Fall 2007 Class Offerings

Newborns to 18 months


Welcome to a world of feathers! Experience a wide range of songs, movement activities, object play, and vocal play relating to our feathered friends. The Austrialian Kookaburra, the African Ostrich, and many more birds from across the world are featured in songs, dances, and poems. Both Jazz and Classical selections, a Yiddish Folk Song, a Muskogean melody, and Mother Goose rhymes set to music are just a few of the colorfuland exciting pieces introduced in this curriculum. At home materials include CD, a bird shaker/bell, richly colored posters, and a board book full of birds.



6 months - 3 years



Sign language curriculum for parents with hearing children -
A 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.
Already accustomed to fingerplays and rhyme-songs—such as "This Little Piggy"—you'll easily substitute American Sign Language (ASL) signs in familiar songs, improving your child's language skills, fine motor skills, and strengthen fingers for zipping zippers and using scissors.


18 months - 3 years


Wiggle and giggle, and wiggle and giggle some more! There are a hundred ways (and more!) to wiggle and giggle! We'll stomp like an elephant, jump like a kangaroo, and hop-a-doodle our way through an engaging musical world of wiggles and giggles while building confidence, self-control, and communication skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming, and object identification foster language skills. Creative movement and dance develop a sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills. At home materials include two CDs of class songs, a Family Activity Book filled with ideas and activities to do together, a pair of zig-zag blocks, and two brightly illustrated story books.



3 - 5 years

In this 15-week semester, your preschooler uses his real experience playing in the park to create imaginative, story-telling scenarios with music. Each week provides your preschooler an uninterrupted session of imaginative play that's guided in a very specific, sequential way—with a special Family Sharing Time with you in the last 15 minutes of class. At Home Materials include two CDs, Family Activity Book, "Grasshopper Park" play set, a slide whistle instrument, two beautifully-illustrated storybooks and a backpack.



5 - 7 years


A pressure-free approach to learning, but concrete enough because his mind is ready for the more abstract thinking processes that music requires. Play remains the primary way a young child learns, so throughout the curriculum there is a consistent effort to balance active learning with the emotional reasoning aspects of a young child’s development in mind. At Home Materials include Children's Folder, Music At Home cards & stickers, Games Bag, Family Songbook, Home CD, dulcimer, and purple canvas Carry Bag.