• Family Music for Preschoolers CD or
digital download.
One Video to Watch with Your
Child
• Musik at Home Greeting Song. Invite
your child to participate by choosing his/
her own motion for a greeting!
Next Steps!
If you’d like to do more with your child at
home, online music classes at mymusik
athome.com for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners provide an
immediate avenue to enrich your child’s
musical and intellectual development. The
video classes are also designed to help parents learn new ways to incorporate music
into everyday life at home. The classes can
be done at a time that works for you and
your child’s homeschooling schedule.
For live music classes, look for opportunities at your local community center or
find a Musikgarten class near you.
A young child’s early experiences with
music are crucial for lifelong intellectual
and musical development. Wouldn’t it be
spectacular if every child could have access
to consistent music education? Let’s start
today!
Kathryn Brunner
Kathryn Brunner, M.A., is an early childhood music educator passionate about child
development and music literacy. She is a
licensed and certified Musikgarten instructor, piano teacher, and founder of Musik at
Home, offering Musikgarten’s developmentally sequenced classes by way of video to enable you to bring the benefits of early music
education into your home school. She’ll help
you enjoy priceless musical moments of family connection while giving your child a solid
foundation on the path to music literacy.
Endnotes
1. Collins, Anita. TED-ED: “How Playing an Instrument Affects Your Brain.” Retrieved July 31,
2017 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
R0JKCYZ8hng.
2. Trainor, L. J., Shahin, A. J., & Roberts, L. E. (2009).
Understanding the benefits of musical train-ing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
1169 ( 1).
3. Collins, Anita. TedX: “What if every child had access to music education from birth?” Retrieved
July 24, 2017 from https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ueqgenARzlE&t=2s.
4. Skoe, E., & Kraus, N. (2012). “A little goes a long
way: how the adult brain is shaped by musical
training in childhood.” The Journal of Neuroscience, 32( 34).
5. Gordon, Edwin. (2011). “Music Learning Theory
Part 1.” Retrieved July 24, 2017 from https://www
. youtube.com/watch?v=XRUCZp9uYOM.
6. Kraus, Nina & Bharath Chandrasekaran. (2010).
Music training for the development of auditory
skills. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11. 599-605.
7. Collins, Anita. TedX: “What if every child had access to music education from birth?” Retrieved
July 24, 2017 from https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ueqgenARzlE&t=2s.
8. Collins, Anita. “Music & Literacy Education is
Money Well Spent.” Retrieved July 24, 2017 from
http://www.anitacollinsmusic.com/bigger-better-
brains/naplan2016.
9. Collins, Anita. “Music & Literacy Education is
Money Well Spent.” Retrieved July 24, 2017 from
http://www.anitacollinsmusic.com/bigger-better-
brains/naplan2016.
10. Gordon, Edwin E. A Music Learning Theory for
Newborn and Young Children. Chicago: GIA
Publications, 1990. pp 2-3.
Music opens up an entirely new world to a child.
