Exploring Music For Preschool Centers
Boost Your Center's Competitive Advantage
Benefits to your Center:
• Differentiates your center with a value-added music curriculum
• Provides competitive advantage by solidifying your center's image as a leader in child education
• Simple to implement: No additional staff are needed
• Fortifies enrollment through word-of-mouth from thrilled parents
Benefits to your Students:
• Enhances mathematic and logic aptitude*
• Promotes early reading and language proficiency*
• Improves student's self control and listening skills
• Develops musical skills: rhythm, pitch, music terms and theory
• Nurtures a life-long love of music and the fine arts
*At Cornell University Early Childhood Center (ECC), Elizabeth Stilwell, ECC Director says, "Research shows that music should be an essential part of early childhood. It's fun, creative and it's a proven way to develop areas of the brain for later academic tasks such as reading and math. Early musical experiences can dramatically enhance a child's ability to acquire language, vocabulary and sensory motor skills, spatial reasoning, logic and rhythm skills" Stilwell says.
How Does It Work?
Exploring Music™ Interactive Music Curriculum on video is easy to use. Each quarter your center will receive 2 copies of a video that will have 13 lessons, along with a printed Teacher's guide. Your teachers simply gather their class with a few items listed with the Teacher's guide, items such as shakers or rhythm sticks. The class interacts with the video. Teachers facilitate the activities. At times during each lesson, there are instructions to pause the video while the teacher get the class ready for the next activity.
How Long Are The Lessons?
The lessons are designed for a 25 minutes class, but can be adjusted for any length for each age group; as short as 5 or 10 minutes. The activities can be used as support to other subjects such as language arts, math, social studies, exposure to other cultures, physical activity (whole body movement), fine motor skills (hand motions and instruments).
The lessons are very flexible and can be adapted to 1 or 2 activities, with large or small groups, in large rooms or small classrooms.
What is covered in the lessons?
Lessons build a love of music and learning in children, create a partnership of music and learning between parents and children, builds language development through singing, and builds math skills through rhythm, teaches basics of music education such as: rhythm, note values, musical symbols, instruments, vocal skills, various musical genres, creative movement, introduction to great classical pieces, introduction to the orchestra, introduction to piano.
How Do We Show The Video?
Classes have successfully shown the videos on computer screens or on TVs.
What If We Already Have A Music Teacher?
This program does not take the place of an existing music teacher, it enhances and supports the music teacher. It is a program that can be used at any time during the week when a classroom teacher wants to insert a music activity. It is on video, and it belongs to your center. You can use it when it fits best in your class schedule.
What Ages Can Use This Curriculum?
The videos are designed for toddlers through Pre-K age children, but have also been used with babies as young as 6 months.
Exploring Music™ Interactive Music Curriculum is designed as a 3 year year curriculum for toddlers through 1st Grade. Children's aptitude and skills will grow through exposure and repetition.
What Is The Cost?
Your only cost is the take home CD for each child in the center. Every 13 weeks there is a take home CD for each student filled with fun songs the reinforce the DVD music lessons. The CD will be your students to use at home or in the car, learning and enjoying the music they will be taught during class. The cost for this CD is $5.00 when your center makes a one year commitment to use the DVD lessons or support materials. Some centers pass this $5.00 CD charge to the parents, others absorb this cost as a curriculum purchase.
How Can I Try This Curriculum at no cost?
Please click this link to see a sample lesson on YouTube.
How Does The Free 4 Week Trial Work?
How Does The Free 4 Week Trial Work? Your center may use the first 4 video lessons for free, along with a free CD for each classroom in your center who would be participating in the lessons. There is no charge for the 4 week trial.
Once teachers and students find how valuable the lessons are, when your center commits to following the program for one year, Exploring Music™ will provide your center with 3 free sets of rhythm instruments: 10 each of castanets, shakers, and scarves. You will be billed 3 months at a time for the cost of $5.00 per CD, per student using the curriculum. Each quarter a new set of CDs and DVDs with new material in the curriculum will be sent and billed to you. Your center may cancel future shipments by giving us 30 days notice before the next quarter starts. All purchases are 100% guaranteed with a 30 day money back guarantee.
Lisa Adams, the creator of Exploring Music™, will be available by email or phone, to answer questions and would be available for a teacher training session to help teachers get the most out of the curriculum.
You will also have access to our website with a special section for tips for centers.