FEEL THE MUSIC- 3-5yrs SUMMER PROGRAM

FEEL THE MUSIC

For preschoolers, expressing thoughts, ideas, and needs to teachers and friends is a necessary skill in school. So in class we’ll help your child learn more about the words that help describe feelings, while learning more about the emotions of others. Your Home Kit includes the same music and stories we’ll be talking about in class to help you open the door to the emotions your preschooler is learning to express.

The Feel the Music Home Kit includes one mini maraca instrument, Home CD, and Magazine-style Family Guide (includes class story The Duel).
Start:

CASTLE HILL
Monday 2nd November 1pm

Thursday 5th November 11am

ROUSE HILL
Wednesday 11th November 10am

Duration:
5 weeks 45mins

Cost: $100 includes 5 weeks tuition and home materials

SILLY ALL OVER-5 WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM

SILLY ALL OVER

The Silly All Over Home Kit includes a magazine-style Family Guide, Home CD, and a pair of green sandblocks.

The magazine-style Family Guide details what a child learned in the classroom, suggests home activities, and includes the read-along story, Silly Mouse Gets Dressed.

The CD includes all the songs from the class and a narration of Silly Mouse Gets Dressed.

Silly All Over encourages children to experiment with rhythms, pitches, and silly sounds.

Learning Focus: My sense of humor is developing. I can listen and follow directions.

Steady Beat: Play instruments to music and move to a steady beat in a variety of activities, games and songs.

Inhibitory Control: Walk, jump, wiggle, and then STOP. Taking turns while playing instruments also helps practice control.

Locomotor Movement: Move from one place to another happens during each lesson—march, tiptoe, stomp, glide, and gallop.

Rhyming: Hear, anticipate, and predict rhyming words and phrases in stories and poems.
Start:

CASTLE HILL
Monday 2nd November 9.15am OR 10am

Thursday 5th November 10am

ROUSE HILL
Wednesday 11th November 9.15am

Duration:
5 weeks 45mins

Cost: $100 includes 5 weeks tuition and home materials

Beautiful butcher?

Never thought I would call a butcher shop “beautiful” until we stumbled upon a window display of drums with real chicken drumsticks piled stratigically on top.

Through the tinted windows it was hard to see what the shop was. At first seeing the lights and classic decore I thought it was a jewellery shop-but the drumsticks didn’t make sense. Until Rob pointed the sausage links as the door handle….

Check out more photos at Not quite Nigella blog:

Who’s making all that Noise??

Amazingly on the last day of our Village topic FEATHERS we had a visit by an Owl who was watching us dance and sing through the window.

Our classes are held in the busy Rouse Hill Shopping Centre so it was unexpected.

It fitted right into our “Little Feather” activity where we were able to actually point out the real hooting owl to our babies.

It’s a bit hard to see in the photo but it is sitting on the ledge outside the window.

A fun activity for you and your baby

Here’s a simple activity you can do with your baby, set to the Kindermusik song “Dance, Little Baby”. The activity stimulates your baby’s vestibular system. What does that mean? It’s his or her sense of balance — an important part of learning to walk. …Plus, this is a fun little way to make your baby giggle!

Thanks for sharing Kindermusikrocks!

DO SI DO New Village Topic starts in September

Central to this unit is the use every week of Baby’s Book; with is entitled ‘This is my Dance’.  Why do we focus on rhythm and movement?  When your baby emerges from the womb and the familiar, steady sound of mother’s heartbeat, his brain begins scanning the apparently disorganized world for patterns – elements of consistency to help him make order out of the chaos.  Rhythmic activity provides the recognizable, predictable and patterned information your baby wants to latch on to. 

 

As Lap Baby becomes Crawler and Crawler becomes Walker, your baby applies his developing sense of timing in his every coordinated move – from clapping to crawling to waving bye-bye to cruising to walking.  Through the movement in ‘Do Si Do’, your baby is gaining an awareness of where his body begins and ends, what it is capable of doing, and how to negotiate gravity – no small feats!  Your baby has much to gain from the rhythm and dance in this unit.

 

You may not consider yourself capable or creative in movement.  Movement is not my specialty, but you will find great happiness in moving to music, and you don’t have to be a movement specialist to dance.

 

About the Class:

• Age                                               Newborn to 18 months
• Size of Class                                 8 – 10 children
• Length of Class                             45 Minutes
• # Classes per semester                  8
• Parent Involvement                       Entire class

 

At Home Materials:

• Home CD
• Literature Book – “This is My Dance”
• Baby Home Journal on line
• 2 Art Banners, scarf & egg shaker

 

START DATE:

Castle Hill-below Castle hill library Thursday 1pm 7th September, 2009

Rouse Hill-above Vinegar Hill Library RHTC- 11am Wednesdays 16th September,2009

 

PRICE:                      Normally: $185

EARLYBIRD SPECIAL: $165 Pay or place a deposit of $80 by 9th September 2009.

Method of payment:

Cash

Cheque 

Please make cheques payable to Christina Bangel, and send it to 14 Wollemi Close,

Kellyville Ridge 2155 NSW

Electronic transfer 

Bank: Westpac Name: Mrs Christina Maria Bangel BSB: 732-003 Acct: 540233

Please email receipt of transfer details to tina@kindermusikwithtinabangel.com.au

Can’t decide whether to enrol in Kindermusik?

My mum is Amazing

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Here is a little video that brought tears to our eyes and the recent Mummy workshop.

Thank you Suzanne for a inspiring talk at your mummy workshop… looking forward to many more!

Why we teach music

Thanks to -www.pmea.net

Why Teach Music? 

Music is a science 

• It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, a graph which indicates 

frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of 

time. 

Music is mathematical 

• It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not 

worked out on paper. 

Music is a foreign language 

• Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English–but a highly 

developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most com- 

plete and universal language. 

Music is history 

• Music usually reflects the environments and times of its creation, often even the country and.or racial feeling. 

Music is a physical education 

• It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraor- 

dinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound 

the ear hears and the mind interprets. 

Music is all these things, but most of all music is art 

• It allows a human being to take all these dry technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to 

create emotion. That is one thing that science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you 

will. 

That is Why We Teach Music! 

• Not because we expect you to major in music 

• Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life 

• Not so you can relax 

• Not so you can have fun 

• Not Because we expect you to major in music 

• BUT–so you will be human 

• So you will recognize beauty 

• So you will be sensitive 

• So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world 

• So you will have something to cling to 

• So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good–in short, more life. 

Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless we know how to live? 

That is Why We Teach Music!

FIDDLE DEE DEE FAST & SLOW

We have been focusing on Tempo over the few weeks.  Here is a great interactive website for you and your child to explore. It provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music.

http://www.sfskids.org/templates/musicLabF.asp?pageid=11

And, if you’d like to share this site with others, send them a postcard.

http://www.sfskids.org/templates/postcard_list.asp?pageid=26