10 Free Tips to a Better Music and Movement Class

Are you looking for ways to improve your Music and Movement Class so yours is the best class on the block?  Take a look at our helpful hints that will be sure to have students and parents knocking on your door for more!

1.  Don't use a music CD as a crutch.  Your students want to hear your voice!  Plus, when you sing the song you can customize it to your class.

2.  Repeat songs throughout your course so the students can learn them.

3.  Don't try to squeeze in too many songs into one class.  Children learn best by taking things at a slower pace and pausing for extra instruction.

4.  Tap into all the senses during the class.  This will help your students learn more effectively.

5.  Introduce your students to basic musical concepts, such as tempo, beat, rhythm and dynamics.

6.  Use a variety of instruments and implement a variety of activities in the lessons.

7.  Don't sing too fast!  Little brains process things slower than grown-up brains.

8.  Embed appropriate child developmental skills in class, such a motor, literacy, academic, social, cognitive and linguistic skills.

9.  Plan your class ahead of time - don't just wing it!  It makes for a better class and a focused teacher.

10.  Introduce your students to a variety of music, not just the same kid songs we use day in and day out.  (Wheels on the Bus for the 100th time sound familiar?)  Expose them to folk songs, international music, classical pieces, nursery rhymes, and chants.  There is so much amazing and beautiful music out there just waiting to be taught to your students!

You can have the BEST Music and Movement Class around by implementing these tips as you teach from My Music and Movement Class curriculum.  This curriculum is available at a fraction of the price of other music and movement programs and can be downloaded instantly.  Get a free lesson plan and printable at:

My Music and Movement Class

or go directly to our Teachers Pay Teachers store:

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How I Opened My Own Music and Movement Studio and Made Extra Income

Hi!  If you're reading this you're interested in how I opened my own Music and Movement Studio and made extra income for my family.  

But first, let me rewind to my first full-time job out of college.  I was working as an Early Childhood Educator in a center for young children with special needs and volunteered to teach a Kindermusik class to our students.  I completed the required Kindermusik training that cost hundreds of dollars (thankfully paid for by my employer) and taught two classes a week for several years.  Kindermusik is a wonderful program and made teaching so easy.  After my employer purchased one of the Kindermusik curriculum, all I had to do was learn the music and review the lesson plan before teaching.

Fast forward many years later and I'm a stay-at-home mother of three young children and, with my husband in school again, in desperate need of extra income.  I was able to begin teaching a Music and Movement class at a friend's home daycare where I was paid by the children's parents to teach a weekly class. I would have loved to have been a Kindermusik instructor again but was not able to pay the Kindermusik fees and still make a profit.  So I spent hours creating my own lessons: collecting music, planning activities, and carefully selecting the order in which I introduced then repeated songs.  As a result of my work, and my previous Kindermusik training, I taught high-quality classes that the children loved and parents were thrilled with.  I later began teaching the same class at a local homeschool 

co-op.  Again, my previous Kindermusik training and my own well-planned, educational lessons made the class a great success.

And as we speak, I have a space reserved in my basement for a home-based studio when the time is right!

So why does my story matter to you?  I want YOU to have the same success as I had: success at teaching an outstanding Music and Movement Class in my own studio, success at doing something I love, success at owning my own business, and success at adding to my family's income.  

To make that happen, I started a business offering one of my professional curricula, 

Singing Whales and Mermaid Tails.

This curriculum includes 12 lessons chock-full full of music, songs, finger-plays, and activities.

And for only $35!

Why is this an amazing offer?

Well, for example, Kindermusik currently charges the following fees:

$50 non-refundable application fee

$349 training fee

$59.95 monthly licensing fee

And many other Music and Movement Programs are similar!  Yikes!  An expense like this does not work for someone like myself.

So if you're interested in what my business has to offer - a professional, high-quality curriculum inspired by years of Kindermusik teaching that will save you HOURS of prep work - please visit my website at:

My Music and Movement Class

or go directly to my Teachers Pay Teachers store at:

My Music and Movement Class at Teachers Pay Teachers

★★ My Credentials ★★

Bachelor's Degree in Family and Child Development

Master's Degree in Early Childhood Special Education

16 years of work experience in early childhood education, piano instruction, and Music and Movement class instruction