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THE KINDERMUSIK "VILLAGE,"
"OUR TIME," "IMAGINE THAT!," AND "FAMILY TIME" PROGRAMS
THE "VILLAGE" PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN NEWBORN TO 18 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 2006 curriculum for Kindermusik Village
includes the Dream Pillow unit.
Village Dream Pillow Unit — Fall 2006
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 2006 curriculum for Kindermusik Our Time
includes the Milk and Cookies unit.
Our Time Milk and Cookies Unit — Fall 2006
In this imaginative Kindermusik program, 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! Milk and Cookies empowers the parent to lead the child through familiar, everyday home activities such as cooking, dusting and washing clothes.
THE IMAGINE THAT! PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 3 1/2 TO 5 YEARS
The Kindermusik Imagine That! program is designed for children 3 1/2 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 2006 curriculum for Kindermusik Imagine That!
includes the Hello Weather, Let's Play Together! unit.
Hello Weather, Let's Play Together Unit — Fall 2006
In the Hello Weather, Let's Play Together! unit, children and families enjoy music and special times together in all types of weather! Children will explore the connected, smooth sounds of legato musical passages and the separated sounds of staccato beats. They'll learn about fast and slow tempos. Adding to the thrill are at home projects such as making wind chimes, rain hats, sleigh bells and snow boots! The Hello Weather, Let's Play Together! unit gives plenty of reasons for Kindermusik families to turn off the television, turn on the music, and welcome the wind, snow, sun, and rain into their days together!
THE "FAMILY TIME" PROGRAM FOR NEWBORNS TO 7 YEARS
Kindermusik Family Time is designed for families with multiple children ages newborn to 7 years. 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.
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.
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 hand puppet and one finger puppet.
• Two specially designed musical instruments.
• Two literature books.
• Two music CDs.
• Family Activity Guide.
Musikandmotion's Fall 2006 curriculum for Kindermusik Family Time includes Our Kind of Day unit.
Family Time Fall 2006
Each family receives a set of At Home Materials designed to integrate the classroom learning experience with the fun, Friday night activities you do together as a family. With music from class, story books, and creative play ideas and trivia, At Home Materials help your children associate learning with the unique time you spend together, bonding as a family. Repetition and family involvement in a child's learning is a fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the parent is the child's most important teacher and the home is the most important place for a child's learning to take root and grow.
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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