Showing posts with label music for toddlers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music for toddlers. Show all posts

Friday, 20 January 2012

Happy Chinese New Year!

May the lights of happiness and glow of prosperity.......
Illuminate your new year!


~~ Sending Everyone Our Best Wishes for Success and Happiness ~~


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Monday, 21 November 2011

Kindermusik Offers Unique Learning For Young Children

Kindermusik at Lirico Music School announces the launch of its year-end semester classes of Kindermusik, the world's leading music and movement program for children from birth to seven years of age.

(Press Release) November 16, 2011 - Kindermusik fosters the total development of young children through a combination of music and movement. Parents with newborns, toddlers, and 4 through 7-year-old children can participate in Kindermusik activities -- jingling bells, pounding drums, floating scarves, "hooting" owl sounds and little feet moving in time go music -- for a valuable learning experience for both the child and the parent or caregiver.

Kindermusik at Lirico Music School offers a complete development program where both children and parents learn through music and movement. Lirico Music School, the leading Ipoh Music School established in 1997 in Malaysia is owned by Eliz Kuek who also has been a licensed Kindermusik Educator since 2002.

Eliz strongly believes that each Kindermusik class is a world of discovery and adventure. "In every class, you'll witness your child's developmental evolution in language skills, literacy, listening, problem solving, social skills, self-esteem, and musicality. And it happens within a nurturing environment-full of energy, imagination, music, dancing, and playful delight," explains Eliz. "By adding new concepts and challenges along the way, each age-appropriate programme acts as a stepping stone to the next-paving the way to a musical journey that can last seven magnificent, musical years."

Classes being offered this session are Kindermusik Village, newborns to 11/2 years; Kindermusik Our Time, 18 months to 3 years; Kindermusik Imagine That!, 3 to 5 years; and Kindermusik Young Child, 5 to 7 years old. All classes are 15 week sessions except for the Village class, which is eight weeks.

Classes meet at Lirico Music School, 21 & 21A, Jalan Sri Ampang 1, Taman Seri Ampang, 31350 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.  Contact : 605 - 313 7395 / 6012 - 353 7395 


  


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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

What Makes A Child SCHooL-ReADy?


MUSIC and ....... Social - Emotional Skills
by : Molis Dumbleton, MA, M.A and Heidi Gilman Bennett

Every elementary school teacher knows (and child development experts confirm) that "school-readiness" involves more than just knowing your ABCs. Just as essential to accademic success is a set of skills that enables children to recognize and manage their emotions, build positive relationships, and control their impulse and behavior sufficiently to get along in a group of children and take advantage of group instruction. These skills, collectively, are called social-emotional skills.
Studies point to a specific cluster of social-emotional skills ---- called self-regulation skills ---- as particularly important for a variety of school successes. Children who display strong self-regulation are better able to control their impulses, pay attention, work flexibly toward goals, and show an ability to plan and organize their actions. A self-regulated child, for example, will be able to wait his or her turn in line without frustration, will resist blurting out answers when other children have been asked a question, and might even be obeserved suggesting fair solutions to a play-ground problem.

But . . . . . . . won't children just learn these skills when they get older? Or do we actually need to devote time specifically to developing children's social-emotional skills? Well, actually . . . . . . .  no and no.

Kindermusik-style Activities

Try these Kindermusik-style activities that promote social-emotional skill development :
  
  • Create a game out of stopping. It takes a lot of self-regulation for a young child to stop what he or she is doing. Try a follow-the-leader game that goes something like this (you be the "caller" --- your child will have to listen to you for cues) : Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop,hop aaaaaand STOP. (Pause for a couple seconds.) Cow wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, aaaaaand STOP. (You get the idea. Boy is it hard to stop! But boy, is it good practice.)

  •  Pass an instrument around the dinner table, giving each person a turn to play it.


  • If you can gather a couple friends, try a circle dance. Choreograph movements that require children to cooperate, move in sync with a group and/or partners, and listen to and follow oral instrution.

  • Next time it's clean-up time at your house, make up a clean-up song. Then use your clean-up song any time you want to stop an activity and shift your child into clean-up time at your house, make up a clean-up song. Then use your clean-up song any time you want to stop an activity and shift your child into clean-up mode. Using music as an indicator of routines and transitions is remarkably effective. And who knew "self-regulation" could be fun? 

Early childhood is the time to infuse social-emotional skills into a child's learning, not when school begins. Children  who begin school already able to interact positively with others are statistically already at a great advantage.
But social-emotional skills don't need their own "class time". This kind of learning can and should be woven organically into the other experiences and content-learning children are engaging in.



So . . . . . . . wanna know something neat?



Music and music instruction have been revealed as natural means for promoting self-regulation. Studies have linked participation in music lessons with significant increases in attention and perseverance. In fact, one study measured three- and four-year-old children enrolled in Kindermusik against those not enrolled in Kindermusik. The Kindermusik children performed consistently higher on four separate age-appropriate tasks designed specifically to measure self-regulation skills.

For years, parents have indicated that one of their top reasons for attending Kindermusik classes with their children is the social aspect of the gathering. At last (and, it seems, as always?), science has caught up with parents' intuition. The benefits of gathering with other children for Kindermusik instruction enabling this set of essential school-readiness skills to develop and thrive --- is perhaps even greater than we knew.





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