Music center Harlekijntje offers:

Fun with music courses for parents and young children (0-4 years)
Music education 'play with music' for 4- 7 yrs
Music education + recorder classes for 7- 11 yrs
Music education + boomwhacker classes for 7-11 yrs
Workshops for teachers in day care centers
Workshops for parent nights
Workshops for students child development
Music entertainment in day care centers and elementary schools
International music classes



Fun with music for parents and young children (0 - 4 years)

Sign up for the SUMMER classes, starting May 15, 2012
Every season we start a course. The weekly 30 minutes classes open with a welcome song in which Harlekijntje (a harlequin puppet) welcomes every child. Songs, dances, rhythm and movement follow the welcome song. Every activity is repeated several times. This gives the child the time to recognize and thus enjoy. The class ends with a quiet good-bye song. For the infants we sing about getting dressed, going to sleep and soothing, we dance and play with sounds. We use scarfs, baby books, bells and toys.
The toddlers and pre-schoolers do a lot of movement: clapping, stamping and dancing. Many activities go with materials: building with blocks, rolling a ball and making music on rhythm instruments. When a parent is singing and dancing with the little one it benefits the parent-child bonding, helps language development, is a good exercise for motor skills and.... it is just FUN!

Many of the musical activities are related to the seasons:
In the fall course we present songs and other musical activities about rain and storm, autumn leaves, spiders and toadstools.
In the winter we have fun with songs about snow and sledding. Blowing your nose and cold hands are less painful with a song.
In the spring we enjoy songs and movement activities about daffodils and tulips, ladybugs, young animals and going outside.
In the summer we have fun with activities on butterflies, the sea, and the sun. And for all this activities we have beautiful materials and rhythm instruments, take a look at the pictures.



Parent-Child music classes 2012


Summer classes start in May 2012
Fall classes start August 25, 2012

All classes are in the morning hours.

TUESDAY EDE VELDHUIZEN
Location: Essenburg 4, Ede
teacher: Saskia Beverloo

WEDNESDAY VEENENDAAL
Location: Sola-Fide, Eikenlaan 3, Veenendaal
teacher: Jacqueline Stark
WEDNESDAY WAGENINGEN
Location: daycare center Pipeloi, Geertjesweg 3, 6706 EA Wageningen
teacher: Saskia Beverloo

THURSDAY BENNEKOM
Location: Collage, Hogeweg 23, Bennekom
teacher: Saskia Beverloo

FRIDAY EDE RIETKAMPEN
't Riet, Laan der Verenigde Naties 88, Ede
teacher: Maryanne de Jager
FRIDAY VEENENDAAL
Location: Sola-Fide, Eikenlaan 3, Veenendaal
teacher: Jacqueline Stark

SATURDAY BENNEKOM
Location: 't Laag/Collage, Hogeweg 23, Bennekom
teacher: Saskia Beverloo


SIGN UP FOR CLASSES HERE The form is in Dutch. In case of difficulties contact the teacher by phone or e-mail.
Saskia Beverloo, 06-4764 1952 saskia (a) harlekijntje.nl
Jacqueline Stark, 0343-579 071 jacqueline (a) harlekijntje.nl
Maryanne de Jager, 0318-625 893 maryanne (a) harlekijntje.nl

Teacher training in day care centers

Music is fun! Workshops for teachers combine theory and practice in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere. We offer the following:
A two-hour workshop;
After a short introduction about musical development of young children, we practice new songs and movement activities. With a lot of hands-on activities we develop ideas on music in daily childcare activities.

A year-round training; quarterly workshops of two-and-a-half-hour each.
During these workshops you learn how children develop musically,
How to make a balanced music program,
How music nurtures a child's cognitive, emotional, social, language and
physical development.
In each of the workshops songs, chants and movement activities
about the current season (for example: a movement game with colored leaves in the fall, sled-riding song + activity in winter or a butterfly song with butterfly finger puppets in summer).

The number of workshop participants is limited to twelve, so that each one receives attention and support during exercises.
A visit from the music teacher to the day care center, prior to the teacher training, is recommended.
It gives the music teacher the opportunity to make the training appropriate to the group of day care teachers.

Workshops for parent nights

Kids of all ages are naturally drawn to music. Infants coo at lullabies, toddlers bang on pots and pans with a wooden spoon, and preschoolers sing and dance to music.
Children learn a variety of skills from musical experiences. Shaking, tapping and beating instruments enhance fine motor development. Children listening for a beat, the sounds of different instruments, tones and lyrics are developing auditory discrimination. Kids can experience the emotional effects of music by listening to end creating music that is soothing, exciting, or funny.
Music promotes creative development as children experiment with new rhythms, sounds and movements.
In this workshop parents get many ideas how to use music in the home. This workshop takes about one-and-a-half hour. Making a little shaker to take home can extend this workshop.

Workshop for students child development

Workshops for students are mainly the same as those for day care teachers.

Musical workshops in day care centers

Whenever there's something to celebrate, there should be music!
Music center Harlekijntje offers a 40-minute program for children, parents and teachers.

For information on all courses
Phone + 31(0)318418 566
cell phone + 31 (0)6 4764 1952
email info (a) harlekijntje.nl or funwithmusic (a) hotmail.com

In 2008 Saskia presented at the AOSA (American Orff Schulwerk Association) National Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She presented two demonstration classes with parents and toddlers.
Singing, dancing and making music together: parent-child bonding, language acquisition, developing motor skills, social skills and musical skills. See the benefits of parent-child classes at work. For information on AOSA see: www.aosa.org

Music educator Saskia Beverloo lived in upstate New York in 1992 and in Utah, USA, in 1999, 2003-2004 and 2009.
She taught music classes for young children in day care centers, at Utah State University and at home.
She presented at Utah State University. A variety of resources is used to prepare lessons, including own composition.


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