What will we do in class and why? Singing fosters the development of your child’s most important instrument through vocal exploration, songs, and chants
Moving develops body awareness, coordination, and spatial relationships through movement, creative movement, and simple dances.
Playing introduces a variety of musical timbres with percussion instruments, rhythm sticks, jingle bells, drums, resonator boars, and simple instruments your child creates at home. Older students learn to play glockenspiels, dulcimers and recorders.
Creating stimulates your child’s imagination and encourages new exploration with sound and movement.
Patterning boosts your child’s ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language. Listening cultivates your child’s heightened attentiveness to sound discrimination.
Exploring timbre, dynamics, tempo and pitch lays the foundation for conceptualization of the elements of music. |