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Kindermusik Offers Childhood Education

Ms. Melinda has been very fortunate in 2009 to have two TV segments on her program! This one, a complete surprise, was filmed in April. Vic McCarty called on a Tuesday to say he was on his way to the Manistee Kindermusik program and we were all very excited! some of the moms laughed and scolded me for not giving them "a heads up" since their children had banana in their hair - or had just applied a large amount of pink lipstick to their lips - because you always want to be "glamorous" when you are twirling with streamers or dancing a gig!! Everyone had a fun time and the kids were awesome!! Hope you enjoy this issue of Local Edition featuring Kindermusik!! Musically, Melinda

The Voca People

How much does Ms. Melinda LOVE this group???? more than dark chocolate - and those of you who know me - know that this is BIG!!!!! Can't wait to hear another collection of songs from VocaPeople!!! how about you?

Sesame Street (Vintage) - Put Down the Duckie

In Kindermusik Imagine That! we are exploring Jazz Music on our CD's. We are dancing and sweeping the City streets clean with our jazzy "Here comes the Broom Man". This fun and jazzy Sesame Street production kind of stole my heart - and I am a true jazz lover - and saxophone player myself - so I wanted to share with you!!! Enjoy! Musically, Melinda

© February 9th, 2009 TV 9 & 10, Cadillac, Michigan

Simply Music Piano Medley

Oh, my Simply Music piano families are just going to love this medley! I am so excited to post this to my blog where everyone can start practicing these songs now. Any student who has completed levels 1 - 4 can play this medley. if you are not quite this far - try making up some of your OWN medley's and see what you come up with! Musically, your teacher, Ms. Melinda

What Kindermusik International is blogging about:

Research Encourages Focus on Music and the Arts to Enhance Early Childhood Development

Music Research

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, states, "Studying music encourages self discipline and diligence traits that carry over into mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history and geography." Research supports that music helps prepare the mind for specific disciplines of learning; skills learned through music carry over into study skills, communications skills, cognitive skills and abstract reasoning skills useful to all parts of life, according to a 1997 article in Neurological Research.

Young Children

Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect, traced neurological development during childhood and found prior to a major spurt of neural integration in the brain during the elementary school years, learning occurs through movement and quick emotional associations. For example, by age two, the brain has begun to fuse with the body via marching, dancing, and developing a sense of physical rhythm. The more music children are exposed to before they enter school, the more deeply this stage of neural coding will assist them throughout their lives.

Parental Involvement

Findings from a study conducted by three researchers at Sam Houston State University in Texas reports that early music training can improve intelligence, and the amount of parental involvement in the music training can greatly affect the amount of improvement. Strong correlations were found between musical abilities in young children, particularly the ability to match vocal pitches and reproduce rhythmic patterns and abstract reasoning abilities.

The study also showed that parental time spent with a child is a more important factor in predicting intelligence test success than such factors as single-parent households, poverty, low parental education levels and ethnic minority status.

School-aged Children

Arts education makes a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has proven to help level the "learning field" across socio-economic boundaries, states the Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School, James S. Catterall, The UCLA Imagination Project, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA, Americans for the Arts Monograph, January 1998.

Arts education has a measurable impact on youth at risk in deterring delinquent behavior and truancy problems while also increasing overall academic performance among those youth engaged in after school and summer arts programs targeted toward delinquency prevention, according to the YouthARTS Development Project, 1996, U.S. Department of Justice, National Endowment for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts.