Kindermusik by The Half Notes: Meet Molly!

Friday, November 16, 2007

Meet Molly!

We are pleased and excited to welcome our newest Kindermusik educator, Molly Blaker, to our teaching staff! Molly grew up in the home of a professional musician, and enjoyed her experiences with music and dance as a child and young adult. She also brings to the Kindermusik classroom a background in education, her degree in Special Education. Molly is mom to two active young boys and is excited to join the Half Notes this spring. With the addition of Molly to our teaching staff, we will be able to offer additional classes during the week and increase our class options, so we are very pleased to be able to build and expand on a great program! Please join us in welcoming Molly!

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Late enrollments are always welcome, depending on class availability. Fall classes start the week after Labor Day, Spring classes start the last week of January, but if you enroll after the semester begins, your tuition is pro-rated, and your materials are paid in full. Full payment when enrolling late is appreciated, however, if you need a payment plan, please ask us. We are happy to work with you! If we have materials on hand, you will receive them with payment. If we need to order them for you, we will try to have them by the next class. Since our materials are shipped from North Carolina, we cannot guarantee that they will arrive in that week, but we will do all that we can to ensure you get your materials promptly.

Why Are Home Materials Required?

Kindermusik recognizes the parent as the child's best teacher. Parents can help the child derive much more benefit from the classroom activities by playful engagement in these activities at home. A foundation of the Kindermusik philosophy is the belief that young children learn best in a family environment, and that music needs to be a part of everyday life, not just a once-a-week activity. Home materials provide the tools for this portion of Kindermusik learning. Children who use the materials on a regular basis have keener participation and enhanced ability to focus in class.
CDs provide songs, chants and music for dancing, singing along, creating and playing along, or just for joyful listening as songs are remembered, reinforced, and committed to memory.
The Activity Book/Cards contains lyrics and notation for the songs and chants on the CD, ideas for fun activities parents may share with their child at home, and tested ways to expand the week's themes beyond the classroom experiences with games, parenting information, and craft ideas.
Story books enhance a home library and are much-loved aids to early literacy.
Additional items suit each level's developmental play style-- whether wall banners/picture cards for infants and toddlers, specially designed instruments for older children, or play sets for the creative mind of the preschooler.
The home materials are to Kindermusik what lesson books and instrument are to formal lessons, or shoes and leotards are to ballet class - an essential part of full participation in the class as a whole.

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Home Materials-
We usually use the materials during the session, but we especially return to the materials months later to sing "old" songs and play games. We are not in a session right now because Greta started preschool in January (a big change), but we are still using all of the grasshopper park items and constantly, I mean constantly, sing songs from our fall class, even without the CD (the CD is handy for recalling, esp. in the car). So the materials, for us, are more than just expensive tools, they are part of a library of music we are building and plan to use probably until high school!

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Meet Molly!

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