Preschoolers – Responding to Music Through Movement
Parenting Tip: Play ‘freeze dance’ with your preschooler! Why? For young children, the rhythms of music are felt through the body. This physical experience with the rhythms and patterns …
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Ensemble Development for Preschoolers
Parenting Tip: Create a carnival parade with your preschooler! Why? Ensemble development means: to develop the ability to play with a group of people. When your child learns to …
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Music, Toddlers, and Smooth vs. Bumpy
Parenting Tip: Play with legato and staccato sounds! Why? ‘Staccato’ and ‘legato’ are musical terms that define a particular articulation of playing or singing music. Legato is smooth & connected. …
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Babies & Music: The Long & the Short of it
Parenting Tip: Play with long & short sounds! Why? Musically, experiencing long & short sounds, movements, and visuals, fosters your child's developing sense of rhythm & articulation. In Kindermusik, …
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Toddlers and Creativity with Music
Parenting Tip: Use music to spark your toddler’s imagination! Why? Making music is a VERY creative process with tempo, timbre, meter, instrumentation, and expression. We start EARLY to develop …
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Preschoolers and the Colors of Music!
Parenting Tip: Play a ‘sound identification game,’ with your preschooler Why? Listening to different timbres, while playing various musical instruments, allows children to learn to attend to relevant sounds, …
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Use Music to Help Baby Learn to Move!
Musical Parenting Tip: Move baby and label his movements Why? Spatial awareness is the knowledge of where you are in relationship to other people and objects in your environment. …
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Rhythms & Toddlers – We’ve Got the Beat!
Musical Parenting Tip: Bounce to the beat, and pat the rhythm with your toddler! Why? A study by movement expert, Phyllis Weikert, showed that being “able to keep a …
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Movement is BIG for your preschooler!
Musical Parenting Tip: Create a ‘Big Movements’ dance, with your preschooler Why? As a preschooler, the fruits of your playful labor in our babies’ music classes and toddlers’ music …
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