Music and Movement

Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc. Newsletter June 2009

NEXT MONTHLY MEETING

Wednesday 17^th June in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music on Barbados St.

7.00-7.30pm Committee Meeting re: Music 09 Fees

7.30-7.45pm Library time -Kathy & Sarah will help you with your hire needs.

7.45- 9.00pm “Keep in Time to the Rhythm and the Rhyme”.

Melanie Koster is going to give ideas about how she writes rhyming stories for young children. Her delightful book “The Reluctant Little Flower Girl” was published last year. There will also be a general time of sharing ideas linking in with the theme “rhythm and rhyme” so come with your ideas that work well in your own music classes or with your children.

Julie Wylie’s Corner

Music 09 Modulations conference begins at the Hotel Grand Chancellor on Monday 6^th July. We are so lucky to have world-renowned presenter Dr.Colwyn Trevarthen as a main speaker and presenter. He has written a great deal about his neuro-scientific research on music interaction with newborn babies and their parents. I have heard him twice and each time I was captivated with his film footage and really inspired by his work. I really encourage as many of you as possible to register for this conference which has a lot to offer musical parenting including a workshop “Musical Parenting in Action” with some of our members showcasing their music sessions. There will be a special rate for casual or 1-day registration and some of the workshops do not require registration for the conference.

Musical Parenting members are also involved in Kidsfest and are offering a series of classes at Chisnallwood Intermediate School.

Idea for June

Here is a traditional finger play that encourages children to listen and enjoy the sequence of actions. This is a great calming activity.

OPEN SHUT THEM (Traditional)

Open, shut them, open shut them, (opening and shutting hands)

Give a little clap > > > (three beats rest after the clap)

Open, shut them,

Open, shut them,

Lay them on your lap > > >

Open, shut them,

Open, shut them,

Give a little shake < < <

Open, shut them

Open, shut them,

Keep them all awake (hold hands up and move them around in a circle)

Open, shut them, (arms)

Open, shut them,

Don’t get in a muddle (wind arms around and around)

Open, shut them,

Open, shut them,

Give yourself a cuddle.

DANCE THUMBKIN DANCE (Traditional)

Dance, Thumbkin dance,

Dance, Thumbkin dance,

Thumbkin cannot dance alone,

So all the fingers dance

Dance Pointer Dance,

Dance Pointer Dance,

Pointer cannot dance alone,

So all the fingers dance.

(Use a little finger puppet or draw a little face on thumb or appropriate finger. )

Melody:

 So me me, so,

 So, me, me so,

 Do, re, mi, fa so, so so,

So fa mi re do

Or use numbers for chime bars

5, 3 3 5

5,3,3,5

1,2,3,4,5,5,5

5,4,3,2,1 

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MUSIC 09 Modulations Conference

Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch from 6th - 10th July. Canterbury Musical Parenting is involved. Go to www.music09.org.nz to register and for full programme information.

Some highlights and relevant presentations:

Modulating Our Musical Selves Wednesday 8^th July 3 - 4pm

Colwyn Trevarthen is a Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at the University of Edinburgh and is internationally recognised for his research which focuses on the communication of infants and toddlers, the interpersonal foundations of language and meaning, and on developmental problems such as autism that affect communication and thinking. In Bosnia he collaborated in founding a centre for music therapy. 

Blues For Juniors Tuesday 7th July, 12.40.pm to 1.20pm Chancellor 1 with Julie Wylie and Louise Shand cost $8.00 per child $10.00 per family (no conference registration necessary). This event is also part of KidsFest.

Musical Play as Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities  Tuesday 7^th July 2 - 3pm with Julie Wylie, Susan Foster-Cohen and Louise Shand

Musical Play in Action Tuesday 7^th July 3.30 - 4.30pm with Jody Keehan, Julie Gaudin and Katharina Cairns

Swing me a Song Thursday 9th July 9.30.am to 10.30.am Chancellor 1 featuring the wonderful band Barock with Judith Bell and players playing music by Julie Wylie $8.00 per child $10.00 per family

Kiwikids Songs “Pacifica” Thursday 9^th July 1.30 - 2.30 with Siliva Gaugatao

The Art, Science & Psychology of Musical Play Thursday 9^th June 11 - 12am. Presentation by Julie Wylie and Louise Shand

Dates to Note

Music for Midwinter Sunday June 21^st at the Muse, 3^rd floor of the Chch Music Centre, 2pm. An afternoon concert of community music - the family choir, ukulele group, Open Song Choir and others. Entry is just $5 and includes an afternoon tea.

