Contributed by Kate Patterson
Li'l Bitty Ditties is new to the Matanuska Valley. Wanting to spend intentional and meaningful time with my grandchildren, I began taking them to Music Together classes in Anchorage because there were no classes in the Valley. That's how I got hooked.
I began teaching Music Together through Timbre Music Studio out of Anchorage in 2014.
At the end of the 2016-2017 school year, I retired after 20 years of elementary music teaching at Cottonwood Creek Elementary School in Wasilla, and started Li'l Bitty Ditties in July of this year.
In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience in 2013, researchers found that lessons and exposure to music can positively affect brain development and behavior in children.
"Highly-skilled musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Oscar Peterson and Pablo Casals began training in early childhood, all before the age of 7 years,” the study stated. “Such observations suggest that there may be a sensitive period when early musical training has greater effects on the brain and behavior than training later in life.”
In Music Together at Li'l Bitty Ditties, your little one will be able to begin to develop the full potential of their musical capacity through your support and musical play.
