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Kindermusik With Ellen
Phone: (910) 315-0990
I can’t believe we’re almost halfway through the session already. We’ve had so much fun so far exploring comparing & contrasting sounds, tempo, rhythm and beat! This week and next week, we’ll explore our voices in many different ways.
“Sing, sing a song…”— nothing is more beautiful than families singing together! The music focus for Lessons 5 and 6 is all about our voices. In class we played with our voices—whispering, speaking, singing, and making other neat sounds!
The Children are Learning…
Our voices do so much for us every day—communicatinginformation or emotion, making sounds of surprise or delight, and much more! As “our first instrument,” the human voice has amazing possibilities in speech and singing. One of your child’s first responses to a musical experience were vocal sounds—babblings, cooing, and the like. With time, experience, and practice comes a control over those sounds—resulting in matching pitch, singing alone or with others, and singing with or without accompaniment.
Singing: “Singing is related to the ability to control speech fluctuations, and speech activities appear to help develop tuneful singing skills.” Playing with rhythmic speech (poems, rhymes, etc.) as well as simple tonal melodies, (bitonic, tritone, etc.) helps children develop both singing and speech skills (McDonald & Simons 1988).
At Home…
Families that sing together have fun together!