Ohana Music Together

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1210 Wilhelmina Rise Unit #A Ground floor
Honolulu, HI 96816
Phone: 808 732-7464

Contact:
Rebecca
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Web Site: http://www.ohanamt.com/index.htm
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All children love music and their inborn love of music makes it an absolute natural for child development ...music learning supports all learning! Music classes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers with their parents and/or caregivers are available in our studio in Honolulu and Aiea. Music Together® is a community of families with young children sharing songs, instrument play, rhythm chants, and movement and dance activities in a relaxed, playful, non-performance oriented setting.

Click on the following video to see sections of an Ohana Music Together class and hear the director, Becky describing the Music Together philosophy

Our Mission:
To inspire a whole new generation of music makers who can sing in tune and move in rhythm and participate with joy and confidence as they create music with their family and friends throughout their lives. To help people build stronger families and communities through making music together. To provide young families with appropriate music and movement activities that develop "the whole child".

What's a babies class like?
This class is for families who are new to Music Together and have babies under eight months of age. It is an introduction to the special sharing between parents and infants that is a natural result of musical interaction. Six to 10 parents and their infants learn songs with accompanying activities that they can sing at home to both engage and comfort their infants. All activities are especially designed to gently stimulate infants, tickle their senses and create joyful interaction between baby and parent(s). The babies classes are taught by our director, Becky Andrew, or by Terrie Galacia, MT-BC, MTS (certified Music Therapist) who provide information to parents, from research, about the benefits of music to your baby's development and cognition.

About Our Staff/Director
All of our teachers are trained and registered through Music Together®, LLC and the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey. We are passionate about music and young children, and hope to inspire a whole new generation of music makers who can sing in tune, move in rhythm and participate with joy and confidence as they create music with family and friends throughout their lives. We love what we do!

The Music Together training is 30 hrs. of classroom instruction in early childhood music development, Music Together curriculum, and song presentation.

Becky, the Ohana Music Together Center Director, is also a certified teacher who has successfully completed an additional 60 hrs. (90 hrs. total) of study in early childhood music development, Music Together curriculum and completed an advanced practical exam in classroom management and song presentation.

Becky Andrew

Becky is the owner and director of Ohana Music Together and received her BA in drama. Becky began singing professionally in New York where she had a successful career in music and theatre; with lead roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway and several Broadway touring companies. She also made numerous appearances on television and radio. A few of the stars she has appeared with are Angela Lansbury, Robert Goulet, and John Raitt. In Hawaii, Becky (and Ohana Music Together) has been featured as The Music Expert on "Building Blocks for Tots" on KGMB 9 for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. Becky has made presentations on the effective use of music in the classroom for the Hawaii Assoc.for the Education of Young Children, Kama'aina Kids, The Seagull School, and "Read To Me International". She has also led classes for the state library system, HeadStart, and HealthyStart as well as many MOMS clubs and Baby Hui's. Ohana Music Together has been featured in The Honolulu Advertiser, The Star Bulletin, Mid-Week and Hawaii Parent. In 2007, The Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ awarded Becky Music Together Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education. Becky is a member of the national "Early Childhood Music and Movement Association".

We're Earth friendly:

Music Together prints its materials on Forest Stewardship Council certified paper. This means the paper is manufactured with independently monitored, earth-friendly and sustainable practices.

Our Music

Music Together has developed nine song collections, each characterized by its own graphic, color, and instrument. These collections each include a recording and songbook and are designed to be used one collection per semester. The material is not sequential, so a family may begin Music Together classes in any semester with any collection.

The music is pitched in just the right range for children's voices and includes songs, rhythmic chants, tonal and rhythm patterns, and instrumental play-alongs, all in a rich variety of tonalities and meters. Original songs and arrangements by the program co-authors make these collections especially unique. Outstanding instrumentalists play a variety of instruments such as guitar, bass, flutes, keyboards, and percussion. All of the songs are suitable for mixed-age groups and perfect for childcare centers or families with children of different ages.

Music Together's song collections are research-based and artistically conceived and produced. They are also classroom and family tested. Since 1987, the feedback of hundreds of teachers and thousands of families has been incorporated into these constantly evolving materials.

Locations
Sounds of Success Preschool
98-029 Hekaha St
Bldg. 5, #49
Aiea, HI 96701
808-372-8767 Sounds of Success Preschool
Kaimuki
1210 Wilhelmina Rise
Unit #A grnd flr
Honolulu, HI 96816
808-372-8767
ref no:12378

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