Classes We Offer!
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Kindermusik Village
For Newborn to 1½ years
Class Length: 45-60 minutes
Imagine your child swinging softly in a blanket or dancing with you around a maypole. Village provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-level activities that includes creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and a colorful literature component, your baby's growth and development are stimulated and all of his senses engaged.
Kindermusik Village, for children newborn to 11/2 years of age, incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families with a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement. High quality, professionally created class and At Home materials include Kindermusik Foundations of Learning, insights based on current research that educate parents about their babies' unique development.
Cock-A-Doodle-Moo!
How many ways can you sing hello? Animals come to life in this exciting unit Cock-a-Doodle Moo when singing a "Morning Song" like a pig, horse, snake or cow. Enjoy walking down memory lane when you share some other old favorite chants and songs, such as: "Skip to my Lou", "Old MacDonald", "The Farmer in the Dell", "Hey Diddle Diddle" and "Yankee Doodle."
Dew Drops
Dew Drops touches on many well known and traditional chants and songs, such as "Lavender Blue", "Blue Bells and Cockle Shells" and "How Does your Garden Grow?", which will bring back many pleasant memories of your own childhood.
Do-Si-Do
Central to Do Si Do is the use of Baby's book entitled "This is My Dance." Why do we focus on rhythm and movement? When your baby emerges from the womb and the familiar, steady sound of mother's heartbeat, his brain begins scanning the apparently disorganized world for patterns — elements of consistency to help him make order out of the chaos. Rhythmic activity provides the recognizable, predictable and patterned information your baby wants to latch on to.
Dream Pillow
Dream Pillow: There is a tenderness about Baby's bedtime that makes it unlike any other time of day. Time slows down. The light changes. And a parent's awareness is heightened. Every mother and father knows Baby's breathing, her facial expressions, her cries, her wriggling, sighs and heavy eyelids that lead up to sleep – and often interrupt it during the night! Through the rituals of rocking, nursing, cuddling and singing, parents follow Baby's cues to lull her to sleep. The loving interaction that defines these rituals is the essence of Dream Pillow. In this unit parents and caregivers are invited to enjoy bedtime closeness with Baby at any time of day by listening more closely, sharing the gifts of singing and talking to Baby and exploring and extending the music in Baby's environment.
Feathers
Welcome to a world full of Feathers. Experience a wide range of songs, movement activities, object play, and vocal play relating to our feathered friends. The Australian Kookaburra, the African Ostrich, and many more birds from across the world are featured in songs, dances, and poems. Both Jazz and Classical selections, a Yiddish Folk Song, A Muskogean melody, and Mother Goose rhymes set to music are just a few of the colorful and exciting pieces introduced in this curriculum.
Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce
In Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce, you will enjoy exposing your little one to the sounds of language and modeling and encouraging expressive use of the voice with verses such as "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Cackle, Cackle", "The Duke of York", and "Dickery Dickery Dare".
This class draws on several traditions and includes English rhymes and songs, a lullaby each from Sweden and Italy, the Mexican favorite "La Cucaracha" and both a nursery song and a dance medley from China.
The Rhythm of My Day
The Rhythm of My Day is designed to help parents incorporate music into many of the regular routines found throughout their daily life. Lesson focuses also highlight several other key concepts like diversity of sound, stop and go, syncopation, and singing. Favorite activities and songs featured in The Rhythm of My Day include "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "Golden Slumbers," "Walk All Around," and "Ally Bally."
Zoom Buggy
Zoom Buggy explores the many ways a parent and child can move through the "vroom" of a rocket ship and "swoosh" of canoe oars all through music and song.
Benefits for Your Child and You:
- Educates you about your baby's total development through Kindermusik Foundations of Learning - statements based on the most recent research.
- Encourages joyful participation in a music making community.
- Nurtures bonding between you and your child through intentional touch warm-ups, exercises, interactive dances and musical play.
- Provides natural connections between singing and reading out loud, listening and communicating through literature books.
Kindermusik Our Time
For 1½ - 3½ years
Class Length: 45 minute
Our Time focuses on your child's healthy emotional development as her confidence, curiosity, self-control, and communication begin to take shape. Our Time recognizes her need for both the freedom to try and the assurance of your support. Instrument exploration nurtures her self-esteem and facilitates her discovery of textures and sounds.
Language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, rhyming and object identification. Creative dancing to different musical "moods" develops her sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness while affirming her urge to move. The anticipation and rewards of listening are introduced, and with turn-taking activities, social skills begin to blossom.
Essentially, Our Time provides the safety of training wheels for the bicycle of pre-school!
