Kindermusik Foundation of Learning Class Statements
Kindermusik is dedicated to bringing you and your child a variety of high quality musical recordings for essential, developmental reasons:
Greater language proficiency Just as you read a variety of books to expand your child's vocabulary, exposure to a wide variety of music and sounds expands your child's "ear vocabulary." High quality musical recordings and real instruments help your child "fine tune" her ear to recognize and imitate the sounds that make up words and language.
Spatial awareness When a child listens to music, her mind perceives the sound in multi-dimensional ways. The sound is loud or soft, fast or slow, it moves up and down, or left to right. Eventually, she'll use that "awareness of space" to work with her body when she walks through the living room and tries not to hit the coffee table. Much later, this same awareness is necessary skill for learning how to get around things, jump, run, and move in zig-zag ways.
Temporal reasoning You hear this skill in action when a preschooler tells a story. He starts with his own experience and then moves to some imagined place with a princess or a superhero then goes back to something real again. Music does the same thing. It goes back and forth between established places (the chorus) and to new places that take you somewhere else (the verse). The ability to go back and forth from something established to something imagined comes from temporal reasoning, a skill used in music writing, storytelling, and problem solving.
Emotional intelligence With exposure to a greater variety of musical styleslike jazz, folk, or classical, this increased exposure to music increases a child's awareness, and understanding of different moods and emotions
MORE & MORE & MORE... this is just a taste of the many things you will learn in class!
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