Music

All children love music and it should be a rich and rewarding part of their lives.
At Aurora Montessori and Private School students demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of music through listening, performing and creating music. Children develop their musical knowledge and skills through performance. Each music class promotes learning though signing, moving and playing.

Children develop an understanding with an appreciation and love for music when they have opportunities to experience music in the context of a rich and varied curriculum. Some musical ability can be awaken in every child when they are exposed to a variety of experiences helping them enjoy this art to the fullest.

The successful combining of music and movement is evident in many approaches to music within education; especially vanguard personages like Carl Orff, Maria Montessori and Zoltan Kodaly. The principles and techniques of these educators show us that movement and bodily sensation are turned into knowledge when interaction and play involve musical activities, games and improvisations.

The level of skill our students use when performing, as well as when reading and writing, is an acknowledgement of their independence and understanding of music. We share with our students the responsibility for modeling musical behaviours. The Orff-Shulwerk teaching approach gives our students the promise to be partners in making music, playing instruments, singing and moving as an ensemble.  The basic premise of the Orff-Schulwerk approach is that sound must come before symbol, meaning that the students must first be making music before they learn notation; just as children learn to talk before they later learn how to read.
Following the Zoltan Kodaly method children develop joyful experiences that help them to love music. These experiences create successful musical expression.  Children sing with a true understanding of what they are doing; with complete confidence and joy.