On Wednesday we held our third mainly music session. The aim of mainly music is to provide an environment where preschool children develop skills to enhance their preschool education, through the use of music, rhythm, rhyme, and other music related activities with the participation of a parent or primary caregiver.Each week, parents and caregivers bring their children for a thirty minute session of music, rhyme, movement, listening and more. The adults must participate in the session, and in fact, it is vital that they do so, because this encourages the children to enter into the actions and singing.
At this session, adults and children are given morning tea. This allows time for children to enjoy each others company, and to develop social skills. It also allows those adults who don’t have a wide circle of friends to be introduced to others who have preschoolers and they are therefore able to “learn” from each other.
At present, there are no families with young children attending worship services at Healesville. Commencing mainly music is one way that we can connect with families in Healesville (and wider - we have mums coming from the Upper Yarra too!).
I'm the computer operator - with PowerPoint and iTunes used each week. As soon as I can train someone else to do this, I will hand over the baton, and hopefully will see not only leaders develop, but allow myself to do other things!
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