MCS General Music students as young as Pre-K are developing musically through the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music learning. You can read more about this philosophy and it's origins from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, if you'd like to dive deeper.
Essentially, students sing, speak, dance, and play their way through music classes designed to activate and develop the parts of the brain that are responsible for musical development... which would be all of them! We were recently reflecting in a sixth grade class about how, just for trying a new music skill, our neuroplasticity increases, and it's like a software update on our computers!
This approach is encapsulated in this photo; these fourth-grade students are exploring sixteenth-notes through hands-on materials like these percussion instruments while singing and moving to demonstrate understanding. Pretty soon, they'll be playing this in canon to flex their new skills!
The Orff Philosophy is widely-accepted among music educators worldwide as one of the most engaging, effective, and meaningful ways for students to develop musically; their brains are working hard, but it doesn't feel like work!
I hope your child has been coming home from music class days with happy memories and learning experiences to share.