Integrated Learning for Preschoolers

Parenting Tip:  Learn Kindermusik games from your child, and play, sing, read, write, and move together!

Why?

Each Kindermusik activity has multiple objectives, and helps your child to develop multiple skills, at once.  When we sing Hello, we are using listening ears, singing voices, practicing steady beat & tempo, and using appropriate dynamics.  As we sing & move to circle dances, we are internalizing steady beat, singing, and demonstrating melody & rhythm, with our bodies.  When we use non-traditional melodic dictation, by drawing lines on the whiteboard to match the downward melody in a song, we practice moving our eyes from left to right, which helps your child with writing & reading!  When we play tool sounds (using graphic notation) during Build Ourselves a House (from Kindermusik's Home Sweet Home CD), we decode symbols to remember which tool is needed, next.  When we work together to build our house out of paper & plates, we learn about teamwork, and that we are an important part of the group.  So many things, happening all at once - so much learning in every game!  That's integrated learning - and we employ that concept every week in Kindermusik.

How?

Review our e-book, A House For Me!  For fun, use the rhythm pattern from class (pictured above), as you read.  If you have craft sticks at home, you can make a copy of this pattern, using them! 

Then, have a house-cleaning party!  As you 'dust, dust, dust,' you are reinforcing the rhythm pattern:  tah, tah, tah, rest. 

If you need to do some projects around the house, using tools, be sure to get out an instrument or soundmaker & sing the Build Myself a House song, as a warmup! 

Want to Learn More?

On our blog - read about Arts, with the Brain in Mind!

Kindermusik 7-Year Continuum:

At every age, from babies to big kids, Kindermusik features music and movement activities that reinforce learning in other disciplines, and that foster your child's physical, cognitive, and emotional development.  Discovering math, reading, and science concepts through music learning & movement as a preschooler, helps your child prepare for big kid activities in Kindermusik Young Child classes.  There, he will expand that learning to understand that two 8^th notes fit into a single beat of music (math), and that a larger bar on the glockenspiel makes a lower sound than does a shorter bar (science).  Continued singing in Young Child classes will continue her journey of discovery in speech and literacy.  Composition and Improvisation activities in Young Child classes fosters your child's budding creativity.