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Enjoying music with young children

I am in the fortunate position of running music classes with children from the ages of 1 to 6.

Each week children come along with their big person (it could be their Mum, Nana, Dad, or even an Aunty or friend), and join in with singing, playing percussion instruments, moving, and listening.

It’s so wonderful to watch them develop over the year. Sometimes some of the children don’t appear to be concentrating, and the parents start to stress. I have the lovely job of being able to reassure them that even though they don’t appear to be listening, they will probably sing the songs and do the actions when they go home.

Parents have come back to me, and said “you know how you said that my son/daughter would sing when he/she got home, well, that’s exactly what happened”.

I would like to encourage all parents to give your children the opportunity to learn to sing, play and move. Your child will benefit in many ways. Through this blog, I will be showing how children can benefit from learning music. I will give some tips to parents and teachers on doing music with young children.

Until next time.

Heather

www.kidsmusic.com.au

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I believe that music is a really important part of their development too! My kids have tried so many instruments that we could set up our own orchestra! What a great job you have.

Congratulations on starting your blog too. I look forward to learning more about kids and music.

Comment by Anne Maybus — November 17, 2007 #
Congratulations Heather. My son loved his music, singing (and computer) lessons as part of his day-care, kindy and pre-school years. Sometimes it could be tough to find the money to pay for all these classes but the joy he got from it made it all so worthwhile. Now, as a teenager, his love of music covers all genres – classical, pop, rock, a bit of heavy metal (cringe), blues… anything goes!

Comment by Donna-Marie — November 18, 2007 #
Hi Anne and Donna-Marie,
Thanks for your comments. I hope that I do this blog justice with some good stories and articles about music.
Heather

Comment by kidsmusiccompany — November 18, 2007 #
Well done Heather. Music is such an important thing for children to learn. My kids love music, and while they haven’t had classes, their Aunt is a music teacher and sings with them whereever possilbe.

Comment by Melissa — November 18, 2007 #
I look forward to reading tips about kids & music Heather. I loved playing music and dancing with my kids when they were little – art from any benefits, we had lots of fun and togetrher time:)

Comment by tashword — November 18, 2007 #