bananas that is.  So warm up your larynxes and press play on another episode of play based music education for humans. The kids wrote most of this Clap It Back rhythm game.  That means the lyrics are especially odd but the rhythms are just as dynamite as ever.  Rosin up your clapping hands and play along. ✪ The people have spoken and they have said that they want more Tiny Songs from Loafy Noodles.  So he's back with his new hit Salty S...2022-01-1215 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsThingamabobThe best thing about chores is identifying the sound they make using your ears.  It's downhill from there BUT with some groovy tunes on, any chore becomes a dance party.  Amiright?  Except duvet related chores, those are just a chore. We begin with an Echo Song about being the insatiable desire to take a thing apart to see how it works and then feelings that arise when you realize that putting it back together may not be in the cards.  This happens in my life more often than I'd care to admit.  Might as well sing a song...2021-11-2411 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsFrogger Than FrogwayThings are really starting to happen round here.  Things are getting cooking.  Rubber is meeting road.  Flubber is eating toad.  Let's goooooo music fun and games for kids and grown growns!!!  (now hiring people who know what to write in this space - no experience necessary - payment is in guitar picks) We begin with a Feel The Rhythm designed to make humans look silly while learning music fundamentals.  We put the FUN, the DUH and the MENTAL in fundamentals. Is this thing on?  Anyhow, I like this game a lot and hope you do too.  ✪ A Tiny S...2021-11-1014 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsWhippledoodersKids will dig this play based rhyme infused educational music filled podcast as much as you enjoyed this keyword laden introductory sentence.  This episode begins with a Rhyme Time game about kindness. Can you figure out what action each kindness verb could lead to?  i.e. Make, Send, Offer? I love when phonological exercises extend into making the world a nicer place. ✪ This week's Echo Song is the 4th installment of our annual homage to the art of the homemade costume, "I Made a Costume pt.4."  "A big cardboard box / wrapped around me / two tiny hats...2021-10-2711 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsFrom The TapGo on, open up the packet.  What's inside? 10 minutes of interactive music education  games for children?? Fantastic! Here are the games on today's show: First up a Clap It Back game called "What's On The Menu"  I say things that are on the menu.  You clap back the rhythm of the words. It's fun, easy and helps develop a sense of rhythm.  If the foods were actually available then it would be a very promising new restaurant concept. ✪ Before today's echo songs you'll hear a brief description of how some songs are written which will help dem...2021-10-1310 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsMagic GlovesGreat Bowls of Groovy Gemelli Noodlinos! It's a new Noodle Loaf noodlesode!  Too much?  Ok, I'll tone it down.  Press play for fun music and games for kids.  Thank you.   First up a special edition of our Trivia game called Instrument or Italian Cheese.  This music appreciation game tests you knowledge of both Italian cheeses and orchestral instruments to make sure you never attempt to grate a piccolo over your pappardelle.  ✪ This episode's echo song, called Before I Get Up, is a gentle wake up song that teaches morning mindfulness and may possibly help your child wak...2021-09-2912 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsOodles of BalloonsYou won't learn to spell in today's episode, but you may learn to mispronounce the word "barber."  You will also learn how to plan for special occasions.  In other words you will learn MOST of the most important things.  And if you enjoy singing songs then that's even better. Birthdays, graduations, growing your first eyebrow...what do these things all have in common?  They are all very special occasions. This echo song is an all purpose special occasion celebration song.  It helps children develop their sense of pitch, rhythm and hosting. ✪ Today's Rhyme Time is a colla...2021-09-1512 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsHello Donkey PotatoI am introducing a new episode titling concept that is akin to how certain race horses are named.  See, this episode contains pieces of previous episodes as well as new material.  Thus, the episode title pays homage to that lineage to form the poetic phrase: "Hello Donkey Potato."  Race horse names are often nods to their parents i.e. a horse named Waffle Toes may have been sired by Brekky Pie and Foot Fingers.  I expect this innovation to spread rapidly throughout the world of podcasting.  It is my gift to the industry...my legacy.  But enough about the title...2021-08-1811 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsDuck Truck Goose - EncoreSorry kids, the song about the history of Kraftwerk didn't make the final edit but don't fret, there is a clapping game about robots.  There is also a Western folk song and opportunities to make use of your ears and hands so make sure to have those nearby before hitting play.   We begin with a song game called Clap It Back about robots.  But is it a song about robots?  Or an homage to Phil Collins?  Can it be both? This is a great way to develop Rhythmic Awareness and 80s pop icon awareness. ✪ Kids love cl...2021-08-0411 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsKablamskiIt's getting hot in here, so plant some carrot seeds.  I am getting so hot, I'm gonna plant some carrot seeeeds.  There's a song about planting carrot seeds in this episode and those are not the lyrics.  We don't do parodies.  We do music for kids and that grown ups dig too.  We do music empowerment through play.  We jam out, you jam along. The Echo Song in today's show, A Carrot Seed was inspired by my cousins' farm Soul Fire Farm in Upstate NY.  Their farm sows veg and justice in equal measure and is definitely worth g...2021-06-3013 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSpaghetti BirdsWarm up your vocals with a round of singing slide.  Sing a party plan with our echo song.  Name some sounds.  And then take some time for yourself, because you deserve it. Singing Slide is based on a vocal warm up game that music teachers like to play with their students.  Kids mimic a slide whistle which gets them singing in their head voices and exploring their vocal range.  It gives me the opportunity to record myself playing slide whistle which always comes as a surprise to my neighbors. ✪ Party Time!  