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Why Mixed Age Classes?
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Mixed-age groupings are favored by today's leading child development researchers because they foster a more natural learning setting in which the parent/caregiver plays an important part: their child's musical model for participation.
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Mixed-age classes work because music is such a multi-faceted skill. Our classroom activities are specifically designed to provide children the opportunity to learn at their own pace, at their own level, and in their own area of interest. Each week we provide a wide variety of musical experiences, and children take from it what they are ready to learn and assimilate.
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Children learn best in an informal, family-like environment, and so their caregivers are their most important role model!
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Children under the age of five learn from watching and copying or imitating their primary caregivers -- that's you! -- and through repeated exposure and experimentation with a particular activity. For this reason, there is no educational reason to separate ages.
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Mixed-age classes work because the whole family (infants thru kindergarteners plus grown-ups!) can come to the same class, and no one has to stay at home with a babysitter!
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