Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Why haven't you signed up?

In a world full of noise and with little time for reflection or introspection, helping children experience the grace that music can impart is a noble and extremely challenging task. It seems in today's society things must be measured to ensure their value. If early childhood music experience is to be deemed 'worthy' we must be able to say "Music does all of this for the young child and here's the scientific evidence to back it up.' In recent years, musicians and researchers have come together to try and quantify just what it is that music does for the developing child. Volumes of research are now available about how musical experience in early childhood benefits overall child development, enhances reading and mathematical skills, supports language development, increases spatial awareness, enhances motor skills, and nurtures high level reasoning skills. However it is still the grace and inner awareness of beauty that places music above so many other disciplines.



When properly approached, music plays a significant role in the development of sensitive human beings who are able to to reason intelligently and with compassion. That is to say, despite all of the concrete evidence that music increases our capacity to think and perform at higher levels, it is the 'soul' of music that in the end, makes a difference in human behavior.


Even 2 days into school our lives are busy and scheduled and I appreciate and protect the time I have to listen to music with my kids.Singing on the way to school, singing during homework, humming them to sleep. Music has a way to calm and touch their souls in a way ordinary instruction can not. Kindermusik gives us the chance to push the noise of every day life away and enjoy something together. You will find the benefits of Kindermusik to be much more far reaching than initially expected. Here are just a few:


Singing and Vocal Development

Movement (fine and gross motor skills through patterned movement, body awareness and ensemble preparation)

Listening

Exploring and Playing musical instruments

Ensemble Development

Reading and Writing Music

Musical Concepts and Focus

Creativity

Self Confidence and Self Image


Now is the time to register. Classes start in just a few days!

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