Game on! Family Style….
Posted by: Alecia on: September 23, 2009
Playing games within a family allows children to develop social skills in an emotionally secure environment. Games develop good school skills as well. In one study, preschool children taught with games and songs tested 10 to 20 points higher on IQ tests; by age 15 those same children had higher math and reading scores.
Through games your children learn the importance of taking turns, sharing, and playing just for fun. The At Home Materials in Family Time has a Picture Domino Game. Lots of fun, even with the Kangaroo puppets too! I’ve found that even my 2 year old has learned when it’s “my turn” while playing a game. Doesn’t matter who wins, just having fun with “my turn” is what it’s all about.
Come join our new Saturday Kindermusik class at Georgia Music at 10:30 in the morning and experience Family Time Kindermusik class for all families with children less than 7 years old.
Signed Your I Love You’s Today?
Posted by: Alecia on: September 16, 2009
We learned a new way to say “I Love You” with American Sign Language (ASL). You’ll find these signs woven throughout Family Time because Kindermusik understands the value of sign language for your children as a way to speed language development and ease frustration.
Recent studies show that children who use words and signs together display higher literacy rates than children who don’t. Even hearing children who are not exposed to signs until the preschool years go on to display enhanced vocabulary, spelling, and reading skills over non-signing children.
- While the average 12 month old will have 3-5 spoken words, a signing child will have 25 signs and 16 words.
- At 18 months, the average child will have 10-50 spoken words. In contrast, a child who signs will have 79 signs and 105 words.
- In addition, signing children begin to form little sentences at 11-14 months. Compare this to non-signers, who do not begin to combine words into short sentences (e.g., “Da-da car”) until 20 months old on average.
You can sing and dance more to “Skinnamarink” at home with your children and their Kangaroo puppets. Sign “I Love You” with the puppets and encourage your children to dance during the instrumental section of this song on your home CD. Each time a child is exposed to a new object or experience, like the sign language, new neural connections are made in his brain. It is through these neural connections are strengthened and learning occurs.
Sign and Sing your way through the week with Kindermusik in Gray, GA!
Fun in Fiddle Dee Dee
Posted by: Alecia on: May 14, 2009
“It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.” -St. Teresa
See the fun moments we have in Our Time Kindermusik class in our Fiddle Dee Dee movie. It is the special times you have with your child making music with instruments and movement play.
One of the ways we create excitement is to gradually increase the volume, like the Italian term in music called crescendo. It is one of many expressive elements of music and can add intensity and urgency to the music. Regardless of whether the music is sung, played on instruments, or spoken rhythmically.
A fun song we song in class is called Bazoo, Bazoo, Butz. Beginning each phrase quietly and gradually getting louder sure does start some smiles on our little children faces!
Share a favorite song or something you have done that has created excitement on your child’s face.
Our Time Hello in Kindermusik Fiddle Dee Dee
Posted by: Alecia on: May 7, 2009
In Our Time Fiddle Dee Dee Kindermusik class, we have had a lot of fun welcoming each other in Our Time Hello song. This helps give the children a sense of security in our routine each week. We also have fun singing loud and quiet movements to get the children learning some abstract concepts too.
When we have fun in Our Time Kindermusik class, we tend to laugh a lot! Laughter increases the white blood cell activity and changes the chemical balance of the blood. What this does is boost the body’s production of chemicals needed for alertness and memory. So laugh away!
Another great thing about laughter is that it “reduces stress and low stress enhances the brain’s receptivity to learning. According to researchers, laughing and having fun also boost the body’s immune system for three days – the day of the fun and the next two.” – Start Smart!: Building Brain Power in the Early Years, by Pam Schiller
So go ahead and laugh and have fun! Share what you where laughing about today with your child.
Kindermusik Foundations of Learning New and Different Concepts
Posted by: Alecia on: April 30, 2009
Kindermusik thrives on repeative routines, but often new and different activities are intermixed within those we are familiar with. It makes us focus more on the new concepts introduced.
“The brain pays closer attention to things that don’t fit an established pattern, things that are new and different. Over time, the brain reacts to routine stimulus by lowering levels of stimulation. Anything new causes the body to release adrenaline, and adrenaline acts as a memory fixative. According to Arnold Scheibel, Director of the Brain Research Institute at USLA, ‘Unfamiliar activities are the brains best fri best friend.’” – Start Smart!: Building Brain Power in the Early Years, by Pam Schiller
In Our Time Kindermusik classes we introduce some new intruments. Discovering how to play them loud and soft can be a lot of fun, but also learning when to stop! What kind of new ways do you see your child learning and doing at home?
Greatest Pleasures In Fiddle Dee-Dee
Posted by: Alecia on: April 23, 2009
“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”
-Mary Catherine Bateson
The greatest pleasures in Kindermusik is sharing music, especially during quiet time. It always stirs up emotions when you hear and hum a sweet lullaby like, “Hush, Little Baby.” When you hold your baby while singing or humming this song, gently massage the neck and shoulders to create oxytocin, a hormone that produces feelings of calm and comfort. Massaging of the back provides stimulation to an area that is vitally important to child development. As the back is stimulated, it stimulates the growth of nerves all over the body. Carla Hannaford helped us understand this process when she gave an interview to Kindermusik International. What a natural way of developing your child by doing the simple things.
In Our Time Kindermusik Home Activity Books, on page 18 suggest another activity to make a lulluby mobile. What a fun way to have a crafty activity with your child. Please share your child’s experiences they have with their own baby dolls or animals.
Fiddle Dee-Dee Fiddlesticks!
Posted by: Alecia on: April 9, 2009
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…
Come Explore in Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Posted by: Alecia on: April 2, 2009
“It is magnificent to grow old if one keeps young.” (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
What a joy it is to watch the children reaction to the new things they learn each week. So many things are explored as we move each week in Our Time Kindermusik class.
As we vocal play using the rhyme, Hickory, Dickory, Dock, conversational skills begin to develop. Echoing in vocal plays begins as imitation but can develop through improvisation on the part of the teacher or the children. The exchange, whether imitative or improvised, allows children to experience the give and take of conversation. It’s amazing how this vital development of conversation skills can be an important element of their social development.
Practice playing with different sounds around the home and enjoy having lots of conversations with your child. Please feel free to share your favorite sounds you and your child like to imitate and change through improvisation. Expand your experiences through the beginnings in music instruction with Kindermusik.
Fun in Fiddle Dee Dee
Posted by: Alecia on: March 26, 2009
Having fun in Our Time Kindermusik class shows how we can take basic concepts like fast and slow and change them up to keep the excitement. Take the activity, like The Dog Went To Dover and practice more jumping!
Just saying it slow and changing to fast creates excitement for our children development and experiences. Using this repetition aids in solidifying the brain’s neural pathways which are formed through experiences of activities. You see it soaking in when they do this to their favorite baby dolls or stuffed animals!
In class we will continue to focus on tempo for two more weeks. At home, you can have fun reinforcing this concept through further repetition of fast and slow activities such as Roly Poly. Also, “at home” Kindermusik play will help familiarize your child with the routines of Kindermusik class, thus helping him become more and more at ease in the classroom environment. Have fun and please comment on any fun experiences you share with your child at home.
All About Kindermusik
Posted by: Alecia on: January 13, 2009
Alecia Stringer
Hi my name is Alecia Stringer and I offer Kindermusik classes in Gray, GA at Wesley Music Academy and would like to share with you what Kindermusik is all about.
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It is my vision to show the value of the Kindermusik brand by offering a music learning experience for young children that is developmentally appropriate.
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