- Teaching and Learning
- Overview
Return to Headlines
Family Center Cultivates Students’ Lifelong Love of Music
Music education is a key component of the District’s early childhood curriculum. Each week, Music Specialist Tara Hoisington visits the Family Center’s classrooms to lead students and their teachers in a 30-minute session, which includes small movement, large movement, instrument play, story songs and more. Students learn the fundamentals of music through modeling by Hoisington, their classroom teachers, parents, grandparents and other classroom volunteers. These important adults show students that music is fun, and they encourage students to experiment with music.
During Hoisington’s recent visit to the Purple and Red Rooms, students experimented with music by becoming the music-makers themselves. They sang songs, played the drums, clapped their hands and waved scarves to the beat of the music.
Throughout the rest of each week, classroom teachers carry on the exploration of music in informal ways. This focus on music helps students develop fine and gross motor skills, pre-literacy and pre-math skills and social-emotional skills while they sing, dance, have fun and cultivate a lifelong love of music.
During Hoisington’s recent visit to the Purple and Red Rooms, students experimented with music by becoming the music-makers themselves. They sang songs, played the drums, clapped their hands and waved scarves to the beat of the music.
Throughout the rest of each week, classroom teachers carry on the exploration of music in informal ways. This focus on music helps students develop fine and gross motor skills, pre-literacy and pre-math skills and social-emotional skills while they sing, dance, have fun and cultivate a lifelong love of music.