Making Music for Fun!
In-Person and Online Wednesday, June 21, 2023, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
We have just opened seats to join online from the comfort of your home or attend in person. Join Chris Roskelley for an evening of engaging in music experiences that will take you and your children into the summer. We will sing, use spoken word, and move our way through a host of land-based experiences including bugs, birds, gardening, and water. Throughout the workshop, we will make subtle connections to BC’s Early Learning Framework with consideration given to building relationships, fun, and engagement with our local environment. Participants will receive a song booklet and access to including all the songs and poems covered online.
Note: Dress for movement and potentially floor time. If you are a participant attending online only, have with you shakers, tapping sticks and bells.
Living Inquiries:
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Well-being and belonging.
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Engagement with others, materials, and the world.
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Communication and literacies.
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Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.
Pathways:
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Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas.
Joy when creating music, building relationships and connections as we sing, chant, move and share space. Provide children with time for physical activity indoors and outdoors. Include children's voices in the music experience. Plan for a variety of learning styles that arrive in your environment. -
Spaces, objects, and materials.
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Reconnection to land, place.
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Time for engagement.
Provide materials such as visual aids, instruments and movement props that can be introduced and left out for free exploration outside of scheduled 'times.' The experiences shared will primarily be land based. We will consider the joy in taking music outdoors and music will be seen as a curriculum area that does not need to be scheduled or purely seen as a 'circle time'. -
Multiple modes of communication.
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Sound and word play.
Music often tells a story. We will consider our music experiences as a valuable source of literacy and a rich form of communication, including singing, spoken word and movement. It goes without saying that music is full of 'sound and word play.' -
Democratic practices.
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Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
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Interrelationship of humans and their common worlds.
With our land based experiences we will be connecting to the environment and inevitably discussions around our connection to the earth will arise. A land based direction with a music practice is a way of connecting to Indigenous teachings and their relationship with the land. Democratic practices need to be considered as we sing, chant, share space and materials.
Suitable for ECE students, parents, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages, from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.
Facilitator(s): Christine Roskelley
Chris is an Early Childhood Educator with 40 years experience. For the past 28 years she has worked as a self employed music enrichment teacher primarily at UBC Child Care. Along with her work with children Chris teaches the Music and Movement component at both Burnaby and Delta Continuing Education.
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- Participants must be 19 years of age to work with children.
- Minimum Grade 8 high-school English understanding, written and oral skills or equivalent are necessary to actively participate in class.
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We are all guests in the training room. In an effort to maintain a safe and welcoming environment, we ask that we follow these guidelines:
- Respect people’s choices, experiences and feelings.
- One person speaks at a time.
- Participate actively by including your voice and make space for other voices to be heard.
- Respect confidentiality, what is said in the group, stays in the group. Speak in private with the instructor if necessary.
- Assume the best intent. This is a space to learn and sometimes that means making mistakes.
- Take care of yourself, whatever that may look like.
- Mute your microphone to reduce background noise and unmute it for group discussions, to comment or ask questions.
By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.
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In keeping with our eco-conscious goal of reducing paper use, handouts, resources and certificates will be sent by email. In this way, participants will have a resource that can be saved and viewed across various devices, shared and printed anytime.
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Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) require a minimum of 40 hours of professional development to renew a certificate to practice. Select topics you would like to expand on or that you’re passionate about.
Registered Family Child Care Providers (RLNR) are required to complete at least 4 hours of professional development before their annual renewal date.
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Workshop Registration
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Registration closes: June 21st
Credit Hours: 2
Fee: $35.00
Contact Info
Professional Development Team
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
pro-d@westcoastfamily.org
604-709-5661 EXT 1221