Music Making for Early Years - Water - Gedling Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Join our fun family learning course aimed at families with babies and children under the age of 4. This practical course will give ideas about how to support your child with music. Music-making provides an engaging and enjoyable activity for everyone and is led by our friendly and experienced Primary Music Specialist and Jolly Music teacher. We have a water theme covering: the sea, ponds and all the creatures as well as rowing the boat (bonus verses!). Come and meet the knitted frogs (they all have different names) to help us with our counting songs. All the EYMM course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals and the 2020 Development Matters Guidelines. On this course, we will: Explore songs and instruments with your little one on the theme of water. Build your own musical confidence in pulse and rhythm. You’ll learn how to support your child by reading and playing simple musical rhythms. Use key signs in songs, helping support your child’s language development. What will learners achieve by the end of the course? To keep a steady beat (heartbeat/pulse) to Jolly Music Songs: ‘Rain is Falling Down’. Jolly Music - To clap/use instruments to tap the rhythm of a short piece of music using ‘frog and monkey’. To sing and sign: turtle, frog, sea, boat, fish. To sing the Jolly Phonic songs for Stage 1 and the actions for each letter sound. To explore the guiro, rainstick and ocean drum instruments. To use scarves and ribbons with ‘The Aquarium’ from The Carnival of the Animals.

Booking your place and fee information

Booking your place and fee information If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https www.inspireculture.org.uk skills learning funding your courses Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course. To enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years. Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Greater London Greater Manchester Liverpool City Region Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Tees Valley West of England West Midlands West Yorkshire