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THE "VILLAGE" PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN NEWBORN TO 20 MONTHS
The 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 Kindermusik Village program, your new baby is encouraged to learn through observation, imitation, and play. 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 baby 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 reading aloud, listening, communicating through literature, and exploring instruments in a stimulating environment.
• Stimulating the growth of neural connections in the brain with multi-sensory and multilayered experiences.
• Helping you network and connect with other families, and encouraging joyful participation in a music making community.
• Educating you about your baby's total development through the Kindermusik Foundations of Learning statements that explain why we do what we do.
Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Village includes:
• Baby's Literature Book: A board book with delightful, colorful artwork.
• Baby's Home Journal: A scrapbook-like book that includes home activity cards.
• Home CD: All the songs and chants from class plus more!
• Art Banners (2): Aids baby's visual and language development.
• Clear Vinyl Storage and Carry Bag: Complete with handles, snaps and logo.
Musikandmotion's Fall 2010 curriculum for Kindermusik Village
includes the Zoom Buggy & Dream Pillow units.
Village Zoom Buggy & Dream Pillow Units — Fall 2010
All the small exchanges between you and your baby in the first years help him/her feel loved and form a core of your baby’s emotional development and outlook on life and learning. How many ways can Baby and Parent zoom in Village? Hop in the Zoom Buggy! and find out! Through a variety of songs, chants, and instrumental selections you and Baby will experience the rumbling of a baby buggy, the squeaky stroller, the bumpa bumpa bumpa of the wagon, the train chugging up the track and much more.
Like all Kindermusik Village units, the Dream Pillow unit is written with the parent very much in mind. But the baby is the star in Dream Pillow, with each activity carefully planned to stimulate the developing brain and promote physical, social, cognitive, emotional and language development. In this unit, it is the parent who is watching and guiding the little star on the rise. Enjoy "Skinnamarink" and many other of your own favorite childhood songs!
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 who meet weekly for 45-minute classes and enjoy singing, moving, listening and interacting socially, as well as playing simple instruments along with an accompanying parent or caregiver. During the Our Time program parents and children enjoy bonding and interacting socially with others.
"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.
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"Music and Movement Story Time" encourages your child's emergent literacy skills. The development of pitch and rhythm promotes musicality, and creative dancing and expressive movement affirm a child's urge to move.
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, 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
• Child's Insulated Lunch Carry Bag
• Specially Designed Musical Instruments for Each Theme Unit
The Kindermusik Our Time curriculum incorporates the following features:
• Rituals and Routines
• Development of Pitch and Rhythm
• Singing and Vocal Play
• Expressive Movement
• Creative Dancing
• Instrument Exploration
• Story Time
• Quiet Time
Musikandmotion's Fall 2010 curriculum for Kindermusik Our Time
includes the Milk and Cookies unit.
Our Time Milk and Cookies Unit — Fall 2010
Imagine the aroma of baking cookies, the coziness of the family kitchen, the chatter among sisters, brothers, grandmas, granddads, mom and dad, and the anticipation and excitement of having friends come to visit. These moments at home are times to be shared and treasured. These special moments are captured in Our Time Milk & Cookies. Home activities such as baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping, and making tea are all represented in familiar clasroom songs and activities! Most importantly, Our Time Milk and Cookies songs and activities promote interaction between parent and child where the parent gently guides their child's learning through a process of scaffolding. Capturing the security, excitement and familiarity of "at home" moments is the ideal theme for empowering the parent to act as the child's most importantteacher. What better way for parents to lead their child than with familiar, everyday home activities such as cooking in the kitchen, dusting, and washing clothes with music to guide these activities? Home is where learning truly takes place and where happy memories are made.
THE IMAGINE THAT! PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 3.5 TO 5 YEARS
The Kindermusik Imagine That! program is designed for children 3 to 5 years of age who meet for 45 minutes each week for 15 sessions. 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.
At an age when a child's imagination is soaring, every experience becomes an opportunity for self-discovery and learning. 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.
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 cutting, coloring, 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.
• Child's Backpack.
• Specially Designed Musical Instrument(s).
Musikandmotion's Fall 2010 Curriculum for Kindermusik Imagine That!
includes the Hello Weather, Let's Play Together! Unit.
Hello Weather, Let's Play Together Unit — Fall 2010
Books, storytelling, language, drama, puppets - these are all essential ingredients to the Imagine That! Curriculum where musical learning takes place in a natural and “playful” setting. Each acts as a dramatic catalyst for integrating thematic songs, activities, events, and feelings. Hello, Weather! Let's Play Together encourages preschoolers to get “outdoors” and make music in all types of weather! Children will explore a variety of musical concepts, continuing their development of musical growth and journey through songs, movements, instrumental exploration and dramatic play. Each child’s contributions are honored and respected in this process-oriented learning environment. Parents attend the last 15 minutes of class.
THE "FAMILY TIME" PROGRAM FOR NEWBORNS TO 4 YEARS
Specially designed to fit the varying ages and learning abilities of children newborn to 5 years old, this curriculum will help you bring the learning and the music making home, as well as become a lasting well-loved family favorite of the Kindermusik experience. In this mixed age classroom setting, you and your child attend class together as parents continue to model and contribute to the music making community. But babies and younger children also learn from the social interactions with older peers, while older children are given the opportunity to lead and model for the younger peers. Each child, regardless of his developmental level, participates at his own level in a non-performance, pressure-free music making “family” environment.
You and your child will enjoy music and movement with instruments, 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 child will strengthen his ties with you - and he'll start developing the skills he'll need in school and on the neighborhood playground.
Kindermusik's Family Time program benefits you and your family by:
• One conventient 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.
The Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Family Time includes:
• One Home CD.
• Two specially designed musical instruments.
• Parent Magazine Guide.
Musikandmotion's Fall 2010 curriculum for Kindermusik Family Time includes "Home Sweet Home" & "Silly All Over" from ABC Music & Me Units.
Family Time Fall 2010
Home Sweet Home celebrates "homes" from building a pretend house to learning about different kinds of houses animals make. Together we'll sing, dance, explore and learn about the concept of homes. Then, for the second half semester, we'll get Silly All Over with wiggles, giggles and laughs! You and your child(ren) are sure to catch a case of the giggle with us through tickle games, songs, dances and instrumental exploration!
THE YOUNG CHILD PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 4.5 TO 7 YEARS
Musikandmotion's Fall 2010 curriculum for Kindermusik Young Child
The Kindermusik Young Child program is developmentally designed for children 4.5 to 7 years of age who meet for 60 minutes once a week for 14 weeks. Parent or caregiver join the last 10 minutes of class. Young Child "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. With a solid music foundation provided by Kindermusik Young Child program, children will be ready for formal instruction in the instrument of their choice.
Young Child - 4 Sequential Semesters
A "whole" child based approach to music educaton like no other, Kindermusik Young Child program provides a sound, developmentally appropriate, music learning experience that will prepare your child for future instrumental lessons in piano, string and wind instruments. Using a small-group approach, the program is designed to prepare the young child who is eager for first experiences with musical symbols and instrument discovery but is not yet ready for formal lessons and traditional music reading with an instrument. Parents or caregivers are encouraged to attend the last 10 minutes of class.
The Kindermusik At-Home Materials Kit for Young Child includes:
• Children's Folder.
• Games Bag.
• Family Song Book.
• Home CD.
• Carry Bag.
• Glockenspiel with 2 wooden mallets.
JEAN'S MUSIC STUDIO
GROUP & PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS — 6 YEARS & UP
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 Natomas and West 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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