Happy Leap Day!

Why do we have Leap Day?
Without Leap Day, it would be spring now. The Romans really mucked up the whole concept of Leap Day by adopting a 355-day year with an occasional 22-day Leap month. The Romans were party animals with a calendar; you couldn’t trust them at all.
Hence, we have Leap Day because we [...]

Active Listening

Fellow Kindermusik educators, Ms. Christa and Ms. Danielle, together came up with this wonderful explanation of why Active Listening is so important to your child:
Have you ever wondered why we take time in class to quietly listen and then reproduce the sound we hear? We listen to animal sounds, environmental sounds, parts of songs all [...]

Victoria Bitter Orchestra

Some of Melbourne’s top musicians in an advertisement for Victoria Bitter. Shows how inventive humans can be with simple stuff!

Exploration with Musical Instruments

Through creative exploration and music-making with age-appropriate musical instruments, children:
– Discover what tones can be produced.
– Discover what musical textures or timbres can be developed.
– Experiment with different ways of playing instruments.

Shiny Dinah

We have now finished our final week with Shiny Dinah in the Our Time classes. Don’t worry tough! We have MUCH more fun yet to come. Instrument play, dancing, singing and laughing along with more favorite stories are on their way!

We may have moved on from Dinah but she will not soon [...]

Singing While Moving

Movement activities like follow-the-leader allow preschoolers to be physically active while they are learning:
– to focus, attend, and concentrate.
– to read their environment more carefully.
– to increase their ability to note and reproduce specific movements accurately.
These activities also subtly reinforce the wonderful lesson that perseverance can lead to improvement and increased success.

It’s Not Too Late!

No, it is not too late to register for classes! We are a couple of weeks into an exciting semester but we can prorate your tuition. There are still a few openings in both day and evening classes so give me a call at 662-513-4994 or send an email to jlippincott@bellsouth.net

Importance of Movements Which Cross the Mid-line

Movements that cross the body’s mid-line (an imaginary line as if drawn straight from your nose to the ground) activate growth and strengthen the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is the nerve pathway between the two brain hemispheres of the cerebrum. Movement also helps to build the capacities that allow full sensory access [...]

Save the Earth

 
Save the earth. It’s the only planet with chocolate.

Parent interaction enhances musical learning

This article was sent to me by a fellow Kindermusik teacher. It recently appeared in the Australian Herald Sun
Hands-on parents strike better chord with children
Fay Burstin
February 05, 2008
PLONKING kids in front of music videos such as the Wiggles or Hi-5 doesn’t enhance their musical talent and may even hinder it.
New Australian research shows parents [...]