Music Research – Page 3

Are You Getting Your Weekly Dose of Cuddles?

Your actions communicate a very powerful message that helps build your little one’s emotional security and self-esteem. Emotional security is as important to your child’s development as eating and sleeping. With each cuddle, smile & giggle you are helping your child grow to be a confident, resilient learner.

A Fun Activity for Home

Here’s a great activity you can do at home to help develop your child’s phonological awareness. Just click on the image for your own sing-along with this Kindermusik class as they play their egg shakers to A Ram Sam Sam. A popular childrens’ song and game that has its origins in Morocco, A Ram Sam…

ABC Music & Me – a school readiness program for young children

ABC Music & Me helps develop pre-literacy and language skills through a child’s most-loved rituals: music and story time. The ABC Music & Me curricula have been rigorously researched and designed to ensure a rich, arts-integrated approach to school readiness. Small-group classes (with or without parents present) create a musical learning environment in the childcare or playgroup setting that is active, engaging and developmentally appropriate.

Specialist Music Classes for the Early Learning Centre

ABC Music & Me is an award-winning music & movement enrichment program for children ages 2 to 6 created by Kindermusik International and designed specifically for the early childhood learning center. Small-group classes held at the centre create a musical learning environment that is active, engaging and developmentally appropriate. Weekly lessons based around exciting monthly themes will engage your child in dancing, singing, instrument play and literature.

Music for Enjoyment – Music for Life

Exposure to live music (as opposed to the recorded music we most often listen to on our home stereos, ipods and car radios) is a multi-sensory experience. We see the instruments, hear the new sounds. We interact in a much more immediate way – experiencing a new place, new faces and sharing the experience and pleasure of music as a living, breathing event.*

Getting Ready for Preschool is Child’s Play!

Families who attend Kindermusik classes at Music2Grow will see the benefits to their children both now and in years to come. Kindermusik programmes promote the development of important school-readiness skills – including listening and attention skills, inhibitory control, self-confidence, reading-readiness, language development, self-motivation, physical coordination, social skills and cognitive reasoning. Activities are undertaken in a safe class environment with parents present and involved.

Laughter Really is the Best Medicine

There was laughter and giggles aplenty this week at Music2Grow as Village Babies and their parents danced and high-fived their way through “Kerry’s Ten-Penny Wash” and Our Time toddlers bounced and bumped along to “Bazoo, Bazoo, Butz”. We all enjoy laughing, but did you know that laughter can enhance learning and actually boosts your immune system?

When Can We Start Music?

“Whether your child takes a music appreciation class or starts actual lessons, she’ll benefit mightily from being exposed to music. Kids can start formal music training as early as age 3, when brain circuits for learning music mature. In fact, studies at the University of California suggest that taking music lessons at age 3 can increase your child’s brainpower.”

“ABC Music and Me” at Kin Kin Playgroup

Latest News from Music2Grow I am very excited to announce that Kin Kin Playgroup, in collaboration with Kin Kin State School P&C, have been successful in receiving a grant from the Sunshine Coast Regional Council to bring ABC Music & Me Classes to Kin Kin Playgroup. Music2Grow will be delivering the 4-session programme at Kin…