Meet Lea Jackson
An early childhood music specialist who has taught Kindermusik © for over 12 years.Lea has a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Illinois, and has done graduate work at the University of Memphis specializing in Orff. Lea believes in what she teaches, as both her children completed the entire Kindermusik © program.
In addition to her teaching work with young children, Lea is an active performer. A masterful storyteller, she has performed at the Collierville, Germantown, and Olive Branch libraries.
Her bluegrass groups, full band Town Square Pickers and duo the Barnstormers, aka Bluegrass Harmony, perform throughout the mid-south. Creative Aging has chosen Bluegrass Harmony as one of their many artists that performs regularly in their performance calendar.
Meet Lynn Ward
Lynn Ward is a graduate of Rhodes College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lynn is a librarian as well as a Kindermusik © teacher. She brings her scholarly insights of early childhood development into her classes.Lynn has been involved with music all of her life. An active choir member, she participated in church, college, and community choirs. She also directed handbell choir for 22 years at her church in South Carolina.
Meet Annette Cox
Annette Cox is currently a preschool music director along with being a Licensed Kindermusik Educator. Her passion for music began during her elementary years starting with piano. She was active all through school in choirs, ensembles, and musicals and sang in West Tennessee, All –State and Quad State. She is a member of Tri M and received an Opera Scholarship to Memphis State University. She has directed children’s musicals and drama for her church, First Assembly of God in Cordova, where she also sings in the choir. Annette is a native of Memphis and moved back to Collierville with her husband and children in 2003. She has 3 grown sons, Christopher, Justin, and Patrick and 1 daughter, Allayna. She is also the proud ‘Grammy’ of her grandson Brayden, who is 3 years old.
Annette has a love and passion for music and children and wants to extend that passion to all children.
Meet Keri Howell
Keri has a M.S. in Instruction and Curriculum Leadership from the University of Memphis and has taught Social Studies, English and Reading at the elementary and middle school levels.
Her musical talents have afforded Keri many fulfilling experiences. She has sung with the Houston High School Choir, All West Tennessee Choir, All State Tennessee Choir, church choirs, and the Memphis Symphony Chorus.
Gifted with a love for children, Keri currently teaches with the Collierville Homeschool Coop and instructs a class of 30 first graders in her church's Christian education program.
Keri believes that music is a very important foundation for every child's education and plays a significant role in developing the whole child.
Register now for FALL 2010 classes
SINGING fosters the development of your child's most important instrument, the voice, through vocal exploration, songs, and chants.
MOVING develops body awareness, coordination, and spatial relationships through synchronized movement, creative movement, and simple dances.
PLAYING introduces a variety of musical timbres with percussion instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingle bells, drums, resonator bars, and simple instruments your child creates at home.
CREATING stimulates your child's imagination and encourages new exploration with sound and movement.
PATTERNING boosts your child's ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language.
LISTENING cultivates your child's heightened attentiveness to sound discrimination.
EXPLORING timbre, dynamics, tempo, and pitch lays the foundation for conceptualization of the elements of music.
Children's Music
SINGING fosters the development of your child's most important instrument, the voice, through vocal exploration, songs, and chants.
MOVING develops body awareness, coordination, and spatial relationships through synchronized movement, creative movement, and simple dances.
PLAYING introduces a variety of musical timbres with percussion instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingle bells, drums, resonator bars, and simple instruments your child creates at home.
CREATING stimulates your child's imagination and encourages new exploration with sound and movement.
PATTERNING boosts your child's ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language.
LISTENING cultivates your child's heightened attentiveness to sound discrimination.
EXPLORING timbre, dynamics, tempo, and pitch lays the foundation for conceptualization of the elements of music.
