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March is National Music in Our Schools Month!

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Thanks to the National Association for Music Education’s celebration of March is National Music in Our Schools Month, we’ve been reminded of these three facts, proving the indispensable child development benefits of music: Academic. Among SAT takers, the College Board found that students with 4+ years of music education scored 23 points above average in math, and 31 points above average in writing. See
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Movement and the Brain

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Anne Green Gilbert, author of “Teaching the Three-Rs: Through Movement Experiences” talks about how brain development is directly linked to movement.   For example, holding your baby in different positions actually helps develop new neural connections in the brain. In Kindermusik classes, we use musical concepts like “high” and “low” in our dances and chants to encourage changes of position, inspire creativity, and support brain development. Here’s
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Inspiration vs. Action – and Sunday Thoughts from Wendell Berry

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This all-encompassing interview from the 2009 Wisconsin Book Festival, “Wendell Berry Talks About Life,” was the perfect thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning. Whether you’re familiar or unfamiliar with Wendell Berry, hearing his story and convictions towards the slow food movement, environmental justice, healthy local communities, returning war veterans in the age of technology, mindfulness, and the U.S. government’s agricultural influence
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Recommendations for reaching Hispanic ELL preschoolers

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As children, many of today’s preschool teachers probably picked up a Spanish word or two while watching Sesame Street. (Anyone else remember Luis looking for agua?) Now, with people of Hispanic descent making up the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States, those same educators teaching a daycare or preschool curriculum probably can put those words to good use in the
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Lessons from “How I Forced My 5 Year Old To Become an Environmentalist”

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Recently, treehugger.com published an article by mother Meaghan O’Neill called “How I Forced My 5 Year Old to Become an Environmentalist, or, an Interview with Philippe Cousteau.” This article is worth reading for a few reasons. First, we can all probably understand Meaghan’s guilt towards being her family’s own environmental role model– ordering take out, driving daily, and buying too many toys. But more
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The 2013 We Love Kindermusik Winners!

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Drumroll, please! After receiving an unbelievable 2,114 valid entries, we are so pleased to announce the winner of the first We Love Kindermusik Contest as The {super adorable} Schwerzler Family of the Kindermusik Cathy Siebert, LLC Studio, also a winner! Kate Schwerzler’s randomly selected, winning entry was: We love Kindermusik because it is instilling the love of music in our child at a young
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Early language development helps toddlers manage emotions

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Make no mistake. Toddlers wear their hearts on their sleeves. No one expresses pure emotion quite like an 18 month old. From the sheer delight of enjoying the sticky goodness of an ice cream cone to the depths of despair when it’s time to leave the playground, toddlers give Oscar-worthy performances daily. Child development research shows that parents, preschool teachers, and other caregivers can
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Steady Beat: It’s more than just music!

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Kindermusik was fortunate to contribute a guest blog post on the Reading Rainbow blog. As our missions align, in inspiring children through reading and music, we are grateful for this opportunity and are excited to share with our community! —————————————————————————————————————– Special Guest Post: Kindermusik – Steady Beat: It’s more than just music! Admit it. You know you do it. You just can’t stop yourself. There
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