| ABC Music and Me is an award-winning music and movement program for children 4 to 6 years. This curriculum helps to develop pre-literacy and language skills through songs, movement and story time. Using music as the medium, children will develop fine and gross motor skills, improve hand-eye coordination, learn musical concepts, and sharpen there listening skills. Class activities promote problem solving, self-confidence and individual expression in a fun and nurturing environment.
- What you and your child will experience in class:
- Story Time and Early Literacy – Songs, rhymes and story time are used to develop phonetic awareness and early reading skills, while strengthening a child’s natural love of literature.
Instrument Exploration – There will be lots of hands-on percussive instrument time, which helps to improve hand-eye coordination. Playing percussive instruments is purposely designed to help children identify steady beat and practice self-control.
Movement Activities – Dancing and moving to music creates body awareness, facilitates balance and the development of fine and gross motor skills, and fosters a child’s imagination.
Focused Listening – This class is structured in a way that offers an opportunity for children to enhance their listening skills and their ability to follow direction.
- Learn more about the theme of the current and upcoming sessions:
- All ABC classes are presented in sessions, and each session focuses on a particular theme. Here is some information about the current and upcoming sessions.
Summer Session II (4 weeks) – Giggles (July 26 – August 21, 2010)
Giggles is all about laughter, humor and fun. The children will hear and tell knock-knock jokes and dance silly dances while helping to develop their sense of humor. They will hear instruments found in American Folk Music, including the banjo, washboard, saw, spoons and jaw harp. In class the children will explore the concepts of fast and slow in all kinds of ways, with their hands, bodies and instruments.
Home Materials: Home CD, One Harmonica Instrument, and a magazine-style Family Guide
Fall Session I (8 weeks) – Jumping Beans & Join the Parade (August 23 – October 23, 2010)
In Jumping Beans we will jump into the rhythms of Latin America. Children will investigate the concept of a musical rest, explore expressive movement, sing Spanish words and phrases, and even jump like jumping beans. Tucked into stories and pretend play activities, stop-and-go games help preschoolers control body motions and follow directions on the go.
In Join the Parade, children will move to parade and march music and listen to instruments from marching bands, focusing on loud and quiet. The movement activities will help children develop steady beat and coordination skills, helping to make a vital rhythm and body connection that is essential to mastering any number of activities, such as writing, dribbling and shooting a basketball, dancing and skipping.
Home Materials: 2 take-home CDs, One Pan Flute Instrument, and 2 magazine-style Family Guides
Fall Session II (8 weeks) – All Keyed Up & Sing a Story (October 25 – December 18, 2010)
All Keyed Up immerses children in the magic of keyboards of all kinds. While listening to the music of J.S. Bach, they will learn about the piano, organ, harpsichord and synthesizer, and also sharpen their listening skills. Children will explore the musical concepts of staccato and legato throgh movement activities and instrument play.
In Sing a Story, your child will get a fun introduction to the world of opera with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. They will listen to examples of solos and duets, practice pre-music reading skills by singing simple two-note patterns, sing and play a variety of musical instruments.
Home Materials: 2 CD’s, Pair of Castanets instrument, and 2 magazine-style Family Guides
- What Home Materials are provided?
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- At-Home CD featuring all the songs and chants from class
- Magazine-style Family Guide which includes the class stories and activities to do at home
- Percussive instrument
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