MUSIC PLAY at Wee Play Summer
Schedule
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8-Week Classes
at Wee Play start July 6
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Class A
9:30-10:15 a.m. |
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Wee Play |
*$144.00 |
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Class B
10:30-11:15 a.m. |
Monday
0-5 years |
Wee Play |
*$144.00 |
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Monday
0-5 years |
Wee Play |
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*One sibling free OR pay only for the days you will attend (one offer
only).
Contact
Heather Smith at musicplayva@aol.com to register.
Registration in a Music Play class at Wee Play entitles
participants to discounted Open Play!
MUSIC PLAY classes are part of an innovative program designed to develop
the music potentials of young children. Current research is showing that music
is best learned if informal music guidance is begun as early in life as possible. Children
may participate in the MUSIC PLAY program from birth through age five.
Each child’s readiness for achievement in later formal
music instruction will be enhanced under the guidance of the music teacher. Each
child’s natural inclinations for chanting, singing, playing instruments and moving are guided by the teacher as the
child progresses through the stages of music development. All MUSIC
PLAY classes require that a parent or caregiver participates with the child.
Children and caregivers are informally
guided to participate in singing, chanting, movement, and instrument activities. Those
activities may become part of the songs and games children love to sing and play at home.
In addition, parents and caregivers will be guided in the enhancement of their child’s music development. Songs and chants include a variety of original compositions, folk songs, as well as
traditional children’s songs and chants.
Heather M. Smith, Director of
MUSIC PLAY, is a former elementary music teacher for the Loudoun County Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools. Formerly, she was also the music teacher at the Lake Anne Nursery Kindergarten, and
is currently the children’s choir director at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Reston. She holds Bachelors degrees in Music Education and Voice Performance from the State
University of New York at Buffalo, and a Masters Degree in Music Education from the University of South Carolina. She has assisted in numerous early childhood research projects including her Masters
thesis project entitled Vocal Responses of Two Infants to Three Criterion Songs.
She was also one of six music teachers featured on the PBS Documentary Music Play: Ba Ba, Be-Bop, Beethoven.
www.musicplayva.com
