The Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initiative lead by Dr. Cassandra Eisenreich offers a variety of enjoyable and developmentally appropriate music activities for children. The classes serve as field experience opportunities for interested students and an additional learning experience for the music education majors.
Free Family Music Opportunities
Sing.Move.Play
Children and their families and friends sing, move, and play together! Join us for a morning of fun as we explore music! Get your FREE tickets today at the Box Office. A tax deductable donation is greatly appreciated.
For Sing.Move.Play events held at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, please visit www.pittsburghkids.org
Tuneful Tales
Tuneful Tales brings stories to life with music! Our groups of enthusiastic musicians and narrators provide high quality, educational and engaging performances for children of all ages. Each Tuneful Tale program consists of pre-concert activities, a children's story with narration and music, a musical selection showcasing the Tuneful Tales musicians, and an educational instrument petting zoo! Get your FREE tickets today at the Box Office. A tax deductable donation is greatly appreciated.
Make Music Day
Make Music Day is an annual celebration that occurs each June 21, when people around the world make music together on the summer solstice. Make Music Day has become an international phenomenon, with millions of musicians of all styles, all ages, and all skill levels reimagining their cities as stages, and using music to spread joy to their communities. The Slippery Rock University Music Department has partnered with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh to provide sound exploration events for Make Music Day!
Pittsburgh Music Opportunities
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
The SRU Music Education Program is collaborating with the PSO Fiddlesticks Concerts in their pre-concert Discovery Time Adventures for kids. The SRU Music Education students lead activities rooted in eurhythmics to provide music and movement experiences for children and their families. Join us to explore the joy of music through the PSO's Fiddlesticks Family Concert series.
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
On select days throughout the year, SRU music education students and faculty provide Sing.Move.Play classes for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. These 30-minute "drop-in" music experiences will take any young learner on a journey rich in song, movement, sound exploration, and musical play.
Weekly Classes
Early Learning Connections
Each week, children from the Early Learning Connections program participate in an online music class with SRU music education majors. Each experience consists of music games and activities including sound exploration and discovery, singing, and movement. The emphasis of this program is to provide preschool-age children with many developmentally appropriate music and movement activities suitable for their age and experience. The activities are child-centered and rich in movement, singing, problem solving, listening, and exploring.
SRU/SGA Preschool and Childcare Center
Music education majors who show interest in and dedication to the field of early childhood music are selected to teach their own preschool music classes in collaboration with the on-campus SRU/SGA Preschool. Each experience consists of music games and activities including sound exploration and discovery, singing, and movement. The emphasis of this program is to provide preschool-age children with many developmentally appropriate music and movement activities suitable for their age and experience. The activities are child-centered and rich in movement, singing, problem solving, listening, and exploring.