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MARCH 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE
FEATURED ARTICLES
For Babies (0 to 18 mths)
Your face, your voice
For Toddlers (18 mon. to 3)
Art & Music - Creative Expressions
For Preschoolers (3 to 5)
Combining the Arts
For Big Kids (5 and up)
Erupting with Artistry
Product of the Month
Shake it up mother goose!
Featured Educator
- Leanne Correll
Featured Companies
- Cookies & Cream
Competition Winner
- Tracey Nugent
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The Easter Bunny is coming...
It is that time of year again and we would like to say Happy Easter to all our Kindermusik Parents Club members and your little Kindermusik stars.
With Easter being early this year you're probably feeling like you've just got over the hype from Christmas, tackled the back to school rush and that Easter has just hopped up behind you so here's a few ideas to help you make this easter one of the most fun and creative ever!
Whether you have a baby, toddler, preschooler or big kid, why not steer them away from sugar and chocolate overloads this year and get their imaginations running wild with Easter arts and crafts?
In this edition of Parents Club Newsletter, you can read how creative expression can differ amongst the age groups and what activities are best for your child.
You might also like to give the gift of music this easter rather than chocolates with this months featured product Shake it up Mother Goose featuring our ever popular egg shaker, or browse our online store for more fun and educational easter gift ideas.
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COMPETITION WINNER |
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Winner of a free term of Kindermusik classes
Congratulations to Tracey Nugent of Qld who is this month's winner of one free term of Kindermusik from signing up to receive these Parent Club newsletters and special offers!
We'll be in contact with details of how to redeem your prize shortly.
Meet the educators
Want to know more about the amazing network of educators located throughout Australia and New Zealand ?
Click here to see our growing list of profiles . It might be someone you know!
We welcome your feedback on our newsletter.
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FEATURED PRODUCT OF THE MONTH |
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 Shake it up Mother Goose!
Introduce the joys of rhyming with Mother Goose classics--we've pulled together a CD of our favorites. You'll enjoy re-discovering everything from "Jack and Jill" to "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"!
Then give your baby Kindermusik's famous egg shakers and watch your baby explore her senses. She can feel the sound--by feeling the vibrations she can make with these shakers. You'll get two shakers--one for each hand! We've also included a booklet jammed with activities to share.
Includes: CD, activity booklet, and 2 egg shakers.
Ages: newborn to 4
Usual Price: $16.95
Parent Club Special:$12.95
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Your Face and Your Voice!
 To your baby, your face is a work of art, and your voice is music! At birth, sight is the least developed sense and gazing into your face provides the visual stimulation needed to help your baby overcome sight limitations.
And in the first few months, your babies' hearing is geared toward more high pitched noises - which is remarkably why you instinctively use a slower, high-pitched, and highly expressive speech with wide swings in pitch and loudness.
Just as your face stimulates your child visually, your voice is ideally suited to stimulate your baby's sense of hearing.
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Art and Music - Creative Expressions
 Colouring books have been around for a long time. You coloured, your mother coloured, and your grandmother coloured in colouring books.
If you want a time-filler or a way to keep your child busy, colouring books are fine. On the other hand, if you would like to encourage your toddler to express originality, experiment, and think as well as act creatively – colouring books alone are not the answer.
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Combining the Arts
 It's natural for your preschooler to combine art withmovement, rhymes, music, drama, and dance.
Expression in one art form stimulates greater expressiveness in other arts, and children instinctively treat the arts as interrelated. It is not uncommon for a child to paint as if dancing the brush across the paper and then stand up and dance across the floor in a similar fashion.
For another child upon completion of a well-decorated mask, he might break into a spontaneous drama pretending to be a character who sings to the cat. Through creativity, the elements of pattern, space, rhythm, and contrast overlap and find expression among all of the arts.
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Your big kid is erupting with artistry! This is the time in which most five to seven year olds take new command of expressive media such as music, dance, block building, and storytelling.
After years of practice and more practice, your child can begin to intentionally manipulate materials to create his own ideas. Art gives him the opportunity to represent how he feels, thinks, and visualises.
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Kerry Suter - Queensland
Kerry Suter has lived in Gladstone for the last ten years but prior to this she chased the sun from Sydney to Gold Coast to Brisbane and Townsville before settling in Gladstone to raise her two beautiful kids; Anna, aged 4 and Daniel, aged 2.
Born and raised in Sydney, Kerry has always been a fan of music and playing. A master of the Flute, she has won numerous awards for her performance, she has taught children and been a co-conductor and principle flautist of 11 Brigade Army Reserve Band.
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FEATURED COMPANIES
For the most gorgeous baby and children’s clothing and much, much more, check out Cookies and Cream online store.
On there you will find a huge range of designer labels, toys, books, bedding, bibs, art, furniture, bath products, skin care and more, all sourced from funky labels and suppliers who pride themselves on quality products and cutting edge styles.
Spend over $40 and receive a $20 store credit for future purchases.
Offer only valid until Friday 14 March.
Simply enter KINDERMUSIK to receive the $20 credit.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT NOW |
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