Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Why it's important to re-enroll!
Why is it so important to keep your child consistently enrolled in Kindermusik?
Because it’s been proven that repeated, not sporadic, enrollment makes all the difference!
In early 2005, Beth Frook of Little Hands Kindermusik (http://www.littlehands.com/) in Clifton, Virginia, shared a granddaddy of a Foundations of Learning (FOLs) in her Kindermusik class. A local university had recently conducted a study on 3-and-5-year old children in her program titled “The Effects of Kindermusik on Behavioral Self-Regulation in Early Childhood.”
It proved what Beth—and many other Kindermusik Educators—already knew:
The longer you stay in Kindermusik, the better.
Specifically, the study showed:
“Children currently enrolled in Kindermusik showed higher levels of self-control than those never enrolled and those previously enrolled. This suggests that in order for children to reap the benefit of increased self-control as a result of Kindermusik participation, it is important to have repeated and recent Kindermusik experiences and remain enrolled in the program.”
“Four-year-old children who had been exposed to Kindermusik for longer periods of time are better off in terms of self-control—namely a child’s ability to plan, guide, and control their own behavior—than similar children with less Kindermusik history.”
“These experiences, stop-go, high-low, fast-slow, short-long, and loud-soft, whereby children’s motor behavior is guided by the music, appear to be good exercise for young children’s emerging self-regulatory skills.”
Beth shares why she feels this research is so important:
I think it adds impetus to a parent’s decision-making because it’s more than just saying, “Okay, we’ve done Kindermusik, let’s try something else.” It encourages a parent to go beyond the smorgasbord approach to children’s activities.
A lot of times parents will say, “We’ll do art, then soccer, then swimming.” A study like this encourages families to look at the value of re-enrolling. Repetition is vital for a child’s learning, and currently in our culture, it’s not viewed that way.
Study results were made available to Kindermusik in May, 2005. The study was conducted by Adam Winsler Ph.D and graduate student Lesley Ducenne in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University.
The 15-month study included 91 children between the ages of 3 and 5 who were split into three groups: 23 students currently enrolled in Kindermusik, 19 students previously enrolled in Kindermusik, and 49 students of similar family backgrounds from local preschools who had never had Kindermusik.
The children were observed doing a variety of tasks that required self-control such as slowing down their motor behavior, delaying their gratification, refraining from touching attractive but forbidden toys, quietly whispering, and compliance with instructions to initiate or stop certain behaviors. Parents also completed surveys.
The study, supervised by Adam Winsler, Ph.D, Applied Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University, will likely be presented at national conferences and published later this year.
Many thanks go to Lori Burkhardt of St. Louis for sharing this with us.
Because it’s been proven that repeated, not sporadic, enrollment makes all the difference!
In early 2005, Beth Frook of Little Hands Kindermusik (http://www.littlehands.com/) in Clifton, Virginia, shared a granddaddy of a Foundations of Learning (FOLs) in her Kindermusik class. A local university had recently conducted a study on 3-and-5-year old children in her program titled “The Effects of Kindermusik on Behavioral Self-Regulation in Early Childhood.”
It proved what Beth—and many other Kindermusik Educators—already knew:
The longer you stay in Kindermusik, the better.
Specifically, the study showed:
“Children currently enrolled in Kindermusik showed higher levels of self-control than those never enrolled and those previously enrolled. This suggests that in order for children to reap the benefit of increased self-control as a result of Kindermusik participation, it is important to have repeated and recent Kindermusik experiences and remain enrolled in the program.”
“Four-year-old children who had been exposed to Kindermusik for longer periods of time are better off in terms of self-control—namely a child’s ability to plan, guide, and control their own behavior—than similar children with less Kindermusik history.”
“These experiences, stop-go, high-low, fast-slow, short-long, and loud-soft, whereby children’s motor behavior is guided by the music, appear to be good exercise for young children’s emerging self-regulatory skills.”
