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Drum Club for Kids
Class dates: March 20, 10-11am- our last class until Novmeber
In November, '10 - March, '11 we will offer the
Saturday, Drum Club for Kids again.
Note: 2nd Saturdays are still for ages 3 and up and their families.
Weekly drumming classes for kids ages 4-7,
just $10/child per class - cash or check only
For Drum Club for Kids: Fun parents who like to drum can attend at no cost, or let your child drum without you. We'll send home a summary sheet for each week's lesson.
In these weekly sessions we have fun with rhythms, hand drums, stick drums, and movement and more while learning about percussion from around the world. Stories, games, and a bit of technique are all included in the kids drum club. Occasionally we will experiment with found sound percussion, even making our own instruments and playing them as a group! Great indoor activity that exercises the brain and the body!
Be sure to join us every 2nd Saturday for the Family Rhythm Jam.
Fun drumming games for ages 3 and up.
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Kids' Hand Drumming Class includes:
- Body percussion like clapping, stepping, tapping and whapping
- Hand drumming on African drums like djembes, ashikos and dun-duns
- Hand percussion like shakers, bells and rhythm sticks and boomwhackers
- Steady beat and rhythms using word phrases (mnemonics), rhythm games, and stories involving percussion.
- Parent learns activities to do with kids at home, and an extended learning summary sheet is provided each week.
Kid's Stick Drumming includes:
Sticking technique on standing snares and tom-tom.
Mallet techique on bass drum.
Rock beat rhtyms that kids love.
Also all summary sheets included.
How Drumming Helps Development in Children
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| Kids and parents drum together in Developmental Drumming class |
- Develops left & right brain integration for improved academic skills
- Builds non-verbal communication like hand, eye and ear co-ordination
- Creates a co-operative rather than competitive
- Promotes socialization
- Enhances family bonding
- Promotes individuality and leadership skills
- Builds self-esteem
- Offers a multi-cultural experience that breaks down cultural, gender and age barriers
- Promotes individuals uniqueness and their important contribution to the group
- It's Fun Fun Fun.
Advice for Parents
With such a vast selection of musical instruments, where you start? CLICK HERE for LP's Steps 'n Stages approach to early childhood music education. We sell all these offerings!
Basically you want to encourage development of beat competency in your child. This can be done with body percussion like clapping or stepping and musical instruments like rhythm sticks and drums.
You want to start with steady beat, like 1 2 3 4 and then move to rhtyms, like 1 2 & 3 4. We really like the Mommy & Me rhythm exercises provided by LP RhythMix.
Note: We like to call them Mommy and Daddy & Me. Check them out!
How about encouraging beat competency, fun and family bonding with an EXPLORE! Rhythm Jam with Family & Friends. This guide shows you how to have hands-on, rhythm education and fun with your family.
Encourage your child to make music with the most natural and accessible of all musical instruments: drums!
Why Music?
Music has the power to engage, relax, and energize us… and has also been shown to make children smarter. In studies conducted by early childhood specialists, preschoolers who received regular music lessons over several months showed marked advantages over their playmates who did not. Children dramatically improved their abilities to work mazes, copy patterns of color, and draw geometric figures. These skills reflect spatial intelligence, the foundation for more complex types of reasoning (such as those used in math and science).
Music has been found to stimulate every area of the developing brain, and similar studies with youngsters have linked early musical exposure to superior motor skills and even social abilities. Although the ability to learn continues throughout life, hands-on participation in music between the ages of three and ten seems to train the brain for higher thinking, and children who miss out on the fun of playing music may also miss some critical developmental opportunities.
Essentially, music provides a healthy, natural and invaluable opportunity for individual expression while encouraging the development of the whole child, enhancing cognitive, social, physical, and emotional skills.
The fact that MUSIC IS FUN should not be underestimated. Stimulating, amusing activities like playing music will capture and hold your child's interest and satisfy their craving for fun, while providing them with invaluable lessons that will endure the rest of their lives.
How Playing Music Can Benefit Your Child
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| Families drum together |
- Aids academic aptitudes in mathematics, science, and the arts
- Promotes large and small motor development
- Increases scholastic participation
- Teaches the value of achieving goals
- Cultivates concentration and focused listening
- Fosters early vocal development and enhanced social abilities
- Bolsters self image and self assurance
- Encourages parent/child bonding
- Inspires self-sufficiency and appreciation for teamwork
Why Music from RhythMix learning guide.
© Kaman Music Corporation, 2004
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