How to use your home materials
What families are saying about home materials
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How to use your 
home materals from the Kindermusik school program.
I don't often get the oportunity to work with my Kindermusik school families as I do with my studio families each week, so here is a page from me to you. Now we can work together...!
If you use one pack per term instead of one pack per month, you can simply extend each week to three or even four weeks.
Simply scroll down to find the relevant home materials pack. As we progress through the year, more will be added.These are some of the things I have focused on in class. Now you can do it too! Read the comments from school and studio families who are enjoying their home materials.
ABC Carnival of Music - Junior Greeting - the hello and goodbye songs create security in young children and teaches them the concept of time. Week One: Have a family instrument play-along to - Yankee Doodle developing the fine motor muscles. Your child is exercising choice and developing their critical thinking skills simply by selecting their instruments. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Help your little one to express themselves creatively though expressive movement to Bands and Baloons. Here they will begin to hear the difference between beat and melody. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Shoofly Pie - Story time. Perfect for any type of learner as you hear the story, see the story and act out the story. Make the story interactive. Use your sign language. Do the actions. Be creative. You are developing a love of literacy in your child. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ March, play egg shakers and beat a drum to Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Listen to all the songs on your Cd and make yourself a musical suitcase and take it with you in the car or on road trips. Most important of all, have fun!
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Carnival of Music Home Materials
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ABC Join the Parade - Senior Greeting - the hello and goodbye songs create security in young children and teaches them the concept of time. Week One: Listen to the story without the pictures and discuss it afterwards. This helps your child to stretch their attention span, to develop their vocabulary, to activate their auditory memory and to think in sequence. Introduce concepts of quiet (piano) and loud (forte) __________________________________________________________________________________________ Respond vocally, using your whispering voice and your calling voice. Sing the word piano quietly and sing the word forte loudly. Look at the symbols for piano and forte. Try to remember them. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Play loud and quiet sounds on the keyboard or using a glockenspiel. Use both mallets, one in the right hand and one in the left hand. Play together, then alternate hands. Tap on the side and slide your mallets across the glockenspiel. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Find pictures in your magazine that play "mix and match" games ie. find the picture then find or make the corresponding sound. Can you name the instrument? __________________________________________________________________________________________ Listen to all the songs on your Cd and make yourself a musical suitcase and take it with you in the car or on road trips. Most important of all, have fun!
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ABC Animals a dancing - Junior Greeting - the hello and goodbye songs create security in young children and teaches them the concept of time. Week One: Continue to explore rhythm to "Roly Poly". Pair up your words, motions and sounds. When repeated, it helps to develop memory and sequencing. Repitition creates new neural pathways in the brain. Make up your own rhythm patterns and rhymes. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Use "stop/start" movements. This develops inhibitory control in young children. Listen to the story, follow along in the book and do the actions. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Play moving forward and back, sideways and in a circle. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Explore a new instrument - the scraper. Something that makes "frog" sounds. Try to imitate all the animal sounds you hear on the Cd to "Morning Song". Get out your fluffy animal toys and talk about animals and your pets. Make up your own songs and don't forget to put it to a steady beat. Have fun! __________________________________________________________________________________________ Listen to all the songs on your Cd and make yourself a musical suitcase and take it with you in the car or on road trips. Most important of all, have fun!
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Animals a dancing Home Materials |
ABC Sing a Story - Senior Greeting - the hello and goodbye songs create security in young children and teaches them the concept of time. Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart "Wolfie" wrote "Twinkle Little Star" at the tender age of 5? Week One: Play high and low notes with instruments. If you have a slide whistle, use that. If not, be as creative as you can! Play steps (adjacent keys) on the keyboard. Play all the way up the scale and back down again. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sing your story. Introduce Opera and listen to the opera on your Cd. Where you hear a beat, play along or simply tap, clap and stomp. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Listen to your story about Papageno's tail feathers! Then listen to the excerpt of "The Magic Flute". Introduce Motzart to your chid. Again, be creative. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Allow your child to exercise choice by puting out colourful instruments for them to choose from. Get your fingers warmed up to "leap" and "creep" on the keyboard. Stand up and move expressively to music by Motzart and to your favourite songs on the CD. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Listen to all the songs on your Cd and make yourself a musical suitcase and take it with you in the car or on road trips. Most important of all, have fun!
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ABC On the Go - Junior
Greeting - the hello and goodbye songs create security in young children and teaches them the concept of tim
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Week One:
Let's start with an absolute favourite "Wheels on the Bus". Make various rolling movements with your hands, feet, bodies. Have fun!
Enjoy creative finger plays and vocal play to "This Little Car". Add in your own words and movements. Add some percussion - use your train whistle. Excellent for labelling and fine motor development.
Story time - The Big Race: Look at the pictures and discuss what you see.
Extend your chid's vocabulary and introduce steady beat with "This is my Wagon"_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Week Two:
Pretend to drive all around the room, bouncing or jumping on the "beep beep". Again, you may incorporate your train whistle, should you decide to. Great for large motor development.
