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Kindermusik Class Descriptions

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.

Zoom Buggy! Swoosh, vroom, and clickety-clack your way through this delightful unit. Babies and adults will dance, sing, and play instruments to the theme of being on the go. Chug around the room to the song “Little Red Caboose,” hold on tightly while “Riding in the Buggy,” and dance your way to “Zoom-e-oh!” Engage in rituals and playful activities such as infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time.

Dream Pillow This title alone brings images of rocking, cuddling, singing, and lulling to sleep. But leading up to sleepy time are many upbeat and playful activities. Babies and Adults will swirl to a dreamy cloud dance “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland.” They’ll also play baby appropriate instruments to “Aiken Drum,” and “Sarasponda.” Favorite nursery rhymes like “Wee Willie Winkie,” and “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling,” are sprinkled throughout the classes. It’s easy to weave many of the class songs and activities into your families’ daily routines.

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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.

Milk & Cookies Make everyday home activities and chores easier and more fun with music! Cook and sing to “The Muffin Man”; dust and clean to the original song “In My House”; get ready to wash clothes to the delightful poem “Washing Machine”. Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping and making tea are all represented in familiar as well as new songs. Move, play, and sing together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 ? to 3-year-olds. Capture the familiar and new moments of the day and learn how music can impact your toddler.

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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.

Hello Weather~Let's Play Together Sunshine, rain, snow, thunderstorms, and more in this imaginative and delightful weather-related musical adventure. Preschoolers create storm sounds with a drum to “Wild Storms,” jump in pretend puddles to “Mud Puddle Jump,” throw pretend snow-balls to “Snowballs,” and sing along to “Colors of the Rainbow.” With weather as our learning theme, preschoolers will explore musical styles that range from Opera to American folk, and become more self-sufficient in a creative musical environment that integrates music, pretend play, storytelling, movement, and more.
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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 1 opens the world to new and different ways of learning about music. The focus and content includes beat versus no beat, percussion instruments, brass instruments, melodic direction, exploring the staff, and notation. Semester 1 also introduces the glockenspiel, a pre-keyboard instrument.

Children are delighted to learn more about stringed instruments with the introduction to their very own dulcimers in Semester 3. Other musical concepts taught include call and response, improvisation, meter, notation, and a touch of Tchaikovsky. Themes include “Music of Appalachia”, “Music of the Sea”, and “Native American Music”.

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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.

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.

ges: 0– 7 years

Length of Class: 45 minute

Units offered this semester:
Movin' & Groovin'

At Home Materials: Two books, two home CDs, family guide, Rascal the monkey hand puppet & finger puppet, and two monkey den-den drums.

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 2 to 6 year olds, was designed for early childhood learning centers, but is also taught in our Kindermusik classroom. 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.

ABC Music & Me, supports the early childhood standards and requirements for “high quality programs” as defined by the National Institute for Early Education. Plus for the older age group, ABC Music & Me, aligns with pre-K national and state standards.

Daycare classes are 30 minutes and studio classes are 40 minutes. Units are monthly and take home materials include a mini-literature magazine, CD and every other month an instrument.

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Musical Beginnings

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

606 South Union Street • Westfield, Indiana 46074