Course Overview: This is a highly interactive and fun musical workshop which will share with early childhood staff how to use everyday musical encounters in end of year celebrations. This makes for happy, relaxed occasions which can be shared with parents, staff and children.

• Enhance your Centre Program with musical encounters throughout the day that can also be used for end of year celebrations.
• Introduces beautiful folk dance material from the Australian group Shenanigans, that includes music from around the world.
• Suitable for children 2-5 years with lots of practical ideas to use across the age range, including resources to use with the repertoire, for example puppets and the parachute.
• Staff have fun practicing the songs, rhymes and games with each other. This repertoire is well loved by children, and based upon our extensive experience sharing music with young children and their families.
• Strategies to encourage children to explore their voices, develop confidence in using them, develop confidence in themselves, and help singing become a natural part of their day.

Why share music with babies and young children?

• Music is lots of fun!
• Music helps children to develop warm and loving relationships with carers, parents and other children (songs can be soothing, humorous, interactive).
• Music nurtures self-esteem and confidence.
• Singing enhances linguistic and numeric skills.
• Music and movement develop balance, gross and fine motor skills.
• Music encourages discipline and concentration and is engaging.
• Music develops listening, playing, creating, moving, singing and later on reading skills.
• Music concepts such as beat and rhythm, pitch and melody, tempo and volume and mood are learnt.
• Music develops and harmonises the social, emotional, physical, cognitive and aesthetic/spiritual domains of individuals.

This workshop will be 2 hours, including time for questions. Support material including dance and repertoire instructions, light refreshments and certificate of attendance will be provided.

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $60.00 WHEN YOU REGISTER BY FRIDAY 20TH AUGUST 2010

Please contact presenters directly.

Contact: musicalmomentsNOW@gmail.com

                JILL: 9484 7226

               ROSE: 0431 213 056

               MusicalMomentsNOW.com

Rose Bloom: B.A. Dip Ed (ECE), Australian Kodaly Certificate in Music Education. Rose is an accredited teacher with the Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia. She has taught in a variety of Early Childhood settings, and as both teacher and Director in Preschool and Long Day Care. She currently works as a specialist Music teacher in Long Day Care, and in schools with Kinder to Year 2 classes. Rose is also a lecturer in the Australian Kodaly Certificate of Music Education, providing Professional Development to both school and studio teachers.

Jill Holland: B Ed (Ech), Macquarie University, Dip. Teach, ECh and Primary, Australian Certificate of Kodal Music Education. Jill is an accredited teacher with Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia with strong commitment to the value of music in the early years.  She has taught music to children 0-5 years and their carers in a variety of early childhood settings, including the Macquarie University Music Program for Children for 14 years, playgroups, long day care, and in her own private studio.  She is currently teaching music with young families in a community research project with a lecturer from Macquarie University. She has taught children with special needs in an inclusive music learning environment.