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Integrated Music & Literacy Education for the Very Young Child

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    Integrated Music & Literacy Education for the Very Young Child

      • HOME
      • NEW?
      • THE TREEHOUSE MUSIC METHOD
      • INSIDE A SESSION
      • NOTES FROM THE TREEHOUSE
      • CONTACT
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      • Treehouse Music School

        Integrated Music & Literacy Education for the Very Young Child

      • The Treehouse Music Method in a Nutshell

        1

        Literacy

        (reading, writing, speaking, singing... anything with words)

        2

        + Age-Appropriate Music Education

        (just like a big tree grows from a tiny seed, so does our musical ability, so we start at the very beginning—it's a very nice place to start according to Mary Poppins)

        3

        + Early Childhood Expertise

        (we focus on the smallest seedlings, very young children—from 0 to 4 years)

        4

        = The Treehouse Music Method

         

        your home for early childhood integrated music & literacy education

      • Our Founder

        The Seed-Planter, Sarah

        Sarah

        is an eternal optimist who is passionate about the early years of a child's life and learning. Sarah is blazing a trail for a new approach to music education for the very young child, the Treehouse Music Method, which combines her two areas of expertise—music and literacy—in a single program.

         

        Using her signature approach, the Treehouse Music Method, which merges the very best of early childhood educational methodology—Montessori and Reggio-Emilia—with two rich music education schools of pedagogy, Kodaly and Orff, the foundation is laid for musicianship, as well as early reading, writing, speaking, and listening, during the most important years of your child's life, preparing them early-on to continue their learning in these areas when they reach Kindergarten.

         

        After teaching early childhood/Pre-K in a Reggio-Emilia classroom environment, then teaching special education as a traditional public school classroom teacher, Sarah began to teach early childhood music, but found that the programs available were lacking a foundation of serious education, and were more like entertainment than the rich learning she was used to as a classroom teacher.

         

        Now, over a decade later, Treehouse Music School is the first program of its kind for very young children to actually teach, implicitly and explicitly, both music and literacy!

         

        Sarah is an educator-performer who, when singing, specializes in Italian baroque music (music from the 17th century). Even when she's singing, her passion still remains the union of text and melodic gesture (fancy words for literacy and music). You can hear Sarah's interpretations of Barbara Strozzi's 17th-century compositions at sarahhawkey.com. Sarah also teaches voice. For more about her voice studio, visit sarahhawkeystudio.com.

      • The Treehouse Music Method

        The very best in early childhood music and literacy education.

        The educational philosophies behind our integrated music and early literacy methodology

        Montessori

        Method

        Learning is Play, Play is Learning

        The Treehouse Music Method uses Montessori principles to foster an environment of experience-based, child-led learning, in which learning feels and looks like play. Songs and reading become student and teacher-created games that blossom into scaffolded learning over time.

        Reggio

        Emilia

        A Hundred Languages

        At the treehouse, we use the Reggio Emilia method to influence the flow of our sessions. We lean into the child's "hundred languages" when we use melody, rhythm, movement, puppetry, and reading as the learning modalities in our sessions.

        Kodály

        Method

        Song and Ear

        We use Kodály's methods of singing as our main instrument, songs from nursery rhymes, development of the child's inner ear as early as possible, excellence in musical ability by the teacher, and sequencing to layer developmentally-appropriate concepts over time.

        Orff

        Approach

        Play

        The Treehouse Music Method leads with play. We create an environment in which the child feels like they're playing while they are actually learning foundational musical concepts.

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      • Inside a Session

        Peek inside our one-on-one Treehouse Music School Sessions

      Serving Redding, Weston, Westport & Wilton

      (203) 403-7153

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