Early Learning Music Incursions

that incorporate the EYLF, leave kids on cloud nine, and inspire educators with new strategies for classroom management.

Hands-on, play-filled, and brain-lovin’ interactive musical incursions

Specifically designed for children aged 0-5 years. Choose from one-off incursions or an ongoing weekly program.

Our music-making sessions are enriching for your children AND your staff. Our hands-on musical play incursions provide numerous learning opportunities, supporting the development of all key intelligences for young children.

And we share key insights with your centre educators to encourage interaction and play in your centre well beyond our sessions.

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Sounds Like This aims to enhance each child’s appreciation of music and musical elements while having a tonne of fun.

*In each session*

Sounds Like This’ experienced practitioners will use songs, movement, storytelling, instrumental play, and props, supporting children to:
Gain confidence while being creative and expressive
Positively build on the relationship with their care
Enhance their cognitive development
Expand their language development
Encourage and reinforce coordination through fine and gross motor movement (specifically age-appropriate to the children in that session)
Encourage cross-hemispheric development and engagement
Build on social and emotional understanding and skills
Extend verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Learn through play
Direct their own learning, as our experienced presenter moves the sessions with the children’s interests

These incursions benefit teachers too. When educators engage in our music-making sessions, they learn strategies for behaviour management and smoother transitions, leaving them feeling more confident and supported in the classroom (and beyond!).

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But that’s not all…

Tailored to a number of age groups, including babies only, toddlers only, kindergarten children, mixed age groupings
For example, is this child developmentally ready to share, or is turn-taking a more appropriate strategy?
Do the children have to sit down, or can more be gained by moving and navigating the space with peers?
We know that movement is essential for brain development in young children, strengthening bodies and minds!
All incursions incorporate multiple senses and playing using movement. In fact, our experiences lean into this.
Let’s gallop, twirl, jump and wiggle through our music making.
We understand that children’s wants and needs change constantly, and we love to follow their lead.
We’re ever-conscious of each child’s consent and autonomy. We know that a child’s very best learning happens when we all feel safe, comfortable and confident to share their own ideas.
We believe in empowering children to understand and assert their right to bodily autonomy. Fostering healthy consent starts in early childhood.
Sounds Like This on-going-incursions are pretty much the very best PD you’ll ever do!
We adore empowering and educating early years educators throughout our programs, because we know that each educator has the potential to impact (at least) hundreds of lives.
We want to ensure this impact is as fruitful as can be, because we know it will shape the children’s current and whole future lives.
Our sessions are all about voice exploration and active listening. We sing mostly without accompaniment (and always without synthetic music). Percussion instruments help us to explore beat, pitch, rhythm, and timbre. We might even bring ukuleles, flutes, clarinets, violins, French horns, and other quality tuned-instruments for your children to explore.
Our singing is pitched for children’s growing vocal anatomy so their voices are protected and they can learn to sing tunefully and beautifully. Our songs explore the entire language of music, tonalities, beat, and rhythm.
We are supportive of your centre’s activities!
If you’d like, our incursions may be themed to further support your centre’s other learning streams, topics, and the children’s interests. Simply let us know and we’ll incorporate it!
We know that the time spent planning, purchasing materials, training (and honing those skills), setting up, packing up, washing touched items and balancing staffing demands all adds up.
Let us take the grunt work out of delivering a high quality program in your space with incursions that are affordable and accessible to your early childhood education space.
If you have multiple spaces at your ELC, we’d be delighted to conduct multiple sessions in the centre on the same day.
This is the most cost-effective way to provide brilliant music education to every child.

Our program is one of a kind

Incursion Investment

$165 + GST for the first hour,
$145 + GST per each hour afterwards on the same day.
(minimum one-hour booking)
$205 + GST for the first hour,
$165 + GST per each hour afterwards on the same day.

Additional travel expenses may be applicable if the booking is further than 20 km from Sounds Like This' Mornington base.

Please discuss this when booking your incursions.

Music education and active music-making change the way the brain grows during a child’s first few years (in all kinds of weird and wonderful ways).

We all know how critical early childhood is for development, and we understand the profound impact these formative years have on a child's future.

We also know that active music making, when done right, helps the brain process a host of functions better and faster, and increases each child’s capacity for lifelong learning.

That’s why we’ve designed our musical incursions to support early childhood development in every way imagineable.

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Sounds Like This is a small team of highly skilled educators dedicated to investing in childhood development, community building, and connection through music-making.

We are kindergarten and primary trained teachers, educational leaders, and inclusion and
diversity-informed musicians.

We believe in cultivating young minds through the magic of play-based music experience

That’s why we've created our program with the latest understanding of neuro-musical research and a brain trust of specialists, including:

Early childhood educators
Occupational therapists
Movement specialists
Speech pathologists
Childhood behavioural therapists
Art therapists
Play therapists
Other musicians
Bigger Better Brains Neuro-Music Trainers
Music Education Experts from Australia and abroad
Our own expertise and experiences

We are truly obsessed with the incredible process of growing brains! And we’re in love with the journey of learning.

When you put the two together, you'll discover that our dedicated teachers are consistently striving to improve our understanding of how the brain functions when engaged in the process of making music — and then skillfully applying this valuable knowledge to enhance our curriculum.

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