| Age Range: 3 to 5 years, without parent
Class Structure: 8 wks in Spring, 2 – 4 wk Summer Sessions
Class Length: 45 minute class each week
Tuition: $150-Spring, $75/session-Summer (incl home materials) |
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Life, for a 3 to 5 year old, is a world of fun and fantasy. In their world anything and everything is possible. In an Imagine That! class, children have many opportunities to nurture and expand their wonderful emerging imaginations. Pretend-play activities are integrated with music, singing, storytelling, instrument play, movement and literature. These activities capture the preschooler’s potential to learn, encourage their cognitive development, impact their capacity and willingness to socialize and foster their creativity and individuality. Singing becomes a focus for enhancing your child’s vocal development at a time when expressive language is just beginning to emerge. Imagine That! facilitates the preschooler’s creative spirit and boundless energy, and focuses on developing learning strengths and self-confidence so they’ll be ready for school and prepared for future music lessons.
- What you and your child will experience in class:
- Pretend Play – Pretend play activities are integrated with music, vocal development, storytelling, listening, movement, with a focus on the literacy aspects of each class. When based upon a child’s real life experiences, pretend play helps develop language, sensory, motor, and cognitive skills.
Musical Variety and Singing – Activities include a mixture of musical genres and styles and provide a setting for children to explore their many voices and to use a “singing voice.” Singing helps with memory and recall, physical development, creativity, and socialization.
Storytelling and Literacy – Each class is built on the development of a story. In class we recreate the story with a preschooler’s twist, honoring their emerging wants, needs, likes, and dislikes. Songs are interwoven in the story telling.
Parent Involvement – Class activities are reinforced with simple and fun, home projects. Parent and child collaborate on projects at home and these are brought to class in order to share their ideas and creativity
Instrument Play- There is lots of hands on play with a wide variety of percussive instruments.
- Learn more about the theme of the current and upcoming sessions:
- All Imagine That 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 – Under the Rainbow (July 27-August 22)
Under the Rainbow explores melodic, lilting, traditional Irish folk music. In class the children will discover the sweetness of high sounds and the richness of low sounds as they listen to glockenspiels, slide whistles, flutes and piccolos that are commonly used in Irish music. Dancing to the “Leprechaun Jig” provides the children with the opportunity to actively experience and enjoy Irish music. The children will get to play with glockenspiels and play shakers while they listen to the Belfast Hornpipe.
Home Materials: CD, magazine-style Family Guide, Rainbow Streamer
- What Home Materials are provided?
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- CD featuring all the songs and chants from class
- Family Activity Guide featuring weekly activities to do at home that reinforce what is learned in class
- Percussive Instrument
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