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The Top 10 Benefits of Enrolling in Kindermusik

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With so many choices out there for young children, we thought we’d try to help make the decision a little easier by sharing our top 10 benefits of enrolling in Kindermusik. Benefit #1: Kindermusik gives your child that unique head start you’ve been looking for – musically, cognitively, and academically. Benefit#2: Kindermusik inspires a love of music from an early age with songs, instruments,
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FOL Fridays – Creativity: It’s In All of Us

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Creativity isn’t a trait that some people have and others don’t.  It’s a way of using your mind and body as you engage in a task that has no prescribed approach.  In the creative process, your ideas, feelings, skills, and knowledge flow together in innovative ways, allowing you to make or learn something new.” (“Creative Minds at Play” in Scholastic Parent & Child Dec./Jan.
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Quiet Time – Good for Your Child’s Brain Development

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In our busy lives, it’s vital to find time to simply do nothing. This downtime is physically necessary for your child’s brain to process the learning that occurs during structured activities and interactions. Plus, helping your baby learn to relax will serve him well as he encounters the inevitable stresses of the world. Inspiring relaxation and quiet times together Your baby: Bring you baby into
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ESL Activities for Kids Inspired by Kindermusik@Home

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Can farm animals and a bear aid oral language skills development, fluency, and vocabulary development in English Language Learners? Yes—especially when featured in Kindermusik@Home! ESL activities for kids that support: Oral language skills and fluency The “Wake Up!” Game featured in the Good Morning, Good Night! unit of ABC English & Me is a fun ESL activity for kids and parents to do together.
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10 summer-friendly literacy activities for parent involvement in education

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Ask a child to define “summer slide” and responses may include descriptions of the tunnel slides at the local park, the indoor slide at the restaurant down the street, or maybe the water slide at the pool. Ask an early childhood educator, however, and the response would probably include an explanation of what can happen to the early literacy skills of a child who
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4 Significant Benefits of Music Education

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(article originally published at realmusicproduction.com) Music is a very powerful subject – It has been used since the Greek times for healing, communication, relaxation and for enjoyment. Even before birth we are aware of our mother’s heartbeat and during infancy are relaxed by the song of a lullaby. Every day everybody hears some form of musical pitch or rhythm and it can even be
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New research proves ABC Music & Me boosts early literacy skills!

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New research proves ABC Music & Me boosts early literacy skills for preschoolers: During the 2012-2013 school year, SEG Measurement, an independent research firm, conducted a multi-state study to investigate the effectiveness of the use of the ABC Music & Me program with preschool students in the United States. The findings of the study show that the students who used ABC Music & Me
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Too Small to Fail, indeed

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Every day in our music classes for toddlers, babies, big kids, and families, we see (or hear about!) how early childhood education positively impacts a child’s future. We know our early childhood curriculum makes a difference. However, we also know that too many children start school without an early learning foundation that leads to school and life success. A new early childhood initiative, Too
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