Offering Kindermusik classes, plus Piano Tuition
Kindermusik Curricula
KINDERMUSIK VILLAGE: Newborn - 18 months
Class size: maximum of 12 children.
Class length: 45 minutes.
Parent/caregiver involvement: attends entire class, participating actively.
Home materials: baby book, CD, baby instrument, art banner, downloadable Home Journal.
Kindermusik Village is for lap babies, crawlers, and walkers. It 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.
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.
Benefits for You and Your Child
- 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 and a support group for mothers
- 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.
To find out more about what you will experience in a Villiage class, click Kindermusik Village
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KINDERMUSIK OUR TIME: 18 months - 3 years
Class size: maximum 12 children.
Class length: 45 minutes.
Parent/caregiver involvement: attends entire class, participating actively.
Home materials: 2 story books, 2 CD's, activity book and a percussion instrument, bag.
Can you sound like an elephant? Or hop like a bunny? Our Time encourages your child to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self-control and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming and object identification foster language skills. Creative movement to various musical "moods" develops a sense of balance, timing and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills.
Our Time encourages children to be creative, to initiate their own ideas and to respond in their own ways, while the parents's active participation gives the toddlers the security they need.
In class enjoy singing, moving, listening and interacting socially, and playing simple instruments. Exploration Time encourages a child's discovery of specially designed instruments, textures, sounds and movements; language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, and vocal play; Music Movement Story Time encourages emergent literacy skills; and creative dancing affirms a child's urge to move.
Benefits for You and Your Child
- Recognises 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.
To find out more about what you will experience in an Out Time class, click Kindermusik Our Time
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KINDERMUSIK IMAGINE THAT! : 3 years - 5 years
Class size: maximum 12 children.
Class length: 45 minutes.
Parent/caregiver involvement: participate in last 10 - 15 minutes.
Home Materials: 2 story books, 2 CDs, playset or game/family activity book, instrument, bag (1st semester)
Imagine That! takes you and your child on a musical journey of discovery and exploration - a journey limited only by the power of imagination. Pretend play activities are integrated with music, vocal development, storytelling, movement and literature to capture your child's potential to learn and to encourage cognitive and literacy skills, creativity and individuality.
Imagine That! is designed for active, energetic, enthusiastic, and imaginative 3- and 4-year-olds and encourages socialization, sharing, and participating in group activities. Singing becomes a focus for enhancing the preschooler's vocal development as her expressive language is just beginning to emerge. Parents are invited to participate in the last 15 minutes for Sharing Time of the 45-minute class.
Benefits for You and Your Child
- 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
- Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation
- Encourages positive social outcomes through appropriate social responses in a group environment.
To find out more about what you will experience in an Imagine That class, click Kindermusik Imagine That
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KINDERMUSIK - for the YOUNG CHILD: 5 - 7 years
Class size: Maximum of 12 children.
Class length: 60 minutes.
Parent/caregiver involvement: participate in last 10-15 minutes.
Home materials (requirement for class and at home): Children's folder with stickers and Music At Home cards, Family Songbook, instrument (wind, string, or pre-keyboard instrument dependding on the semester), CD, canvas bag (during first semester) and games bag
Listen as your child astonishes you with her newfound ability to create musical compositions. Kindermusik for the Young Child provides a pressure-free, developmentally appropriate transition to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. Kindermusik provides the opportunity to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols and authentic pre-keyboard, string and woodwind instruments.
Young Child helps every child develop a confident, joyful voice for singing and speaking as well as essential building blocks for a future of learning. Designed for children ages 5 through 7 years, classes meet once a week for 60 minutes. Students explore many facets of the musical experience-speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing instruments, as well as learning about reading and writing music. As the capstone to the child's Kindermusik journey, Young Child broadens and deepens the child's introduction to the fulfillment and excitement of musicianship.
Benefits for You and Your Child
- 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.
To find out more about what you will experience in a Young Child class, click Kindermusik Young Child
KINDERMUSIK FAMILY TIME: 0 - 7 years
A multi-aged class specifically designed for families with children of varying ages. This class allows you to share the musical adventure with your children as a family unit. (Yes Dads are more than welcome too!)
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 neighbourhood 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.
To find out more about what you will experience in a Family Time class, click Kindermusik Family Time
