About Kindermusik:

Kindermusik is a music and movement program for children! The Kindermusk experience for families includes the enjoyment of making music while listening, moving, vocalizing, playing together and experiencing basic music concepts. Classes are age and developmentally appropriate and promote language development, symbolic thinking, motor skills and social interaction. In addition, Kindermusik classes prepare children for instrumental lessons, singing in a choir or participating in an ensemble while encouraging an appreciation of music for a lifetime! At home materials are a part of each Kindermusik curricula and reinforce the learning experience between classes.

Benefits of Kindermusik

• Promotes language development, symbolic thinking, coordination and social interaction while awakening the child's imagination!

• Allows the child to grow without pressure to perform and provides the encouragement to explore, express, and discover.

• Parents notice a developmental evolution in language skills, emerging literacy, listening, problem solving, social skills, self-esteem, and musicality.

• Research indicates that music nurtures a child's cognitive, emotional, social, language, and physical development. From birth through seven years of age your child can grow with Kindermusik without pressure to perform.

Kindermusik Village®
Kindermusik Village, a 45 minute, 8 week, class with the parent or caregiver for children birth to 1-1/2 years of age: New themes every semester: such as Cockadoodle Moo , Feathers , Dew Drops , Zoom Buggy , The Rhythm of my Day and More. 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. High-quality, professionally created class and At Home materials include Kindermusik Foundations of Learning(TM), insights based on current research that educate parents about their babies' unique development. Village will engage all of your babies senses and rewards her curiosity with object and instrument exploration, singing and listening to a wide variety of music, creative movement and colorful engaging books from the Kindermusik library. The curriculum provides the foundations of learning for lap babies, crawlers and walkers by presenting song for singing and listening, movement activities with touching rocking and bouncing, object and instrument play and Kindermusik literature.

Kindermusik OurTime(TM)
OurTime is a 45 minute, 15 week, class for children 1-1/2 to 3 years of age with a parent or caregiver: New themes every semester: such as Fiddle-Dee-Dee, Milk & Cookies, Wiggles & Giggles and Away We Go . Incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and toddlers through music and movement. High-quality, professionally created class and At Home materials included.

Just as the kangaroo bounds away and then back to the security of the pouch, your toddler is eager to explore alone, then rushes back to you for reassurance. Can you hop like a bunny? Crow like a rooster? Zoom like a rocket? With engaging musical activity including instrumental exploration, singing and imitating sounds, creative movement to various musical "moods", listening and music and movement storytime, the Our Time experience focuses on your child's healthy emotional development and recognizes his need for both the freedom to try and the need for your support while building self-confidence, self-control and communication skills.

Kindermusik for the Young Child®

Semester 1

We focus on the development of basic musical concepts and lay the foundation for success later on. We learn the fundamentals of musical dictation, reading and writing music, proper instrument handling, ensemble preparation, study the music and life of Mozart, interpret and tell musical stories, explore the World of Music, the instrument families of Percussion and Brass Winds, and learn to play the Glockenspiel (a tuned, barred, percussion instrument), which goes home in the 12th week to begin playing the many songs we have learned.

Semester 2

The concepts of Semester 1 are quickly reviewed, then we continue to add more notes, more complicated rhythm patterns and generally build on the previous semesters activities. New musical concepts are introduced; including forte and piano, crescendo and diminuendo, and of course legato and staccato. We review the Percussion and Brass Wind families and add the String and Woodwind families and the Complete Orchestra through sound, pictures, demonstrations and even hands on experience, we also learn about the life and music of Beethoven, and even play Musical Baseball.

 

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