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Advanced piano players! Hard music by young composers.

Post Published February 10, 2017 by William Rubel

Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) was a British musician and composer. He specialized in church music. He started writing music when he was three -- his sister transcribed those first pieces.
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Sunny Morning, Piano Music by Julius Ugo, age 10

Post Published February 3, 2017 by William Rubel

This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 10. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada. This is what he says about the piece, "My video is about waking up on a freezing, sunny day and looking out t...
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Young Composer Nathan Grabow, age 12

Post Published January 15, 2017 by William Rubel

Nathan Grabow, a young American composer and pianist performs his original composition entitled Concertino in G Minor for Piano and Strings. He wrote the piece when he was twelve years old and is thir...
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Writing Activity: developing character and perspective with character sketches

Post Published November 18, 2016 by William Rubel

This writing activity is built around 11-year-old Ella Staats' story, "My Mother's Little Girl'" published in Stone Soup in September/October 2012. Read the story and then work on your project, which ...
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Gifted Soup Ingredients from A-Z: Asynchrony

Post Published November 3, 2016 by Amy Barnes

Gifted Soup Ingredients from A-Z: Asynchrony "Discover your difference – the asynchrony with which you have been blessed or cursed and make the most of it. -Howard E.
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A brief history of the Vietnam War

Post Published November 3, 2016 by William Rubel

A Brief History of the Vietnam War Note: This is background history for people reading the story My Country and the Way to America written by a child who escaped Vietnam on a boat and was finally set...
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Selfie Contest Winners, Fall 2016

Post Published October 28, 2016 by William Rubel

Self Portraits These are the winners of our first Selfie Contest. Never in history have so many people taken so many photographs of themselves as we are doing now.
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Writing Activity: novels in the form of letters, inspired by Jane Austen’s childhood writing

Post Published October 7, 2016 by William Rubel

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the the greatest novelists to have written in English. Her novels are still widely read and have been adapted into movies and television series.
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Writing Activity: working with stream of consciousness

Post Published September 30, 2016 by William Rubel

Stream of consciousness can be an effective writing style to use when you have a character who sees and thinks very differently from the other characters.
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Writing Activity: write a recipe and send it to Stone Soup

Post Published September 16, 2016 by William Rubel

We all eat, and many of us like to cook. If you are 13 or under and like to cook, we'd like you to submit reci...
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