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Unit Descriptions (ages birth-18 mo)

  Hickory, Dickory, Tickle, and Bounce
Research shows the more you expose your baby to nursery rhymes and songs, the stronger those emerging language-learning skills will be. That's why these Mother Goose-like stories and rhymes are the main theme of this class. Plus, you'll develop research-proven communication strategies with your child through listening activities, speaking "parentese," and sign language. 
Home Materials: CD of beautifully arranged nursery rhyme and songs from class, a rhyming picture board book—Hickory, Dickory, Tickle, and Bounce, a set of Art Banners, and an instrument for music-making at home.

The Rhythm of My Day
This class will help you bring more rhythm and routine to your baby's day, as well as help develop lasting learning skills. We'll show you how and tell you why music can help your little one soothe into the day’s schedule and help build a strong body and mind network for learning. You can bring home those same stress-free play and relaxation techniques from class, and incorporate them into your daily routines.
Home Materials:CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, The Rhythm of My Day—a  colorful picture board book with class themes, a set of Art Banners, and an instrument for music-making at home.

Unit Descriptions (ages 18 mo-3yrs)

Unit Descriptions (ages 3 ½-5 yrs) 3 Units will be covered in 13 weeks

 Rhythms of the Land
In class we’ll explore the rhythms and sounds of Native American music. As we investigate, compare, and contrast a wide variety of drums and the materials they’re made from, your preschooler develops the investigative vocabulary needed in the sciences. When you repeat rhythm patterns at home and share the activities in your Home Kit, your child gets an early start in math, too.
Home Kit:  Jingle Stick instrument, Home CD, and magazine-style Family Guide (includes the class story Pedal Pump, Pedal Pump)

Under the Rainbow
Keep your eyes open for a rain this month. In class we’ll explore the concept of high and low sounds with Irish music, tricky leprechauns, and the colors of the rainbow. We’ll also match sounds with pictures, and match pictures with the written words to build lasting literacy skills. With more activities sprinkled throughout the story in your Home Kit, you and your preschooler can practice together the skills needed now and later in school.
Home Kit: Home CD, and magazine-style Family Guide (includes class story Under the Rainbow)

Sounds Abound
This month, we’ll explore all the sounds we can make with our mouths, bodies, hands, plus everyday objects we can find around the house. Your preschooler develops an early understanding of how one material can be used to make something else. Activities in your Home Kit help you bring these big ideas home when you take part in the listening, turn-taking, and sound-effect making activities. 
Home Kit: Home CD and magazine-style Family Guide (includes the class story If I Had a Big Blue Boat)

8 Weeks of

begins February 12-April 9

Ideal for families with children in different Kindermusik age groups, but any family with one or more children  from birth to age 6 will enjoy Family Time.

In Make Way for Music, families will sing, dance, and move their way through an exploration of several elements of music: beat and rhythm, concepts and contrasts (such as staccato and legato, high and low, the major scale, and arpeggios), the human voice, instrument families, and ensemble. They’ll engage in developmentally appropriate activities that the whole family can enjoy together, including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time, and family jam.
Home Materials: Two books—Drum Circle and Animals on Parade, two Home CDs,  Family Guide, Rex the lion hand puppet and finger puppet, an instrument-matching board game and two fingerdrums.

$111.00 for one ;$135 for 2;$159 for 3

Dear Our Time Parent:

Most experts agree that the child’s emotional development is dependent upon the care received at an early age and that the parts of the brain responsible for emotional growth are very sensitive to parental feedback and handling.  Kindermusik offers a wonderful opportunity for you to be a vital part of your child’s maturation.  Singing, laughing, playing and dancing together all can be a part of your relationship.  

We will begin some new songs next week, but at home, continue to delight in singing together favorites from these past few weeks.  Sing Bells Are Ringing, laugh as you wiggle to Washing Machine, play “grocery store” as you chant The Grocery Store, and dance high and low while listening to Great Big House. 

To market,  to market to buy.... Take a few index cards, grocery store flyer, glue.  Cut out some of the food pictures from the flyer. Have your child help you glue the pictures on to the index cards. Have fun with the poem as your child picks out the pictures.  Your child will love this simple rhyming game.

All young children, even those with only minimal hearing, have a powerful, almost riveting affinity for music. Research has shown that the fetus responds to musical cues from the middle trimester onward and never stops attending to it afterward, and infants are the same. By toddlerhood, play with music is so complex and rich, it probably teaches more economically than any formal kind of instruction. The neurobiological processes underlying the appreciation of music-related play and interaction involve the brain pathways for:

• Memory
• Hearing
• Balance
• Motor control
• Hormonal secretion
• Cognition
• Emotion

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