Chamber Music Contest 2009 Recall concert will be held on Sunday 21st June, 7pm at the Chapel of the Music Centre of Christchurch.

Children’s Disco Dance Saturday 27^th June at Terrace Downs for 5 - 12 year olds… visit http://www.terracedowns.co.nz/ for more information.

Matariki - Storytime Monday 1st-Tuesday 30th June 2009. A free event suitable for 2 - 4 year olds at various libraries. Visit http://www.bethere.co.nz/ for more information

The 8th Biennial Christchurch Arts Festival and Winter Garden hits Christchurch Thursday 23rd July to Sunday 9th August. Highlights will include ‘The Kreutzer’, and the TVOne Ice Dome, complete with skating rink in the middle of Cathedral Square. For info go to www.artsfestival.co.nz

Under 5’s Series at the Christchurch Music Centre

Mondays at 10.00am: $3 per child - carers/parents free

6th July                             Julie Wylie - preschool music

3rd Aug                             Celia Stewart - folk dancing

7th Sept                            Chisnallwood Intermediate Orchestra

5th Oct                             Louise Shand & Sarah Cannon

2nd Nov                            Pandemonium - Percussion

14th Dec                           Julie Wylie - Christmas programme

New CMPA email address for enquiries / contributions to the newsletter:

musicalparenting@gmail.com

The 2009 Music Education Conference (Modulations - Music ‘09) to be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch, 6-10 July 2009 will welcome home a very special New Zealander whose internationally acclaimed research has impacted our understanding of infants and young children far beyond the interests of music specialists.

Professor Emeritus Colwyn Trevarthen of The University of Edinburgh, has been a pioneer in the study of the musical nature of the relationships infants have with their parents and the ways such relationships support children’s brain development, communication, learning and emotional health. His ideas have been used worldwide to improve the quality of relationships between infants and parents.

Here in New Zealand, Colwyn Trevarthen’s ideas have supported the creation of the Musical Parenting Association, a parent-led approach to discovering, exploring and expanding the power of music to support adults and children coming into ‘synch’ with each other, paying close attention to each other, learning each other and, above all, enjoying each other. A far cry from the fast and furious hype of most music programmes for children, musical parenting is about parenting better through allowing the inherent musicality of human beings to come to the fore and dictate the gentle attunement of parent and child. Started in Christchurch, the Musical Parenting Association now has activities nationwide. For more information go to: http://www.musicalparenting.org.nz/

Using the same approach to parent-infant/child interaction, Professor Trevarthen’s ideas have been integrated into the Champion Centre programme for children with developmental disabilities for the last 15 years.  Children attending the Champion Centre with their parents have music sessions with a focus on the parent-child relationship and its power in supporting development in all children. Parents discover the “competence of infants for sharing impulses of voice and gesture in play with sympathetic partners” (to quote Professor Trevarthen). Different from much standard music therapy, this relationship centred approach provides a way for children with a range of significant disabilities to enter relationships with others through music. For more information on the Champion Centre go to: http://www.championcentre.org.nz/ 

At the Music 09 conference to be held at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Christchurch from 6^th to 10^th July 2009, Professor Trevarthen will be presenting an address entitled Making moving music: How innate rhythms of life become fabulous art in sound. Find out more at http://www.music09.org.nz/

This is a joint press release of the organisers of the Music ‘09 conference, The Musical Parenting Association and The Champion Centre. For more information, please contact Dr. David Sell (david.sell@canterbury.ac.nz) or Dr. Susan Foster-Cohen (susan@championcentre.org.nz)  

June 16^th 2009.

Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc.
Newsletter May 2009

NEXT MONTHLY MEETING
Wednesday  20^th May in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music. Barbadoes St. Next to the Catholic Cathedral.
7.00-7.30pm     Committee Meeting
7.30-7.45pm     Library time -Kathy & Sarah will help you with your hire needs.
7.45- 9.00pm    ‘LET’S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING”  A DVD PRESENTATION BY ROSE ROBINSON WITH DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FILM FOOTAGE
Our monthly meeting will feature Rose Robinson a highly experienced early childhood cognitive therapist and psychotherapist who has considerable experience in helping parents with relating and communicating with their child. Rose has been coming to Julie Wylie’s baby group each week for a term filming the babies’ musical responses and looking at musical interactions between parent and child.  She has produced some remarkable footage which should be of great interest to everyone who values the philosophy of musical parenting.

Free for members, $2 non-members

Julie Wylie’s Corner
Julie has been asked by Helen Willberg to write an article for the next edition of Sound Arts, the METANZ newsletter.  The article is available as a pdf.

Sound Arts Percussion Article by Julie Wylie

Caring and Sharing
This chant can be used with very young children when playing percussion as it gives them the space to hear their own instrument
and improvise.  For older children  it can be used as an echo opportunity.  It also works well with body percussion.

Rhythm and Beat chant                 by Jody Keehan (2009)
We can feel the rhythm, we can feel the beat,
We can feel the rhythm from our heads to our feet.
(Name) can feel the rhythm from his/her nose to her toes
(Name) can play the (instrument) and this is how it goes.

Dates to note:

• ONZA Music Education Professional Development Day in Auckland on Friday 29^th May

ONZA Professional Development Day in Auckland

• The Big Sing Canterbury is on Thursday 4^th and Friday 5^th June in the Christchurch Town Hall.  37 choirs from 22 schools will perform.  The Festival concert is on Friday night at 7.30pm.
• Disney Princess Wishes on Ice is on at the Westpac Trust stadium from Friday 5^th to Sunday 7^th June. Book at ticketek.
• NZCT Chamber Music Contest 2009 recall concert will be held on Sunday 21^st June, 7pm at the Chapel of the Music Centre of Christchurch.
• Music09 Modulations - Music Education Conference 2009 will be held from 6th to 10th July at thge Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch.  CMPA will be involved! For more info go to www.music09.org.nz
• The 8^th Biennial Christchurch Arts Festival and Winter Garden hits Christchurch Thursday 23^rd July to Sunday 9^th August.  Highlights will include ‘The Kreutzer’, and the TVOne Ice Dome, complete with skating rink in the middle of Cathedral Square.  For info go to http://www.artsfestival.co.nz/

If you have any information to go in the next newsletter, please e-mail Louise at specialtymusic@gmail.com

Julie Wylie and Louise Shand from CMPA are facilitating several courses of interest to Early Childhood Music specialists at University in 2009.  Click on the link to see the course outlines and how to enrol.

2009-course-outline-for-early-childhood-music-courses.pdf

Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc. Newsletter April 2009NEXT MONTHLY MEETING
Wednesday  15^th April in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music. Barbadoes St. Next to the Catholic Cathedral.
 7.30-7.45pm     Library time -Kathy & Sarah will help you with your hire needs.
7.45- 9.00pm    Sharing session with more body percussion ideas, echo games and songs.  Come along and share your ideas!Free for members, $2 non-members

Julie Wylie’s Corner

Thank you to all the wonderful people who turned up for the CMPA Annual General meeting. You presence was greatly appreciated and we had a good group. Jody Keehan will continue working on our website and Louise Shand is our new secretary. We are delighted to have Louise.

At the recent Early intervention conference held from the 30^th March in Auckland, M.P. Tariana Turia said in her opening address, that the workshop that excited her most was “Threading a Life with Music: Musical Parenting in early intervention at the Champion Centre”. She went on to say that “musical play is one of the most significant ways of creating a close bond between parent and child and we really need to focus much more on our children through positive, playful interaction within our society”.  This was the only workshop she commented about so we felt very excited about the work we are all doing within our organisation.

Julie Moore and Alison Broom are our Auckland musical parenting members and they were both at the workshop that Dr.Susan Foster-Cohen, Louise Shand and I presented. Alison then came with us to our meeting at the Auckland Rautaukari Music Therapy Centre. We had a wonderful hour and a half with their team and were so impressed with their musical instruments. We  found that we had much in common. I am sure it will be a valuable link for Musical Parenting and the Champion Centre. The team there was interested in the whole concept of working with parent and child to build relating and communication through a playful music interactive approach.

We have had our “Sing and Play this Holiday” programme accepted for Kidsfest and our events will be held at Chisnallwood Intermediate and at the Hotel Grand Chancellor during the first week of July. A Musical Parenting workshop has been accepted by the Music’09 Modulations Conference and Julie Gaudin, Jody Keehan and Katherina Cairns will present a 40 minute workshop showcasing musical parenting in action. Although the time frame is short, I know there will be a lot of interest from conference delegates.

