Thursday, March 13, 2014

Enrichment Programs at Yal-Day-New Day Care Center, Inc. – Musical Adventures with Linda!

Enrichment Programs atYal-Day-New Day Care Center, Inc.
Musical Adventures with Linda!
Young Toddlers,Older Toddlers and Preschoolers – Tuesdays at 9 a.m.

Musical Adventuresis a musical enrichment program that Yal-Day-New provides students every Tuesday morning. Linda Nussbaum uses her musicaltalent, instruments, and singing voice to engage the students through songs andbody movements. She correlates her music class with the Jewish holidays,seasons of the year, and classroom curriculum, along with age-appropriatelyrics. Our Young Toddler, Older Toddler, and Preschool classrooms enjoy makingbeautiful music with the instruments and singing while Linda plays thekeyboard! Linda uses puppets, props, dance movements, games, and instrumentsthroughout her class.

The focus of Musical Adventures is to:

1) understand, at increasingly challenging levels,differences between quiet/loud, fast/slow, high/low, and smooth/bumpy sounds

2) build an awareness of how to maintain and hear asteady beat, and begin to understand how rhythm compares with a beat

3) use songs to enhance the Secular and Judaiccurriculum of the school

4) develop the skills to sing on pitch, buildcomfort with singing and/or performing both individually and as a group

5) explore simple instruments and their sounds;hear and recognize different instruments and/or singing voices

6) have fun with friends and teachers whilesinging, dancing and playing instruments!


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