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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.

Cock-a-doodle-Moo!
Hop on the hayride—it’s time to head for the farm! In this class, you will sing songs about the farm, including “Old MacDonald,” “Hayride,” and “Clever Cows.” You’ll engage in rituals and playful activities with your baby, including infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time.

Home Materials: A picture board book with charming farm animals and the sounds they make—Cock-a-doodle-Moo, a CD of the songs heard in class, a Sunshine Jingle instrument for music-making at home, and a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall.

DewDrops
Stop and smell the roses—and lily of the valley, and tulips, and pansies. In this class, parents and babies will play and move together to songs about flowers, such as “Jasmine Flower,” “How Does Your Garden Grow?,” and “White Coral Bells.” You’ll also hear traditional Irish music, dance a jig and move to the “Irish Trot.”

Home Materials: CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, a board book of colorful flowers—DewDrops, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall, and a Flower Bells 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.

Aay We Go!
op on the train, get in the car, board the plane, and Away We Go! This class focuses on transportation, a favorite topic for toddlers who are on the go, go, go! 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. Read stories about ways to get around. 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.

ome Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two interactive story books—Shiny Dinah and Giddy-Up! to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book, and two harmonicas designed for toddlers.

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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
Think of it like taking a course inside a child’s imagination. We’ll use the theme of a toy shop to make our pretend-creations, using rhythm and songs with every imaginary saw, hammer, and nail. The result is building the preschooler’s sense of a sequence of events, which is good for storytelling, as well as making his ideas a reality.

Home Materials: Two books—If I Had a Big Blue Boat and Tippity Tippity Too, Toys I Make, Trips I Take Play Set, Two Home CDs, Family Activity Book, and a drum.

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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 2 Playing simple musical patterns and songs on the featured instrument from the first session—the glockenspiel—is a central focus this semester. While learning to sing a melody, and then play the pattern on the glockenspiel, we'll delve deeper into the understanding of musical concepts such as piano and forte through orchestra-style music such as the William Tell Overture and Peter and the Wolf. Music appreciation and understanding continues with a complete introduction to the instruments—and the families in which they're grouped—of the orchestra.

Home Materials: Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, and Home CD of music from class.

Semester Four In this final semester, we'll introduce the recorder instrument. As your child is introduced to basic methods of playing simple melodic patterns and songs on this wind instrument, we'll also incorporate the instruments, concepts, and songs from previous semesters. With a special emphasis on multicultural music, your child will learn to improvise and write music, as well as experience the musical styles of the Pacific Islands, Europe, and Africa; plus play special dances and children's games from around the world, including Alpine dances, Mexico, and Ecuador.

Home Materials: Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, Home CD of music from class, and soprano recorder.

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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: Here, There, Everywhere

At Home Materials: •Two Home CDs, Family Activity Book, Puppets, Double-egg Shaker and Two Literature Books

Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singingâ€”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