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Musik at Home Musik at Home is dedicated to helping you actively engage your child in musical play! Music and movement are essential for a child's holistic development.

We offer classes for early childhood music for you to complete at home with your child on your own schedule. We get you started with ideas to fill your little one's life with musical play! Our online classes keep the music flowing to help your child's development to soar. You may join our Musik at Home facebook group of likeminded parents who share your desire for more music in the daily routine. Musical play is the foundation of a child's growing music aptitude and overall development. Join us today!

10/06/2026

🍂 An autumn poem for Wondergarten music education. 🍃🎶

If you’ve been part of the Musik at Home community, you know how deeply I believe that children learn music by experiencing it first: listening, singing, moving, chanting, playing, and audiating.

Now I have the joy of bringing that same approach to music education into Wondergarten.

This week is Wind Week, and here’s a little behind-the-scenes moment of Geneva and recording our poem, “Brother Wind Is Blowing In,” based on the stories by Nathaniel Santa Cruz. She and I wrote the words together, and Geneva brings them to life with her voice and rhythmic expression.

This poem is designed to teach rhythm in triple meter.

Through the natural rhythm of the words, children can listen, speak, move, and begin to internalize rhythmic patterns, right alongside the beautiful songs and musical experiences woven throughout the Wondergarten curriculum.

Poetry and music belong together. Both invite children to listen deeply, feel rhythm in their bodies, and experience sound before ever being asked to understand it symbolically.

Sound and movement first. Symbols later. 🎶

I love seeing the music education philosophy at the heart of Musik at Home growing in a new way inside Wondergarten. 🍂

And very soon, my full collection of autumn poems will be coming to the Wondergarten Community Test Group, giving children even more opportunities to experience rhythm through poetry, music, language, and movement.

🍃 “Brother Wind Is Blowing In”
Written by Kathryn & Geneva Brunner
Performed by Geneva Brunner

I’m building out the Wondergarten Music Education program, but it will take some time. If you’re ready to immerse in consistent music education, I have an entire program ready to go in the Musik at Home membership.

Early childhood is when the magic happens!

Songs and stories are not extras. They are part of what forms us.Long before children can explain what courage, beauty, ...
09/18/2026

Songs and stories are not extras. They are part of what forms us.

Long before children can explain what courage, beauty, loyalty, sorrow, hope, or adventure mean, they encounter these things through the songs they sing and the stories they hear. And as we grow, those songs and stories continue to shape our imaginations, our affections, and our understanding of what it means to be human.

They give us language for experiences we have not yet lived. They allow us to rehearse courage before courage is required of us. They awaken wonder, cultivate empathy, strengthen memory, and remind us that our own lives are part of something larger than the present moment.

Perhaps that is why Tolkien’s travelers told stories and sang songs as they journeyed. The songs did not distract them from the adventure. They helped equip them for it.

We were made to flourish in more than one dimension. Intellectually, emotionally, relationally, creatively, spiritually. Music and story help nurture all of these capacities, forming the imagination and inner life we carry with us into whatever journeys lie ahead.

So sing with your children. Read them beautiful stories. Fill their childhood with words and melodies worth remembering.

You are giving them something to carry with them on the road ahead… and so much more.

09/10/2026

What do you think? Is she ready?

Singing in a stadium is a whole different ballgame! 🫢

Children don’t learn to speak by memorizing definitions. They learn through listening, experimenting, responding, and ha...
09/02/2026

Children don’t learn to speak by memorizing definitions. They learn through listening, experimenting, responding, and having thousands of little conversations.

Music develops in much the same way. 🎶

Before we ask children to read music, we need to give them something to say musically. That comes from years of singing, moving, listening, echoing patterns, improvising, and experiencing melody, harmony, and rhythm in meaningful ways.

When children are given a rich musical vocabulary and the freedom to play with it, they begin to audiate. They aren’t simply reproducing music someone else created. They’re learning to think in music and express musical ideas of their own.

That is the kind of musicianship I want to nurture.

This quote is taken from my audiation based piano curriculum book, Creative Keys: Nordic Adventures, Volume I ✨

08/31/2026

Dolly Parton has been special to so many of us, but somehow, she made her music feel personal to each one of us. 🤍

Her songs have been woven into our childhoods, our families, our memories, our celebrations, and even some of our hardest moments. We sang along with her, laughed with her, were moved by her stories, and felt like we knew a little piece of her through the music she shared with the world.

Playing one of her songs for my family this week felt different. Watching my mom get emotional reminded me just how deeply music can connect us to together— to people, places, and moments we never want to forget. We had the country music station on every day when my dad was stationed in Altus, Oklahoma during his Air Force career. Country music is woven deep in us.

What a gift Dolly was to us. Her life and legacy are the songs she gave us and they will keep being played, sung, shared, and passed down.

And as long as we keep singing them, a little piece of Dolly will always be with us. 🤍🎶

Thank you for the music, Dolly. We miss you!! Can’t wait for 2046 when your final single will be released!

08/30/2026

Sometimes the best music happens when no one planned it. 🤍

She was just sitting at the piano, practicing “Think of Me” from The Phantom of the Opera, when Dad decided to join the practice session. 😂

No rehearsal. No preparation. Just one of those sweet, ordinary family moments that turns into something you want to remember. 🎶

I love that music has a way of doing this. When it becomes part of the life of a family, it doesn’t stay confined to lessons or practice time. It becomes something you share anytime… and whenever you can. 🤍

08/27/2026

One of the most important tonal patterns a child can learn is So–Do: a descending perfect fifth.

Why? Because Do is home. When children repeatedly hear and sing So resolving down to Do, they begin to develop a strong sense of tonality and where the music wants to come to rest.

Before children can make sense of music theoretically, they need a rich tonal vocabulary they can hear, sing, recognize, and audiate.

That’s why I spend so much time singing tonal patterns with young children. We’re not simply teaching them to imitate sounds. We’re helping them build the musical vocabulary they’ll eventually use to understand, improvise, perform, and create music.

So–Do is a foundational tonal pattern because it establishes the relationship between the dominant and tonic, helping children hear and feel where “home” is within a tonality. 🎶

Many thanks to Heather Shouldice for introducing me to this song! It perfectly models the descending 5th before asking the student to respond with the echo. 🙌🏻

Comment “SONGS” to get access to my top 5 songs to sing with your child to help build their tonal vocabulary!

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Learning music is valuable. But learning to think music changes everything.When children learn to hear, understand, anti...
08/26/2026

Learning music is valuable. But learning to think music changes everything.

When children learn to hear, understand, anticipate, and create music in their minds, music becomes something they truly know from the inside out. That’s the power of audiation. 🎶

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