This echo song about planning...2021-06-0211 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsKangaroo Water ParkIf you like smoothies then you'll love this new episode of Noodle Loaf.  It's got mangoes (rhythm games), bananas (singing) and freshly squeezed orange juice (mad-lib style story games).  Press play and take a gulp! Our Clap It Back game gives you and your family a chance to learn rhythmic phrases.  Syllables, cadence, rhythm, tempo, beat...so many skills to glean from this game.  It also incorporates a technique used in music classrooms and pedagogies like the Suzuki method.  Things get tricky as the game goes on, so hold on to your smoothies! ✪ This Echo Song do...2021-05-2013 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsDon't Forget Goofin'Songs about robots, subways and feeling grateful for scientists!  This episode has the very special guest, Tracy Bonham & Melodeon Music House, plus lots of learning about music through play. ✪ First Up, Time To Move - Dance Robot Dance.  Pretend you are a robot that has two settings.  Setting 1: when you hear music you do your best robot dance.  Setting 2: When the music stops you shape your body like the thing that I say. i.e. grapes.  This is a fun creative movement game that promotes body awareness, smiles and dancing to a song about robots. ✪ Counting...2021-05-0713 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsDinosaurs and DumplingsMusic and learning, singing and goofing. Enter here for children's songs about dinosaurs and dumplings. But fair warning, you may be asked to rhyme something with "Cilantro." If you're comfortable with that possibility then press play on this educational podcast for kids and enjoy. We begin with a rhyming game. Freshen up phonological awareness, fine tune your flow and polish your poetry with this edition of Rhyme Time. Our categories this go round are fancy colors, types of dumplings, herbs, handicrafts and kinds of trucks. Watch out for the extra hard herbal bonus round! ✪ This we...2021-04-1412 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsFeeling for MangoesPress play and brace yourself for some music games, a song about fruits and April Fools jokes aplenty.  We'll play a drawing game called Guided Doodling where you will doodle a mystery drawing based on the narrated instructions.  Will it be an octopus?  Probably not, but maybe? A little more details on the various music activities beloooooow: Finish The Pattern - Our pattern recognition game teams up with solfege for some real live music game fun.  Fair warning, there are animal sounds and some amateur beatboxing.   ✪ Echo Song - Mango Season - Our repeat after me style sing al...2021-03-3112 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSpecial Drums Special RhythmsFun.  Fun Music.  Fun Music For Kids.  Fun Music For Kids And Their Grown Growns.  Fun Music For Kids And Their Grown Growns That Involves Saying The Names of Birds Wrong.  i.e. Curdnal. Pretty Birdies - Echo Song - A repeat after me song about different birds! But we're not just singing bird names over here, we are singing them incorrectly because that's something we like to do. I don't know if your kids will learn about birds by singing along but there's a chance they'll develop their senses of pitch and rhythm.  ✪ Learn About Ta...2021-03-1711 minPayments InnovationPayments InnovationWhat Makes the Digital Supply Chain Different? With Dan SaksIn retail, digital transformation is everywhere and obvious. You buy a product online, it gets delivered to your home. No more browsing aisles or waiting in checkout lines.But B2B lags behind — especially when it comes to subscriptions. Why is that? Today’s guest, Daniel Saks, President & Co-CEO at AppDirect, says it’s all to do with the demands of the digital supply chain. And at AppDirect, he’s helping companies meet those demands. What we talked about:- AppDirect’s place in the digita...2021-03-1623 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsGood JamHey Noodlinos! Music activities for kids abound in this here podcast installment of the mighty Noodle Loaf show.  So grab some toast and a kid (preferably your own) be it a preschooler, a kindergartener or even a big kid because we've got some goooood jams to share with you. Time To Move - Our first music game is of the creative movement variety.  Children are invited to move like various objects, animals and people, all to our laid back kid friendly groove.  Can you be like water?  ✪ Echo Song - Good Jelly - In this repeat...2021-03-0312 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSpace DancingGather up your toddlers, kindergarteners, elementary aged children and forever young grown ups for some singing, moving and good old fashioned trivia for kids. We continue our Black History celebration on this episode with music and movement, a call and response song; one of many black history songs for kids we'll enjoy this month, and of course, giggles. Echo song - we'll sing about Dr. Mae Jemison in ""First Black Woman in Space"", an echo song for kids focused on pitch matching ✪ Time to Move - a creative movement activity practicing flow and weight, age ap...2021-02-1714 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPedal On!We continue celebrating Black History Month on our kids podcast by channeling the great tradition of Civil Rights songs, with a song about James Baldwin for kids and a song about the Black sports hero Major Taylor. Hooray for fun music for kids about inspiring Black figures! Both of these songs appear on our new Black History EP called "Oh Let Us Sing!" which features five children’s songs about five inspiring historical Black figures. Playground Game - The episode begins with the classic playground sing along song for kids, Pizza Pizza Daddy-O. We do our own sp...2021-02-0315 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsLittle Purple WildflowersIt's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new EP from Noodle Loaf! In honor of MLK's birthday and Black History Month, Noodle Loaf has released an album of five Black History songs for kids. Each is an original echo song, available with and without the echo for maximum sing-along-ability. Check that out on your choice of music platform after you listen to this hot and fresh new podcast episode! Echo Song - "Oh Let Us Sing of Dr. King" is a celebration of Dr. King's dream of equality, and is one of the five...2021-01-1312 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSounds Like ThunderMonday Soup, Tuesday Soup, Wednesday Soup, Thursday Soup, Friday Soup, Saturday Soup, Sunday...Nachos! Yes, finally a days of the week song for kids that is about soup. Because who said music activities for kids can't be about soup? Not me. Time To Move - We begin the show with a movement game for children that promotes steady beat awareness and the dance concept of weight. It also promotes goofiness and giggles. ✪ Echo Song - When Will the Rain Stop? - This episode's repeat after me song is a social emotional learning song about acknowledging wh...2020-12-2312 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSustainable BeatsYou don't get to clean up if you don't make a mess.  