Course Description

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The following are general descriptions of the curriculum.  For specifc classes/units being offered a this time, see course offerings.

Kindermusik Village:

Age Range: Newborn to 1½ years. 
Class Structure: Eight units, each eight-weeks long. 
Class Length: 45 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 1½ years of age, 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, insights based on current research that educate parents about their babies' unique development.

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.

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Kindermusik Our Time:

Age Range: 1½ to 3 years. 
Class Structure: Four units, each 15 weeks. 
Class Length: 45 minutes.

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.

Kindermusik Our Time is designed for children 1½ years to 3 years of age. Along with an accompanying parent or caregiver, children meet weekly for a 45-minute class and 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 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.

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Orff Music and Movement (Ages 4-6 without caregiver)

This class is based upon the Orff-Schulwerk process created by composer and educator Carl Orff. Music and movement are introduced through natural play behaviors such as imitation, experimentation, and improvisation.  We explore rhythm, melody, and musical form through instrumental play, singing, speech, poetry, and literature.  Classical, folk, and world music are all included.  Each student will receive a set of resonator bars.

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Kindermusik Family Time - Music class for families with multiple children ages newborn and up:

Age Range: Newborn to 7 years. 
Class Structure: One class a week for 10 weeks. 
Class Length: 40-50 minutes.

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.
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

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Kindermusik Adventures:

Age Range: Newborn to 7 years. 
Class Structure: 5 session 
Class Length: varies with each camp.

Inspire your child's love of learning in only five lessons. In a Kindermusik summer camp, blow music bubbles. Play parachute and kite games. Make yard art from a glue jar. Sing. All these summer camp 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.

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