Kindermusik Fall Schedule 2009

For children
newborn to 18 months
with caregiver
15 / 45 minute classes

What Level is
Best for My Child?

Feathers
The musical poems of Woody Guthrie, bird songs, and the naturally occurring sounds in nature help babies develop an early appreciation—and accelerated aptitude—for language, movement, and music in this class.

Home Materials: CD with over 25 specially-selected recordings from class, Little Bird shaker instrument, a colorful picture book of birds—Feathers, and a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy.

Do-Si-Do
Pick up your baby and dance. Dance the Charleston, the Tango, and the Cha-Cha and learn why dancing with your baby helps develop vital learning skills—from head-to-toe. In this class, play a variety of baby appropriate instruments, a dance with fun props.

Home Materials: CD with songs from class, an instrument—yellow Do-Si-Do clacker, a picture board book—Do-Si-Do—with lilting move-to-it rhyming text, and a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy.

Day	Time	Educator
Monday (side-by-side)	9:30 - 10:15 AM	Ms. Anna
Wedneday	9:30 - 10:15 AM	Ms. Carol
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Tuition with materials $190
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For children 18 months
to 3 1/2 with caregiver
15 / 30 minute classes

What Level is
Best for My Child?

Wiggles & Giggles
The more than 30 songs, 15 dances, and eight different instruments create these unique music activities, designed to reflect the importance of movement in the life of a toddler. Home Materials: Double CD features 50 songs, sounds, and recordings of favorite activities from class; two story books—Watch Me! and Pete and P.J., to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book; and specially-made pair of zigzag blocks—instrument to develop rhythm and hand-eye coordination.

Day	Time	Educator
Monday	10:30 - 11:00 am	Ms. Anna
Monday (side-by-side)	11:15 - 11:45 pm	Ms. Anna
Tueday (side-by-side)	9:30 - 10:00 am	Ms. Patrice
Tuesday	10:315- 10:45 am	Ms. Patrice
Tuesday (side-by-side)	11:00 - 11:30 am	Ms. Patrice
Wednesday	10:30 - 11:00 am	Ms. Carol
Wednesday	11:15 - 11:45 am	Ms. Carol
Thursday (side-by-side)	9:30 - 10:00 am	Ms. Patrice
Thursday	10:15 - 10:45 am	Ms. Patrice
Thursday (side-by-side)	11:15 - 11:45 am	Ms. Patrice
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Tuition with materials $180
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For children
3 1/2 to 5 years of age
15 / 45 minute classes
Parents do not attend.

What Level is
Best for My Child?

See What I Saw
In this class, preschoolers use their real experience of playing in the park to create imaginative, storytelling scenarios with music—go on an imaginary trip to Grasshopper Park where they sail down the park slide and then recreate the sound of that experience with a loooong vocal glissando. Each week provides preschoolers one uninterrupted session of imaginative play that's guided in a very specific, sequential way—with a special sharing time with parents in the last 15 minutes of class

Home Materials: Two books—Can You Find Me? and The Ant Picnic Feast, Two Home CDs, See What I Saw Play Set, a Family Activity Book, a slide whistle instrument, and a backpack.

Day	Time	Educator
Monday (side-by-side)*	11:15 - 12:00 pm	Ms. Carol
Tuesday (side-by-side)	9:30 - 10:15 am	Ms. Carol
Tuesday (side-by-side)	11:00 - 11:45 pm	Ms. Carol
Wednesday	12:30 - 1:15 pm	Ms. Carol
Thursday (side-by-side)	9:30 - 10:15 am	Ms. Carol
Thursday (side-by-side)	11:00 - 11:45 am	Ms. Carol
Thursday	12:30 - 1:15 pm	Ms. Carol
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Tuition with materials $190
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Kindergarten age


1st grade age
15 / 60 minute classes
Parents do not attend.

What Level is
Best for My Child?

Explore many facets of music – speaking, singing, moving, listening, creating, playing instruments, and learning about reading and writing music. Creative movement or dances are interspersed with quiet activities like drawing or focused listening. The curriculum introduces the glockenspiel, a pre-keyboard instrument, and string and woodwind instruments like the dulcimer and recorder. Young Child is the perfect pressure-free preparation for formal instruction in piano, violin or voice.

Semester 1 of Kindermusik for the Young Child 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. Themes include “Music is Everywhere”, “Meet the Mallets”, and “Discovering Melody and Mozart.”

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”.

At Home Materials include: Purple Carry Bag (Semester 1 only), Folder, Activity Pages and Stickers, Weekly Music at Home cards, Games Bag and Manipulatives, Family Songbook and Home CD and Glockenspiel (Semester 1), Dulcimer with carry bag (Semester 3)

Day / Semster	Time	Educator
Monday / YC1	9:30 - 10:30 am	Ms. Carol
Monday / YC1	1:00 - 2:00 pm	Ms. Carol
Tuesday / YC1	4:00 - 5:00 pm / Location TBA	TBA
Monday / YC3	3:40 - 4:40 pm	Ms. Carol
Monday / YC3	4:45 - 5:45 pm	Ms. Carol
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Tuition with materials $225
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HERE, THERE &
EVERYWHERE

For Children Ages
newborn - 6 yrs
for siblings together

15 / 45 minute classes

Listen to instruments and to each other, learn from 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 encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special class, your children will strengthen ties with each other and with you, all while developing the skills they'll need in school and on the neighborhood playground. (10 classes)

At Home Materials include: One hand puppet and one finger puppet, Two instruments, Two home CDs and Family Activity Guide

Day	Time	Educator
Friday	9:30 - 10:15 am	Ms. Kari
Friday	10:30 -11:15 am	Ms. Kari
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Tuition for 2 children $280 with materials
add $40 for each additional child over 6 months
infants under 6 months are free !
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For Children Ages
6 month - 3 yrs
with caregiver

10 / 45 minute classes

Sign & Sing offers a uniquely different approach from other sign language programs. Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child, Kindermusik Sign & Sing shows you more than 50 signs your child can use to communicate with you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development in hearing children, you'll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities for your child. (10 classes)

At Home Materials include: Two DVD glossaries showing 90 signs, Two Family Activity Guides and Two sets of clip-on flashcards

Day	Time	Educator
Friday	11:30 - 12:15 pm	Ms. Kari
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Tuition with materials $150
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