Kindermusik Our Time At Home materials include 2 CDs, 2 Music and Movement Books, a Home Activity Book, and a specially designed instrument, all to encourage self-directed play and the experimentation introduced in pre-school.
Wiggles & Giggles
Wiggles & Giggles features songs, activities, and literature books surrounding the ever exciting theme of taking a bath, animal movements, and love for family and friends.
Away we Go!
Away We Go guides parent and child to explore the exciting world of things that go! Singing, dancing, and developmentally appropriate activities lead this transportation adventure to the discovery of trains, cars, buses, horses, wagons, airplanes, and boats.
Milk & Cookies
Milk & Cookies empowers the parent to lead the child through familiar, everyday home activities such as cooking, dusting, and washing clothes. Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping, and making tea are all represented in familiar songs and activities!
Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Fiddle-Dee-Dee takes its name from the beloved folk song about the fly who married the bumblebee and the theme of "fiddling around" is present all throughout the semester. In this unit, creatures from the animal kingdom: furry, web-footed, winged, or whiskered are explored.
Benefits for Your Child and You:
- Recognizes your child's need for both freedom to try and the assurance of your support.
- Educates you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy.
- Promotes joyful music making as a community.
- Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation.
Kindermusik Imagine That
For 3½ - 5 years
Class Length: 45 minutes
Imagine That! provides a carefully integrated curriculum of music, movement, and pretend play where your child's unique interests will be fully engaged in an environment that invites the development of the whole child - allowing for curious young minds, bodies, and voices to reflect, compare, make choices, express opinions, solve problems, sing, and move.
For the pre-school age child, every day is a new discovery waiting to happen. With Imagine That!, you and your child can explore those discoveries together. No two Imagine That! classes are ever the same - class activities grow and change based on children's active participation.
By creating an environment in which children contribute ideas, express opinions, and offer personal preferences, Imagine That! nurtures development and learning while recognizing that individual differences are not only acknowledged but also treasured.
Kindermusik Imagine That! at home materials include 2 CDs, 2 Music and Movement Books, an interactive play set, a specially designed instrument, and a Family Activity Book.
Cities! Busy Places - Friendly Faces
In Cities! Busy Places – Friendly Faces preschoolers and their families are invited to explore the many people and places of the city. Your child's imagination will soar as he/she explores the grandeur of city buildings, the bustle on the footpath and the many people in city neighborhoods.
Hello Weather, Let's play Together!
In Hello Weather, Let's Play Together! Preschoolers and their families meet an approaching thunderstorm, swirling wind gusts, flaky snowflakes and bright sunny skies that elicit more imaginative play and discovery than a day can possibly hold.
See What I Saw
In See What I Saw preschoolers and their families are invited to explore the exciting world of outside play. Your child's imagination will soar as he/she explores Grasshopper Park.
Toys I Make, Trips I Take
In Toys I Make, Trips I Take, Preschoolers and their families meet a Toy Maker who introduces the children into the wonderful world of the Toy Shop. Meet the exciting "Jack-in-the-box", a whirly swirly "Spinning Top" and a "Big Red Ball" when he tells a wonderful creative story called "The Toy Maker Story."
Benefits for Your Child and You:
- Nurtures your child's imagination and creativity.
- Creates a learning environment that integrates music, expressive language, peer interaction and pretend play.
- Challenges your child through activities that promote problem-solving, making choices and expressing ideas.
- Allows your child to have an active role in the development of music and movement activities.
Kindermusik Young Child
For 5 - 7 years
Class Length: 45-60 minutes
Young Child provides a pressure-free, developmentally appropriate transition for your budding musician where she can musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. In small, movement-oriented classes, your child develops her greatest instrument - her voice - while she learns the symbols and vocabulary of music-making.
She develops instrument- playing skills with the introduction of the glockenspiel, recorder, and dulcimer, as listening activities strengthen her ability to discern a variety of instruments and musical concepts. Through creative learning activities, she begins to read music and to create musical compositions - tangible accomplishments that instill positive emotions about her own musicality. Soon, a request of "Mom, I want to take piano" may surprise you.
Kindermusik for the Young Child at home materials include a folder full of activities, an illustrated family songbook, a games bag, professionally recorded music on CD, a musical instrument, and a carry bag.
Semester I
Everything your child learns later in semesters 2, 3, and 4 begins with the early introduction to singing, reading, and writing music and rhythm in Semester I. Through dances and games that focus on rhythmic development, we'll learn a keyboard instrument-the glockenspiel-which will be used throughout all the Young Child classes.