So go make a mess and then sing along with our clean up song for kids.  That's an order! PLUS we'll use our ears to name mystery sounds and use our mouths to make rhymes.  It's a full face work out for families you don't want to miss. Name That Sound - First up, a listening activity for kids about writing. Listening about writing...is that like dancing about architecture? I dunno, but I do know that it is a great way to develop aural awa...2020-11-1812 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsGoing With The FlowA bit of a theme going on in this one.  Who improvises?  Who does not?  What does improvise mean? What does amprovise mean?  As far as I know, it does not mean anything. Nonetheless this episode is fun and educational and fun and introduces the concept of improvisation to children. This Clap It Back rhythm game is two lessons in one and a whole lot of fun. Children will gain rhythmic awareness and learn the sections of the orchestra, namely woodwinds, percussion, brass and strings. Plus we rhyme "piccolos" with "cover holes." ✪ This episode’s Echo Son...2020-11-0414 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsLike an Overjoyed SealTo play this music activity for kids filled podcast you will need a body, a head, paper and crayons or something like crayons, like pencils.  And some time.  And a desire to have fun.  That's more or less it.  You'll see. Dance Dance Noodleution - A fun movement song designed to get your kids up and dancing. If only music for kids was always this goofy and funky..ahem....goofunky. This creative movement activity teachers body isolation and general body awareness and is great to use a brain break in classroom. Try it, you'll see. ✪ Echo S...2020-10-2113 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsTotopos y PopotesToday's song combines the power of growth mindset affirmations with the joy music fundamentals! Specifically solfege.  I think you're going to like it.  You'll also enjoy our Hispanic Heritage Month game "Instrument or Food" that celebrates those aspects of Latinx traditions.  And maybe you'll even enjoy a movement game that promotes spatial relations and body awareness.  Maybe not! Only one way to find out...press play :) Trivia - Instrument or Food - A Hispanic Heritage Month quiz for kids about Latinx music and foods. I say a word, you guess if you'd prefer to eat it or play...2020-10-0713 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsFunky ShadesSure, I could use this space here to explain photosynthesis but wouldn't you rather learn about it via clapping? I would. And so would your child. Which is why this episode has a song explaining photosynthesis. And plenty of other educational music for kids too! Time To Move - Loud is Big, Soft is Small - We kick things off with a creative movement song about musical dynamics. Big and small. Loud and Soft. Silly and fun! ✪ Clap It Back - Leaves - A song about photosynthesis! A rhythm game about life science! A podcast fo...2020-09-2312 minLeveling Up with Eric SiuLeveling Up with Eric SiuHow Dan Saks Started AppDirect In College & Built It Into A Growth Machine (Over $350M Raised!)Many great tech companies have emerged from a founder trying to solve a pain point in their own lives, and AppDirect is no different. As the only end-to-end platform that helps deliver digital services on any device and accelerate time to market, the company has raised $350 million and is not slowing down anytime soon. Dan Saks is the President and Co-CEO of AppDirect, and he is here to share various insights on working in the business. In this episode, Dan sheds light on how the closure of his family’s 100-year-old furniture business opened his eyes to the need to...2020-09-0927 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsJuggling TambourinesThis episode contains gratuitous goofiness and clandestine education. If you're not careful you may find yourself giggling and learning in equal measure. Proceed with caution. Fun children's song that parents will love too lie within. You've been warned. Echo Song - Muuuuuud - We kick things off with a song about nature that encourages messy play and saying the word "mud" in a funny voice. Recommended for fans of Waldorf schooling and Waldorf salads. ✪ Story Song - Leg Bone - From the archives of legendary kids musician Old Blind Loafy Noodles comes this funny story so...2020-09-0913 minREACH A Space Podcast for KidsREACH A Space Podcast for KidsWorking Together as a Team...In Space! with Shannon Whetzel & Dan Saks of Noodle LoafOn this episode of REACH, Brian and Meredith learn the importance of teamwork when problem solving in space, what it means to curate a museum collection, we have a visit from the fastest planet, and then try to make a telescope at home.  Hosts: Brian Holden and Meredith Stepien Written by: Sandy Marshall with Nate DuFort, Meredith Stepien and Brian Holden. Co-Created, Produced by: Nate DuFort and Sandy Marshall Edited by: Nate DuFortMusic composed by: Jesse CaseLogo by: Steven Lyons Spec...2020-09-0830 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsOlive FunMusic can be used to learn things besides music.  Or so I've been told. Today we test that hypothesis to see if the kids in our midst can retain essential general trivia like the fact that Michael Bolton's birth name was Michael Bolotin.  This could be a breakthrough in kids podcast technology. Time To Move - Be a butterfly! Be a rug! Be filled with jelly! This brain break style movement activity for kids will not only get your wiggles out, it will put them back in again too. Because you’re gonna need wiggles where we’re goi...2020-08-2714 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPeck of Pumpkin PoodleA little extra noodle in our loaf this go round to keep your family singing, rhyming, jamming and goofin’. Clap it Back - We begin with a rhythm song for kids called Weird Picnic.  This clapping game develops rhythmic awareness in children and has some fun with the very strange eating scenarios families have been experiencing recently. ✪ Rhyme Time - This rhyming game will grow a phonological wunderkind right in your home.  It’s a children’s music activity that parents love too. ✪ Echo Song - Summer Is Hot - This kids song about summer...2020-07-0118 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPassin' and Tappin'We've got new games, we've got old games, but that's not all, we've also got bird calls.  