Music Together

My friend Tiffany is a Music Together teacher and invited me to take Max to a demonstration class. Because James was home for the day he also went with us. It was fun! We signed up for 10 weeks of classes and I am really looking forward to it. It will get me out once a week and will Max a chance to interact with others as well...and the chance to learn and enjoy music.

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.

Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. By emphasizing actual music experiences rather than concepts about music, Music Together introduces children to the pleasures of making music instead of passively receiving it from CDs or TV.

Central to the Music Together approach is that young children learn best from the powerful role model of parents/caregivers who are actively making music. The program brings families together by providing a rich musical environment in the classroom and by facilitating family participation in spontaneous musical activity at home within the context of daily life.

We signed up for 10 weeks of classes and I am really looking forward to it. It will get me out once a week and will Max a chance to interact with others as well...and the chance to learn and enjoy music.