{"id":10061,"date":"2019-04-04T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10061"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:15:13","slug":"joyful-sounds-selected-for-kindermusik-pilot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10061","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Sounds selected for Kindermusik pilot project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong>\n Joyful Sounds in Fall River is one of three Kindermusik studios in \nNorth America selected to be part of a new pilot project aimed at \nSpanish; mandarin; and bilingual music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The studio in Fall River, \nowned and operated by Louise MacDonald and her team of instructors, was \nselected for Bilingual Birdies, which is based out of New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\n taking music and a second language and mirroring it together,\u201d said \nMacDonald inside the studio in Fall River on April 4. \u201cIt looks like a \nKindermusik class from the inside. We sing, play instruments, dance, but\n we\u2019re using the language component to help children learn to speak a \nsecond language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joyful Sounds was chosen to do the french curriculum. A studio in Florida and New Orleans were each selected to do Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacDonald said it\u2019s pretty cool to be selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty big deal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n project will be done twice a week for eight weeks and is aimed at \npre-school (3-5-years-old) and a mixed ages family class. The pre-school\n session runs at 1 p.m. every Tuesday, while the family session takes \nplace Friday\u2019s at 11 a.m.. It starts April 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople are really \nexciting about it,\u201d said MacDonald. \u201cWe\u2019ve been asked if we will be \ndoing it on the weekends or in the evenings for the future. Everything \ndepends on how it goes, how we as instructors feel it fits with our \nvibe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MacDonald said the vocabulary is based around a theme with the first one being fruits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s\n 12 theme units, so we could do it for an entire year if we wanted too,\u201d\n she said. \u201cThe more you do a new language the better it comes off your \ntongue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, contact MacDonald at Joyful Sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: Joyful Sounds in Fall River is one of three Kindermusik studios in North America selected to be part of a new pilot project aimed at Spanish; mandarin; and bilingual music. The studio in Fall River, owned and operated by Louise MacDonald and her team of instructors, was selected for Bilingual Birdies, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,8],"tags":[436,2,437,438,297],"class_list":["post-10061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-community","tag-bilingual-birdies","tag-fall-river","tag-joyful-sounds","tag-kindermusik","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}