A Music and Fun Class is a 40 minute Music and Movement Class for Pre-School Children. It is fun, vibrant, energetic, educational and full of surprises. It includes puppets, instruments, dancing, listening and singing. It is linked to the current syllabus covering all areas of musical learning. Each activity is cleverly designed to foster learning in an enjoyable way.
There are three different age groups, Baby, Toddler and Pre School.
Parents and Educators contact us to arrange for Music and Fun to come to your centre. We offer regular or one-off classes.
Babies inherently love music and we can at this very early stage begin to hard wire the brain to develop language, listening and recognition of patterns.
The Music and Fun Baby Class includes traditional music, chants, classical music and contemporary music with a beat.
The babies are exposed to untuned percussion instruments, sensory balls, scarves and other tactile activities. Also many visual cues are used throughout the class.
A Music and Fun Toddler Class recognizes that there can now be increased focus on the movement side of the program. Increased language skills at this age also means that their ability to sing along is greatly increased.
A wide range of activities are used including action songs, chants, rhymes, and instrument playing.
All of these activities are designed to be fun but each activity builds their skills in musical terms as well as in terms of their motor, cognitive skills and language.
By this age children have better voice and motor control and therefore the activities are more complex.
In this class they are constantly working on the musical elements rhythm, beat, pitch, high and low and the concept of duration.
The focus is also on developing language skills, most importantly phonological awareness and syllable segmentation
They also love to imagine and create and they respond to the combination of drama and song.
A wide variety of activities, music and songs are used to achieve these goals, with the emphasis being on engagement which is the key to children learning.
Music Libby has been at our Centre for over 20 years. We feel so lucky that so many children and their families have been able to share her with us. Libby is such a big part at making Glenelg Community Child Care Centre the place that it is. She is the highlight of our week along with Big Red, Connie and Wally the wombat. The children and families love her so much that so many go home singing and dancing to her songs. We are so very excited that we can listen to her songs all the time now that she has released her CDs. We look forward to many more years with her.
- Glenelg Community Child Care Centre