Clever With Music
Imagine – you, your child, music, movement and FUN! What a special way to spend quality time, to have fun, to explore, to dance, making music, bonding and treasure your love. All this through Music and Movement. A Clever with Music class is the place to experience all that!
Clever with Music is an educational program where music and movement is used to assist children with development and learning. Children between the ages of three months and seven years will benefit from the program because the program is intended to develop children with activities where learning takes place on a fun and exciting way, without doing formal work. Not all children achieve milestones at the same time or age but this program is all about development and learning and not about performance.
Here is a sample of our songs:
Every musical composition we utilize is meticulously crafted in-house. This exemplifies the Clever with music methodology.
How do kids learn:
Visual
The child prefers to see the information
Auditory
The child prefers to hear information
Kinesthetic
The child likes to move and experience while he learns
About the Program:
This program a new, fresh, bilingual music and movement program for the South African community. It is intended to develop children from 3 months to 6 years with activities where learning takes place without doing “formal work”. All children do not achieve milestones at the same time and/or age. Therefore, this program is about development and learning, not about performance.
The program provides age-appropriate activities.
With this program you can start your own business with children, music and movement.
Facilitators receive training on the presentation for different age groups as well as Teachers in Preschools.
“Music molds the mind,” writes Susan Barry, professor of neurobiology at Mount Holyoke College, referring to that window of opportunity, or developmental stage, at which children are most receptive to music’s benefits.
“Making music actively engages the brain’s synapses, and there is good reason to believe that it increases the brain’s capacity by increasing the connections among neurons.” While babies, toddlers and young children participate in music-based activities, their muscles, senses, emotions and intellect are engaged simultaneously; they are exercising their brains in ways that they rarely do.
Child Development:
DEVELOPING SKILLS
Learning styles take place in three ways:
Visual – The child prefers to see the information
Auditory – The child prefers to hear information
Kinesthetic – The child likes to move and experience while he learns
To develop and learn in full, all three these modalities are strengthened. For example, when a child’s learning preference is visual, the auditory, and kinesthetics modalities must be addressed and developed.
This program includes ALL three learning modalities as well as ALL the SENSES.
WHY IS THIS UNIQUE?
New, well researched South African Music and Movement program, Bilingual, Afrikaans and English.
With this program, multi-sensory learning takes place. All the senses, the brain, and the muscles work together simultaneously.
Body awareness it the first key to self-confidence.
The whole family is involved through music, activities and stories
It is fun!
What makes this program different from just watching a DVD?
In this program, the toddler must listen to specific sounds and commands before responding. Therefore, it develops his/her listening skills, as well as body control and concentration. Different sounds are identified, and when the sound is accompanied by visual representation and a specific movement associated with that, auditory(hearing), visual(seeing) and movement(muscles) skills are developed simultaneously. This all takes place during only ONE ACTIVE activity!
To look at a DVD is more a PASSIVE activity.
Music improves learning and cognitive development. Studies show that music helps our brain’s development, increasing our cognitive skills.
According to Elaine Winter in her article: “Education and the brain”, she states the following:
“While many schools are cutting music programs and spending more and more time on test preparation, our findings suggest that musical training may actually help set up children for a better academic future.”
PRESCHOOLS
Preschools teacher often do not have training in music and are comfortable with just playing songs for children. By doing so, children are deprived of a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the fun of active participation in music and ‘learning’ in an interactive way.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT THAT PRESCHOOLS INCLUDE MUSIC AS PART OF THE CURRICULUM?
Research has shown that children develop better memory skills, express themselves better creatively and develop more confidence when using music as a medium.
Preschool teachers often do not have training in music and are comfortable with just playing songs for children. But by doing so, children are deprived of a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the fun of active participation in music and ‘learning’ in an interactive way.
Music makes all the lights in the brain shine!
The most important development period for children is from birth to 6 years. They are like sponges during this period!
Who can use this program?
This program was developed for persons who love music, love to work with children and want to start their own business and become a Facilitator of Clever with Music/Slim met Musiek.
It was also developed for Preschools to use this program as part of their Curriculum.
We offer full training to everyone who sign up for the program.
Training
Training is compulsory for Facilitators as well as Preschool teachers who wants to present the program. This is to assure teaching high quality of brain development.
What do Facilitators and Preschool Teachers get?
Facilitators:
Training
Complete Facilitators Manual and Music
Clever with Music/Slim met Musiek badge
License Certificate
Lesson plans and music
Preschools:
Training
Lesson plans and music
License Certificate
What Our Families are Saying
About the Director
Contact Details
Cell : 082 971 3448
Email : corne@music-education.co.za
