♫ The First Note...

Happy New Year!!!

Welcome to our new subscribers to the first Kids 'n' Music newsletter for 2010. Here's hoping that you all had a great Christmas and New Year and are getting ready for all that 2010 brings! I know that we have been very busy setting the wheels in motion for 2010 and I am already exhausted (as well as very excited!) just thinking about all the new adventures that have started filling up the Kids 'n' Music schedule! Please check out our January 30th Early Years Conference with the fabulous Maggie Dent...

♫ NEW!!! You Gotta Get Up 4 now available!!!

The latest Music Book and CD from the You Gotta Get Up series has now been released. We had several  delays with both the book and CD production and we will finally be able to fulfill everybody's backorders of the final YGGU 4 CD by the beginning of the new school year. Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding while we experienced technical difficulties!

Click here for our online shop                 

♫ Essential Early Years Conference, WA - Jan 30th, 2010

Presenters : Maggie Dent (Resilience Building Blocks), Leonie Cecich (Kids 'n' Music), Sue Hodges (Brain Gym), Sue Gamba (Yoga)

This one day conference will focus on building awareness, understanding and practical skills for those who work with young children to better prepare our children for school, and later life. It will offer a stand alone day of professional development at the beginning of the year so that child carers, teachers and allied professionals can have an opportunity to upskill and reinvigorate themselves before children begin the school year. There will be a focus on addressing the 5 outcomes of the National Early Years Learning Framework during the day. For those who work with children under 8 years of age.

Click here to download Early Years Registration Form

♫ You Gotta Get Up Professional Development Workshops

We have six Professional Development Music Workshops set up for Semester One, 2010. These workshops are in WA and include Halls Head (Mandurah), Bridgetown, Woodvale, Melville, Forrestfield and Leschenault (Bunbury).  Let us know if you have a suggestion for a location for a workshop for Semester Two...

Click here to download Kids 'n' Music Workshop Flyer Sem 1, 2010

♫ Interstate Conferences - VICTORIA & ACT

Kids 'n' Music has been accepted to present at two conferences in both Victoria and Canberra and I will be presenting new material from You Gotta Get Up 4. I would also like to run some independent workshops while I am in the area - so please contact us if you know of a suitable venue (eg. a school or community centre) or you are interested in attending a Professional Development Music Workshop...

20-22nd May - Early Childhood Intervention Australia www.ecia2010.com.au

21-22nd Aug - Early Childhood Conference of Performing Arts www.vosa.org/events/

  
♫ East Coast Music Workshops and Incursions

We are very excited to announce that we have a Kids 'n' Music Educator on the east coast of Australia! Adeline Perrett has moved to both Queensland and New South Wales, and manages to travel up and down the east coast to run workshops (and to see her family!) Please contact either Head Office or Adeline adeline@kidsnmusic.com.au to organise an Incursion or a Professional Development Music Workshop...

♫ Music Classes

Please see our website for up-to-date locations and times for music classes for 0-4 year old children plus more information on training to become a Kids 'n' Music Educator...

♫ Rainbow Ring/Tactile Ring Ideas Booklet

Many people that have bought one of our fantastic Rainbow Rings or Tactile Rings (made by my friend Heather Birnie in NZ!) often ask what else they can do with the ring. I emailed all my colleagues that use one of the rings in their work with children and then collated their ideas into the Rainbow Ring/Tactile Ring Ideas Booklet. If you have any other ideas that are NOT listed in the booklet then please email me with your ideas/suggestions/activites and I will include them in the next edition!

Click here to download Rainbow Ring Activity Booklet

♫ The Last Note...

So...with lots of new plans in place for 2010, I am ready and charged for another exciting year of making music! May you also be refreshed and inspired to take on 2010 and all it brings to you and your family!

Leonie Cecich
Director
Kids 'n' Music