Experience the
Music
A literacy-based curriculum
using
music activities that engage children in singing, focused listening,
movement and the playing of rhythm instruments.
Written by
Joyce Jordan-DeCarbo and Joy Galliford
Experience the Music is an easily understood approach to child wellness
that lends itself with ease to preschool teachers, providing
opportunities for optimal brain development in the early stages of a
child’s life. This researched based innovative musical offering
developed by Joyce Jordan and Joy Galliford is a literacy-based music
curriculum for all children birth through six years of age. The program
incorporates exciting music activities that engage children in singing,
focused listening, movement and the playing of rhythm instruments. The
curriculum, Experience the Music, is divided into four units of
five-week lesson plans. Prior to each unit, teachers participate in a
workshop to prepare them for the up-coming 5-week series of activities.
During each unit, teachers can view the activities on line as Dr.
Galliford demonstrates how to implement them in a real classroom
setting. Teachers can then implement the activities on a daily
basis. This process continues throughout the 20 week curriculum.
Parents are also involved in this curriculum project by receiving the
Experience the Music parent CD and participating in a age appropriate
weekly homework activity. Through Experience the Music, music becomes a
regular part of a child’s life. Children can be tested at the beginning
and end of the program to determine the growth in their motor,
thinking, language, emotional-social and self-help skills.
Viewers will see that music experience has touched, and will continue
to touch the lives of children, teachers and parents in a fun and
musical way. Through this musical adventure, children will be
truly ready for school.
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