Where San Diego’s kids make musical memories
What is Songbirds Music?
Since 2008, Songbirds Music is proud to provide a safe and nurturing place, a nest really, where families and friends with little ones (ages birth to age 5) gather to learn, grow, and connect through music, movement, and play in a fun, non-performance, informal yet supportive environment.
What you’ll see in our classes:
- A community of families sharing songs, instrument play, rhythm chants, and movement activities in a relaxed, playful, non-performance-oriented setting.
- Music learned through developmentally appropriate activities that support and respect the unique learning styles of every child.
- Infants, toddlers and preschoolers participating at their own levels and learning from one another in family-style classes.
- Parents/caregivers contributing to the enrichment of their child’s music environment regardless of their own musical abilities.
- New friends, families, and highly trained teachers who can’t wait to connect with you.
Our Goals:
- Nurture each child’s natural enthusiasm for music and movement
- Provide a non-judgmental, inclusive, warm, learning environment for your family
- Teach you how to use music in your daily lives
- Provide a solid foundation for life-long music making
- Learning new songs every semester featuring great arrangements of original and traditional songs in a variety of tonalities, meters, languages, and cultural styles.
- Meet new friends and create a community of kind and cultured music-makers.
- Have fun!
Meet the Teachers
Ms. Diana
Hello and hola, I’m Ms. Diana!
Former bilingual elementary school teacher turned early childhood music specialist and mama bird!
Although I am an introvert, I am serious about being silly and I do spontaneously break out into song or lightly choreograph television commercial jingles.
I love to sit on the floor with little ones and their loving grownups while tapping to the beat and sharing why music, movement, and play is a basic life skill and how to use the magic of music on the daily to connect to the people we love and the world around us.
Patient, warm, nurturing, I am a proud Mama Bird who loves her two girls, her husband, and her poodle mystery named Fozzie.
I am fanatical about Flamenco, love traveling, stand-up comedy, music from the 50s and 60s, and I think most life lessons can be learned on Sesame Street.
As an auntie, mom, and bilingual educator of more than 20 years I am passionate about creating a safe and flourishing nest for families – familias – with a song and a smile. ¡Ole!
“My daughter and I have just reenrolled for our second set of classes with Miss Diana. We feel so lucky to have found such a brilliant class. Diana is an excellent and talented teacher, she has a natural gift of teaching children of all ages and abilities and keeps them engaged throughout each class. Thank you Diana!”
I hold an M.Ed. from the University of Virginia in Curriculum and Instructional Design, a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in World Arts and Cultures, and a BLCAD (Bilingual, Cross-Cultural, Language and Academic Development) teaching credential. I served as a bilingual and Spanish Immersion elementary school teacher for 10+ years in San Diego, Salinas, and Arlington, VA. I successfully completed the Music Together Teaching Workshop developed by the Center for Music and Young Children, Princeton, New Jersey in Alexandria, Virginia in 2007 and her Music Together Certification Level 1 in 2013. I am also a certified Canta y Baila Conmigo® Master teacher (Spanish Language and Music Program). I am CPR and First Aid certified.
Ms. Diana in three words: Mama, patient, gentle
Melissa
