Preschool Music sessions
Connect, sing, dance, play, create, learn, grow, laugh, imagine
Welcome families!
Along with teaching instrumental music for older children, Caz is also works as an Early Childhood Educator in an Early Learning setting. She has over 22 years of working with children.
Why Music?
Music is a very important part of early childhood education. These sessions are a chance for young children to connect with other children and express themselves. Music classes can help a young child connect to a sense of community and belonging. Music can help children's learning, language, communication, self identity, become more flexible, learn transitions and also develop fine and gross motor skills.
In our sessions we explore different cultures, styles, themes. Children explore musical instruments and resources. Each session will have both predictability and surprises. Each child and family is treated equally for their uniqueness. Along with the benefits for the child, the classes are also very good for parents often hearing parents say they feel lifted up by the sessions giving them helpful ideas to form a better connection with their child at home.
What are children learning?
Exposing children early to music has many overall benefits. In class the children gather knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. Also being around other children doing the same process makes the child gather understanding by doing, seeing, hearing. The regular sessions can help children's memory and recall stronger.
We don't just bang instruments together, we explore one at a time exploring it's resonance and learn to use it in different ways helping to develop the inner tempo and steady beat. Steady beat is a natural thing for children to be drawn by as it comes from their association with being in mother's womb hearing her heart beat. Studies have proven that developing a steady beat is good for brain development can help children's overall gross motor skills, coordination and also has been proven to help reading down the track. In a musical sense the classes work on developing whole child elements like steady beat, pitch, listening, auditory, fine and gross motor skill development. This is done through movement, playing instruments, singing, stories, dance, puppets, sensory and storytelling and play. Sessions are aimed to give both parents and young children a joyful musical experience through music, movement and learning.
We develop music skills through listening, singing, music signs, counting, dancing as a group, playing a variety of different instruments.
Dancing enhances both timing, rhythm and spatial awareness and feel for the music. We develop language and literacy with word play and singing.
Classes will make your family connection/bond stronger and more joyful. As well as music skills children learn basic skills like packing up, sharing, developing confidence which provides an experience to take with them gaining life skills and love of music.
SESSIONS - I offer both private sessions and also incursions in Early Learning Centres.
Private Session Times - Gathering interest for a Tuesday class 10.30 - 11.00am. Bookings essential.
