Music is a universal language that engages both the brain and the body.
Music Kids is based on the Orff Schulwerk method of musical education. This approach focuses on improvisation, use of body percussion and vocal expression. Through song and movement, children begin to learn how to match pitch, experience a steady beat and sing together. Using drums and assorted percussion instruments, children develop the ability to recognize and play rhythmic patterns.
Each Music Kids class engages children in a myriad of different musical actives through the use of the body, percussion instruments, puppets, drums, rhythm sticks, shaky eggs, parachutes, and movement.
Music Kids classes teach basic concepts of music and song: pattern recognition, rhythm and keeping a beat, volume dynamics and vocal control, tempo, pitch, melody, rhyme, and structure. Classes use music to teach age appropriate bench mark skills specifically designed for each age group. Pre-reading skills, color recognition, numbers and counting skills, spatial awareness, matching and grouping, passing, cooperation, and self expression are a few critical concepts taught in class.
Music Kids comes directly to your center bringing an assortment of songs, dances, instruments, and activities that spark children’s musical creativity. Music Kids classes are FUN!!
Music Kids presents material in a way that encourages all children to explore and succeed. Every child is welcomed by making them feel valued, heard, and recognized.
Music Kids teachers are trained to use music as a way to enhance all aspects of learning and community.
Music Kids teachers teach the joy of music.
Music is what feelings sound like.
What is Music Kids?
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. " Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Music Kids nurtures the song-seed in every child.
Music Kids is based on Carl Orff's method of teaching music to young children. This methodology focuses upon improvisation, use of body percussion, and vocal enhancement. Through song and movement, children begin to learn to match pitch accurately and experience steady beat within their own body. Using drums and assorted percussion instruments, we expand on the ability to recognize and play rhythms. In Music Kids, we believe that children learn best by doing and experiencing. Our classes are filled with songs and dance. Through the fun and joy of experiencing music first hand children naturally learn life-long musical skills.
The Innovative Music Kids Program
Each Music Kids class is different because there is no corporately prescribed lesson plan. Marie Hopper, director and founder of Musicare in 1989 from which Music Kids spun off in 2020 by Amy Haywood, hires teachers who first and foremost love children. This draws individuals from many walks of life from MAs in Divinity, nurse practitioners, from the corporate world of Human Resources Realtors and Science, and from professional musicians and singers. Some are dancers, storytellers, writers or puppeteers. Passionate, quirky and dedicated, best describes a typical Music Kids instructor. Music Kids classes are structured so that every teacher brings his or her special gifts to class and is able to design lesson plans that suit the class, the school, the season and the chemistry of every unique group of children. All the teaching materials are provided thus no purchasing is required.
Music Kids – A Flat Corporation
As a woman of profound conscience and integrity, Marie built what she calls a “flat corporation”, this means that no one in Music Kids profits off of another. Each teacher is a independent contractor and retains what he or she earns with the exception of a corporate fee paid for the use of the name, website, and mentoring support or in some substituting situations. As a result, Music Kids recruits incredible teachers for life.