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Classes - Toddler - Family Music (6m-5 years)

Family Music (6m-5 years)

Focus: Our focus is to build a solid musical foundation for the whole family through singing, dancing, and instrument exploration.

What to Expect

Engage with your child/children in a music class, providing opportunities to learn about musical techniques, styles, and instruments. Family music classes support social and emotional development in children aged 6 months to five years and are a great activity for parents to share with their child/children. The multi-sensory nature and fun of making music builds emotional connections and lasting family memories.

Everyone learns at their own pace whilst building a range of songs for the family to share. You and your child will learn through instrument play, song, dance, and games, exploring over twenty different musical styles. Our music leaders support you through the session, helping nurture your child’s physical, cognitive, and social development.

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Benefits of Family Music Classes

Physical: Through movement and instrument exploration, children will have ample opportunity to develop their fine and gross motor skills. Learning music helps children to develop rhythm and balance, whilst encouraging movement. Jumping up and down to the rhythm helps with muscle development, strength, and balance.

Cognitive: Musical play helps activate parts of the brain responsible for music and speech processing. Your child will develop an early appreciation of music as well as language skills. Your little learners develop critical thinking skills through interactive games, play, and music. An immersive musical environment helps toddlers to develop numeracy, literacy, and emotional skills, inspiring creativity.

Social: Through music, you can hear and feel emotions. Tunes can be happy, sad, or even angry. Understanding emotions is crucial for social development. Through family music classes, your child is challenged socially and builds essential skills to support a lifetime of learning. Immersive musical environments help to boost confidence and improve communication skills. Music helps children explore the world and express themselves more easily.

Adults: Learning music through play with your child/children strengthens your bond and helps you connect as a family. Family music classes are a wonderful way to share music with your children of different ages, in an interactive and fun environment. You will learn a range of songs you can sing after the class is over. Music is fun and helps relieve stress, which can be beneficial for parents. Parents and caregivers provide a vital role through active participation in our music classes. Adults can help their children build self-esteem and confidence through musical interaction and play. Family music classes build a sense of community for a child’s caregiver, which has a positive influence on the child thereby fostering social skill development.

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Your child can start music lessons as early as 6 months. Music play has been proven to improve physical, cognitive, and emotional development in babies and toddlers. There is growing evidence that exposing your child to music from birth helps develop a musical sensibility. Musical play helps babies and children to develop their fine and gross motor skills, whilst building a sense of rhythm. Music lessons also help speech and language cognitive development. Family music lessons help boost a child’s confidence, improve communication skills, and help them connect with their emotions.

 

Music lessons at Gymboree aren’t formal. Our musical environment is fun and playful. Family music classes are joyful and interactive, helping toddler development whilst improving the bond between parent/caregiver and child. By age five, most children have built a foundation that has prepared them for more formal music lessons. Informal music play sessions for babies and toddlers are extremely important for their developmental process.

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At the age of three, a child can learn musical skills such as identifying beat and melody and recognising instruments. Family music classes create a musically immersive environment where three-year-olds can develop their physical, cognitive, and emotional skills.

 

Growing research shows that babies and toddlers are at the prime age to develop the mental structures and mechanisms associated with processing music. This will support them later on if they decide to continue learning an instrument. Developing a meaningful relationship with music at a very young age can boost confidence, improve self-expression, and help with communication.

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Learning music is excellent for a toddler’s physical, cognitive, and social development. Through movement and instrument exploration, toddlers develop their fine and gross motor skills. Learning music helps toddlers to develop a sense of rhythm and builds their balance skills. It also supports cognitive development and activates the part of the brain responsible for music, speech processing, and language.

 

Through interactive play and music, toddlers develop problem solving skills, which help them socially. It also helps them feel emotions, which is vital for social development. The benefits of learning music for toddlers also include boosting confidence, inspiring creativity, and improving communication.

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Learning music as a family is excellent for both children and their parents/caregivers. Family music classes help strengthen bonds between a child and their caregiver, improving connections and communication. With a range of songs to learn, families can continue their music journey at home.

 

Adult-child interactive play and music is proven to support a child’s development both physically, cognitively, and emotionally. Adults can support their child’s development through interactive play and music, which helps boost confidence and communication skills. Learning music as a family helps to build community with other families, and this has a positive influence on children and their social development.

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Music play has many benefits for babies as young as 6 months old, including a positive influence on their physical, cognitive, and social development. The relationships and experiences children have in their early months and years have a profound impact on their future lives. Up to 80% of the brain’s neural connections have been created by the age of three.

 

For babies, musical exploration and movement helps to develop their gross and fine motor skills. Learning music supports balance building and helps babies develop a sense of rhythm. It also supports cognitive development, importantly speech and language.

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Babies can start playing with musical instruments, such as exploring sounds on xylophones, tapping on drums, and jingling handbells. As babies grow into toddlers, they can explore more musical instruments and begin to develop a musical understanding. Through interactive family music sessions, playing instruments increases activity in areas of the brain responsible for cognitive skills, focus, and memory. Musical learning also develops cognitive flexibility and helps with self-expression. Music is such an emotional language – songs and instrumental sounds can feel happy or sad depending on their tone. This helps babies and toddlers develop their emotional language and builds their communication skills.

 

The relaxed and play-based musically immersive environment at Gymboree helps build the bond between parent/caregiver and child. It also supports a baby and toddler’s physical, cognitive, and social development – building important foundations for future growth and development.