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Spaces available! Continuous intake throughout the year. Twinkling Tots is a group music class for newborns, babies and toddlers (0-3yrs) and their parents. The Twinkling Tots class invloves learning basic music, social and developmental skills. Class TimesTuesday's @ St Ninians Church, Karori 9.30-10.30am Twinkling Tots Class Thursday's @ Laura Fergusson Trust, 18 Laura Fergusson Drive, Naenae 9.30-10.30am Twinkling Tots Class Click here to enrol or email Emma
About the MusicThe music we use in class includes traditional folk songs, lullabies and rhymes. You may be singing some at home already or your parents may have sung them to you. They all tell simple stories or describe experiences that can be related to by all. What to do at HomePart of the curriculum is a CD recording of the music used in class. Play the recording at home at different times of the day. Dance with your child letting them feel body movement and the beat. Small children love to be bounced, walked and wheeled around the room to music. Hum or sing them as you perform routine activities with your baby, such as changing or feeding to establish special listening times. Children respond positively to repetition. Adults however, often become impatient. A child needs sufficient observation of a new activity to boldly try it for the first time. Cajoling, coercion, forcing and begging do not often produce good and lasting results. Babies and toddlers develop many of the following skills through the use of this repertoire of lullabies, nursery rhymes and action songs. As you repeat them at home, you will begin to observe your baby trying to imitate your sound. They will watch the actions and gradually begin to do them. Enjoy this process and celebrate each new development, just as you do when the baby utters those first few words.
Listening and Sequencing Skills Follows simple directions Listens carefully Recognises common sounds Repeats a sequence of sounds Understanding Size Big sound, small sound Big movement, small movement Pitch and Motion Skills High, low, up, down Fast, slow, left, right Number Skills Counts orally 1-10 Counts fingers Knows finger numbers Motor Skills Walks, jumps, hops, runs, marches to music Claps to music Passes ball to music Finger plays (Eency, Weency Spider) Social-Emotional Development Meets teacher without shyness in weekly class Can move away from parent comfortably Maintains self control Develops independence Vocabulary Skills Acquires language Communicates Memorises |
