Making Meaningful Music with Branch Into Music
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Explore musical activities and educational ideas for families and educators to nurture confident, creative, joyful children.
How often do you really stop and listen – not just hear, but truly tune in – to the sounds around you? The birds outside, the hum of the fridge, the wind in the trees, or the chatter of children at play …
In our noisy, fast-paced world, so much of our listening is passive. Sound is “done to us” ...
At the start of every Branch Into Music class, we sing an Acknowledgement of Country together, whilst a recording of the didgeridoo plays in the background. It’s a simple song with intuitive actions and some Auslan signs that children quickly learn:
“Here is the earth. Here is the sky. Here are my ...
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 our Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) pr...
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! 😀
