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SUNNY KIRA, M.A.,
PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER,
LICENSED KINDERMUSIK EDUCATOR MAESTRO ,
NORTHWEST REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR PARTNERSHIP OF KINDERMUSIK EDUCATORS MUSIKANDMOTION, NATOMAS, SACRAMENTO, CA.
Sunny Kira, M.A. — a licensed Maestro Kindermusik educator, program director and credentialed primary school teacher who has dedicated her life to teaching for the past 15 years — believes it is a joyous gift to be in the company of children, and she is committed to providing the best music and early childhood development program for her students and their parents/caregivers. She believes that every child is musical and that through music the "whole child" can be nurtured and developed.
In the past three years, Sunny has been awarded the Kindermusik Maestro Conductor's Circle Award, joining Kindermusik International's prestigious group of select educators who represent the top 1 percent of over 6,000 licensed educators worldwide who provide high quality Kindermusik experience for children and famillies.
As a licensed Simply Music teacher, Miss Sunny also offers the breakthrough, Australian-developed piano and keyboard program. Students as young as 4 years of age learn to express themselves musically through the keyboard while older students learn to play great sounding pop, blues, classical and accompaniment pieces immediately from their very first lessons. Music theory and note reading are introduced once a foundation of 30-50 songs are developed.
In addition, Sunny is certified in Mastership Level 1 in Early Child Music from The Gordon Institute for Music Learning (GIML), an organization dedicated to "advancing the research in music education" and which applies Dr. Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory -- a comprehensive method toward the teaching of audiation, Dr. Gordon's term "for the ability to think music in the mind with understanding."
Sunny has performed with the award winning Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra where she sang as a soprano 1 with its 180 choral member group. As an avid ballroom dancer, she has also performed in the Spring 2005 Showcase at Salazar's Dance Studio and loves to salsa dance! As part of her outreach programs, Sunny provides early childhood music programs to preschools and elementary schools in Sacramento, and volunteers her time at children's hospitals and various children's organizations, bringing the joy of music to children in the Sacramento area.
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"Being able combine my love for music, dance and children is a harmonious dream come true!" — "Miss Sunny" |
Prior to directing and teaching her Kindermusik studio in Natomas, Sunny was a kindergarten and first grade teacher in the Natomas Unified School District. She also taught second, third, and fourth grades at the Garden Grove Unified School District in Southern California, and was a master teacher in both districts. She received her Master's degree in TESOL, an area of applied linguistics from California State University of Los Angeles in 1993. She has taught English as a Foreign Language to children and adults overseas.
Sunny participates in ongoing professional growth and development through conferences, workshops/meetings, and professional readings in a passionate effort to becoming a reflective pracitioner in the field of early childhood music education. She is a member of many organizations for music educators such as The Gordon Institute for Music Learning (GIML), MENC: The National Association for Music Education, The California Assoication for Music Educators (CMEA) Early Childhood Music & Movement Association (ECMM) and Northern California American Orff-Schulwerk Association.
Sunny currently lives in Natomas, Sacramento with her husband, David Kira, M.D., a board-certified ophthalmologist in Davis, California, and two pint-sized Maltese furbabies, "Sweet" Lucy and "Little" Ricky.
For more information, please contact Musikandmotion for Kindermusik in Natomas and West Sacramento, by calling 916-419-6999, or email licensed educator Sunny Kira, M.A., at . You will receive a personal reply within 24 hours.
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