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Home (current) Online Training The Singing Box Early Years Music Ideas Music Bags Blog About Anne Contact Anne Search Log in Training and Musical Activity Ideas for Early Years Practitioners. Online Training Available to purchase NOW: Magical Music Time . For you, if you work with Toddlers, Preschoolers or Reception children and you would like help with the content of a music time! READ MORE Musical Elements For you, if you want to take the children's musical experience to the next stage by also exploring the Music Elements. READ MORE Music Time Bundle . Get Magical Music Time and Musical Elements at a reduced price! READ MORE Music and the 7 Areas of Learning For you, if you work with Toddlers, Preschoolers or Reception children and would like to use music to help more children shine in their learning! READ MORE Music and Schemas For you, if you work with Toddlers, Preschoolers or Reception children and would like to explore how you can use music activities to explore schemas. READ MORE Baby Music For you, if you care for a child/ren from Birth to ~ 18 months (non -walkers) READ MORE Available to purchase again December 2020 Singing and Rhymes with the Under 5s. For you, if you work with children from ~2 to 5 Years. READ MORE In Person Training Are you looking for early years music inset training? Click Here to see if I can help Early Years Music Ideas Are you looking for early years music ideas that link to different topics/themes, children’s interests, a book… ? On the Early Years Music Ideas website there are song, rhymes, rhythmic, instrument and listening activity ideas. “Magical Music Time Online Training: “I enjoyed the videos and weekly challenges. It was great to do things step by step, building on my learning” ” Sam Boyd Sam Boyd's Childminding “Baby Music Online Training: "The training has helped me with my role in the baby room. Having more confidence and thinking of new ideas to bring. I have found I'm singing and using tunes for more things line tidy up time and washing hands time."” Sarah Shanks Annie's Nursery “Singing and Rhymes for the U5s Online Training: "I work in a setting with age ranges from 2-4 and this course has given a good understanding and the knowledge to make singing time fun for all and how to develop each childs singing skills to the next stage. Lots of new ideas to implement in my work setting. This course is very informative and stays on topic. I have worked with children for over 15 years and this course is going to help me to enhance my singing sessions."” Lisa Cheshire “Musical Elements Online Training “I enjoyed the fact that everything was explained simply so that if you were learning about music for the first time you could understand everything.”” Jenny Hughes “Music and the 7 Areas of Learning Online Training: "I really enjoyed finding out how to include music in maths, and through stories- steady beats and singing elements. Also receiving a lot of info on different music to listen to with the children. I shall definitely be buying a friendship ring, and have already implemented a better structure to exploring different musical instruments - really helping me plan my phase 1 phonics. Great ideas! Thank you!"” Louise “Music and Schemas Online Training: Lots of ideas to keep and use in the future. Different ways of thinking about schemas, that you may not even have thought about before. Like the use of songs we all know such as "driving in your car" and music such as zorba the greek will be just fantastic to do our music and dancing with. Much better than just dancing to same old songs and nursery rhymes that we usually use.” Kathy's childminding My Blog Jan 30, 2020 02:35pm · By Anne Hole · Under Musical Elements Musical Opposites When I get the instruments out with the children, I hear many of them shaking/banging/scraping as fast and/or hard as they can. Does this sound familiar? I find most children love playing as loud and fast as they can although there are a few who prefer to play quietly and maybe slowly. We can use this to our advantage when exploring sound as we can encourage the children to explore opposites in music, two examples being dynamics (loud and quiet) and tempo (speed: fast/slow) Dynamics... Read more… Jan 30, 2020 02:35pm · By Anne Hole · Under Musical Elements Oct 17, 2019 01:52pm · By Anne Hole · Under Schemas Round in a Circle Some children love to move around and around, whether that be spinning on the spot or running around in a circle. As many songs/rhymes include moving in a circle or spinning around we can use these to help explore a child’s need to spin, twirl, twist…. and also encourage those to try who wouldn’t normally choose to rotate. So, it is worth having a collection of ‘round in a circle’ songs and rhymes that you can call on. Here are 3 that I... Read more… Oct 17, 2019 01:52pm · By Anne Hole · Under Schemas Sep 25, 2019 11:01am · By Anne Hole · Under The Importance of Music in the Early Years How Can Music Help in the Prime Areas of Learning? Music can help in all 7 Areas of Learning. In this blog, I'm going to go through how you could use music to help with the Prime Areas of Learning: Communication and Language, Physical Development, and Personal, Social and Emotional Development. Using Songs/Rhymes to help with Communication and Language Why? Opportunity for children to: Listen to rhythmic patterns Recap words Be introduced to new words Help them understand words Say simple sentences... plus much more What can... 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