🌟 Prerequisite to advanced class preparing for moving onto instrument lessons and choir: All children should have completed a full year in the 4-6yr Musicianship 1 class. In the 5-6 year classes children learnt to read basic music notation and other essential skills.
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Playground style musical games challenge your child's aural perception through more complex songs and creative movement. Parachutes, glockenspiels and other props continue to play an integral part of each class and help to bring alive the musical points. The children are now becoming confident individuals and enjoy taking the initiative in leading others: they get great pleasure from working things out for themselves.
Through creative movement your child will develop an awareness of musical form and expression as they become more involved in making choices about the use of dynamics and tempo within a song.
🔍 Now that their ears have been "finely tuned" we sing in solfège (do,re.mi) with hand-signs, which enables children to listen to music and transcribe it onto paper, and to look at sheet music and hear it internally without the use of an instrument challenge children’s aural perception. The focus is on developing music literacy and reinforcing music concepts. 🌟 Children should complete three sessions to move onto Choir or an instrument, as it will enhance their understanding and success moving forward!
Each music level will guide your child through a 10-month program (3 terms: Fall, Winter, and Spring) of fun, developmentally appropriate music activities that lead them towards a solid music foundation.
✔️ Certificates highlighting the musicianship skills worked on are given to all students at the end of each term. By the end of the spring term, all the musical elements for that age group will have been covered and your child can graduate to the next level!
Support Home Learning
✔️ Each term includes a Music Book with core songs to support learning at home: Fall – Pentatonic Book, Winter – LA Book, Spring – DO Book. The books progress with each level, starting with picture stories and building up to reading music.
✔️ Colourstrings Music Bags are great for making music at home! Each bag includes age-appropriate instruments in a fun drawstring bag: Baby to 2 years or 3 to 6 years.
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