LONGWOOD, Fla. — Teacher Connie Millberg has had a lifelong love for music and that really strikes a chord with her students.
What You Need To Know
- Connie Millberg is a music teacher at Stepping Stones Early Childhood Center
- Millberg had her first piano lesson when she was 6
- She says skills taught in music can help students in their other subjects
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Take one step inside Millberg’s classroom at Stepping Stones Early Childhood Center in Longwood and you will hear the sweet sound of music.
“I move all of the chairs out of the way and they move around and they dance around and it’s okay. They don’t have to be still. They don’t have to be quiet,” she said.
She’s not only helping her young students read notes, but she’s helping them hit all the right notes too in the preschool that is a ministry of St. Stephen Lutheran Church, serving infants through the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program.
“I have the joy and the goal of instilling the love of music into these little children that they can take throughout the rest of their life,” she said.
She knows all too well the impact that music can have on young learners.
“I just believe from my very first piano lesson when I was 6 years old. It was like an ‘aha’ moment for me and I knew that music would be my life for the rest of my life and it has,” she said.
Millberg said lessons learned here can help students in all of their classes.
“Whether it’s numbers, mathematics or multiplication tables or learning to do up and down. That is such a joy to see when it clicks for the children. I think that sometimes people are a little too serious with it and it’s very important to have fun and to know that music is fun and joyful,” she said.