December partnership
December partnership
Research shows that more areas of the brain “light up” when children make music than with just about any other activity! We stand by the fact that “Music Learning Supports All Learning.” Playschool children will experience the Music Together® curriculum that helps us all to realize that music isn’t “just fun” - it’s a powerful learning tool, too!
Music Together will help your child develop in many important areas, including:
- Language Development: active listening and conversational skills, phonological awareness, vocabulary development, and pre-literacy skills
- Socio-Emotional Development: self-regulation, self-confidence, leadership, and cooperation skills
- Cognitive Development: executive functioning, taking turns, attention control, body awareness, decision making, complex problem solving, emerging math skills, and more
- Physical Development: gross and fine motor skills, coordination, spatial awareness
- Approaches to Learning: motivation to try new things, persistence, resilience, leadership, and flexibility following others, and problem-solving skills
About Crescendo Academy of Music, A Music Together® Licensed Center
Melissa Ludwa holds a Masters of Education in School Counseling and is an Early Childhood Music Specialist. She began her Music Together adventure as a mom, bringing two young children to class each week. She began teaching Music Together® in Cleveland in 2012, completed her Certification Level II training in 2018 with the founders of Music Together® and still loves using her knowledge and passion to create opportunities for making music with the littlest among us (and their important adults!) in the greater Kalamazoo area.
Melissa’s solo and ensemble work has ranged from jazz to folk, classic choral masterworks to small chamber ensembles in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. However varied her professional singing experiences, it’s evident she truly enjoys making music that engages the child in all of us. Melissa’s curiosity extends to the intersections of music and early childhood development, including brain development, spatial and motor development, language and literacy development, and social-emotional development. Melissa also loves using music as a medium for creating community and strengthing families. Perhaps most importantly, she still sings lullabies nearly every evening to her own kids.