A simple and effective Easter finger play song:

“Ten Little Easter Rabbits” to the tune of “Ten Little Indians”  Lyrics Julie Wylie
One little, two, little three little Easter rabbits,
Four, little, five little, six little Easter rabbits,
Seven little, eight little, nine little Easter rabbits,
Ten little Easter rabbits standing in a line.
One little rabbit hopped to the side, (hop one finger to the side, hopping to the beat)
Another little rabbit hitched a ride, {make a hitching a ride sign)
All the other rabbits ran away to hide ( hide fingers behind back)
And they all popped out at Easter time (gradually jump them all out in front keeping the beat)

Dates to note:

• The New Zealand International Jazz Festival is on in venues all over Christchurch from the 13^th to the 19^th April.  Go to http://www.jazzfestivalnz.com/ for more info.
• Easter Family Fun at Ferrymead Heritage Park from Friday 10^th to Monday 13^th April.
• Saturday 2^nd May the New Brighton Market is on in the mall. It’s a great place to pick up local crafts and baking. You can generally find finger puppets and other things you can use for your classes.
• Disney Princess Wishes on Ice is on at the Westpac Trust stadium from Friday 5^th to Sunday 7^th June. Book at ticketek.

If you have any information to go in the next newsletter, please e-mail Louise at
specialtymusic@gmail.com

Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc. Newsletter March 2009NEXT MONTHLY MEETINGWednesday 18^th March in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music. Barbadoes St. Next to the Catholic Cathedral.

7.30-7.45pm     Library time -Kathy will help you with your hire needs.
7.45- 8.30pm     Annual General Meeting

***Subscribe before or on the night for a $5 discount***

8.30-9pm            Sharing session

Free for members, $2 non-members

Dates to note:

•  Sunday 1^st March - CHILDREN’S DAY (Te Raa O Te Tamariki). Provides New Zealanders with an opportunity to give time to children and take part in fun activities. Go to http://www.childrensday.org.nz/

•  On now until Monday 16^th March - FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS. 2009 marks the 20^th anniversary. For events and info go to http://www.festivalofflowers.co.nz/

•  Wednesday 11^th to Sunday 15^th March - ELLERSLIE FLOWER SHOW. Chch is going all out to celebrate. Go to http://www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz/

•  Wednesday 18^th March - CSO KIDS. Two concerts at the Salvation Army Citadel 10.30am and 12.30pm. Tickets $12 Adults, $6 Children. Book at Court Theatre. Go to http://www.cso.co.nz/

If you have any information to go in the next newsletter, please e-mail me at
k.keehan@xtra.co.nz or ring 03-3522106. Cheers, Jody

Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc.
Newsletter January 2009

NEXT MONTHLY MEETING

Wednesday 18^th February in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music. Barbadoes St. Next to the Catholic Cathedral.

7.30-7.45pm     Library time -Kathy will help you with your hire needs.
7.45- 9.00pm     Veronica Kidd will share her musical journey in Africa.  Come along and learn traditional children’s songs in African languages.
                            
Free for members, $2 non-members

Coming up: 
Annual General Meeting - Wednesday 18^th March 2009. Election of officers, General Business then sharing session.

Dates to note:

• Thursday February 5^th - ASB Classical Sparks, 8pm to 10.30pm at Hagley Park.
• Sunday February 15^th - MacDonald’s Teddy Bears’ Picnic, 11am to 3pm, Mona Vale Homestead.

If you have any information to go in the next newsletter, please e-mail me at

k.keehan@xtra.co.nz or ring 03-3522106. Cheers, Jody

This is an article from The Press newspaper explaining the benefits Julie Wylie has discovered of using a Sound Cradle for music therapy at the Champion Centre.

Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc. Newsletter December 2008

NEXT MONTHLY MEETING

Wednesday 3^rd December 2008 in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music. Barbadoes St. Next to the Catholic Cathedral.

7.30-7.45pm     Library time - please bring back anything you have hired through the year.

7.45- 9.00pm     End of Year Get Together - instead of our usual coffee elsewhere, Julie has asked if we can get together, bring a plate and have a seasonal sharing session and end of year catch up.

Coffee, tea, milo, juice and bubbles will be provided.

Coming up:  No meeting in January!  Back to normal Wednesday 18^th February 2009.

Dates of note:

• Saturday 29^th November - Coca Cola Christmas in the Park, entertainment from 5.30pm
• Saturday 6^th December - Chch City Choir present “The Messiah”
• Sunday 7^th December - Smiths City Santa Parade 2008, 2pm

If you have any information to go in the next newsletter, please e-mail me at

k.keehan@xtra.co.nz or ring 03-3522106. Cheers, Jody

To attend the Canterbury Musical Parenting Association meetings you need to know the new access code for the Christchurch Music Centre building on Barbadoes Street. 

The code is available on the Members Login page.