Fiddle Dee-Dee Fiddlesticks!

Posted by: Alecia on: April 9, 2009

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Movement Matters and encouraged in Kindermusik

“Education is the enthusiastic study of subjects for the love of them and without any ulterior motive.” –Charles W. Eliot

In our Kindermusik music and movement class we see how young children learn best by doing. Fun activities that link developmentally appropriate movement experiences with language are most effective for teaching concepts and vocabulary to these experiential learners.

Have fun linking fun movements to a simple rhyme like Hickory, Dickory, Dock. Adding jumps or stomps in the rest can allow them to explore and experience movement. Amazingly it even develops their language development. They understand the anticipation of the pause and start to put the sequence together. This allows them to be more aware of the musical phrases and use this experience to understand how to put sentences together. It is fun watching them wait just for the pause to move or play the drum as we like to do in class.

“Movement is the key to learning! Our brains fully develop through movement activities such as crawling, rolling, turning, walking, skipping, reaching, swinging and much more! The brain has a plan for development that involves specific and intensive motor activities to make full use of our complicated nervous system.” – “Movement and Music: The Keys to Learning,” by Anne Green Gilbert, Kindermusik Notes Nov./Dec. 1998

Please comment and share on some fun movements your child likes to do at home! Even the fun places you have found to play the fun fiddlesticks…

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