So keep on your all day pajamas, cancel your bear salon appointment and smash that play button because we’ve got children’s songs and games by the bucket full just for you. Feel The Rhythm - Kids are going to feel the rhythm in their bodies during this creative movement activity. They will need some kind of small object to play the game. It will also help if the enjoy music activities for kids. If they don’t, they should...2020-05-1313 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsHot BeetsHey Noodlinos! Have you checked out our new YouTube channel yet?  We're making vids inspired by the music games you know and love.  Check it out here! These videos are great for school brain breaks, car rides and dentist waiting rooms. But first!!! Finish The Pattern - In this pattern recognition game, kids learn about the upright bass and how a walking bass line works. It’s a jazz appreciation game that you can play with your face. ✪ Echo Song - There's a Zoo - This song was inspired by a video playdate my chi...2020-04-2911 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPeriwinkleYou shared photos of forts with us.  We wrote a rhythm game about fortographs.  Balls in your court Noodlinos! Lots of fun on this show featuring contributions from special guests Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and Piera Gelardi: The kids went through a major fort phase during which we coined the term “fortograph.”  You’re welcome English language.  This Clap It Back rhythm game is all about forts, fortographs and developing a strong sense of rhythm ✪ Friend of the show (and family) Piera Gelardi wrote this All Day Pajamas song when her daughter was just a b...2020-04-1513 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsTorte in a FortTwo truths and a lie. True tooths and a fly.  Few sleuths in a sty etc. etc.  Red Herrings abound in this early April release.  Catch them, or be caught! The cool thing about you is that you can pretty much make a song up about anything anytime.  This game called KaraYOUke gives you ample opportunity to do that and develop your improvisation abilities in the process. ✪ A hip-hop Echo Song about forts.  Everyone can pretty much stop writing songs now. ✪ I take you on an Audio Walk through a snowy forest.  Great for close...2020-04-0113 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsVideo PlaydateWon't you sing and dance with us?  We've got a new song about video playdates, because there has been a major increase in those in our lives and possibly yours as well.  Might as well sing about it :) Video Playdate (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Time To Move - Robot Dance (Creative Movement) ✪ You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and stickers for a limited time!  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf (A handwritten letter and stickers sent to your house for a limited ti...2020-03-2509 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsKnobs and FadersHey, how's it going?  What's new?  All is great you say?  That's great to hear.  Nothing to report on our end.  Just some extra down time to fill with singing and dancing and drawing and having fun.  Let's do those things together, ok?  Great, bye! Who doesn’t love a good rhyme? Barn / Yarn.  Isn’t that fun?! Rhyme Time is our phonological awareness building party game. Highly recommended for fans of fun times. ✪ Knobs and faders keep you in control and so do salad bars.  Cause you can take whatever you want.  No onions? No problem. Extr...2020-03-1812 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsI Feelin' ItBoom Bam!  It's show note writing time! In today's episode we have a rhythm game about washing hands. #topical #yikes  Also, a song about the colors of the rainbow and we present our 2nd annual Trinidad Carnival recap.  Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ ROY G BIV (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Carnival Recap (Music/Culture Appreciation) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and stickers for a limited time!  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf (A handwritten letter and stickers sent to your house...2020-03-0414 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSparklebirdGet ready for some part singing!  Your family is about to become an acapella group.  But then you'll go solo so you can individually profess your admiration for the great Harriet Tubman.  With nothing left to prove on vocal terrain, you will decide to express yourself using only your body.  An entire music career in a 10 minute podcast.  Good luck. Vocal Jam (Part Singing / Harmonic Awareness) ✪ Harriet Tubman (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and stickers for...2020-02-1211 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsMany a Skipper2 for 1 BOGO Madness. Press play once and you can CLAP AND SING about stars in the night sky.  Plus kazoo name that tune?  I mean helllloooooooooo.  Target ain't got nuthin on tha loaf. Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ I Wish I May (The Star Song) - (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Name That Tune (Music Appreciation / Melody Recognition) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and stickers for a limited time!  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf (A handwritten letter and stickers sent to your house for a limited time o...2020-01-2913 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsWobbly ToothsThese words aren't going to rhyme themselves.  That's where you come in.  Hats Pear Shoe Bum Tin.  Cat Hair Yukon Gin.  Matts Dared Lou "Jump In!" etc.  There's an echo song that is kind of about Stevie Wonder, at least peripherally.  And a mad lib style game but with more leeway.  I strongly advise a listen. Rhyme Time (Improvisation / Phonological Awareness) ✪ Magic and Surprises (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW o...2020-01-1511 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsI Run On GrapesI definitely prefer seedless grapes, yet I understand on an intellectual level that seeds are needed to grow more grapes.  The whole situation is unclear to me. What I do know is that the grapes that I eat power the bike that I ride, and that is what is important here.  The Noodle Loaf team takes a stab at singing those feelings in a trap song format on today's show.  How'd we do?  Also Popcatépetl.   Time to Move - Robot Dance (Creative Movement) ✪ I Got  A Bicycle  (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Clap It Back (List...2019-12-1111 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsLess Honking More SingingFinally an echo song celebrating how much everyone in your family loves wearing a lot of layers in the winter time.  