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Newborns - Age 7

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In Make Way for Music, we’ll sing, dance, and move our way through an exploration of several elements of music: beat and rhythm, concepts and contrasts (such as staccato and legato, high and low, the major scale, and arpeggios), the human voice, instrument families, and ensemble. We’ll engage in developmentally appropriate activities that the whole family can enjoy together, including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time, and family jam.

Home Materials: Two books—Drum Circle and Animals on Parade, two Home CDs, Family Guide, an instrument-matching board game and two fingerdrums. Rex the lion hand and finger puppets are optional additions (see below).

Kindermusik Village is a special bonding time between lap baby/ crawler/ toddler/ and parent/caregiver in a delightful interplay of movement, singing, vocal play, and exploration of sounds, textures and simple instruments. You’ll also enjoy Kindermusik Village as a community building class! These units contain hallmark variety, including upbeat activities, an array of intimate lullabies, and lots of stimulating and ageappropriate objects and instruments for Baby to explore. Village incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement.

Zoom Buggy! — Swoosh, vroom, and clickety-clack your way through this delightful unit. Babies and adults will dance, sing, and play instruments to the theme of being on the go. Chug around the room to the song “Little Red Caboose,” hold on tightly while “Riding in the Buggy,” and dance your way to “Zoom-e-oh!”  Engage in rituals and playful activities such as infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time. Home Materials: Colorful board book of different vehicles—Zoom Buggy Home CD of the songs heard in class, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens visions and promotes early literacy, and a Zoom Car baby instrument for music-making at home.

Dream Pillow — This title alone brings images of rocking, cuddling, singing, and lulling to sleep.  But leading up to sleepy time are many upbeat and playful activities.  Babies and Adults will swirl to a dreamy cloud dance “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland.” They’ll also play baby appropriate instruments to “Aiken Drum,” and “Sarasponda.” Favorite nursery rhymes like “Wee Willie Winkie,” and “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling,” are sprinkled throughout the classes. It’s easy to weave many of the class songs and activities into your family’s daily routines. Home Materials: A board book that calms and relaxes—Dream Pillow Lullaby, Home CD of the songs heard in class, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy, and a Star baby instrument for music-making at home.

Zoom Buggy! and Dream Pillow (7 weeks each)

Kindermusik Our Time is a unique opportunity for parent and child to interact and learn together in an unhurried and joyful manner, all in a framework that encourages toddlers to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self-control, and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming, and object identification foster language skills, while creative movement to various musical “moods” develops a sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills.

Milk & Cookies -- Make everyday home activities and chores easier and more fun with music! Cook and sing to “The Muffin Man”; dust and clean to the original song “In My House”; get ready to wash clothes to the delightful poem “Washing Machine”. Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping and making tea are all represented in familiar as well as new songs. Move, play, and sing together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 ½ to 3-year-olds. Capture the familiar and new moments of the day and learn how music can impact your toddler. Home Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two books—At My House and Cookies, two Home CDs, stir xylophone instrument, and a Home Activity Book—all arriving in a durable lunch bag.

Kindermusik Imagine That! takes the preschooler on a musical journey of discovery and exploration through imagination. Pretend play activities are integrated with music, vocal development, storytelling, movement, and literature to capture the preschooler’s potential to learn and to encourage cognitive and literacy skills, creativity and individuality.  Parent joins in the last 10-15 minutes of class to explore the activities and learn about Home Activities they can enjoy together throughout the week.

Hello Weather! Let’s Play Together! -- Sunshine, rain, snow, thunderstorms and more inspire this weather-related musical adventure. Preschoolers create storm sounds with a drum to "Wild Storms," jump in pretend puddles to "Mud Puddle Jump," throw pretend snow-balls to "Snowballs," and sing along to "Colors of the Rainbow." With weather as our learning theme, preschoolers will explore musical styles that range from Opera to American folk, and become more self-sufficient in a creative musical environment that integrates music, pretend play, storytelling, movement, and more. Home Materials: Two books, a Play Set, double CD with stories, games, and weather sound effects played in class, 46-page Family Activity Book, and two instruments—ankle bells and rain shaker with scraper.

Kindermusik for the Young Child is a playful, low-pressure exploration of voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols, and authentic pre-keyboard, string and woodwind instruments. The program is sequential, taking 4 semesters to complete, though a child may enter at peer age level as well. Materials for each semester include a Kindermusik folder, songbook, games bag, stickers, activity pages, weekly parent “Music at Home” cards and a music CD. The glockenspiel in Semester 1 materials is used in the remaining semesters as well. Semester 3 materials include a dulcimer, and Semester 4 (Spring) introduces a recorder. Parents join for the last 15 minutes to review the class and homework, which the student will do with a partner at home. While we plant the seeds of learning through music in the classroom, your joyful homework time as a family will cultivate lifelong learning.

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