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Explore musical activities and educational ideas for families and educators to nurture confident, creative, joyful children.
There are so many benefits when it comes to playing musical instruments with children – from increased self-discipline, to enhanced memory and spatial reasoning, improved literacy skills … and the list goes on.
But how do we achieve these outcomes in early childhood education and care programs?
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As a lecturer in early childhood education and a practising early childhood music teacher, I am deeply concerned about the impact of recent revelations of child abuse within early childhood services in Australia. These incidents are truly devastating, and it is right that we as a society respond wit...
If you don’t have music in your life, you’re missing out. If children don’t experience music in their lives, they’re being disadvantaged.
Music is often described as food for the growing brain. Research consistently shows that exposure to a high-quality music program from a young age supports cogni...
In this video, Rainbow Fluff and I share our favourite Christmas storybook - "Santa Koala" by Colin Buchanan and Glen Singleton. 🐨
The children love this hilarious tale about what happens when poor old Santa camps at the billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree, and Koala comes along to lend ...
In this series of Musical Moments, Anne and Rainbow Fluff take you on an epic adventure to the very top of Australia!
This week, they make it all the way to "The Tip", where they share a fun song by the Shenanigans, called "Highway Number One". 🚗
You and your children can travel around Australia...
In this series of Musical Moments, Anne and Rainbow Fluff take you on an epic adventure to the very top of Australia!
This week, they share a fabulous Wiggles song about the beach - Beach, Beach, Sandy Beach.
Once you learn the moves, you can dance along with the Wiggles HERE.
In this series of Musical Moments, Anne and Rainbow Fluff take you on an epic adventure to the very top of Australia!
This week, they find some interesting musical instruments on the beach! 🌴
In this series of Musical Moments, Anne and Rainbow Fluff take you on an epic adventure to the very top of Australia!
This week, it rains, but they don't let it get them down! ☔
In this series of Musical Moments, Anne and Rainbow Fluff take you on an epic adventure to the very top of Australia!
This week, they take a wildlife boat cruise on the Daintree River. I wonder what they will see? 🐊
Check out the much anticipated first episode in Rainbow Fluff's EPIC "Trip to the Tip" series of Musical Moments! 🎉
Anne and Fluff were so happy to be in the Carnarvon Gorge in central Queensland, after three solid days driving from Ballarat in Victoria! 😀
In our next series of Musical Moments, Rainbow Fluff 🌈 and I head on an epic adventure to the very top of Australia!
Join us, on the road, for fun songs and musical activities that support young children’s development. 🧠
New episodes COMING SOON!
In this series of Musical Moments, Rainbow Fluff 🌈 and I share songs and musical activities that support young children’s numeracy development.
This storybook works really well with children aged three and over.
Just like Five Little Ducks, it helps children count forward and backwards from five...
