Make the most of music

In this Music Notebook, we give you an exclusive preview of an Éveil musical guide that will be available soon. We continue to expand our repertoire with songs and nursery rhymes about animals. Finally, we offer a selection of instruments for sharing musical moments with your family.

Follow our guide

As you may recall, Éveil musical sessions were introduced in the Carrefour francophone de Sudbury’s Early Childhood Centres thanks to a collaboration with the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra. This initiative was fueled by dialogue with a research group specializing in music education.

As part of the Éveil musical program for young children, the partners developed an Éveil musical Guide for families and educators. The guide shares knowledge and tools that enable everyone to cultivate young children’s interest in music. Each family and childcare centre at the Carrefour will soon receive a hard copy of the guide. In the meantime, here is a preview of what you will find in it:

  • An introduction to the concept of Éveil musical;
  • An explanation of the benefits of Éveil musical;
  • Nursery rhymes with lyrics, a QR code to listen to them, and the skills they help toddlers develop;
  • Practical advice for parents;
  • Practical advice for educators.

Make the most of songs and nursery rhymes

Listening to music and singing along are wonderful ways to have fun as a family. We offer several songs and nursery rhymes about our furry, feathered, and scaly friends: animals. Since we offer a wide selection of songs, we have classified them according to whether the animals are alone or in groups and whether they are in the air, on the ground, or in the water.

Animals in groups and with family

Animals in the air

Animals on the ground

Animals in water and under the rain

Make the most of instruments to discover

As in previous issues of Music Notebooks, we offer some ideas for enjoying musical moments with your family. In this issue, we suggest a few options if you want to buy or make musical instruments.

You do not need to have a sense of rhythm or extensive musical knowledge; anyone can have fun with instruments. It’s not for nothing that we call this activity “playing music”!

First, we offer ideas for small, inexpensive instruments that won’t clutter up your home. Next, we present two ideas for instruments you can make yourself using items found in your kitchen.

Small instruments at low prices

  1. Percussion egg
  2. Castanets
  3. Harmonica
  4. Bell, bell stick or bell bracelet
  5. Bell

 

Our sources
Egg : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Two_egg_shakers.jpg
Bell stick : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SleighBells.jpg
Bell : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Small_bell.svg
Castanets : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castanets.jpg
Harmonica : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marine_Band_harmonica.jpg

Homemade instruments

  1. Cookware (made from stainless steel bowls, pots, and one or two old wooden spoons)
  2. Musical spoons (made from two tablespoons held between your fingers)

We will see you again in a month for another Music Notebook, when the ground may already be covered in snow!