A Musikool Kids' Christmas

Here's a flashback to Christmas - it seems so long ago now! Thanks to photographer Monica, we have some photos to share from our Christmas Party at Musikool Kids.

Thanks everyone for a wonderful morning, and for all your good wishes xx

Musikool Kids is back!

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Well, here are 3 of those 5 Little Speckled Frogs we had at Musikool Kids this morning! We had no shortage of volunteers to don these cute froggie outfits, which were made especially for us by the lovely Marie D.


Five little speckled frogs
sitting upon a log
eating a most delicious bug...
Yum! Yum!
One jumped into a pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were 4 green speckled frogs.

Musikool Kids is back on 8 Feb

Musikool Kids is back on 8 February. Register online now!

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Christmas Movie!

Congratulations to all our amazing young people, who led a beautiful Christmas service this morning at the Chapel Street Centre.

Here are links to our Christmas Movie for 2018 - Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/45ia3mAIkcY

Part 2: https://youtu.be/P3PCprKm3xg

Please pass the link on to family and friends, and share the good news. JESUS is the REASON for the SEASON!

Merry Musikool Kids

Thank you to all our awesome volunteers who have helped make Musikool Kids such a fun and happy place to be on Friday mornings. Thank you to all the wonderful children and your parents, grandparents and caregivers, for being part of our Musikool Kids' family.

May the joy, love and peace of Christmas be with you all!

Christmas Movie Coming Soon...

Last Sunday a very awesome bunch of 35 were movie stars for the day. Shot on location at St James' Park, THE CHRISTMAS STORY features a bunch of hardworking shepherds, enthusiastic angels, confused wise guys, a misunderstood innkeeper, two proud parents and of course, the reason for the season, Jesus.

THE CHRISTMAS STORY will premiere at the Family Christmas Service on Sunday December 9th, 10am, at the Chapel Street Centre.

For a glimpse of what's to come, watch the trailer here:

https://youtu.be/qOMRl7GvVcU

Musikool Kids' Mums Rock!

Some of us mums dusted off our high-school-days musical instruments and brought them along to share with the children at Musikool Kids. No one minded that some of us were a bit rusty! A very enjoyable morning!

https://youtu.be/wdR1HnSSEtA

Mother and Daughter Team

Amanda and Dorothy teamed up to lead Musikool Kids last week. Thanks to musical mum and daughter for a fabulous session!

Musikool Kids Fun

We had an influx of fathers at Musikool Kids this morning, and it was lovely to hear the deep voices as the Dads sang with their sons and daughters around the rainbow ring.

There were lots of giggles and cackles as some Dads lifted their children up as we sang the Hey Dum Diddle song with our scarves, "Stretch up high.... and come down low..."

Lovely to have grandparents there too, enjoying this special time with their treasured tamariki.

Smiling Sisters

Some beautiful smiling sisters at the end of another Musikool Kids Friday morning session.

Musikool Kids, our Music and Movement Classes for Pre-school aged children, runs during school term time on Fridays at 10am.

Our sessions are usually 30 to 40 minutes and include a variety of traditional and modern children's songs, percussion instruments, scarves, rainbow ring, puppets, parachute, bubbles and much more.

At the end of our session we have a morning tea and play time, which is a great opportunity for the adults to get to know one another.

If anyone would like to help serve the cups of tea once a term, please get in contact with Melanie or Merilyn, we would love to hear from you! Thank you!

Merilyn's Little Helpers

Last Friday at Musikool Kids, Merilyn was thrilled to have some lovely little helpers when it was time to wheel the tea trolley back to the kitchen!

Pyjama Day!

We celebrated the end of the term with a Pyjama Day at Musikool Kids. Everyone looked so cosy and snug in their PJs and onesies and slippers.

We sang Ten in the Bed, Teddy Bear's Cha-cha-cha, I've Got a Teddy Bear, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed among many others.

Have a fun and relaxing two-week break over the school holidays, everyone! Keep warm!

Happy School Days

Quade had his last day at Musikool Kids on Friday, and is off to school! It seems like the last five years have just whizzed by so fast. 

Quade planned his last session at Musikool Kids and helped Amanda and Mel to lead the songs. 

Quade is pictured here with Mel's ukulele and wind tube. Quade specifically requested the wind, rain-stick and thunder drum be at his last session. He also included favourites such as Little Drum, Little Clown Dance and the clave sticks and rainbow ring.

Quade finished off the session by reading a book to the group, one of his favourites, "Pete the Cat and His White Shoes". We were all so impressed! 

We think Quade's teacher is extremely lucky to have Quade in her class. 

Quade had already introduced Pete the Cat to our group and we have been enjoying singing along to Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.

Thanks so much Quade and Vicky, we will miss you tremendously! Happy School Days!

Happy School Days!

At Musikool Kids this week we farewelled Travis, as he heads off to school next week. Travis has been at Musikool Kids since he was a baby, and his older siblings before him. Travis's mum has been part of the Musikool Kids family for 13 years! Wow! We will really miss your infectious smile and awesome drum beats Travis. We hope you'll be able to come back and visit sometime if you have a teacher-only day!

Happy birthday for next week, and happy school days!

Emelia's last day

Emelia has been part of the Musikool Kids' family since she was a baby, and has now started school! On Emelia's last day at Musikool Kids, she made sure she had all her favourite songs by planning the morning's session for me.

Some of Emelia's favourite songs were; Little Clown Dance, Five Little Monkeys, See Me Go In, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, the I Love You song with Riley Rabbit and of course Happy School Days.

Afterwards, Riley Rabbit let Emelia hold him for a while. Farewell Emelia, we wish you well at school and hope you come back to visit us sometime! We will miss you!

A Musical Storm

Last term some of our children enjoyed experimenting with the thunder drum, the wind pipe and the rain-stick.

We sang lots of rain-themed songs...

Listen to the Rain
I Hear Thunder
Incy Wincy Spider

Here are the words to the very old favourite:

It's raining, it's pouring;
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and he
Bumped his head
And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Rain, rain, go away
Little (Johnny) wants to play

We look forward to welcoming you back at Musikool Kids for term 2, beginning on Friday 4 May.

MUSIKOOL KIDS starts 9 Feb!

Looking forward to seeing all our Musikool Kids' families back at music tomorrow! Thank you all for your online enrollments. We have a very full class, with a waiting list already! Please arrive in plenty of time to get a park, as the car park is pretty busy on a Friday.

See you soon!

Merry Christmas Musikool Kids

Wishing all our Musikool Kids' families a very happy and musical Christmas!

Love and blessings from

Melanie, Merilyn, Amanda

and the Musikool Kids' team

Christmas Eve Carols 5.30pm

Make this a very special start to your Christmas. Join us at the Chapel Street Centre on Christmas Eve at 5.30pm for a 30 minute all-age Christmas Carol Service. Short and sweet, over in time to get the little ones to bed. Children are welcome to come dressed up, or in pyjamas.