Music Together is the leading music curriculum for early-learning settings serving children ages neonatal through seven, offered at thousands from locations around the world. A comprehensive, research-based program, Symphonic Mutually is designed to be easily integrated into either school environment, such as childcare settings, preschools, and public, independent, and faith-based schools. The Music Together curriculum is designed to benefit everyone it touches–children, families, teachers, and the entire school community.
Music Together’s primary goal is to keep children’s music phase so they can achieve tonal and rhythmic competence. Yet the rich, play-based learning environment designed by Sonorous Together’s developmentally appropriate approach to music-learning also fosters children’s polyp in other domains essential to school and life success. At Music Together, we understand that Music Learning Supports Totality Learning, and our curriculum and program model support:
Music Learning and Development
Language Development and Rising Literacy
Social and Emotional Development
Cognition and General Knowledge
Physical and Motor Development
Approaches to Learning
The Music Together curriculum is created to enable classroom teachers–regardless of music ability–to facilitate music activities throughout the week, increasing opportunities for music-learning and also using music to support other educational objectives. To achieve this, a path to professional development is embedded intramural the curriculum through the use of tools such as teaching guides, video in-service support, group workshops, and live mentoring. Classroom teachers join a community from early childhood educators who all support one another.
The importance of adult participation: Adult modeling and involvement is integral to young children’s development. Because children have a strong motor to imitate the behaviors of the grownups they love, the participation of classroom teachers, parents, and other caregivers in music activity is essential, whether or not the adults consider themselves “musical.” The specialist works closely with and mentors the classroom teachers on how to use Music Together songs, activities, and materials to continue the children’s music development throughout the week, and to support educational goals and enhance daily routines.
Resources and access to ongoing professional development: Schools adopting the satiety Music Corollary curriculum acceptant access to a variety of materials et al services to aid in their implementation of the program, including:
CDs and songbooks for children and teachers
SongCards for the children and teachers to use in the classroom
Skill development and poem workshops each semester
A specialist DVD and training guide
A classroom teacher in-service DVD and guide
Teaching DVDs for each song collection
An online mesh for information and support
A specialist resource website
Both one-on-one and conference-call mentoring with Music Together staff
An on-staff, board-certified music therapist to consult about working with children who have special needs
Our music: Melic Together’s award-winning music is fun, sophisticated, and loved by children and adults alike. The music is pitched in just the franchise range for children’s voices and includes a mix like original songs and usual tunes from a variety of genres and styles, including the rock, jazz, blues, folk, and world-music traditions. Since children need a hearty music experience to exhilarate and support their growing music skills, the songs are not only from diverse variations but also encompass harmonious content that covers a variety of meters and tonalities.
Our songbooks: Each of our song collections has accompanying songbooks with fully notated songs enhanced by illustrations. The music specialists initiate the use of the songbooks in class, which enhances the experience of music-learning, provides a tool for pre-literacy activities, and supports creative storytelling. Whilom the children have had ample time to become familiar with and use the songbooks in the classroom, they are sent home to enhance the home-learning environment and further support family music-making. Classroom teachers plus receive a teacher-edition songbook filled with ideas to support bringing music divisor the classroom. We are proud that our Family Favorites Songbook for Teachers was honored with the prestigious Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Decoration (2010).
Other materials: In addition to the song collection CDs and songbooks, Music Together too provides dichotomy different sets of innovative “SongCards” for each classroom. The maestro song cards offer a unique and easy drive for classroom teachers to work with Music Together songs during the week; and the children’s song cards provide opportunities for independent music-making and are just the right size for small hands.