Beth shares why she feels this research is so important:
I think it adds impetus to a parent’s decision-making because it’s more than just saying, “Okay, we’ve done Kindermusik, let’s try something else.” It encourages a parent to go beyond the smorgasbord approach to children’s activities.
A lot of times parents will say, “We’ll do art, then soccer, then swimming.” A study like this encourages families to look at the value of re-enrolling. Repetition is vital for a child’s learning, and currently in our culture, it’s not viewed that way.
Study results were made available to Kindermusik in May, 2005. The study was conducted by Adam Winsler Ph.D and graduate student Lesley Ducenne in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University.
The 15-month study included 91 children between the ages of 3 and 5 who were split into three groups: 23 students currently enrolled in Kindermusik, 19 students previously enrolled in Kindermusik, and 49 students of similar family backgrounds from local preschools who had never had Kindermusik.
The children were observed doing a variety of tasks that required self-control such as slowing down their motor behavior, delaying their gratification, refraining from touching attractive but forbidden toys, quietly whispering, and compliance with instructions to initiate or stop certain behaviors. Parents also completed surveys.
The study, supervised by Adam Winsler, Ph.D, Applied Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University, will likely be presented at national conferences and published later this year.
Many thanks go to Lori Burkhardt of St. Louis for sharing this with us.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Kindermusik at the Brier Creek Community Center
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
Saturday, September 30, 2006
new fall classes
Sign & Sing and Family Time
new fall classes have just been added to the schedule...
Have you considered Sign & Sing with Kindermusik? You will be giving your child the tools to communicate with you at an early age.
Our fall session of Sign & Sing begins Thursday Oct 19 at 10:15 am.
Won't you join us?
Learn when you play. You'll never have to memorize a list of signs. This curriculum gives you the ASL signs that are most useful to you, and most interesting to your child. So playtime and everyday items around the house-- ball, bubbles, mom and dad--become the objects of learning in the classroom, and sign language becomes a natural, happy part of your child's day.
Hearing children who know signs, learn language almost twice as fast. As early as 11-14 months old, hearing children exposed to sign language put little sentences together faster than non-signing children, who do not begin to combine words into short sentences, such as "Da-da car" until the average age of 20 months.Study conducted by Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert, Signing Smart program founders. I look forward to hearing from you and telling you more about Sign & Sing! Want to see real pictures of real children signing?
visit http://www.myspace.com/sessielou
Do you have a child 0 - 7 years-old? Do you have more than one child?
Have you considered Kindermusik Family Time?
Our fall session of Family Time begins Saturday Oct 14 at 10:45 am.
Do you have a child 0 - 7 years-old? Do you have more than one child?
Have you considered Kindermusik Family Time?
Our fall session of Family Time begins Saturday Oct 14 at 10:45 am.
Won't you join us?
click this link to view a clip of a Family Time class:
http://www.briercreekmusik.com/kinder/kinder2/WM9_512_ComeAll.wmv
reserve your spot online today!
www.briercreekmusik.com
click this link to view a clip of a Family Time class:
http://www.briercreekmusik.com/kinder/kinder2/WM9_512_ComeAll.wmv
reserve your spot online today!
www.briercreekmusik.com
We're in the business of changing the world one child at a time.
Kindermusik International is the world's leading publisher of music and movement curricula for parents and their children, ages newborn to 7 years old.
Kindermusik’s philosophy is founded upon rigorous research and our fundamental beliefs.
Every parent is the child’s most important teacher.
Every child is musical.
The home is the most important learning environment.
Music nurtures a child’s cognitive, emotional, social, language, and physical development.
As a Kindermusik educator...
I believe that music has the power to illuminate and enhance lives, to foster a sense of community and to tap the unique gifts that each child offers to the world.
I believe that every child deserves the opportunity to know, enjoy and grow with music.
I recognize that music for children is not about perfection but about possibilities.
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