BMS • Bilingual Montessori School, LLC
Music, Movement & Yoga
MUSIC
This unique program teaches the fundamentals of music through vocal, instrumental, movement, and listening skills. The curriculum consists of signing, instrument playing, musical concepts, music listening, creative movement, music history, and multi-cultural music experiences.
Singing, vocal development
Expansion of vocal range
Developing good musical memory through songs
Encouraging solo singing
Instrument playing
Playing and exploring percussion and simple barred instruments
Musical concepts
Developing musical vocabulary in relation to musical sound
Music listening
Learning to identify orchestral instruments
Identifying characteristics of music in other cultures
Expressive, creative movement to music
Exploring new ways to moving and dancing to music
Creating flowing movements with scarves and ribbons
Exploring patterned movements with partner or group
Music history
Learning about the lives of famous composers during story time
Multi-cultural music experiences
Introducing music from around the world
Exploring unique folk instruments from many different countries
This unique program teaches the fundamentals of music through vocal, instrumental, movement, and listening skills. The curriculum consists of signing, instrument playing, musical concepts, music listening, creative movement, music history, and multi-cultural music experiences.
Singing, vocal development
Expansion of vocal range
Developing good musical memory through songs
Encouraging solo singing
Instrument playing
Playing and exploring percussion and simple barred instruments
Musical concepts
Developing musical vocabulary in relation to musical sound
Music listening
Learning to identify orchestral instruments
Identifying characteristics of music in other cultures
Expressive, creative movement to music
Exploring new ways to moving and dancing to music
Creating flowing movements with scarves and ribbons
Exploring patterned movements with partner or group
Music history
Learning about the lives of famous composers during story time
Multi-cultural music experiences
Introducing music from around the world
Exploring unique folk instruments from many different countries
MOVEMENT
Our Movement program is a fun and effective balanced exercise plan designed especially for children. It develops and refines individual agility, balance and coordination skills as well as focusing on gross motor skills and spatial awareness.
Throughout the class, all the children are moving and are involved equally. A variety of equipment is used throughout the sessions including hoops, beanbags, juggling scarves, and rhythm sticks, which allows each child to practice concentration, balance, and listening skills.
Overall the class aims to encourage all children to enjoy and replicate fun non-competitive games and help them discover a more active and healthy lifestyle.
Our Movement program is a fun and effective balanced exercise plan designed especially for children. It develops and refines individual agility, balance and coordination skills as well as focusing on gross motor skills and spatial awareness.
Throughout the class, all the children are moving and are involved equally. A variety of equipment is used throughout the sessions including hoops, beanbags, juggling scarves, and rhythm sticks, which allows each child to practice concentration, balance, and listening skills.
Overall the class aims to encourage all children to enjoy and replicate fun non-competitive games and help them discover a more active and healthy lifestyle.
YOGA
Montessori argued that healthy children are naturally drawn to a sense of the spiritual: reflectiveness, good will, a love of work, and so on. This is the root of the "normalized child"-the positive model of health and intelligence that all Montessorians are called to facilitate.
Introducing yoga to the Montessori classroom is one way we promote the normalized child.
Small children are naturally oriented toward process rather than performance. It's possible to train small children for performance. But it forces them into directions that are usually difficult and often counterproductive. As Piaget pointed out, small children are naturally egocentric; they have difficulty imagining the points of view of others.
One of the key insights in Montessori is to stimulate human development to provide children with opportunities for satisfying encounters with satisfying, engaging work-work which attracts children through "points of interest" rooted in critical developmental issues. These are issues (such as the seven Piagetian conservation problems) that the child can't quite understand but that intrigue and puzzle and draw the child in.
Yoga is part of our normal work day and fully integrated into the environment.
Montessori argued that healthy children are naturally drawn to a sense of the spiritual: reflectiveness, good will, a love of work, and so on. This is the root of the "normalized child"-the positive model of health and intelligence that all Montessorians are called to facilitate.
Introducing yoga to the Montessori classroom is one way we promote the normalized child.
Small children are naturally oriented toward process rather than performance. It's possible to train small children for performance. But it forces them into directions that are usually difficult and often counterproductive. As Piaget pointed out, small children are naturally egocentric; they have difficulty imagining the points of view of others.
One of the key insights in Montessori is to stimulate human development to provide children with opportunities for satisfying encounters with satisfying, engaging work-work which attracts children through "points of interest" rooted in critical developmental issues. These are issues (such as the seven Piagetian conservation problems) that the child can't quite understand but that intrigue and puzzle and draw the child in.
Yoga is part of our normal work day and fully integrated into the environment.