Semester II
Playing simple musical patterns and songs on the featured instrument from the first session-the glockenspiel-is a central focus of Semester II. While learning to sing a melody, and then play the pattern on the glockenspiel, we'll delve deeper into the understanding of musical concepts such as piano and forte through orchestra-style music. Music appreciation and understanding continues with a complete introduction to the instruments-and the families in which they're grouped-of the orchestra.
Semester III
Appalachian music is a featured musical style for Semester III. First, you and your child will build a two-stringed dulcimer instrument with materials that we'll provide. Then in class we'll learn to play chords and simple melodies on the instrument you built together. We'll also explore rhythm concepts through dance with an introduction to the basic steps in jazz, ballet, and tap dances.
Semester IV
In Semester IV we'll introduce the recorder instrument. As your child is introduced to basic methods of playing simple melodic patterns and songs on this wind instrument, we'll also incorporate the instruments, concepts, and songs from previous semesters. With a special emphasis on multi-cultural music, your child will learn to improvise and write music, as well as experience many different musical styles.
Benefits for Your Child and You:
- Balances activities that integrate listening, vocal development, movement and performing in instrumental ensemble.
- Introduces your child to the written language of music while cultivating music creativity.
- Provides age-appropriate musical experiences that lead your child toward a lifetime of joyful music making.
- Helps you and your child recognize special interests or skills for future formal music instruction.
Kindermusik Adventures
For Newborn - 7 years
Class Length: 45-60 minutes
Also known as the "Summer Camp" program.
We're so much more than just a holiday program. Inspire your child's love of learning in only five lessons. In a Kindermusik holiday program, blow music bubbles. Play parachute and kite games. Make yard art from a glue jar. Sing. All these holiday program activities — the music, stories, and crafts — are designed to nurture your child's natural curiosity, one that eventually draws her toward learning new words, new numbers, and new big ideas.
Around the World
Say hello in five languages when you visit a new place each lesson: Germany, Japan, Africa, England, and Mexico. Play the native instruments. Drape sheets over cardboard boxes and sing over German mountaintops. Toss peanuts on the floor and bring good luck to one's home with this Japanese custom. Send messages Around the World.
Confetti Days
Your preschooler spends less time learning new words, and more time using them. So she likes word-plays and fooling around with context and meaning. Add rhymes into silly songs with phrases that end in predictable syllables and your preschooler gets a better idea of when those words begin and end, so she's no fool when she starts learning to spell. In the Confetti Days! classes, we will continue this word fun by throwing a new party every day. Riding a carousel inside the classroom, play a balancing game by walking on a web of ropes, learning colors by singing the Spanish song "De Colores," and doing a musical move and freeze are just a few of the fun activities we'll do. Each day will also include a craft as well as a camp themed snack (please indicate any food allergies on your child's registration form).
Creatures in My Backyard
Children are naturally curious about the world around them. Creatures in My Backyard encourages children to explore their environment and make new discoveries. Through music, movement and dance, storytellling, and instrument exploration, your child will uncover the creatures living in their own back yard - from birds, turtles, squirrels, and rabbits to flowers, caterpillars, and bumblebees!
Creatures at the Ocean
Sing sailor songs and make the ocean count with Creatures at the Ocean. "Five little seashells lying on the shore: Swish! Went the waves and then there were four." Make homemade kites and your own fish sandwiches using fish-shaped bread and P.B. and J.
Peekaboo, I Love You!
Peekaboo, I Love You! is more than a curious story. Mother Goose games like peek-a-boo help your baby understand language. Uncover more ways to say "I love you" using bubbles, American Sign Language, and parent-baby dances. Connect with other newborns and families in the community and learn how music improves your child's development process.
On the Road
On the Road allows you to re-live your childhood, with your child. Every song is likely to revive a memory from your summer's past. Play Eye Spy and find shapes in the clouds to pass the time. Take imaginary trips in a bus named "Van Go" to fun-filled vacation destinations such as the carnival, a summer cottage, and the beach.
Benefits for you and your child:
- Stimulate a love of the arts.
- Employs arts, crafts, movement, dance, drama, and music to foster creativity.
- Offers your child a fun, musical experience during the summer.
Kindermusik Family Time
In ten weeks, you'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family.
Family time is a one-room schoolhouse approach to music. With older children ready to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones eager to learn, Family Time becomes a multi-layered learning environment. Each week, a Kindermusik Educator will introduce basic musical concepts and then give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.
Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing — all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you — and they'll start developing the skills they'll need in school and on the neighborhood playground.
Benefits for you and your child:
- One convenient class that families can take together
- Introduces musical concepts and develops musical skills
- Allows each child to develop social skills — such as sharing, and turn-taking — in a multi-age, multi-child environment
- Strengthens the emotional bond among family members