tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26108042219368282162024-03-14T04:19:45.827-04:00Kindermusik with Ann Czeponis Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-42754568225268650822014-05-22T09:39:00.001-04:002014-07-21T15:50:58.713-04:00Big Changes for Kindermusik <iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="auto" src="https://www.smore.com/45yus-kindermusik?embed=1" style="border: none; min-width: 320px;" width="100%"></iframe>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-28705356434864873722013-11-03T19:50:00.005-05:002013-11-03T19:50:43.508-05:00November Song Sweepstakes<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4dbfbe; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1;">Share your child’s favorite Kindermusik song this November for your chance to win a $50 Kindermusik Prize Package!</span></div>
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Tell us your child’s favorite song from their Kindermusik album this November for your chance to win!</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simply fill out the form on our </strong><a href="http://www.kindermusik.com/lp/landerli.aspx?page=PAR_LLI_NovemberPromotion" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #6a930b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">November Song Sweepstakes page</a>.</div>
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All entries will be entered into our Grand Prize Drawing at the end of the year to win an iPad.</div>
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Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-84981612441348117322013-09-05T10:32:00.003-04:002013-09-05T10:34:14.012-04:00Bring Kindermusik home - or take it out to eat...<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Indeed, you can now take Kindermusik with you everywhere and anywhere! You can listen to the music streamed from your Smartphone or tablet device directly to your ears and delight! And, because our<a href="http://mindsonmusic.kindermusik.com/kindermusik/kindermusik-at-home-online-learning-games-for-kids/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #6a930b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="@Home Kid's Learning Platform Overview">@Home learning platform</a> is Web-based and NOT an app, you can access our music from any phone, including iPhones, iPods, Droids, iPads, Kindles, and any device that allows for Internet browsing!</div>
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Each month, parents enrolled in our new Kindermusik curricula will receive a NEW streaming music album with 15 to 20 songs. Also, each month, you will receive a new eBook story to share with your child along with a fun assortment of multimedia activities for kids and families, videos and video field trips, crafts, recipes, and more!</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We encourage parents to use these educational activities to extend the magic and learning of your Kindermusik classroom into the home.</strong> As educators, we also respect the need to limit children’s screen time and have chosen digital because it is easily accessible and delivered via sustainable means, but have designed the learning activities with your child’s best interests in mind. The purpose of these activities is to provide suggestions for parent/child fun that can be done with the prompt of a screen and taken offline. See below for our extended notes on screen time.<span id="more-2807" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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When used together, the Kindermusik class and @Home experience is a fun, active, and engaging multi-sensory workout for your young learner. The best part is that <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">month after month, you’ll receive brand-new content and a new Kindermusik album</strong> and you will always have access to the prior months activities, eBooks, and music as long as you are enrolled!</div>
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Remember, there are certain things mobile devices cannot do. They do not download. To actually download the music, story or download activities, you will need to download the files from your<a href="http://my.kindermusik.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #6a930b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">my.kindermusik.com</a> login on your computer.</div>
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To get access to this amazing digital platform, reach out to your <a href="http://www.kindermusik.com/legacy/Classes/ClassLocator.aspx?c=KIBlog" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #6a930b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">local Kindermusik educator</a>!</div>
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Kindermusik International knows and respects that each family gets to decide what’s best for them when it comes to this issue. In creating this digital resource, Kindermusik has read about and researched this topic thoroughly. We have aligned our stance with that of the highly respected NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning, recognizing that <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">children can benefit from a responsible and age-appropriate use of technology in combination with hands-on experiences and in partnership with an actively involved caregiver</strong>. We are proud to bring these high-quality materials to your family which truly embody the very best of both worlds- a responsible introduction to technology and sustainability AND lots of hands-on, movement-rich, in-your-lap, down-on-the-floor learning.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These educational activities for kids are designed for you and your child to use cooperatively, engaging with one another as you read, watch, discuss, and discover. </strong>Most of the videos are less than 2 minutes in length. The book can be used as an e-book or can be printed from the Download Center and enjoyed traditionally. Activities can be printed from the Download Center and enjoyed over and over again. Parents can read, watch, and learn about the latest research in early childhood education and their child’s development. They are truly a rich and exciting tool that’s now available to you anytime and anywhere!