Did you know that music is a crucial part of what makes us human? We are all born musical. We are wired that way. Music is embedded within us and somehow it gets "taught out of us" throughout our early years and our schooling years. Some children grow up without opportunities to nurture their musical intelligence. This is devastating to me...

Here are a few articles and videos that I have found useful when researching about how music impacts brain development in the early years and beyond.

Music and Movement for Infants and Toddlers: Naturally Wonder-full 
By Dr John Feierabend

MMADD about the Arts: An introduction to primary arts education
By D. Russell-Bowie (2014)

• "Music in schools contributes to both, instrumental and aesthetic learning outcomes; transmission of cultural heritage and values; and, students' creativity, identity and capacity for self-expression and satisfaction."
• "Music needs to be experienced, not just through listening, but by making music - by playing, improvising, composing, organising sound, moving and singing." 

I get asked this so often! When I meet someone for the first time and it gets to the questions about my profession, the first myth I come across is that learning music = learning an instrument so therefore teaching music = teaching an instrument. So when I tell people I teach babies (and preschool aged children) there is a lot of confusion about how you teach music to babies. I like to refer to it as how you 'do music' with babies and young children. So here's what we do...