Kindermusik with Yvette begins this week Wednesday!

FINALLY!!! Here we GO!!!
Classes begin Wednesday in Arden: at Skyland United Methodist Church on Hendersonville Rd. See this link for directions.  It is just up the road!

Weaverville classes begin on Friday and the Asheville Arts Center begins Thursday.

There is still space in SOME classes. See the post below for the complete schedule and click on the class of your choice to register on line.
You don't want to miss this fun. If you're new to the idea then email and I'll invite you to visit a class. Just don't let those little ones grow up before you get in!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIPThKrwVTM

Kindermusik with Yvette

Kindermusik with Yvette: 
Fall '10 Schedule
You can find Kindermusik with Yvette in three area locations (I'm driving so you don't have to!):

The Asheville Arts Center
Joyful Noise Community Music and Art Center in Weaverville
Joyful Noise Community Music and Art Center in Arden

Classes are once a week for 15 weeks.
Classes begin Wednesday September 15th.
Please if you have questions call me: 828-242-1548 or email: singandtwirl@gmail.com
Here's the schedule with live links to enroll (each link will show the price). 

Kindermusik at the Asheville Arts Center beginning September 15th. Call 253-4000 or click on the class link below:
   Village  Mondays 11am, Tuesdays 9:30,
   Our Time  Mondays 10am or 5:45pm Tuesdays 10:30
   Imagine That!  Mondays 2:30pm
  Young Child 1  Mondays 4:30
   Young Child 3 (this is a continuation of Young Child 1&2) Thursdays 3:30pm

Kindermusik at Joyful Noise Community Center in Weaverville beginning September 17th.
Call 828-242-1548 or click on the class link below:
   Village (newborn to 18 months) Fridays at 11am
   Our Time (18 months to 3 1/2) Fridays at 10am

Kindermusik with Yvette in the Arden area beginning September 15th will be held at Skyland United Methodist Church on Hendersonville Rd.
Call 828-242-1548 or click on the class link below: 
  Village Tuesdays 6:30pm, Wednesdays 11am, Thursdays 9:15
   Our Time Tuesdays 5:30pm, Wednesdays 10am, Thursdays 10:15
   Imagine That! Wednesdays 5:30pm
   Young Child 1 Tuesdays 4:15pm
   Young Child 3 Wednesdays 4:15pm

Kindermusik Village (newborn to 18 months) description
Kindermusik Our Time (18 months to 3 1/2) description
Kindermusik Imagine That! (3 1/2 to 4 1/2) description 
Kindermusik Young Child Semesters 1-4  (5-7years old) description

And if you're new to the Kindermusik scene and you'd like to try a class for free let's do it! 

156 Countries Sing Together

What a wonderful way to start the morning! I found this beautiful video and listened and sang along.....It's very moving.....

Music is the universal language.....

Cash strapped schools make a mistake to cut music

And cash strapped families too....private lessons and classes like Kindermusik can mean the difference between a so-so musician and a musician that can really play and use their ears on a more advanced level....And can make the difference between a so-so reader and a reader who enjoys a higher academic success!

More and more research shows how music is a powerful tool for helping children reach their potential....(when I grow up I will be a neuroscientist so that I can understand all this....)

Well, someday........

But reading online about what researchers are saying happens in the brain when musicians use their ears helped me to focus the 3 1/2 year olds in our Imagine That! class this week as we are listening to layers of sound (water making waves, the bell bouy, the sea lions, and the work boat horn) and then listening to the music with the singer (the words to the song, the drum beating, the rattling percussion, the man's voice, etc) listening to many layers at once.......

"Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice," says Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Communication Sciences at Northwestern University.....

Studies in Kraus' laboratory indicate that music -- a high-order cognitive process -- affects automatic processing that occurs early in the processing stream. "The brainstem, an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain, is modified by our experience with sound," says Kraus. "Now we know that music can fundamentally shape our subcortical sensory circuitry in ways that may enhance everyday tasks, including reading and listening in noise."

Read it all here.
And if you'd like to hear one of Nina Kraus' lecture click here (it's very interesting!)

Kindermusik kids now:

Anne's Michigan friend Eleanor (who was a Kindermusik student for many years) in a letter to Anne: "I am doing orchestra in school. It's really easy and the teacher uses me for examples. Are you in orchestra?"

Orchestra is one of Anne's favorite activities each week.

Talk, talk, talk........17,000 words minumum

A child’s rate of vocabulary growth, vocabulary use, and IQ score was more strongly related to the number of words a parent said per hour than any other
variable including parents’ education or socioeconomic status.

Try for speaking 30,000 words a day to your newborn to 4 year old. It's worth it!

Click to watch this video link: Introduction by Todd Risley, Ph.D.

Filling life up with words is where vocabulary comes from and starting early is critical, according to Todd Risely Ph.D., co-author Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children.

The Power of Talk is a document published online about the research of the LENA (Language Environment Analysis) Foundation. Here's a quote:

They determined that a child’s intellectual success later in life is directly related to the amount of talk the child hears from birth to age three. Research conducted by the LENA Foundation using the LENA System has indeed confirmed many of their important findings.

Key findings to date include:
• Parents of advanced children—children who scored consistently between the 90th and 99th percentiles on independent standard language assessments—spoke substantially more to those children than did parents of children who were not as advanced, confirming the Hart and Risley results.
• Parents estimated that they talked more with their children than they actually did.
• Most language training for children came from mothers, with mothers accounting for 75 percent of total talk in the child’s environment.
• Mothers talked roughly 9 percent more to their daughters than to their sons.
• Parents talked more to their first-born than to their other children, particularly first-born males.
• Most adult talk in the child’s environment occurred in the late afternoon and early evening compared to other times of day.
• Children of talkative parents were also talkative.
• Although the average daily talk for parents who graduated from college was higher than for all other parents, the average daily talk for the upper 50 percent of parents who did not complete high school was significantly higher than that of the lower 50 percent of parents who graduated from college.
• The more television time in a child’s day, the lower his or her language ability scores tended to be.
• Monolingual Spanish-speaking families were similar to English-speaking families with respect to patterns of adult talk.
• Parents of children with autism tended to talk less the more severe their child’s symptoms were. Conversely, the stronger their child’s language abilities, the more they talked.
• Parents are quite variable in the day to day amount they talk to their children, but given the opportunity to receive feedback they are able to increase the amount of talk consistently.

Meet The Harmonica Man

Music gives when you give it away. I know there are lots of toddlers with harmonicas now....when are you going to start playing in the checkout lane of the grocery store?