Bright Young Bells

FALL CLASSES 2024

Sing, engage, move and explore!
Come and join us for fun galore.
Grow, learn, bond and play,
Join the Bright Young Bells today!

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Miss K is SO EXCITED to see eyes light up, brains growing smarter and stronger, little voices becoming louder and more confident, and hearing little feet running and jumping in the studio. 🥁🎹🎶🎷🪈🤸‍♀️🥳

Let’s Have Music, Let’s Have Fun!

DARTMOUTH, we’re ready for you!
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We will be in the beautiful DANCE STUDIO at the Dartmouth North Community Centre, with lots of space for music and movement! 🎹🥳

More info on our site 👉 www.brightyoungbells.ca

We’d love to see you there! 💜

The relationship between parent/caregiver and child is a strong bond that impacts success in life. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒
During early childhood music classes, parental and caregiver participation contributes to a formula for success! 🎵🎹🎼

With their parents right behind them, children build confidence and self-esteem quicker. By participating in music making together, the positive bond between caregiver and child is reinforced. 🤗

Yay for our wonderful Bright Young Bells parents!
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Obviously there is some undiscovered olympic talent in the Bedford area because WOWSERS these moms are fast! 🏎️🥇💪🤸‍♀️

There are only 5 spots left for our wildly popular 0-2 year music class running from September through to the end of October at the Bedford Hammonds Plains Rec Centre. 🎵🥁🤗🎼

Would you like to join us? 💜
Register on our site. Link in bio. 🩷

BEDFORD, Fall Registrations are OPEN! 🥳🎷🎵🤗🎉🥁🪇💕

This season we’ve lengthened our session to 8 weeks, running from Sept 7th to Oct 26th. Many parents said the same thing: 4 classes were just not enough! 😍 I am so excited for more music and fun with you all. 💜

Dartmouth and Halifax will follow soon, I should have my venues confirmed by HRM Rec this week. 🤗🎵

“Miss K, is there treasure down there?” 🏴‍☠️🎷

I find it equally adorable and funny that 99% of kids look down the bell when I introduce them to the saxophone 😂 That inquisitive nature is so strong in these bright little ones, I just love it! 😍

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! 🌞🕶️💦🎵🎸

I’ve been quiet on here, taking some time with family to soak up warm summer vibes, but the music has travelled with us! 🥳

Exciting news: our BEDFORD registration will open up tomorrow (Monday Aug 12th)!! 🎵🤗 Bedford always fills up FAST so I thought I’d give you a heads up 😉. More classes and venues will be added soon!

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Glockenspiel dual! 🎵🤗🎶🤩

We had so much fun at our first Bedford class this morning! 🎶🌟🎹💛

Executive function spotlight #5:
WORKING MEMORY 🩷

🤔 WHAT IS IT?
Working memory (a type of short-term memory) is an executive function that plays a BIG role in how we use SMALL amounts of information in our everyday lives. This is in contrast with long-term memory, which is the vast amount of information stored in one’s lifetime.

We use our working memory when we learn the name of someone new and keep it in mind throughout a conversation 💭, to remember the 5 things we need to get at the grocery store 🛒, or a quarterback scanning the defense to determine what formation they are in 🏈.

🤗 HOW DO WE DO IT?
Any song or rhyme where a previous character, number, or element needs to be kept in mind throughout the song are great working memory boosters. Old MacDonald Had A Farm is a good example, where we need to remember the animals we sang about previously in order to make the farm animal sounds in the correct order (another such example is She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain). In the song Five Little Monkeys kids need to keep in mind how many monkeys are left with each repeating verse. 🐒

Action songs are also great for strengthening working memory: children need to pay attention to the words and actions, remember them, and use them at the correct time. 🎶

☺️ WHY DO WE NEED IT?
Working memory plays a key role in your child’s ability to learn effectively. 🧠 People with a weak working memory will have difficulty with complex reasoning, trouble executing tasks that have more than one step, and lose track of what they’re busy with or what they are supposed to do. 🎶

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We have a FULL HOUSE! 🎶🌟

I can’t wait to meet you all in Bedford for our Bright Young Bells program starting on June 8th. It’s going to be so much fun! 🤗🥳🎹

Beautiful Bedford! 🎶💕🥁🪇
There are only 2 SPOTS left for our 0-2 class and I can’t wait to see you all!
Who will be joining us? 👀

📍 Bedford Hammonds Plains Community Centre
🗓️ June 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th 2024
🕰️ 9:30-10:15am
💰 $72 (incl tax)

Let’s Have Music, Let’s Have Fun! 🧡🩵🩷💛💚

A study conducted at the University of Zürich in January 2021 and published in The Journal of Neuroscience studied the brains of both musicians and non-musicians. 🎶🧠

A summary of the research explains that
“musicians’ brains were vastly more STRUCTURALLY and FUNCTIONALLY connected than non-musicians, especially in areas of the brain responsible for speech and sound 📣 (especially the auditory cortices of both hemispheres). The musical group also showed STRONGER connections from the auditory cortices to other brain areas in the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortex 🧠 known to be involved in the control of higher cognitive functions like WORKING MEMORY, PROBLEM SOLVING and other executive functions.”

Once again the studies show us that
MUSIC kids are SMART kids! 🎶🥳🧠



You can find the full article here:
https://www.incafrica.com/library/geoffrey-james-want-smarter-kids-teach-music-not-coding-according-to-mit?source_category=grow&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1vDoQ5s6VKGT6DEWmKkdyv_0etd-tYG4o39HaHkffLZ56YgS8dRYvNdzw_aem_ARttuoaH_XgAgTjGVyXVfr4iX386f8jn6s1IMYnhnoRyM241EjToBCQqDPX2Dpmjw7O9Wbj0uMAZR9rTHxQ44CyL

“Play is our brain’s
favourite way to
learn.”

