This program is designed for children 4–6 years old. No audition is required. No previous music training is required.
Classes meet once a week for ten or twelve weeks and are offered in the fall, winter, and spring seasons. Summer classes run for six weeks. Consider subscribing to our monthly email newsletter to know when the next round of classes will begin.
Parents may be included in classes from time to time to observe their child’s music development. We encourage parents to build upon these shared musical experiences at home.
Crickets do not perform in a choir like their older counterparts in the Conservatory Program. At the end of the term, Crickets present a very informal demonstration of their activities and achievements to parents and friends.
We view music as an aspect of healthy self-expression. Trained educators gently introduce the proper use and care of their first instrument—the voice, through a playful collection of interactive musical games, songs and activities.
Very young children often don't realize when they are speaking loudly, quietly, quickly, or slowly, and they have no inclination to their pitch or tone of voice. Crickets coaches children in realizing how, and how loudly, they are speaking or singing.
Music-making has been shown to release endorphins which helps fight depression. Regular, positive experiences in Crickets class activities may serve as a way toward self-regulating energy and mood.
As per research in music education for young children, participation in activities in a music program such as Crickets provides a foundation for strong reasoning, memory, verbal and spatial skills that will serve them well in school, and throughout their lives.
Lyndsay Davies teaches Crickets, a music and movement class for children ages 4-6, at CCM. She began her career as a K-5 vocal music teacher in the Harford County Public School system. During that time, she welcomed her first piano students. She also had the privilege of teaching ear training, sight singing and music theory classes for the Children’s Chorus of Maryland. Most recently, she taught vocal music to K-2 students at Redeemer Classical Christian School in Kingsville, MD and for a local homeschool co-op, Crossroads. She continues to teach piano lessons from her home in Timonium.
Lyndsay is a certified Kodály music educator, having received her Master of Education in Kodály Music from the American Kodály Institute at Loyola University of Maryland. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Grove City College where she also studied Trombone. She continues to play trombone with the Hunt Valley Wind Ensemble.
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