That’s right – go ahead and guess!
VOCAL PLAY and COMMUNICATION Parenting often seems like one big guessing game. Well, there’s one circumstance in which making a guess can improve your baby’s development – when you guess …
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Recorder Compositions using Paint Chips!
Our Kindermusik Young Child class recently learned how to create a composition using paint chips from a local hardware store. Using a simple process and a few pieces of paper, …
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Toddlers: Using Music to Teach Listening
Focus – ACTIVE LISTENING In almost every class, we have an activity that focuses on the act of listening. Hearing and listening are different. Your ears and brain naturally receive …
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Music & Movement with Babies: Pathways
Focus – PATHWAYS IN MOVEMENT Toddlers are kinesthetic learners. They learn by moving, and doing! In movement activities, like our If I Were a Raindrop dance, we’re maximizing your child’s …
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Preschool Music: Learning through Contrast
Focus – LEARNING THROUGH CONTRAST Learning through opposites enhances vocabulary and word association, encourages sensory and motor development, develops discrimination and classification skills, and provides plenty of opportunity for fun …
Read MoreVocal Play with Young Babies
Kindermusik for Babies 0-12 Months / Cuddle & Bounce Focus – VOCAL PLAY Learning to imitate actions & sounds will be essential to baby’s overall development, but especially to her …
Read MoreMusic Inspires Art – Try it at home!
The Arts can be a tool to help children recognize and express emotions. Music inspires a variety of feelings in the listener and sometimes those feelings can be expressed through yet …
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Tips for Practicing the Recorder.
As we learn the recorder in our last year of Kindermusik, we will be introducing 5 notes during the course of 15 weeks. Whenever learning a new instrument or almost …
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Helping Your Child to be a Better Listener
Helping Your Child Be a Better Listener Is anyone listening? Our world is over loaded with sensory input – fluorescent light, cars buzzing by, microwaves, television, and vibrations of all …
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“Music Lessons” for younger children?
What kind of “music lessons” can I find for younger children? For most children, asking for “music lessons” is their way of expressing their love for and interest in music. …
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