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THE "VILLAGE" PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN NEWBORN TO 20 MONTHS
The Kindermusik Village program incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and networking with other parents and babies through music, movement and sensory stimuli.
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In the Village program, your baby is invited to learn through observation, imitation, and play in a loving and nurturing musical environment. Babies newborn to 20 months and their parents/caregivers attend a weekly class for 45-minute during the 14 week semester. The high quality, professionally created At-Home Materials Kit includes important information about the Kindermusik "Foundations of Learning" principles based on current research on how to nurture your baby's total development.
Kindermusik Village benefits
you and your lap, crawling and walking babies by:
• Nurturing the bond between you and your child through intentional touch, exercises, interactive dances, rocking, and musical play.
• Laying a solid foundation for future learning in all areas of your baby's total development through singing and vocal play, listening and observing, exposure to musical concepts, and exploring instruments and movement in a joyful music making environment.
• Stimulating the growth of neural connections in baby's brain with multi-sensory and multilayered experiences.
• Helping you network and connect with other families with babies.
• Educating you about your baby's total development through the Kindermusik Foundations of Learning statements that explain why we do what we do in class.
Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Village includes:
• Baby's Literature Books: Two board books with delightful, colorful artwork.
• Two Home CDs: All the songs and chants from class plus more!
• Two Baby Instruments
• Art Banners (2): Aids baby's visual and language development.
Village Feathers and Do-Si-Do Combo Units
Like all Kindermusik Village units, "Feathers" invite Baby and parent/caregiver to discover the delightful 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 selctions, a Yiddish fold 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; "Do-Si-Do" stimulates a wonderfully unique experience of rhythm and movement for every participant! Highlights include a Virginia Reel, a combination Tango, Cha-Cha! and a "move-to-it" poem. Other activities range from chime ball play to instrument exploration and more. Music selections draw from many traditions, including African American, Mexican, Romantic, Scottish, South African, and Southeast Asian.
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THE "OUR TIME" PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 18 MONTHS TO 3 1/2 YEARS
The Kindermusik Our Time program is designed for children 18 months to 3 1/2 years of age and their parents/caregivers who meet weekly for a 45-minute class to enjoy singing, exploring, dancing, listening and interacting, as well as playing percussion instruments. During the Our Time program, parents and children enjoy bonding together and nurturing the child's healthy emotional development, social awareness, language skills, gross and fine motor physical skills, cognitive development and joyful music making. With you as an active particant, partner and guide, your child's self-esteem, confidence, self-control and turn-taking begins to take shape!
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Kindermusik's Our Time program benefits
you and your toddler by:
• Nurturing the bond between you and your child through shared learning and musical experiences.
• Recognizing your toddler's need for both the freedom to explore and the assurance of your support.
• Encouraging characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, choice and control, focused listening, social skills, turn-taking, and cooperation.
• Stimulating neural connections in the brain with multi-sensory and multilayered experiences.
• Laying a solid foundation for learning in all future academic and musical areas: language and speech development, pre-reading skills, problem solving, patterning, pitch, rhythm, timing, singing.
• Promoting joyful music making as a community, and helping you network and connect with other families.
• Educating you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy.
Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Our Time includes:
• Two "Music and Movement" Books
• Home Activity Book
• Two Home CDs
• Specially Designed Musical Instruments for Each Theme Unit
Our Time Wiggles and Giggles
'Wiggles and Giggles" explores movement (wiggles!) and fun, funny words and sounds, and emotion (giggles!). There is a strong connection in this semester to the Our Time theme of bound away and back. The songs are about humor, laughter, silly sounds and words, and movement. The child is going back and forth between being independent and wanting mommy and daddy. Everyday activities like bath time are highlighted in the delightful book 'Pete and PJ' from the Kindermusik library.
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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! BIRTH TO 4 YEARS
Research-based language and early literacy program!
Created by Kindermusik International, ABC Music & Me is a research-based language and early literacy program built around what children love best-- music. Offered in preschool settings, ABC Music & Me is now available in studio settings to help children develop pre-literacy and language skills through a child's most loved rituals: singing, dancing and making music! This 40 minute class invites you and your whole family to experience the best in musical fun and learning. And it's available for the whole family! Siblings under 2 years attend FREE with one enrolled child!