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30 am Miss Ann will be ready and waiting at the Pavilion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:45 am head over to the handstamp stand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11am Handstamp and ride from 11-1:30 $7.50</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Ann will bring plasticware, plates and napkins for the whole crew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let's hope Mother Nature is kind to us. I know that many of you use precious personal days from work for this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Our little ones are instinctively interested in fast and slow (especially fast!) In activities like</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> <a href="http://play.kindermusik.com/en/tracks/3983-lento-y-rapido-slowly-and-quickly/" target="_blank">Lento y Rapido</a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> we capitalize on that and provide a multisensory medium for</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">children to completely understand the concept of fast and slow. </span></div>
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<br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-80124314008387776162013-02-03T23:52:00.001-05:002013-02-03T23:52:20.842-05:00Bring a Friend to Kindermusik Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Whoopee - bring a friend to Kindermusik week has been extended. Due to the weather cancellations last week you are welcome to bring your friends this week, as well. Simply get in touch with Ann to let her know what day and time you will be bringing your pals. The host child and the guest child will each receive the gift pictured above - Whoopee...cushion!</div>
<br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-59518309611869848002013-01-09T07:43:00.000-05:002013-01-09T08:41:07.385-05:00Wednesday Time Change<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Due to an unexpected change in my college teaching schedule, it is necessary to adjust the time of our Wednesday morning (1-3 yr old) class. Your input on this decision is very important to me. Please take just a minute (seriously, I don't think this will take more than a single minute) to click the link below and answer 2 questions to help me decide. The change will go into effect the week of January 13.</i></span><br />
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Kindermusik will be closed on Monday due to the impending storm.Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-55539024426928856912012-10-15T15:22:00.003-04:002012-10-15T15:23:45.767-04:00Bring a Friend Week<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9025595107586794025" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #fafbfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 506px;">
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The Studio opens October 1st. We will open with a sha-bang - a new studio and a BOOK FAIR!</div>
Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-74299693864561046012012-09-13T21:01:00.002-04:002012-09-13T21:03:50.922-04:00Opening Day is now OCTOBER 1<span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"><img alt="Inline image 1" class="" height="200" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=c08d019cbf&view=att&th=139c2498b010e5e6&attid=0.0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_139c22bf1e6bae07&zw&atsh=1" width="186" />This is an exciting time as we move into our new studio. We had hoped to move through August and be well settled after the Labor Day weekend. However, knowing that there is always a snafu I gave myself some wiggle room with our Sept 17 start date. Apparently Miss Ann has a big wiggle - and will be needing more wiggle room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the best efforts of all parties involved (library, kindermusik, etc) We were only able to gain access to our new space as of last Friday. It is not possible to have the space ready for you and your little ones by next Monday (9/17). In order to have the Studio up to the standards that we have all become accustomed we will delay the opening of the Kindermusik term. <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><u style="background-color: #ffff99;"> Kindermusik Classes will begin October 1</u></b></span>. You will still get all the classes you paid for. The revised schedule has been updated to the right.</span></div>
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You may have noticed that in the scrolling calendar to the right there are classes listed "OLOL PreK" and "OLOL Kdg" These refer to the classes that are taught at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School. I am beyond impressed that Lourdes is committed to providing Kindermusik instruction to PreK - 2 classes each week. The Kindergarten will receive Kindermusik instruction 1 class per week and standard music instruction (taught by the phenomenal Bonnie Klinger) once a week. </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you hear that the Kindermusik Studio is relocating? We will be in the same building as the Mt Carmel Library It's not very far from where we are - <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/5vGt5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">see for yourself</a></span></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">No-hassle unenrollment - just let me know in writing before the first of the month.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Family friendly payment plans (<b><span style="color: #ff6600;">monthly payments $33</span></b>; <b><span style="color: #6633ff;">3 payments $99</span></b>; <b><span style="color: #009900;">2 payments $148.50</span></b>; <span style="color: red;"><b>pay in full, $275 BIG SAVINGS</b></span>; <i><u>Automatic payments available</u></i>)</li>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="https://secure.jotformpro.com/czeponis/kindermusik-2012-13" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>ONLINE ENROLLMENT </b>(click here)</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Kindermusik Blog with all the latest updates, calendar, developmental news, special offers, studio policies</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Flexible attendance - come to the classes that suit your schedule</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">More Bang for Your Buck - you pay for one class each week, but are encouraged to come as many times each week as you'd like</li>