- Diane Ackerman

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Check out our April group having fun with instruments! 🥁🎹🪈🪇🪘

DID YOU KNOW❓
Holding and playing musical instruments like shakers, maracas, mallets and tambourines STRENGTHEN the same hand muscles needed for turning pages, holding a hockey stick, manouvering a toothbrush, and develops super duper hand-eye coordination! 💪🧠🙌

🎶 INSTRUMENT OF THE WEEK 🎶

🩵 The Glockenspiel 🧡

“Glockenspiel” is a German word that translates to:
Glocke = Bells
Spiel = Play
Let’s play the bells! 🤗

We had so much fun exploring the 🌈 bright sound 🌈 the Glockenspiel makes, and learning that BIG staves produce a LOW sound 🐘 and small staves produce a high sound 🦋.

Executive function spotlight #2:
COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY 🩷

🤔 WHAT IS IT?
Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to think about multiple things at the same time, and to modify our thinking based on a change in environmental modifications or alterations.

Does your child become stuck thinking about topics in only one way? Do they struggle to ‘switch’ their approach and use a different problem-solving strategy? Is it challenging for them to do something differently than how they normally do it?
Music is there to help! 🎶

🤗 HOW DO WE DO IT?
Through music we can explore themes from different perspectives, stretching those cognitive functions! For example, through pretend play we can sort a group of animals by size, colour, speed, habitat or diet. 🐩🐇🐻‍❄️ Also, through songs we activate many cognitive functions simultaneously: clapping the beat, singing the lyrics, and responding to new instructions all at the same time.

☺️ WHY DO WE NEED IT?
Musical multi-tasking has been proven through multiple studies to enhance cognitive function. Cognitive flexibility gives us the ability to look at situations from multiple perspectives, and to find alternative solutions to problems. 🧠💪

Good morning, Dartmouth! ☀️🎶😄

We are ready to roll! See you soon. 💜

DARTMOUTH, the spotlight is on you this month!
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Our next Bright Young Bells program starts on SATURDAY APRIL 6th at the beautiful Dartmouth North Community Centre. 🤗 Ooooh we’re going to have so much fun!
There is still space available if you and your little one want to join us.

Class time: 9:30 - 10:15am
Ages 0-5
Cost: $72 (tax incl)

www.brightyoungbells.ca

See you soon! ☀️

Executive function spotlight #1:
SUSTAINED ATTENTION 💜

🤔 WHAT IS IT?
Sustained attention involves the ability to maintain one’s focus and attention on an activity or stimulus in the presence of distractions or other activities. It is what makes it possible to concentrate on an activity for as long as it takes to finish, even if there are other distracting stimuli present.

🤗 HOW DO WE DO IT?
There are many elements in music that naturally pull in cognitive processes and improve sustained attention. One example is by incorporating songs where children have to pay attention to what comes next, and doing substitution activities (for example, “Mary had a little goose” instead of a little lamb, or “Skip to my Lou” but substituting “skip” with other movements).

☺️ WHY DO WE NEED IT?
This important cognitive skill helps us efficiently and successfully carry out tasks and activities in our daily lives, especially those that take a longer time to complete.

🧠 EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING 🎹

Those who have attended any of my classes, will know that I love to talk. 🗯️ And one of the things I love to talk about most, is executive functioning! 😍

But, the kids would much prefer that I sing, play, or pretend to be a humongous dinosaur with them instead of hearing how incredible music is for their developing brains… 😂 So I’ll tell you all about executive functioning here on my socials! 📱

I’ll post about each executive function strengthened by music in seperate posts throughout the week. Keep an eye out for them! 🎶

🐰 HAPPY EASTER! 🐰

We hope you are having a lovely day with family, friends, and of course all the candy and chocolate eggs… 🥚🍫💝

We spent our day with friends, snacks, and jumping in all the muddy puddles outside! My two girls helped me make these pegdoll bunnies for their friends, aren’t they just too cute?! 🐇

Our Easter special is running until Sunday which means you SAVE 10% on any class booked. Simply use code EASTER10 at checkout! 🥁

Class info and registration on our website:
www.brightyoungbells.ca 🎶

Let’s have Music, Let’s have Fun!
Happy Easter everyone. 🩷

Thank you for your kind words, Gabrielle! 🎶⭐️💜🎹🌈🎷

HAPPY EASTER! 🐰🌸🥚🎶

We are excited to announce that we are running an EASTER SPECIAL where you SAVE 10% on any classes booked! 🥳

Discount can be applied from Monday March 25th until Sunday March 31st to any classes on our website:

🌷 APRIL: Dartmouth North
🌈 MAY: Hatchet Lake
🐇JUNE: Bedford Hammonds Plains

That means you can book a 4-week program for $64.80 (tax incl)!

Come and join us for music, singing, fun, games, movement, instrument exploration and story time, all while boosting your child’s cognitive growth. We’d love to meet you!

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Register at www.brightyoungbells.ca

We can’t wait! 🩷🧡💜
Tomorrow we wrap up our Bedford program with a super fun dress up music class!
See you all there, Bedford Bright Young Bells! 🎶🥁🪇

Bright Young Bells means bright young babies!
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⭐️ I love doing what I do, and it makes my day when I receive a review like this! 💛