Theme: "Up in the Sky"
We'll read the story in class called Someone Bigger, about a boy who wants to take over the reigns of the family kite. Then grab a scarf, streamer and parachute and imitate the up and down crouching, reaching, and running associated with flying a kite—just like the boy in our story as we strengthen spatial awareness and self-confidence! Your Family Guide includes activities you can easily incorporate into your day to reinforce our counting and color-learning activities in class. Home Kit includes three-bell jingle, CD, and mini-literature magazine.
Theme: "Let's Play"
All the ways you play at home, in the yard, during your family time together is this month's theme. In class we'll play the Follow the Leader and other fun games to help your toddler develop listening and singing skills while strengthening movement and hand-eye coordination. In your Home Kit, find more activities, songs, and games you can do together to play and learn at home, too. The Family Guide details what a child learned in the classroom, suggests home activities, and includes the read-along story, Golden Bear about a boy who takes his teddy bear with him for a day of activities together. The CD includes all the songs from the class and a narration of Golden Bear and a pair of rhythm sticks
Why multi-age classroom? A mixed-age group class setting invites babies, toddlers and preschoolers to learn together, simulating a family style learning environment. Learning is enhanced as younger children look up to and model their older peers. Older children demonstrate leadership, patience and "advanced" skills, and thereby gain confidence and self-esteem. Each child participates at his own, and nurtured musically to reach his full potential. According to L. G. Katz (1995), "the intention of multiage grouping is to increase the heterogeneity of the group so as to capitalize on the differences in the experiences, knowledge, and abilities of the children." The montessorri philosophy, for example, is based on mixed aged grouping.
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THE IMAGINE THAT! PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 3 TO 5 YEARS
At an age when your preschool aged child's imagination is soaring, every experience becomes an opportunity for self-discovery, learning and exploration... limited of course only by the power of imagination. The Kindermusik Imagine That! program provides an extraordinary musical atmosphere. Pretend play activities are integrated with exceptional music, vocal development, storytelling, movement activities and literature as building blocks, with a caring and observant licensed educator as your guide. Friendships are formed, creativity nurtured, expressive language stimulated, and individual differences treasured.
The Imagine That! program is designed for the active and enthusiastic 3 to 5 year olds who meet for 45 minutes each week for 14 weeks. Parents and caregivers join in for the last 15 minutes of class, appropriately called "Sharing Time." Imagine That! "Sharing Time" provides you with an opportunity like no other...a chance to watch your child's musical growth and development unfold right before your eyes.
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Kindermusik's Imagine That! program benefits you and your child by:
• Developing expressive and receptive language skills through love for stories, rhymes and word plays.
• Practicing cooperative play and sharing, a cornerstone for social interaction.
• Promoting increased attention span and listening skills.
• Engaging in activities of discovering, comparing, making choices, problem solving, finding patterns and remembering sequences.
• Nurturing the growing desire for independence, as well as celebrating accomplishments with parents and families.
• Tapping into a child's natural musicianship and developing musical skills in areas such as steady beat, joyful singing, vocabulary of musical terms, and music appreciation.
• Developing higher level movement skills such as skipping and galloping, while promoting fine motor skills through playing a variety of small percussion instruments and participating in activities such as drawing and manipulating interactive play sets.
The Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Imagine That! includes:
• Two Colorfully Illustrated Literature Books.
• Guided Family Activity Book.
• Two Home CDs.
• Interactive Play Set.
• Specially Designed Musical Instrument.
Imagine That! See What I Saw
In "See What I Saw", we'll explore and discover the many wonders of a trip to Grasshopper Park. The music represents a variety of different cultures with songs from Ghana, Latin America, Greece, and France. You will find some favorites including “Ha Ha This-a-Way,” “Jim Along Josie,” and “Mr. Sun,” “A Tisket, A Tasket,” “Shoo-Fly,” “and Allee Galloo.” There are also many new, original compositions like the chant “Everything is Just Fine.”
