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Children learn best by making music with the people they love.
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Toddlers can explore our instruments and the sounds they produce!
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How can I make a new sound with this stick and this castanet?!
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Families can find new ways to play their eggs together!
And we can make up new verses (about our family) to our songs!
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We can make drums and bells from so many things we find around the house!
Listen to the sounds they make!
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Wow! These wrist ribbons are fun to dance with!
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We're listening to the music while we roll our balls!
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I'm rolling the balls with my Mom and my cousin and my new friends!
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Jumping to the music is even more fun in front of the mirror at Danse Elite!
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Mom is my best dancing partner!
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We get to choose our favorite instrument for the Playalong.
Look at all these great instruments that our family can play together!
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Hmm! I wonder what is the best way to play these finger cymbals!
When we watch the teacher, we get lots of ideas!
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Today there's nothing like a Jingle Bell for me!
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Jennifer can play the guitar for us and make funny faces at the same time!
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Mom is our most important teacher!
We like to do what she likes to do!
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Can you tell I'm playing my maraquitas to a song in Spanish ?
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I can play the maracas while I'm sitting or while I'm walking around the room!
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Marching and playing my finger cymbals is what I like best!
When I make music, I keep moving even if the rest of the class is sitting still!
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Nannies and mommies enjoy singing, playing, and dancing, too!
Children model what they see..
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If I really pay attention, I can do it just like the teacher!
Mom and Grandma are paying attention, too!
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Look at me making a new instrument with my finger cymbals and wood blocks!
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When the Parachute comes out, things can get pretty wild!
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I just LOVE my maraquitas!
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After class we get to strum Jean's guitar--gently!
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It's a first-class team of egg shakers at the Music Along the Sound display at the Larchmont Art Fair!
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Grandma and grandson are having a great time at the Music Together Playalong at the Larchmont Art Fair! Making music brings together the generations, learning from each other!
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Jean couldn't resist adding this photo of her autumn garden!
Love those dahlias that bloom until frost!
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Jean's daughter Meara played her cello for our lullaby one special day!
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Music Together families dance together early Saturday mornings. What a great way to begin the weekend!
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Drums are wonderful to explore inside and outside!
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We all love it when Daddy comes to class!
And lots of dads love our early Saturday morning class!
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My family has all different kinds of instruments to play during the Playalong!
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The Saturday morning families really have their egg shaker act together!
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My brother and I love Saturday class. Both Mom and Dad play music with us!
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Wow! Do I ever like shaking these bells! They're easy and fun!
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Our first class at Willow Towers, in New Rochelle, was a Halloween Party. Some of us arrived in costume!
Now we hold weekly classes in the Cypress Room, and the residents sing and play along with us.
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The residents of Willow Towers rode along with us as we went "Drivin' in the Car" with Marnie!
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I open my mouth wide for Mom and also for my older friends at Willow Towers.
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Sometimes I ask an older woman to dance with me!
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We can spin under Mom's arms in an improvised dance.
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In our class at Willow Towers, we dance with our dynabands. Our elderly friends in the chairs do their best to move along with us!
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Wow! I love dynabands!
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Mom and I ring our Jingle Bells together at Willow Towers.
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Our families at Willow Towers play the resonator bells together. Baby sister plays the jingle bells!
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Mom and I have quite a selection of instruments to play together!
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After class, we all like to watch the fish swimming in the tank at Willow Towers!
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On Halloween we enjoyed lifting the parachute to the music during another intergenerational class.
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Young and old were busy tapping their sticks to the music!
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Superman and Snow White were very interested in Marnie's autoharp!
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Marnie leads intergenerational Music Together each week at Meadowview at the Wartburg, a beautiful assisted living residence in Mount Vernon.
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Some children get to visit Grandma during Music Together class! Others, who may have Grandparents who live far away, enjoy visiting substitute grandparents.
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This little boy came with Grandma to visit his Greatgrandmother!
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But everyone at Meadowview enjoys having the little children come to make Music Together each week.
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Sisters and brothers can make Music Together with Mom during a visit to Meadowview.
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Brothers and sisters can enjoy making music together in our classes!
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Playing the two-tone wood block is a challenge I enjoy, but my friend prefers the maracas today.
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We're all playing our drums, today!
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During the free dance, we get acquainted with the senior residents of Meadowview.
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At our new class at King Street Home, we play instruments with Mimi.
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We can make new friends in class, playing musical games together!
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After class, Mimi lets us strum her guitar!
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Music class is SO much fun!
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Jump into our Music Together classes. You'll be glad you did!
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Music Together means a special time together! We hope you can join us soon!
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