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Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-28155190022593806572012-08-06T14:14:00.001-04:002012-08-07T10:30:00.330-04:00Back to School To-Do List - Meet the Teacher NightDid you know that before I gained fame and fortune as a Kindermusik teacher I was a 6th grade teacher? I spent quite a few Meet the Teacher Nights on the other side of that big desk. Now I have 4 of my own children in school (grades 8, 6, 4 and 1) So I know a little something about both perspectives here. This is what I know; parents want their child to start off on the best footing and so does his or her teacher.<br />
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The intention of Meet the Teacher Night is to be the first contact that establishes a partnership between home, school and classroom. It is the dial tone of the school year - an open line of communication. Meet the Teacher Nights vary by name, and exact setup, but typically, there is a school-wide meeting where the principal welcomes you to the new school year and sets the tone for the school-wide initiatives and culture. Then parents break-out to student classrooms where teachers get specific about classroom expectations, policies and procedures, style of instruction and supply lists. This is when parents inevitably create their first impression about 'how this school year is going to go.' On paper it is the most fantastic premise, but it does not always work so seamlessly.<br />
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In a case like mine, there is the predicament of having to be in four classrooms at the same time. There is a possibility that you may not be able to send a parent representative to Meet the Teacher Night at all and there is a possibility that you may leave without the information that is most important to you. <br />
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There are some things you can do to get the most out of your Meet the Teacher Night and set your child up for quite possibly the best school year ever. I put it together in this little presentation below. Enjoy...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">My next few blog posts will provide insights for parents that will allow children the best opportunity to transition to the school year or </span>Kindermusik<span style="background-color: white;"> semester. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Stores have begun to set up aisles and aisles of back to school shopping, so I'll let Madison Avenue take care of that arena;</span><span style="background-color: white;"> my Back to School To-Do List has nothing to do with shopping...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proper sleep will set your child off on the right foot. <a href="http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/need-sleep/whats-in-it-for-you/mood" target="_blank">Dr. Lawrence J. Epstein of Harvard, Harvard Medical School's Division of Sleep Medicine</a> tells us that sleep deprivation is closely connected to mood, anxiety, depression, memory loss and judgement and cognition. <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sleep-and-weight-gain/AN02178/" target="_blank">The Mayo Clinic</a> reports a link to weight gain, as well. </span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Move <b>dinner time</b> to the time it will be during school.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Begin by <b>adjusting the wake up time</b>, then adjust the times in</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> <b>small increments</b> - 15 minutes earlier to bed and wake 15 minutes earlier.</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Reducing your child's <b>exposure to light</b>. Dr. Smith says, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">"Light affects our body and our sleep-wake cycles. Exposure to light late in the evening can delay our body's ability to fall asleep." </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Smith urges parents to have their kids come inside earlier and decrease their exposure to bright lights and light from the screens of electronics such as television, cell phone or computer 30 to 60 minutes before bedtime. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">I'd love to stand on my soapbox and tell you my children do not have TVs in their rooms and that everyone reads themselves to bed every night, but that would be a BIG, FAT LIE. Falling asleep sans TV takes a great deal of effort on behalf of parents and kids. But I'm committed to giving it a try - How about you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">Turning off the screens gives us a great opportunity to read together. My girls share a room so it's three birds with one stone here. Their ages are 11, 9, & 6. Our nightly read aloud is going to be </span><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://amzn.com/0689818769" target="_blank">Frindle</a></u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"> by Andrew Clements. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">My son is 13 and can read us all under the table - it's his favorite pastime. Bip, Larry and I will begin reading Gary Brackett's <a href="http://amzn.com/1578605199" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Winning: From Walk-On to Captain in Football and Life</a> together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday, May 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30 am Miss Ann will be ready and waiting at the Pavilion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 am Brunch & Door Prizes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:45 am head over to the handstamp stand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11am - Handstamp and ride from 11-1:30 $7.50</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Families please bring a covered dish and tableware </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We will go unless it is pouring or thundering. Let's hope Mother Nature is kind to us. I know that many of you use precious personal days from work for this, so if it is pouring or thundering we will go to the studio and have our party there - Bounce House, Ball Pit, Thomas Table, Bubble machine, etc.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #fafbfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-28341877407604875902012-04-16T13:00:00.003-04:002012-04-17T22:30:43.210-04:00Music Education<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cannot let the events of this past week go without remarking on them. The Shamokin School Board has had to make some very difficult decisions in order to deal with a budget that is woefully short of being balanced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shamokin Area is not the only school district in the area, or the state for that matter, that finds itself in this predicament. I do not wish to turn this post into a political diatribe, so instead I will encourage you to <a href="http://savepaschools.org/SaveOurSchools.aspx?ShowBudgetImpact=true" target="_blank">investigate the decisions governor Tom Corbett</a> and the Pennsylvania Department of Education are making regarding funding, high stakes testing and curriculum. Then you can form your own opinions - EDUCATED opinions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people in public service know that you can make some of the people happy all of the time, and all of the people happy some of the time, but you cannot make all of the people happy all of the time (please forgive me, Abraham Lincoln for amending your </span><a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27074.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">quote</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">). I think we can all agree that the Board was faced with a decision with many possible outcomes each of which would have been contentious. There is no easy answer to the shortfall they face, but that which is valued should be preserved and I wish to speak directly to the value of music in the development of the whole child.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the <u>Seven Habit of Highly Effective People</u> author Dr. Stephen Covey counts among the habits, "Sharpen the Saw." This is the effort taken to create a positive effect on the task at hand by doing something that may not be directly related to the processes of the task. For instance, if the task is to cut down a gargantuan tree; instead of going straight at the trunk wielding your saw, take a second and sharpen the saw. You have thereby made the actual task of attacking the tree easier. Music works much the same in children. You learn music not only for it's sake, but for the sake of all that it enables: the emotional regulation; the priming of the math centers; the effect on long and short term episodic and emotional memory, and so much more. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Music is vital to neurodevelopment, it forges pathways in young brains and primes them for the kind of learning that can be quantified through those tests that are becoming the mainstay of education. </span><a href="http://www.mozarteffect.com/MoreOnTME/AboutDon/index.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Don Campbell</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, author of </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mozart Effect</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> explains:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more participation there is with music early on — through singing and movement — the more it simultaneously activates multiple levels of the brain. If you look at the corpus callosum [of someone who plays music] there are more connections made between right and left sides. A child who is moving, dancing and singing learns coordination between their eye, ear and sound early on. And [the experience of participating in music education] helps integrate the social, the emotional and the real context of what we’re learning. There are studies that show children who play music have higher SAT scores, that learning to control rhythm and tempo not only help them get along with others but plants seeds for similar advantages when we get much older.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only does music impact our early development, but it essential to development and renewal throughout the lifespan. I really hope that you will watch the video below and see how a life encompassed by music can unlock the spirit of an octogenarian mired in the haze of dementia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your child has been impacted by the decision made by the school board, please make a conscious effort to include music in your family's activities. It is too important to your child's development to omit.</span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610804221936828216.post-31684747491482115432012-03-27T22:22:00.001-04:002012-03-27T22:22:04.997-04:00Tell us what you think...Previous and current Kindermusik families:<br />
Please take just 3 minutes (seriously - it is just 3 minutes) to answer a few questions about your Kindermusik experience. We all know that there are plenty of choices out there, but Miss Ann is very committed to making Kindermusik with Ann Czeponis the best possible choice for you and your little one.<br />
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We will make this class up Tuesday May 15. This will work out well as May 16 is our Knoebels Picnic and May 17 is another makeup from a snow delay cancellation. The schedules have been updated, please print out or save the new one for your convenience.Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01216373854331926584noreply@blogger.com0