Music is no stranger in the early childhood classroom. However, recent guidelines from Head Start and NAEYC recommend inclusion of musical instruction as part of the early childhood curriculum. These guidelines ask many teachers to do something they haven't been trained to do. What music skills are developmentally appropriate for children ages 3 to 5? How are these skills best taught, and how can their instruction overlap with and reinforce emergent literacy skill development? How should these skills be assessed? The stART smART Network Music program addresses the answers to these questions and more.

Participating teachers learn to create and lead developmentally appropriate lessons and activities that build children's music skills in the areas of:

• Steady Beat
• Singing
• High/Low
• Loud/Quiet
• Fast/Slow

Pilot Location
Washington DC Metropolitan Area, including:

• District of Columbia
• Northern Virginia
• Montgomery County, Maryland
• Prince George's County, Maryland

Sponsoring Organization
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
1645 Trap Road
Vienna, Virginia 22182
michelleb@wolftrap.org

by Margaret Wise Brown

by Ruth Krauss

by Sue Williams

Participants

Teaching Artists:
Cynthia Elek
Mary Gresock
Marissa Molnar
Gina Morrissey
Meg Olson
Sue Trainor
Janice Zucker

2003-2004 Teachers:
Olubusola Ayangbesan, Brightwood Elementary School (DC)
Kay Blackburn, Original Walker-Grant School ( Fredericksburg , VA )
Gay Cioffi, Little Folks School (DC)
Sonia DiMajo, Barbara Chambers Children's Center (DC)
Imongene Love, Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Charter School (DC)
Marla McLean, School-Within-School at Peabody (DC)
Carrie Pearson, Main Street Child Development Center ( Fairfax , VA )
Lara Profitt, Apple Early Literacy Preschool (DC)
Kalpana Sharma, Brightwood Elementary School (DC)
Deniza Sluss, St. Paul's Episcopal Preschool ( Falls Church , VA )

2004-2005 Teachers:
Tishara Lakmini Abeynayake, Chevy Chase Plaza Children's Center
Peggy Ann Benson, Chevy Chase Plaza Children's Center
Susan M. Breipohl, School-Within-School at Peabody (DC)
John E. Burst, School-Within-School at Peabody (DC)
Michelle Capers, Howard University Hospital Child Care Center
Mary Louise Chapman, School-Within-School at Peabody (DC)
Donna J. Dickerson, Georgetown University Law Center Child Care Center
Mary Ann Gaines, Ft. Meade Child Development Center 1
Melika Graves, Georgetown University Law Center Child Care Center
Janet Madgalene Gross, House of Ruth's Kidspace Child & Family Development Center
Susan M. Hansell-Davis, Fairfax County Employee Child Care Center
Miaya Johnson, Department of Transportation CDC
Angela Jones, Ft. Meade Child Development Center 1
Madhushree Naik, Robert E. Simon Jr. Children's Center
Tonya Lynn Nolen, Fairfax County Employee Child Care Center
Holly Painten, Laurel Ridge School Age Child Care
Aracelis C. Perdomo, First Baptist Church of Clarendon-Child Development Center
Jeni Lynn Peters, Robert E. Simon Jr. Children's Center
Josie Pia,
Margaret Belger Ricks, School-Within-School at Peabody (DC)
Nory Rosero, Little Folks School
Elizabeth J. Sanchez, Creative Play School, Inc
Ivette Santiago, Fairfax County Employee Child Care Center
Tara S. Schiffhauer, House of Ruth's Kidspace Child & Family Development Center
Judy Wang, Kings Park Preschool
Donald Wright, Department of Transportation Child Development Center

Project Administrators:
Michelle Beauregard Wolf Trap Foundation ( Vienna , VA )

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