Plus some patterns to finish, some songs to make up on the spot and a funky funky groove over which you are invited to jam.  Traffic?  What traffic? I'm Layering Up (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪ Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts...2019-11-2712 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPoppin' BubsI came in the door, I said it before, I never let the mic noodlize me no more and neither should you.  Special guest Alex Rappaport is on the show with a fun song about pollinators.  Plus Instrument and Bone expert Conrad helps us tell one from the other.  It is fun and good! Instrument or Bone (Music Appreciation / General Knowledge) ✪ Pollinator Serenade (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪   WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple...2019-11-1312 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsA Little Stringed To StringiestEthiopia set the world record for most trees planted on one day and you've cued up the latest episode of Noodle Loaf, so one could say you and Ethiopia are both making good choices! Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ Narwhals Are Real (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Stump A Grown Up (Music Appreciation) ✪ Guided Doodle (Music Appreciation / Listening Skills) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodl...2019-10-3013 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPluots on PlutoWelcome to this show's show notes! Here's this star I mentioned during the outro: ✪  Pretty sweet right? Trivia (General Knowledge / Music Appreciation) ✪ I Made A Costume pt.2 (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Vocal Jam (Part Singing / Voice-Body Percussion Combination) ✪   WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com ✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir?...2019-10-1611 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsChipper WhippoorwillI just read a scientific report that said music is so great!  Here's the relevant data: Rhyme Time (Improvisation / Phonological Awareness) ✪ Jokes (lolz) ✪ Bear Salon (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Clap it Back (Listening Skills / Beat Awareness) ✪   WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com ✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The ec...2019-10-0210 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsMusic Games and Fun Are HereWelcome children and birds! Lots of fun within. Strap on your singing beards and join in the funnnnnnnn....k Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪  Doin' Alright (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪   WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com ✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song...2019-09-1810 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsWinky Dinky Little PinkyWe're back with more singing, dancing, laughing and learning! So dub the show onto a blank cassette, pop it into your tape deck, press rewind and then join in the Noodle Loaf fun! Dance Dance Noodlution (Creative Movement) ✪  Snuggling (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪ Kids Talking About Stuff ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodle...2019-09-0413 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsENCORE - Honus BurpytoadIt's an encore airing of a fan favorite episode! We'll be back soon with new episodes but in the meantime, enjoy this one and all the other ones! Yay! ____ This is not a tub.  This is a podcast powered by my good vibes.  Here's what's on the "agenda" for today's show: Clap It Back (Listening Skills/Beat Awareness) ✪ Shampoo Unicorn (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ Pertinent Links Of Note: 1. Procure a SHAMPOO UNICORN t-shirt: http://ht.ly/wxB030n0DOZ  2. Add you...2019-08-2112 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsENCORE - HowdjadooIt's an encore airing of a fan favorite episode! We'll be back soon with new episodes but in the meantime, enjoy this one and all the other ones! Yay! ___ Howji hijie heejie hojie? I dooji fineji, thanks. Especially since we get to play more fun music games together this week! Pro tip: Have something to write with/on handy for this week's #GuidedDoodle, then share your drawing with us on the social media platform of your choosing.  Tag @NoodleLoafShow and let us know what you drew.  Time To Move (Bubble Bubble Po...2019-08-0710 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsTreasurelintBig fun for little voices abound in today's episode.  There'll be learning and laughter but the learning part is top secret so don't tell! Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪  Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ I Can Cook (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition / Beatboxing 101) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf...2019-07-1014 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsENCORE: Dingo Bingo Bongo Pride-OIt's an encore airing of a fan favorite episode with a bonus segment about rainbows.  Rainbows?  Yup! Rainbows for Pride month as part of the Kids Listen Pride week! This episode also features our ode to diverse families called "A Family Can Be" AND has a guest appearance by Adam from Guster. Guster?  Yup! Guster! So spread the love and noodle your loaf along with us. A Family Can (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Trivia: Instrument or Animal w/Adam Gardner (Music Appreciation) ✪ Clap It Back - Put A Little Rainbow (Rhythm Awareness)✪ You Mak...2019-06-2613 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsOld Blind Loafy NoodlesKids telling jokes and story telling folks meet Magic Number claps and made up folk singers for another episode of music and learning and singing and run on sentences.   Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪  Jokes (Laughs are Good) ✪ There Was A Man And He Was Mad (Story Song / Listening Skills) ✪ You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear...2019-06-1213 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSwinging SwingilySpecial instrument or animal expert Dave Zamboni of The Zambonis is on the show! Turns out he knows more than just hockey trivia. Plus a song about snails and I sing the Wikipedia entry on "Kites". Trivia - Instrument or Animal (Music Appreciation / General Knowledge) ✪ Snail 2 3 4 (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ Vocal Jam (Part Singing / Voice-Body Percussion Combination) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus conte...2019-05-2917 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsKids Listen Road Trip Mixtape #2We've teamed up with a bunch of other great podcasts for kids for this special Kids Listen Sampler.  