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• Music Together
• Music Together Mixed Age classes
• Music Together Big Kids
• Piano Lessons
• preschool music and movement classes
• young children music classes
• parent and child music classes
• early childhood learning

Fundraisers We Support

• Ruby Mountain Resource Center,
• Kidz Kabin DayCare/PreSchool

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About Us

Janice Collett, Music Together

Igniting Creativity: We do it with Music!

As parents we want healthy, happy, capable children, and the greatest gift we can give our children is creativity and flexibility to deal with our changing, challenging world. To ignite creativity I recommend music!

Music provides a special gateway into the creative brain because music uses more of the brain than any other activity we humans know. Even tiny babies react to music.

We dance, chant, and sing in Music Together classes to stimulate the creative brain. All children are creative and musical, if they grow up in an environment rich in creative, musical experiences. There is no time when a child learns more rapidly than the months right after birth. The brain begins, around age 6, 7, 8, to shift to an analytical/adult way of thinking, so it’s important we expose children to music and movement while they’re very young.

Young children before about age 8 learn differently from adults. They learn through play. It has been said that “play” is a child’s “work:” freely chosen and directed by the child, and it must be fun. During play the child experiments much as a scientist does. Pieces from ordinary life are seriously “practiced” over and over. How many times can a parent read a favorite storybook before the child tires? The adult will tire long before the child. “Read it again Daddy.”

Music Together classes capitalize on the child’s love of play with no “rules.” The child explores and teaches himself. Areas in the brain specially set aside for language and music learning are stimulated by the environment. If not stimulated by age 7 or 8 these neural centers are shunted off or used for something else. It’s more difficult to learn to carry a tune, keep a rhythm, or learn another language in adult years. Easier for the young child because the brain, while young and still in the process of forming, responds readily to musical stimuli. Never is learning more rapid than during the very early months after birth.

Music Together classes make wonderful gifts for young children and grandchildren, too! Call me, 753-7825, for special “Gift Certificates” for those you love. Music Together classes begin Jan 3, 2012: Mondays and Tuesdays in the mornings and an evening class Tuesdays.