ELEMENTARY MUSIC EDUCATION
MUSIC IS DIVERSITY; THE INTERPLAY OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS TO CREATE SOMETHING GREAT IN ITS ENTIRETY; DISCOVERING, LEARNING, VARIETY, ENCOURAGEMENT AND CONFIDENCE, NOTES AND SONGS, AND CREATING TOGETHER.
ABOUT ME
Sabine Laukhuf
During my many years of working in day-care centers as a preschool teacher, schools, and special education, I have always been enthusiastic about making music with children and young people. Fueled by my passion, I pursued advanced education at the “Bundesakademie für Musikalische Jugendbildung” (= “Federal Academy for Youth Music Education”) in Trossingen, Germany, and also completed numerous additional training courses, including the speech development program “Singing, Moving, Speaking.”
Since 2013, I have been working as a freelance teacher for elementary music education in day-care centers and primary schools, while offering seminars for teachers/pedagogues, and teaching piano. My passion is to convey music to children in a safe and supportive atmosphere, a sense of “being at home,” in such a way that they are strengthened in their personalities by everything this medium entails and (are therefore) encouraged to make music in a lasting way.
Courses
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MUSIC PANDAS
Parent-child course for toddlers between 2 – 3 years
Duration: 6 months or 1 school year
Course Details
If you are looking to provide your 2-3-year-old child with first musical experiences in a loving atmosphere, the parent-child course “MUSIC PANDAS” will be the right choice for you. Accompanied by you as a parent or a caregiver, we will experience music together and holistically through singing, playing, moving, listening to interesting sounds, exploring instrumental play (rattles, drums, …), and much more! Songs, finger and knee rider games, and musical games will provide helpful impulses for your everyday life at home. This valuable time spent together will strengthen the relationship between you and your child and will also facilitate first social interactions between the toddlers.
Maximum number of participants: 10 children
RHYTHMIC KANGAROOS
Music, games, and movement for 3-4-year-old children (with or without parent/caregiver)
Duration: 1 school year
Course Details
In a variety of different lessons, children will learn the basic elements of music by playing, dancing, singing, and making simple musical instruments. With the help of spoken verses, active songs, dancing, and discovering percussion instruments (e.g., rattles, sound blocks, drums, etc.), as well as other materials (cloths, balls,… ), music is experienced in a multisensory, playful, and experimental way. The focus is on conveying fun and joy in a positive atmosphere. This course offers the ideal foundation for early music education (“MUSIC FOXES”) between 4 and 6 years of age.
Maximum number of participants: 8 children
MUSIC FOXES
Early music education for 4-6-year-old children
Duration: 2 school years, joining or leaving the group is possible after the first school year
Course Details
In EME, we make music together and music is experienced holistically, i.e., with all senses. The main focus lies on experiencing the joy of making music together, either guided or free, as well as on the encouragement of the children. This will help children to experience their individual musicality and practice it in a lasting way.
Course contents include:
- Elementary instrumental play (introduction to the “ORFF” instruments…)
- Singing and talking
- Listening to music (musical works)
- Elementary music theory (graphic notation, note values, rhythms, etc.)
- Movement, improvisation, dance, rhythms
- Painting/handicrafts (musical instruments)
- Instrumentology
- Planning and hosting small music projects for parents, parent-child participation lessons
Maximum number of participants: 8 children
CLING SING KIDS
Basic music education for 6-8-year-old children
Course duration: 1 school year or 2 school years
Course location partly in primary schools, also in cooperation with „Spotlight Studios Konstanz“ and others.
Course Details
Music is experienced in and age-appropriate an individual way:
- Singing/speaking (breathing games/exercises, singing, setting poems to music)
- Introduction/deepening of the elementary instrumental play (“ORFF” instruments)
- Movement and dance, body percussion
- Rhythmical training, rhythmical language
- Listening to music (musical works)
- Introduction/deepening of music theory and graphic notation
- instrumental studies, discovering/experimenting with different instruments
- Advice on and preparation for learning an instrument
Maximum number of participants: 8 children
THE SPEECH BUBBLES
Singing, Moving, Speaking (SMS)
Course Details
SINGING, MOVING, SPEAKING is a cooperation with the Music School Konstanz, and thanks to the support of the working group “Landesverband der Musikschulen Landesmusikerverband Baden Württemberg” (= “State Association of Music Schools, State Music Association Baden-Wurttemberg”), it takes place in day-care centers, elementary school classes with special needs, and elementary schools.
www.mskn.org
Singing, Moving, Speaking (SMS) is based on a very well-established pedagogical concept and offers optimal conditions to support or deepen the linguistic development of children in age- and development-appropriate ways by using the medium of music. For 10 years, the program has made a significant contribution to the enrichment of day-care centers and primary schools.
Further information under:
www.arge-sbs.de
PIANO FRIENDS
Piano lessons from first-grade elementary school
Course Details
By predominantly using the piano school “Tastenzauberei”, the kids will receive an optimal foundation for a solid basic knowledge of music, playing technique, and learn to play various piano pieces in individual lessons. Moreover, four-handed playing and the combination of singing and playing the piano are encouraged.
LISTENING, SINGING, MOVING, SOUNDING
Innovative and refreshing seminars for teachers and pedagogues
Directly in your kindergarten/school
Course Details
Innovative and refreshing seminars for teachers and pedagogues – directly in your kindergarten/school in cooperation with Karin Schuh’s “Klang Akademie” (= “Sound Academy”). More information under:
CONTACT
Are you interested in one of the courses, in piano lessons for your child, or a seminar for teachers/pedagogues? Contact me conveniently and quickly – I will be happy to assist. Send me an e-mail using the form opposite or email me at
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.