In early September Brandon and I started attending "Baby and Me" music lessons on Monday afternoons. It's a 45 minute class taught by a lady from Hungry with one of the most beautiful singing voices I've ever heard. The lessons were expensive but I think they are well worth the cost. I had read some articles stating that music helps young children develop skills they'll need for language and math. This was enough to sell me but what sold Brandon had to be the egg shakers . . . or maybe it was the xylophone. Either way it doesn't matter because he loves this class!
I have to admit the class is very well done. There's only eight children in the lesson (Brandon is the lone boy) and each class is highly structured. The children start with marching to the drum and then move into story-telling. The story is short and the teacher sings the story as she's reading it. We then play with drums, egg shakers and bells. We sing songs and classic lullabies. The babies always get to play the xylophone and at the end we dance around with scarves and play peek-a-boo - another Brandon favourite.
I have no way of knowing if these classes will actually improve Brandon's language or math skills later on in life but for now it doesn't matter. All that matters is the smile on his face each time we go to music lessons :)
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