Oak Knoll Montessori - Poway, California

Activities

GYMNASTICS
with
ERICH'S MOBILE GYM
AT YOUR SCHOOL
(760) 434-4084

BOYS & GIRLS
3-10 YEARS

See Calendar for Class Day + Time or Call our office
· The Fee is $40.00 per month based on 4 class sessions, due the 1st day of the month.
· Payments received after the 10th day of the month will require a $5.00 late fee.
· Enrollment is for ongoing classes until you notify us in writing.

In our Program Children Develop:
· Gymnastics and motor development skills
· Strength and coordination
· Self confidence and self esteem
· Listening and learning skills
Special Features of our Program:
· The All-Around Olympic events - Vault, Bars, Beam & Floor
· Winter evaluations and Spring testing
· Individual attention for each student - maximum 10 per class

Print/Mail to ERICH'S MOBILE GYM, P.O. BOX 2242 CARLSBAD, CA 92018
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Student Lives with:

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I hereby give permission to my son/daughter to participate in ERICH'S MOBILE GYM classes. I understand that ERICH'S MOBILE GYM or the host location and their personnel are not responsible for personal injury or loss of property. I hereby give permission for emergency first aid by ERICH'S MOBILE GYM personnel or a licensed medical doctor if necessary.

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ENROLLMENT IS FOR ONGOING CLASSES UNTIL YOU NOTIFY US IN WRITING

MUSIC EDUCATION

The Brain-Building Subject

Musical activities provide children with important experiences that can help them develop physical coordination, timing, memory, visual, aural and language skills. When they work to increase their command of music and exercise musical skills in the company of others, they gain important experience with self-paced learning, mental concentration and a heightened personal and social awareness. Frank R. Wilson. M.D.:.Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology-University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco: AMC 1998 Publication: Music and our Child".

Music education relates to basic intelligence by establishing more neural pathways in the brain for higher functioning levels.

Visual and sensory-motor cortex neurons are established through early learning experiences with music.

Through music. layers of brain cells become specialized and send information to other layers of brain cells optimizing the brain's bilateralism. - Bharucha (Dartmouth)

There is increased intelligence in artistic children because music more fully involves the brain functions in both hemispheres than any other activity. -Frank Wilson (neurologist)

The Mozart effect: students who listened to Mozart sonata beforehand scored 8 to 9 points higher on spatial reasoning I.Q. tests than those who listened to relaxation tapes or sat in silence. -From Nature Copyright 1993. Drrs. Rauscher and Shaw, University of California, Irvine.

Music, being complex and structured, exercises certain neural firing patterns that benefit learning and memory. - Frances H. Rauscher (Irvine Neurobiology).

Learning music forces mental stretching useful in math and reading. - Martin Gardner
(The Music School, Pawtucket, RI):

Learning music is superior to computer training for enhancing abstract reasoning skills necessarv for learning math and science. -Frances H. Rauscher and Gordon Shaw (Irvine):

Students with coursework/experience in music performance scored 52 points higher on the verbal portion of the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) and 36 points higher on the math portion of the SAT than students with no coursework or experience in the arts for a combined total of 88 points higher. -Profiles of SAT and Achievement Tests Takers, 1998, The College Board

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