If there was a J-Card, here is what it would say: Side A 1. What If World 2. Story Spectacular 3. Noodle Loaf 4. Book Power for Kids 5. Little Stories for Tiny People Side B 6. Be Calm on Ahway Island 7. Cool Facts About Animals 8. Circle Round 9. The Good Words Podcast 10. Girl Tales All of these shows can be found on the Kids Listen app available for iPhoneses and Androidses or v...2019-05-2256 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsMore Songs About Rhyming and FoodPut on your rhyming hat, your singing pants and your drawing cummerbund because today's show has those things inside of it.  We have a splendid variety of music and creativity based activities for you and your family to enjoy together.  What will the mystery drawing be?  What food is typically served with Akara? What rhymes with Pangolin?  These questions and more may or may not be answered within! Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪ Go Together (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ KaraYOUke (Verbal and Melodic Improvisation) ✪ Guided Doodle (Listening Skills / Music Appreciation) ✪ WAYS TO SHO...2019-05-1514 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsAlligator BreathWe begin with a two part ode to friendship. And what better activities to enjoy with a friend than the naming of sounds followed by the jamming along to said sounds which have been artfully remixed into a funky funky beat?  And more! Kids Talking About Stuff ✪ A Friend Like You (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Name That Sound (Aural Awareness) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to acces...2019-05-0113 minMy Messy MuseMy Messy MuseEpisode 21- KINDI Interview with Dan Saks Creator of Noodle Loaf Children's Top-Rated PodcastInterview with Dan Saks creator and host of the top-rated interactive music podcast for kids, Noodle Loaf! Dan is a father, a musician and a music educator trained in the Orff-Shulwerk approach to music education. He records his podcast from his home in Switzerland. Noodle Loaf invites the family to join together for some creative fun. The show is geared for kids 3-9 years old but kids of all ages get into it (including grown-up kids! lol!) Listen to hear how Dan finds inspiration to create his weekly podcast. How he went from in-classroom educator in...2019-04-2923 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsTurtle TableIf y'all want to party like we do, if y'all want to party like us, then by all means, please do.  Here's what to expect at aforementioned party: Call and Response (Rhythmic Awareness) ✪ The World Is Big, The World Is Small (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song podcast feed ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodlelo...2019-04-2210 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSome Drums BapSlide your way into our island breezy echo song about finding the good vibes in everything.  Then bring that positive energy to our jam sesh.  It's all good Noodlinos, it's all good.   Singing Slide (Vocal Warm-Up) ✪ It's All Good (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation/Body Percussion) WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song podcast feed ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadle...2019-04-1510 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsBloomin' and Boomin'For the first time ever in the world of kids podcasts, a Chaka Demus and Pliers joke as part of a rhythm exercise.  Did I mention we have a Patreon?  Plus! a new song segment that's like a picture book for your ears.  Let me know if you like it at noodleloafshow@gmail.com  Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪ A Painter Who Lives in a Box (Story Song / Listening Skills) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on...2019-04-0812 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPoodle PoafDo you like falsehoods and fallacies?  How about music and games?  A touch of tomfoolery?  We've got it all folks in this April Fools themed episode we call Poodle Poaf.  It's part of the #KidsListen April Fools Sweeps event along with other fine shows like Multiverse and Good Stuff Kids.  Press play and brace for giggles and rhymes.   Pizza Penguin (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Kids Talking About Stuff - Steel Pan Trinidad Carnival Edition (Music Appreciation) ✪ Dance Dance Noodlution (Creative Movement) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Tell one friend about Noodle Loaf...2019-04-0113 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsENCORE: Ready Set Noodle Loaforiginally aired March 12th 2018 Can you Name That Sound?  Want to learn an echo song about an owl?  Or just sit back and listen to kids talk about stuff?  All that and more on this WORLD PREMIERE of Noodle Loaf, a fun thing to listen to. Kids Talking About Stuff ✪ Name That Sound (Aural Awareness) ✪ A Wise Old Owl (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Stump A Grown Up (General Knowledge) ✪ What? No Way! (General Knowledge) ✪ Rhyme Time (Phonological Awareness) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Tell on...2019-03-1809 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsENCORE: Two Pieces of Saladoriginally published April 9th 2018 Rhythm Games, Echo Songs, Trivi-trivi-triviaaaaaa and more good times await you! Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ Kids Talking About Stuff ✪ A Poem ✪ Trivia (General Knowledge) ✪ Bill Grogan's Goat (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Tell one friend about Noodle Loaf ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song podcast feed ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.th...2019-03-1111 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNo Ordinary LoafOur final Black History Month episode of the month celebrates the under celebrated bicycle racing champion of the world, Major Taylor.  You can learn all about him and how his "fame was undermined by prejudice" in this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/major-taylor-overlooked.html Plus! We clap our way through a yummy recipe for skillet cornbread inspired by the recipe from this website here:  http://www.brandisdiary.com/brandisdiary/betterthanjiffy And more! Major Taylor (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪ Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ Time To Move (Creative...2019-02-2511 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsEar Worms and Eye RollsOur celebration of Black History Month continues with a joyful Gospel song called "Glory Glory," shared with us by Eli "Paperboy" Reed.  And as if that wasn't enough we've got rhyming games and a fill-in-the-blank story about why we get upset and what to do when we're feeling that way.   Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪ Glory Glory (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ You Make The Story (Verbal Improvisation) ✪ Special thanks to Eli "Paperboy" Reed for sharing this week's song.  Find out more about his music at http://elipaperboyreed.com/ WAYS TO SHOW NOODL...2019-02-1810 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSomething is a-Wigglin'We're Noodlefornia Dreaming on such a winter's day.  How about all you mama's and papa's?  All this month we'll be sharing some fun Black History Month songs and games, but they're also just great songs and games that are fun to sing and play during all the months.  Even June, for example. Pizza Pizza Daddy-O (Creative Movement) ✪ My Aunt Came Back (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ KaraYOUke (Melodic and Verbal Improvisation) ✪ WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Tell one friend about Noodle Loaf ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEA...2019-02-1110 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsSolfege It's Been Good To Know YaSomething for everyone in today's episode, be you interested in alternative Aardvark names or Ocarina fun facts, or just some good ol' fashioned Solfege pattern finishing.  Plus a So-Mi-So "Call and Response" song about a singing head cat. Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition / Solfege) ✪ On My Head (Call and Response / Pitch Matching) ✪ Trivia - Instrument or Animal (Music Appreciation / General Knowledge) ✪  WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE: ✪ Tell one friend about Noodle Loaf ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join ou...2019-02-0411 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsDuck Truck GooseYour challenge this week?  Tell one other family about all the fun they are missing by not listening to Noodle Loaf.  Let's bubble our audience!  I mean double.  Do I?    Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ Trail To Mexico (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Name That Sound (Aural Awareness) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythmic Improvisation/Body Percussion) ✪    ✪ Tell one friend about Noodle Loaf ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song podcast feed ✪ Get so...2019-01-2811 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsWeird BeardIn which we have fun with rhymes, do an action song about winter time bundling/unbundling and pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. the best way we know how, by singing. Rhyme Time (Improvisation/Phonological Awareness) ✪ Oh Let Us Sing (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪  Co-hosts Joni & Shiloh are having birthdays soon.  Want to email a drawing to say hello and happy birthday?  No presh, but I know they'd love it if you do :) noodleloafshow@gmail.com   ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEA...2019-01-2109 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsCorrexicoHello my mustachioed mammal friends! It's Noodle Loaf time.  Singing? check. Moving? check. Laughing? check check check.  Ready, Set, Noodle Loaf!!! Time to Move (Creative Movement) ✪ Red Balloon (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Trivia (Music Appreciation) ✪  ✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks ✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts ✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song podcast feed ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com ✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here. F...2019-01-1409 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsHonus BurpytoadThis is not a tub.  This is a podcast powered by my good vibes.  And we're back with more music fun times!  Here's what's on the "agenda" for today's show:   The episode kicks off with a riveting round of Clap It Back.  This music game helps kids develop their listening skills and sense of rhythm.  It is also fun and silly, which never hurts. ✪ You know when you are in the bath and you use shampoo to make a horn?  That’s a shampoo unicorn horn and this is an Echo Song about that and about makin...2018-12-1712 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsDingo Bingo BongoWe were sitting here eating gustew when who should stop by?  Adam Gardner from the big deal rock band Guster.  Not only is he a talented musician but he also knows a LOT about what's an instrument and what's an animal.  He helps us out with the today's trivia game.  We also have a very special echo song about all the kinds of beautiful families there are in the world and more! A Family Can (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Trivia: Instrument or Animal w/Adam Gardner (Music Appreciation) ✪ You Make The Story (Improvisation) ✪ GUEST: GUSTER...2018-11-1211 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsDoodle-Dee DoMy kids have been loving the I Had A Rooster book by Laura Vaccaro Seeger recently, so we decided to put that song in this week's show.  It's a bona fide classic kids song and now you get to make animal songs along with us as we sing it.  PLUS we do what one does when a donkey sound presents itself to us...we jam it out. I Had A Rooster (Cumulative Song) ✪ Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition) ✪ Jam Along (Improvisation/Body Percussion) ✪ SURVEY:  https://goo.gl/forms/1yJRztipkHLzV8e52 (THANK YOU IF YOU'VE SUBMIT...2018-11-0511 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsIt's Not A TuberMore interactive music education games from the Team Noodle Loaf coming coming atcha! This episode has a lot of stuff about beats.  We love beats!  BTW, if you're not sure what the Chop Chop game is supposed to look like, ask the Google and you will find many vids showing the motions.   Clap It Back (Listening Skills/Beat Awareness) ✪ Chop Chop Chippity Chop (Steady Beat) ✪ Dance Dance Noodlution (Movement) ✪ SURVEY:  https://goo.gl/forms/1yJRztipkHLzV8e52 (THANK YOU IF YOU'VE SUBMITTED ONE!  IT'S SO HELPFUL!!!) Show Us Some Noodle Love: ✪ Donate: paypal.me...2018-10-2911 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsPillowcase PantsEver wonder what it sounds like when a tiny dog knocks on a door and asks for candy? Finding out has never been easier thanks to today's edition of Name That Sound.  Plus! Let your inner and outer children be inspired by Saint Saens' Danse Macabre as you paint an imaginary bubble from the inside.  Also!!! An echo song about the joy of making your own costume.   Name That Sound (Listening Skills) ✪ I Made a Costume (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪ Bubble Painting (Creative Movement) ✪ SURVEY:  https://goo.gl/forms/1yJRztipkHLzV8e52 Show Us Some N...2018-10-2211 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsAutumnatonI love a good pattern and we've got plenty of them on today's show.  