Friday, March 15, 2019

Week of March 11






PreK Music Makers

Our PreK students enjoy the camaraderie of making music together.  They enjoy playing, singing, and dancing together.  Another activity the children enjoy is working in dyads (partners).  We often use partners for clapping patterns as we sing various songs.  Dyads offer the children the opportunity to interact socially and cooperate while making music.  This is important for their developing social skills.  Below you will find our video of Clap Your Hands in which the children work in dyads with clapping patterns.  This activity not only worked on our rhythm but also worked on our social skills and motor coordination, especially as we changed from the macrobeat to the microbeat during the song. 



PreK parents, please check out the Music Together At Home section of the blog (below) for information on the Music Together Multi-age Family Class we will be hosting at Holy Child this spring!

Nursery Music Makers

We use a variety of  percussion instruments in our Music Together classes.  Shaky eggs, jingle bells, the big gathering drum and rhythm sticks are some of our favorites.  In class, the children are not "instructed" on how to play the instruments. The teachers demonstrate how to play each instrument as they play along with the children.  We allow the children to experiment with different ways to play the instruments and to the discover the different sounds they can create.  For safety reasons, our one consistent rule is that the children sit while playing the rhythm sticks.  Below you will find our video of Drum and Sing.  The children loved using the rhythm sticks to play along with this song!


Music Together At Home

We are excited to announce that Holy Child will begin hosting Music Together Multi-age Family Classes.

The Music Together Family Classes will meet after school on Wednesday afternoons from 
3:30 - 4:15 p.m beginning the week of April 3 and will run for 10 weeks.  The class is designed for children 0 -5 years old.  The semester fee is $205 for the first child, and an additional $150 for a second child.  If you have any questions about this class, please contact Mrs. Clay.

To register for this class, please click here and scroll down to select Holy Child as your class site. 

 For more information on these fun and educational music classes please visit this link.

Evites for our Spring Music Together Family Event went out this week to all the Nursery students' families. If you did not receive the emailed invitation, please let me know and I will forward it to you.  Our event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 16 from 3:30 - 4:15 p.m.
We hope you can join us!

As I am planning for this event, I would appreciate your feedback.  If you and your child have a favorite song in the Drum Collection that you would like to have included in our Family Event, please let me know!

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