Music-making creates a beautiful sense of bonding and belonging between children and their parents or guardians, their educators, and their communities.

And when little ankle-biters feel a sense of belonging, they have the perfect conditions for a productive and effective learning environment.

Sounds Like This looks at the WHOLE community. We make sure parents and educators alike feel empowered and supported to spend more time nourishing their children and have the practical tools to use music to do so.

We create safe and respectful spaces to learn, be, and THRIVE.

At Sounds Like This, we believe EVERY person has the potential to become musical, especially when their musicality is nurtured in early childhood.

But we don’t preach music theory from the get-go.

Actually, we know we’ve done a good job when we see children embodying confidence. As joyful lovers of music. Who are free to explore, make their own choices and learn through rhythm, pitch, tempo, melody, and harmony without even knowing it.

Sounds Like This takes an immersive approach to music-making in childhood, and encourage all adults to jump in - the children will benefit greatly from the role modeling and mirror neurons you’re triggering in their amazing brains!

Mirror neurons are brain cells that fire both when performing an action and when watching someone else do it. This process helps children build skills faster through observation and imitation.

How does this help?

• Accelerated Learning: Kids absorb physical movements by watching you.

• Social Bonding: Shared activities build trust and connection.

• Emotional Security: Adult presence creates a safe environment.

• Confidence Boost: Seeing adults try encourages kids to jump in a have a go too. It doesn’t have to be perfect - learning together is PERFECTO! *chef’s kiss*

First, we teach our little poppets to love music. To knowmusic. To breathe it. From a young age, this musicalimmersion wires their brain so that they quickly catch on when they learn musical theory or wrap their hands around an instrument later in life.

We plan our kids’ music programs in a way that helps us scaffold learning so children grow and develop naturally.

Kids are clever young humans. They learn through the natural course of play throughout the day. We take that innate behaviour and make it a central part of their early musical education.

Nothing is more beautiful than seeing people create freely through an unencumbered sense of self and self-acceptance.

In our children’s music programs, we encourage:

• Child-led exploration

• Autonomy

• Spontaneity

• Expression

• Imagination

• Movement

• FUN!

It’s not about the immediate outcome but the process.

We nurture every child in their own time, meeting them where they are, whilst encouraging and valuing their unique contributions and perspectives.