Bringing Learning Home

Spotlight on Learning: Repetition

Think about the last time you tried doing something for the first time. Maybe it was using your new smart phone, going for the perfect cloth diaper fold, or even figuring out how to feed your baby while checking Facebook at the same time. (Hey, we all need some outside connections!) After lots of repetition, you'll probably master the fine art of that new thing, or at least fumble a little less.

For your child, few things build her brain and open opportuniites for learning more than consistent repetition of healthy activities and experiences. Every new activity in which she participates makes a new neural pathway in her brain. Each time that experience is repeated, the neural pathway is strengthened. That's why in Kindermusik class we deliberately repeat activities from week to week and give you the tools to repeat them at home, too.

Everyday connection: Practice makes perfect learning. Listen to the music from class and do the activities together at home. Repeat. Listen to the music from class and do the activities together at home. Repeat. (Learning is that easy ... and fun!)

Help Your Child Build Spatial-Reasoning Skills

     Did you know that children participating in Kindermusik tripled spatial-reasoning skills, essential for future success in math, science, and geography? (see image at bottom of this document)
     Be a Sound Explorer. Give your child the chime ball, set of play keys, and a book. Let her explore the different ways those items make sounds, separately and together.

Repetition Is The Way They Learn!

Kindermusik intentionally repeats activities from week to week. Here's why it matters to your child: http://mindsonmusic.kindermusik.com/kindermusik/fol-fridays-repetition/

Conversations With Your Baby

Did you know? Positive "serve & return" interactions with your child give her the foundation for future success, such as reading. http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6ygelrcab&et=1108226539584&s=100663&e=0015priePe54uNNNt8l8EtNab-HzC2tnGKaMT2rVaxsKqK0_NWvBsw26j7JNsUwNPYF3Z0G0YcQIU1UtEDEOKac-zQr4wm-6IHV6seMER7hyQc8cK2ZrGrImMUiokQKnl3oXS-GiT2R3NoUuiux6XTgLwOyV307JBKpYt7sE8B-ocB1rhuWZjI8oyAxeDEkDc3s6RbS1mAEFtiRoPtCuTi8CrbObKd_yL0iIeSXCShYMZ4=

New Kindermusik Village Class!

MUSIC MOVES US!
Music inspires us to move, and the result for your baby is a movement/language/brain-building connection. Be inspired to move your baby, to explore sounds and textures, cause and effect in our new class, feathers.
Newborn – 18 months
Tuition $80. Materials $35 8-week sessions
Mondays: Nov 7 – Jan 9 9:30 – 10:15
Thursdays: Nov 3 – Jan 12 9:30 – 10:15

Call or e-mail to join! http://www.kindermusikfun.com/

Learning Through Dance

You waited for him to take his first step. You documented, celebrated and posted on Facebook when the big event occurred. Now he is 2, and can't be stopped! He isn't just walking, he's running, jumping (or trying to), kicking, and is generally busy finding every possible way his body will move.
Activities like the Keel Row dance are tailor made for your little mover. Dancing provides opportunities to try out the new moves and gain confidence with them, while also hearing a steady beat, helping him be aware of his body and the bodies of others around him, and is a great time to socially and emotionally engage with friends and parents.
So warm up that CD player at home and encourage your toddler to try out his jumping feet --- can't wait to see what the next class will bring!

Learning Through Rhythm

Right from the start, your baby's brain is wired to scan her world for patterns. Even in utero, babies can distinguish and respond to different phonemes (vowel and consonant sounds) and can tell the difference between one language and another!
Rhythmic activity provides recognizable, predictable and patterned info for your baby to process, as we do in activities like 1,2, Tie My Shoe and Boom-pa-pa.

Steady beat activities also stimulate the frontal lobe of the brain, which is responsible for language development., and helps in sports activities, like learning to bounce a ball. And who would guess that steady beat experiences would aid in cutting with scissors!

So stick in the Do-si-Do CD, and keep up that drumming, rhyming and dancing at home!