Story time: Lie down, close your eyes and simply listen to the story. How much do you remember?
There's nothing like a good "bumping up and down" after story time. How about incorporating a hand drum or even a bouncy ball._____________________________________________________________________________________________
Week Three:
Jingle your car keys, any keys, bells or tambourines to "Jingle go the car keys". Hide them and find them. Build problem-solving skills into your little one and enhance their auditory memory this way.
Story time: This time, let's act it out. Pretend play is important as it helps your child to develop a sense of accomplishment. They can be a part of the story or change it to suit them. Help them develop a love of literacy and extend their vocabulary._____________________________________________________________________________________________
Week Four
Find out what your child's favourite song and / or activity is and enjoy this special bonding time together. "Lento y Rapido" is excellent for inhibitory control which helps your little one to control their bodies - this later leads to anticipation and creative thinking. It even helps with audiation - the ability to predict what comes next in a song or composition.
Story time:Once again, let's act it out. Put all the elements together - sound, movement, music and visual stimulation.
We started with "Wheels on the Bus", so let's end with it._____________________________________________________________________________________________
Listen to all the songs on your Cd and make yourself a musical suitcase and take it with you in the car or on road trips.
Most important of all, have fun!
On the Go
Magazine and Cd
(Includes a Train Whistle)
ABC Dance With Me - Senior
Greeting - the hello and goodbye songs create security in young children and teaches them the concept of time.
Week One:
Start off your week to a steady beat. This helps cognitive development and develops hand-eye coordination, too.
Help your child to turn beat into counting by playing first 2 beats at a time (Duple Meter) then 3 beats at a time (Triple Meter) with your Lumi sticks, like a waltz . Then create and play your own beat patterns.
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Week Two:
Have a look at your magazine. Identify the Treble Cleff and Bass Cleff. How about baking Treble and bass cleff cookies...!
Play notes on the treble-cleff staff by playing with the right hand on the keyboard (to the right of and including middle C).
Play the Glockenspiel if you have one.
Let's echo sounds, words, phrases and piano notes.
Listen to violin and double bass sounds. This will help your child with the develoment of auditory discrimination. Increase listening skills this week as listening is so much more than hearing and a neccessary life skill.__________________________________________________________________________________________
Week Three:
Story time - Dance of Our Own: Listen, read and then... do!
Put your dancing shoes on and let's pretend we're having a dance concert! What dance styles will you choose? Find or make something to wear. Have loads of musical fun while exploring a variety of musical and dance styles.
Listen to the various types of dance music on your Cd.
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Week Four:
Put it all together! Use parts of the story, your dance knowledge, your understanding of music, Treble Cleff and Bass Cleff, Duple Meter and Triple Meter, instrument sounds and pretend play. This will consolidate the learning that has taken place during the week.
How about going to a dance concert? Personal experience makes learning so much easier and more meaningful.___________________________________________________________________________________________
Listen to all the songs on your Cd and make yourself a musical suitcase and take it with you in the car or on road trips.Most important of all, have fun!
Dance With Me
Magazine and Cd
(Includes two Lumi Sticks)
What famlies are saying about home materials
Thank you so much for the home materials containing a CD and booklet. Moseni can’t get enough of it! She is now wanting to own a penny whistle like the one Henry is using on the parade music he makes……..Toodle lee……….. Toodle lee…….. Toodle lee.
Please advise if you sell Penny whistles as we would like to get one for Moseni.
Warm Regards,
Mwenya
Jordan is quite a wizz at singing to his new favourite Cd. Thanks Chris |
Jared really is enjoying his music classes so much. his favorite now is the new home pack with the frog , elephant and monkey CD. We sing and dance to it every day … Kind Regards Belinda
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I just wanted to give you some feedback on my on son Rohan Naidoo from 345 Nursery school. Rohan simply loves the ABC packs. He listen to both the Carnival of Music and Animals a Dancing everyday. He now sings the songs to himself. When the CD starts, he stands up and tries to do the actions that you have taught him in class. Today we were talking about the name of machine Roly Poly from Bob the Builder. He then started singing the roly poly song himself from the Animals a Dancing CD. When he listens to the Carnival of Music, he gets up and starts to dance to the music. He loves the Shaker that came with the double pack, and tries to copy the beat of the song. I just wanted to say thanks for all your encouragement and interaction with him. I think you are doing a great job. And most importantly you are really getting him out of his shyness. Kind Regards Seema Dookie |
Ethan adores the home material and frequently dances and does ‘this little piggy went to market’ on his baby sister. He also loves singing and went for his first piano lesson last week.
Hope you have a great week,
Heather
Mayur is enjoying Kindermusiek a lot. When he receives the home materials , he knows how to put the CD on and follows in his book and sings along. I was very impressed. He always looks forward to his lessons. I have also learnt from him - he shows me the signs that he learns at his lesson.
Adam LOVES his home materials!!
Regards
Tamar
Thanks for the Home Materials... Wesley loves it!!!
Karin