Music in your Early Learning Centre
At
Music Works Magic, we understand that the voice is our first
instrument and that if you can sing in tune, you know how to listen
and recall the sounds that you hear.
Our
teachers create a program around your groups of children, working
in with themes you explore with the children. Our teachers don't
just follow a recipe or put on a CD. They work live with children
singing, dancing, moving throughout a fully interactive session.
They encourage the children to become good listeners and active
participants. Our teachers work on a range of child appropriate
vocalisation techniques, breathing and singing predominantly in a
loft or head voice to promote soft tuneful singing.
Our teachers are
qualified and experienced. They bring a range of special puppets
and props as well as books and provide follow up word sheets. Music
Works Magic offers our special resources at special prices to
Centres that have our services on an ongoing basis as well as a
range of fabulous recordings to help reinforce quality music making
throughout the week.*
*E-mail Anna
to enquire anna@musicworksmagic.com
- Classes for Babies, Toddlers & Pre-Schoolers:
- Music Works Magic! offers singing-based classes which
encourage children to sing independently & tunefully. You will
hear a notable difference and so will the parents.
- Our teachers provide a wonderful live singing model.-Classes
involve a carefully designed program of singing, movement, games,
dance, hearing a book being sung, puppetry and instrument
exploration based on the Kodaly approach to Early
Childhood Music Education.
- Children will learn a repertoire of singing material
including:
nursery rhymes, chants & children’s songs and experience voice
exploration.
- Teachers and caregivers should expect to work in closely with
our staff members and join in to all activities.
- Activities on themes can be prepared so that follow up singing
material can be provided for the children throughout the week.
- Where requested, newsletters will be provided with words to
songs.
While your children have fun singing, dancing, playing and
moving, they will develop the following skills and concepts:
- High/Low
- Soft/Loud
- Fast/Slow
- Beat Rhythmic pattern
- Creating/Improvising Movement
- Language
- Text substitution
- Vocal exploration
- Sequencing
- Memory
- Listening
- Taking turns/Sharing
- In-tune singing
- Inner hearing / audiation
- Concentration
- Consideration of others
- Aesthetic appreciation
…………all within a supportive secure, enjoyable environment.
We can help teachers track children's musical development for
feedback to parents.
Our
teaching is based on the following understanding
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1. Our
teachers sing live
Recordings
can be fun to listen to but in a music class it is vital that the
teacher can be a good model for the children. The children need to
hear their teacher sing and hear their own voices. In our courses we help
teachers guide young children through a range of activities that
include warming up, vocalising and exploring the range of the
voice.
2. Our
teachers help children explore their voices
If adults sing in an adult friendly
pitch, down low, this is not going to serve your child best. We
help teachers to sing up high and explore the whole range of
the voice not just the lowest notes we can produce. These will
serve to turn your toddlers into droners. They will confuse their
singing and talking voices.
3.
Our program includes a range of traditional children’s songs as
well as songs specifically written for children.
4.
Our program includes movement, both creative and non-prescribed and
folk dances.
5. Our program provides the
opportunity to develop a strong sense of beat from birth and to
develop rhythmic skills for older children.
6.
Our program helps teachers to foster good
listening skills.
Good listeners become good learners and with the right experiences
good musicians.
7.
Our program provides opportunities for audiation or inner
hearing.
This
is a process where we hear the sounds in our heads. this process
ensures that the children hear the sounds they will produce in
their heads before sounding them out. This helps to develop greater
accuracy in singing.
8.
Our program uses instruments in a carefully guided fashion
and only once the children have a repertoire of song to play along
to.
If making more and more noise is the sole purpose of the
instruments then one would have to ask what’s the
point?
9.
Our program helps children identify different timbres or sounds of
the various instruments.
Teachers explore how children can
use their listening and auracy skills to sing tunefully and play
the instruments with greater awareness of sound produced,
sensitivity and accuracy.
10.
Our program looks at how children learn, how the voice works,
stages of development and explores the various goals we as music
educators must strive to achieve in our teaching.
11.
Our program looks at evaluation techniques.
It’s
important to remember that each child learns differently at a
different pace. Many children need to explore a room and feel
comfortable and familiar in a space and with a group and repertoire
of songs before they will interact and participate.
12.
We explore a range of fabulous resource materials available for
purchase and those that can be made simply for effective teaching.
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Course
1
An
8 week workshop introducing teachers to a broad range of
music, presentation and resource ideas suitable for babies-8yrs.
No experience required.
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Course
2
A
12 week Kodaly pre- school teacher course
run under the auspices of KMEIA.
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Course
3
Sing
Me
A
Rainbow.
A 5 week course exploring the magic of the material
produced by Anna Mlynek-Kalman.
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"I've worked in hundreds of centers and
I've never seen children so focused and engaged in a music program,
it was amazing and I loved it."
Nicky B. - Agency
Childcare Worker- Eltham Childcare
Co-operative
If
you have a passion for singing and making music with young children
and would like to join our team of committed and creative teachers
contact us to find out what to do. Arrange to come and see our
classes in action. Meet our director, Anna
Mlynek-Kalman.
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