Hey-Dee-Ho Music Class

Hey Dee Ho are very passionate about Music. Not only does music provide great pleasure and comfort to many people, but it is a proven tool that stimulates learning, thereby providing a key to unlock potential.

Hey Dee Ho focuses on:  

• focuses on play-based learning.
• utilises novelty to provoke interest and more complex and increasingly abstract thinking.
• incorporates familiar family and cultural texts and stories.
• provides a rich and diverse variety of resources that enable children to express themselves using dance, drama, music and storytelling.
• stimulates visual and auditory processing and memory.
• promotes inclusion.
• introduces children to cultural differences and respect for diversity.
• exposes children to different languages both verbal and non-verbal.
• engages children in concepts of symbol systems, for example, letters, numbers, time, money and musical notation.
• develops spatial awareness (concepts of over, under around, through, in and out).
• involves children in the joy of imaginative play.
• values self-expression.
• refines fine and gross motor skills through movement, dance and use of resources.

The program is presented to address the following:

• Cognitive learning.
• Fine and gross motor skills.
• Visual and auditory processing and memory.
• Language development.
• Stimulate imagination and active role play.
• Self control and turn taking (social skills).​

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Hey Dee Ho also incorporate ‘Auslan signing’, ‘multicultural languages’, SOL FA (the Kodaly method of teaching singing) and ‘Spatial Awareness/Brain Gym’. These themes change each term.