Curriculum

Priscilla's Musik'n'Motion specializes in the very important pre-instrumental early childhood developmental years - from three months to 6 years of age.  Our classes are predominantly based on the Musikgarten USA curriculum which offers an age-appropriate comprehensive sequential plan for musical development.  Based on over 30 years of research, Musikgarten has created a curriculum that meets the developmental needs of all children.  We are the first Musikgarten licensed curriculum in Hong Kong. 

We use additional songs and activities from Lynn Kleiner's series of books.  Lynn has over 20 years experience making music with children and is considered a leader in the early childhood music education field.

Priscilla's Musik'n'Motion is a proud member and is fully accredited by the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association (ECMMA USA). 

In a world that often confuses entertainment with education, classes at Priscilla's Musik'n'Motion are educational, purposeful and fun where favourite songs, stories and dances are revisited and built upon - making learning easy where every child is successful.  All of our materials are pedagogically sound and are age-appropriate to meet the musical needs of your children. 

For more information, visit Musikgarten USA, Lynn Kleiner's Music Rhapsody, and the ECMMA websites.
 

Our Programs Include:

• Family Music for Babies (3 months - 15 Months)

• Family Music for Toddlers - (15 Months - 4 years)

• Cycle of Seasons (4 years to 5 years)

 

Basic Elements and Musical Activities:

Creative imagination, singing, instruments and movement are the basic elements we use to make music come alive.  As a child progresses through the program, favourite songs, stories and dances are revisited and extended, building upon what the child has already learned and enjoyed.  This appeals to all involved and fosters a sense of security, achievement and satisfaction. 

Musical activities include:

• Singing / Pitch matching

• Story Telling / Listening

• Stationary and Traveling Movement

• Instruments

• Creative Mime

• Finger Play / Body Awareness

• Massage / Tickle Rhymes

• Imaginative Play and Improvisation

• Poetry

• Partner / Group Dance

• Puppetry

• Chant Rhymes

• Musical Interpretation
  
   

Family Music for Babies
(3 months - 15 Months)
Class time: 45 minutes

All babies are born with an aptitude for music. But research shows that their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to nurture a child's music aptitude is through active music making. By singing and dancing for and with our children in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles we are helping our children reach their full music potential.

This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.

Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games and echo singing.

Program Highlights:

• Bonds the child and parent/caregiver.
• Introduces playful musical activities.
  •  Bouncing and Rocking songs.
  • Wiggle and peek-a-boo games.
  • Singing, dancing and moving.
• Teacher plays the role of coach
• Parents/caregivers learn ways to play musically with their babies in arms.

Benefits:

• Nurtures a bond of love and security.
• •Increases child’s curiosity about music.
• Develops child's listening skills and sense of flow and beat through movement.
• Provides model for both parent/caregiver and child.

   

Family Music for Toddlers
(15 Months - 4 years)
Class time: 45 minutes

This class is designed to bring the joy of music and movement to toddlers and their parents/caregivers.

Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed. 

Program Highlights:

• Once babies start walking, everything changes.
  • Children explore and experiment with the world of sound more on their own.
  • These "learners in constant motion" get to sing, chant, move, dance, listen and play simple instruments.
• Stimulates musical interaction between child and parent/caregiver.

Benefits:

• Channels toddler's energy productively.
• Facilitates expression of feelings.
• Assists memory through repetition.
• •Develops further musical aptitude and focused listening.

   

Cycle of Seasons:
Wind Dancers and Sun Catchers
(ages 4 years - 5 years)
Class time: 45 minutes

This class is designed to nurture the emergent independence of the 5 to 6 year old.

Activities include lots of singing, chants and rhymes, listening games, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which nurture the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic environment.

Parents stay for the class, although some of the activities are designed to have the children participate independently of their parents.

Home materials including a CD, songbook, and manipulatives allow the learning and fun to continue at home.

Program Highlights:

• Musical celebration of the four seasons.
  • Activities build on the child's growing independence and competencies.
• Nurtures three old's ability to use language.
  • Capitalizes on the child's delight in dramatic play with musical content.
• Lesson include
  • songs
  • movement activities
  • exploration of instruments and,
  • Imaginative stories for children to make their own.

Benefits:

• Enhances moving, singing and talking skills
• develops listening focused attention and self-expression skills
• Taps into the child's vivid imagination.
• Lays the foundation for creative development via story-telling and play-dance response to poetry.