Munchkins, Music & Me - Baby Music Classes

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For class you will come in and sit on the carpet in a circle. We start with a welcome song where we learn everyone’s names. This song is the same every week to encourage the children and caregivers to have an established routine when we start music class. The next part of class is our singing time. We will sing familiar songs and add some new songs as people get comfortable. Children are drawn to human voices and are even found to focus more on the familiar voices of their caregivers over other sounds and voices. Singing, talking and making eye contact with your child encourages conversational skills, turn taking in conversation, and tone and rhythm of voices. We use props such as egg shakes, tambourines, and rhythm sticks to encourage movement and rhythm as we sing songs. The little ones are especially drawn to the egg shakers. That is always a crowd favorite at each class. The next part of class is focused on movement. We sing songs and do motions either sitting down or standing up such as Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes or Animal Freeze Dance. Depending on the developmental stage of each child some may not be able to crawl or walk yet, but every song and activity can be modified to fit every child and grownup.