Musical Beginnings... ...music for a lifetime!

Kindermusik Class Descriptions

School will be starting, the weather will be getting cooler, leaves will begin to crunch!
So save a spot in one of our Kindermusik classes to continue your child’s
musical journey to development that is beyond what you would normally expect!

Here is what we are offering in Spring 2012:

For Newborns through 18 months

Kindermusik Village provides the natural learning your child is ready for from the first days of life. With you at the center of his or her discovery, Village engages all Baby’s senses and rewards his curiosity with object and instrument exploration, vocal play, singing, creative movement and a colorful literature component. Multi-level activities encourage you to make creative choices as Baby grows from a lap baby to a crawler to a walker! Village opens new windows – to show your baby more about the world and to show you more about your baby.

Hop on the hayride—it’s time to head for the farm! In the Cock-a-doodle-MOO! unit of Kindermusik Village, families will sing songs about the farm, including “Old MacDonald,” “Hayride,” and “Clever Cows.” They’ll engage in rituals and playful activities for baby and caregiver, including infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time. During the week, families will enjoy their At Home Materials, looking through a playful picture book of animals and the sounds they make, as well as a CD of the songs heard in class and an instrument for music-making at home.

Dew Drops
Stop and smell the roses—and lily of the valley, and tulips, and pansies... in the Dew Drops unit of Kindermusik Village, you and your child will play and move together to songs about flowers, such as “Jasmine Flower,” “How Does Your Garden Grow?,” and “White Coral Bells.” Enjoy some traditional Irish music as you dance a jig, move to the “Irish Trot,” and exercise to “Did You Ever See a Lassie.” In the At Home Materials, you’ll receive a CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, a board book of flowers, and an instrument for music-making at home.

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1 1/2 to 3 or 3 1/2 years

Our Time focuses on your child’s healthy emotional development as confidence, curiosity, self-control and communication begin to take shape. Recognizing a child’s need to both the freedom to try new experiences and the assurance of your support, Our Time encourages your child’s discovery with you at the center of his or her adventure.

Away We Go!
Toddlers love to GO. Going is their gift, their license to venture out into the world. With toddlers’ desire to go comes an attraction to other things that go – cars, planes, buses, horses, wagons, airplanes, and boats, and the list goes on. In Away We Go! parents and children explore the exciting world of transportation. “What are things that go?” “How do they go?” “How do they sound when they go?” “Can I go like that?” “Can I make sounds like that?” Sing and play along with favorite songs, such as “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad” and “Wheels on the Bus”. Explore fast and slow, smooth and bumpy, and high and low. Two literature books tell stories, Shiny Dinah tells the story of a train, and Giddy-Up! has a horse, speedboat, racecar, and more to help you get where you want to go. Move, play, and sing together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 1/2 to 3-year-olds. In addition to the 2 storybooks and a 2 CD set, families will receive a Home Activity Book, a train carrying box, and 2 harmonicas (one for a parent and one for a child) to play along with songs like “Riding the Rails”, “Alabama Gal”, and “Arkansas Traveler.”

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3 or 3 1/2 to 5 years
* Parents and siblings participate in
the final 10-15 minutes of class

Imagine That! focuses on your child’s imagination and takes them on an incredible musical journey. Watch your child’s individuality and personality begin to unfold! This class allows for curious young minds, bodies and voices to reflect, compare, make choices, express opinions, solve problems, sing and move all through a joyful musical experience.

Toys I Make, Trips I Take
What’s more exciting to a 3- or 4-year-old than a new toy? How about an entire toy shop full of toys! A full toy shop is exactly what your child will experience in the Kindermusik Imagine That! class. Toys I Make, Trips I Take leads the child on a magical journey into a remarkable Toy Shop filled with boats, trains, balls, jack-in-the box and many other toys that bring a twinkle into a child’s eyes. Kindermusik creates a stimulating musical environment that integrates music, pretend play, story telling, movement and more. The excitement may begin in the toy shop, but how exciting it may be to sail off in our toy boat to a far away tropical island. Or perhaps we’ll take our toy train over the mountains and through the valleys. Imagine That!

Kindergarten & 1st grade
(5 – 7 years)

* Parents and siblings participate
in the final 10-15 minutes of class

A Young Child student explores many facets of music: speaking and singing, moving, listening, creating, and playing instruments, and learning about reading and writing music. During each class, creative movement or dances are interspersed with quiet activities like drawing or focused listening. The curriculum introduces the thrill of the glockenspiel, a pre-keyboard instrument, and the wonder of string and woodwind instruments like the dulcimer and recorder. The capstone of Kindermusik, Young Child, is the perfect pressure-free preparation for private instrument instruction.

Semester 3 & 4
In the fall, your child will continue her musical studies with an introduction to Appalacian music (through dances, songs, and the use of the 2-string dulcimer), continue to learn more of the notes on the staff, more musical concepts and dance, play games, sing and play to multi-cultural music.

The spring semester explores multicultural music – from Japan to Hawaii to Africa, just to name a few! Your child will learn basic notation concepts on his or her first wind instrument – the recorder – while gaining confidence and appreciation for their own musical gifts.

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(0 – 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.

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, we will introduce basic musical concepts and then give your family the instruments and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.

ges: 0– 7 years

Length of Class: 45 minute

Units offered this semester:
Make Way for Music

Make Way for Music, our Jelly Bean Band becomes complete, as Rex, the lion (puppets), join the parade. Families will sing, dance, and move their way through an exploration of several elements of music:

beat and rhythm (instrument play and dancing to steady and different rhythms)
concepts and contrasts (such as staccato and legato, high and low, the major scale, and arpeggios),
the human voice (exploring vocal sounds, and playing with nonsense words)
instrument families (listening, exploring sounds, & songs about instruments)
ensemble development (explore ideas such as SOUND EFFECTS in story telling, playing the instrument at the right time in the music, etc.)

As in all the Family Time programs, families engage in developmentally appropriate activities that all ages can enjoy together, including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time, and family jam. The teacher provides a variety of options for children to participate in their own way, and provides developmental information for parents to understand the underlying benefits of these creative activities using music. Music is a very powerful learning tool – Come see the many ways it can enhance your family life.

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.

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ABC Music & Me, an award-winning enrichment (early literacy and language) program for 1.5 to 6 year olds. ABC Music & Me is a research-based language and early literacy program built around music.

ABC Music & Me helps develop pre-literacy and language skills through a child’s most-loved rituals: music and storytime. We offer a different unit each month.

Home Kits: Each kit comes with a CD and mini-literature magazine. Some units also include an instrument.

Units offered this fall for 1.5 to 3.5 years
Out & About (September)
Animals a Dancing (October)
Around the Farm (November)

Units offered this fall for 4 to 6 years
Jumping Beans (September)
Join the Parade (October)
All Keyed Up (November)

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Musical Beginnings

Phone: 317.867.3077
e-mail: info@musicalbeginnings.com

606 South Union Street • Westfield, Indiana 46074