This is a little blog to review what we do!  

Music for Little Ones  is the name of our effort to bring more musical education and opportunity to Rabun County!  Our first goal has been to raise $1,000 to bring Kindermusik to the Nichols Center - right here in Clayton!  We made it half way to that goal, so far, and have ordered materials.  Teacher training for that begins next week!  Ideally,  we will train a second teacher by the end of this year!  Having two teachers would make it possible to really get into the school, daycares, senior centers, and neighboring counties!!

  We plan to first offer classes  for preschool age children and their parents or caregivers.  These fast paced fun music and movement classes would occur twice a week.  A morning and afternoon class would be offered and one saturday a month!  The average cost per month to attend all classes would be $60 but parents can choose to pay per class instead($10 per class)!  We hope to use Music for Little Ones donations to assist parents who cannot afford the class and offer full scholarships based on need as well!  

 We strongly believe that bringing music back into our homes, families, and community will help create a fun, educational atmosphere and bring us all closer together!  Singing, clapping, and moving all at once can really boost young children's development and confidence.  For parents, singing silly songs can be a positive way to interact with those sometimes tough preschoolers!  These silly songs and dances can also help foster and overall love and appreciation of music and the arts and just may lead to interest in further musical education.

  In the future we hope to offer and assist with musical lessons, dancing, and kids performance groups.  We also hope to bring family and kid oriented musical acts to Rabun County!  Music for Little Ones also hopes to extend the classes to include special needs and senior citizens!  

  With some luck and a little money we truly believe that Music for Little Ones can bring opportunities to Rabun County for our children and ourselves!  

For more information please contact gretchenechols@gmail.com
or  find me on facebook Gretchen Echols there too!