Music Improves Mental Health
April 7, 2021 Music has been a path forward for mental health! It will continue to be so!
Auction to Benefit Music Fund
February 17, 2021 Week 2 of Gifting Grinnell is highlighting the following Nonprofit Programs. Please go and check out some great items at https://ahrensfamilyfoundation.org/gifting-grinnell-auction/ to Bid or Buy It Now. Proceeds will go to the programs spotlighted as well as 10% to the Nonprofit Emergency Relief Fund (NERF). Week 2 auction closes tomorrow at midnight! [...]
January Activity Bags We are looking forward to our Musical Storytime with Emil…
[ad_1] January Activity Bags We are looking forward to our Musical Storytime with Emily Van Arkel on Saturday January 23rd at 10:30 am. Activity bags with a musical storytime theme will be ready for pickup this week at the north doors of the library from 10 am to 6 pm. Remember you don't have to [...]
My Own Two Hands
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The Benefits of Music Education
Music education can have a positive impact on children's language development, IQ and more. Check out this popular PBS KIDS for Parents article to learn more!
The Best Movement and Action Songs for Children
[ad_1] Some fun songs for children during these last few days of online learning! The Best Movement and Action Songs for Children Need a perfect solution to help children get their energy or wiggles out? These are [ad_2] Source
October is We Give month
October 22, 2020 October is We Give month for the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/Ahrens Park Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. The Vosburg Music Fund supports children in the local Grinnell area with music funding assistance who are unable to afford music lessons, instruments and other items or therapy services associated with [...]
Music Lessons Can Boost Kids’ Cognitive Skills & Academics
October 7, 2020 School music lessons can significantly boost children’s cognitive skills, including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. In addition, these cognitive skills developed through music go on to positively influence students’ performance in completely unrelated subjects, resulting in [...]
Free Online Music Lessons for Kids
June 4,2020 If you are a lucky parent, you are musically inclined and have no difficulty finding ways to teach music to your children. For the rest of us, online resources can save the day. We have found some great online music lessons for kids that you may want to try. Read below to [...]
Newest Partner Fund Created in Memory of Bill Vosburg
September 3, 2019 Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, a fund has been created to help support kids in the local Grinnell area with music funding assistance who are unable to afford music lessons, instruments and other items or therapy services associated with learning music. The Vosburg Music Fund has been established [...]