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THE YOUNG CHILD PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 5 TO 7 YEARS
Introduction to Pre-Keyboarding Skills
In small group settings, chidlren in Kindermusik Young Child prgoram participate in hands-on music making experience to nurture their singing voice and rhythm development, improvisational skills, music literacy (reading & writing of musical notations) and pre-keyboarding experiences through the exploration of pitched instruments: glockenspiels and xylophones. Dances and games are interspersed throughout the lesson to support children's need for movement and social interaction while supporting their rhythmic development and a lifetime of joyful music makings. Watch as your child gains confidence and appreciation for his own musical gifts and talents. With a solid music foundation provided by the Young Child program, your budding musician will be ready for formal instruction in the instrument of his choice between 6-7 years old.
Classes meet for 60 minutes once a week for 14 weeks. Parents and caregivers join in for the last 10 minutes of class, appropriately called "Sharing Time."
Kindermusik for Young Child Semesters 1-4
The Kindermusik Young Child program (based on Orff methodology) consists of 2 sequential semesters with Semester 1 typically starting in the fall of each year and Semester 2 starting the following spring. Children regardless of their music background experience great success and enjoyment from the program because it is rooted in Kindermusik's developmentally sound and research-based philosophy of process-based and NOT performance-based learning.
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• Integrated and balanced approach to music development that includes listening, speaking, reading, writing aspects of music, and movement concepts.
• Age-appropriate and child-centered musical learning experiences that focus on the process and joy of learning.
• Social interaction through group ensemble experiences, turn-taking and team building activities.
• Laying a positive and enriching foundation for future formal musical instruction.
• Discovering the world of music through world composers, music operas, instrument families and music history.
Your At Home Materials provide the music, instruments, stickers, and actvities for a home version of the same playful activites you'll hear about from class, so your child - and you ! - can learn where you're most comfortable: at home.
The Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Young Child Semester 1 includes:
• Children's Folder.
• Games Bag.
• Family Song Book.
• Home CD.
• Carry Bag.
• Glockenspiel with 2 wooden mallets.
Semester 2 further develops your child's instrumental playing skills while developing the greatest instrument of all -- his voice! Concepts such as piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, and legato/staccato will be introduced. We will explore string and woodwind instruments, notation, and even a bit of Beethoven. Children love applying their new knowledge of aural skills, and reading and writing music notation as they further develop their glockenspiel skills. Lesson highlights from Semester 2 include "Peter and the Wolf," "The Orchestra," and "Sing and Celebrate!" --Available Spring 2010
A Testimonial from a recent graduating family - Spring '09
"I've never seen my child have so much and enthusiasm while working so hard on a specific task - in this case learning to play that glockenspiel! Week after week, she continued to amaze me with her sheer joy in learning about music. I signed her up for the class with merely the goal of providing her a fun activity to do with other children one afternoon a week. But I am so impressed with the outcome! She can read basic music and play a bunch of songs on her glockenspiel (and now a harmonica, piano, etc...etc...). She also knows the names of all the instruments in an orchestra, who Mozart is, and the story of Peter and the Wolf. It is great to see that it just takes a talented instructor like Miss Sunny to reach out to kids and foster interest in music. Miss Sunny's patience and kindness with each and every child brings out the best in them, and they look forward to Kindermusik each week. I am so thankful that my child had the opportunity to be a part of this program."
-Nora Knell, mother of 2 daughters at Musikandmotion
***Children will enjoy the greatest success in Young Child if they are at least 4 1/2 years old when they begin Young Child classes.
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JEAN'S MUSIC STUDIO
GROUP & PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS — 6 YEARS Up & Adults
With a doctorate degree in Music, numerous concert performances, a former university faculty member, a former Kindermusik educator, and currently the music director and organist at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Miss Jean has over 20 years experience teaching piano to students of all ages and all levels. She has created a method of teaching piano that is based on sound proven techniques and theories for children 6 years and up (or earlier if they are ready). Contact Miss Jean directly for private or group piano lessons in Natomas: 916-285-0253
Do you have any questions about our curriculum? For curriculum information, please contact Musikandmotion for Kindermusik in the Natomas, Sacramento, area by calling 916-419-6999, or email licensed educator Sunny Kira, M.A., at . You will receive a personal reply within 24 hours.
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