We also update an old echo song that updated a different old echo song which I recently learned was an update of a really old echo song about the Canadian military.  Hello operator?  But the big news is we have a guest beatboxer laying the groove in our Jam Along segment.  Woot woot! Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition) ✪ Rick A Bamboo (Echo Song) ✪ Jam Along (Rhythm and Improvisation) ✪ SURVEY:  https://goo.gl/forms/1yJRztipkHLzV8e52 Show Us Some Noodle Lo...2018-10-0810 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsRazzle DazzleMystery abounds in this edition of Noodle Loaf as we ask the eternal question, is it an animal or is it a musical instrument?  Even the echo song reverberates with enigma.  Where are we going and will you be awake when we get there?  One things for sure, a land expanse demands the clapping of our hands. Trivia: Instrument or Animal edition (Music Appreciation) ✪ At the Top of the Hill - (Echo Song) ✪ Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪ SURVEY:  https://goo.gl/forms/1yJRztipkHLzV8e52 Show Us Some Noodle Love:✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or...2018-10-0111 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsHowdjadooHowji hijie heejie hojie? I dooji fineji, thanks. Especially since we get to play more fun music games together this week! Pro tip: Have something to write with/on handy for this week's #GuidedDoodle, then share your drawing with us on the social media platform of your choosing.  Tag @NoodleLoafShow and let us know what you drew.  We'll shout you out in a future episodeji! Time To Move (Bubble Bubble Pop - Action Song) ✪ I Say Hello (Echo Song) ✪ Guided Doodle (Listening Skills / Music Appreciation) ✪ SURVEY:  https://goo.gl/forms/1yJRztipkHLzV8e52 S...2018-09-2412 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsThe Nut Butter SolutionWe kick off with a sticky predicament. A blueberry problem so to speak.  It requires moving in slow jelly motion.  I'd love to see some footage of this game! Share your nut butter quest on social medias with @noodleloafshow pls.  And is that the Pogues doing an echo song?  Nope.  Enjoy the show! Time to Move - Blueberry Problem (Creative Movement) ✪ Name That Sound (Listening Skills) ✪ Go Away Buzzy Bee (Echo Song) ✪ Show Us Some Noodle Love:✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song...2018-09-1711 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsShiny Happy People SingingThey say you should dance like nobody's looking at the kitchen utensils.  And that writing about architecture is like singing about worms.  And that learning about dinosaurs is called paleontology, not to be confused with Patreontology which is the study of supporting Noodle Loaf.  This may or may not all make sense after hearing today's show. Time To Move - Knife Fork Spoon Spatula (Creative Movement) ✪ The Littlest Worm (Echo Song) ✪ Stump a Grown Up with Mike Meraz from Aaron's World (Science) ✪ Show Us Some Noodle Love:✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on App...2018-09-1010 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsHello Hello HelloooLearning through play! Or to quote Beyoncé "I Play, Okay, I Play."  At least that's what I think she says.  Maybe I need new headphones.  Regardless, we're back with more music education in the form of songs, games and good times.   Singing Slide (vocal warm-up) ✪ Down By The Bay (echo song) ✪ You Make The Story (improvisation) ✪ Time To Move (creative movement) ✪ Ways to keep the shows coming:✪ SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts✪ Join our Patreon to access our secret Echo Song podcast feed ✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf...2018-09-0313 minPODCAST DAS NOTÍCIASPODCAST DAS NOTÍCIASNoodle Loaf - The TrailerHello potential new listener! This trailer is for the grown ups.  It's basically just me, Dan, letting you know what the show is all about. In brief, it's about music and learning and singing and laughing.   You can read other people's thoughts on the show here: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/the-best-podcasts-for-kids and here: https://medium.com/kidslisten/noodle-loaf-feed-your-familys-ears-3252e1225df2 I look forward to making music with you!2018-08-2000 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - The TrailerHello potential new listener! This trailer is for the grown ups.  It's basically just me, Dan, letting you know what the show is all about. In brief, it's about music and learning and singing and laughing.   You can read other people's thoughts on the show here: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/the-best-podcasts-for-kids and here: https://medium.com/kidslisten/noodle-loaf-feed-your-familys-ears-3252e1225df2 I look forward to making music with you! 2018-08-2001 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsKids Listen Road Trip MixtapeWe've teamed up with some of the best kids podcasts out there to bring you our final summer bonus episode, the Kids Listen Road Trip Mixtape.  So sit back and enjoy this playlist of mini episodes from Circle Round, Story Spectacular, Little Stories for Tiny People, Book Club for Kids, What If World and of course, Noodle Loaf. All these shows can be found on the Kids Listen app or wherever you listen to your podcasts. We'll be back soon with Season Two! In the meantime, please please please tell your friends about Noodle Loaf a...2018-08-0639 minNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsNoodle Loaf - Music Education Podcast for KidsTogether Like A SongWe saw the Noodle Loaf in the sky above a traffic clogged highway and are swooping in to rescue your road trip with another summer bonus episode.   Echo Song (Families Belong Together) ✪ Jokes ✪ Clap It Back ✪ Time To Move ✪ We love love love reading your Apple Podcasts reviews. Please write us one when you can :) And don't forget to subscribe! It helps more people find the show which we also love love love. Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here. Find us on Twitt...2018-07-0810 minCppCastCppCastEmbedded DevelopmentRob and Jason are joined by Dan Saks from Saks & Associates to discuss state of C++ in the embedded development industry. Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. He has been a columnist for The C/C++ Users Journal, The C++ Report, Embedded Systems Design, embedded.com and several other publications. Dan served as the first secretary of the C++ Standards Committee and contributed to the CERT Secure Coding Standards for C and C++. News Jumping into C++ CppRestSDK 2.9.0...2016-10-2745 min