| 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.
Spring Session (8 weeks) – On the Road (May 3 – June 26, 2010)
On the Road takes us on imaginary trips to vacation destinations such as the carnival, a summer cottage, and the beach. We will travel on a pretend bus named “Van Go” and will be singing campfire songs around a fire made of rhythm sticks, flashlights and red scarves. There will be lots of hands-on instrument time and creative musical play.
Home Materials: Home CD, Book, Frog Guiro Instrument
Summer Session I (4 weeks) – Jazz Kitchen (June 28 – July 24, 2010)
Using the story Noodles From Scratch, children will discover musical terms and concepts. We will explore sounds that go high and low, and others that slide up and down, putting these into play with scat singing and a combination of percussive instruments. The music in class will include pieces with jazzy vibes and bass, with the saxophone setting the backdrop. We will sing and play lots of different instruments as we groove along to Jazz.
Home Materials: Home CD, Streamer, magazine-style Family Guide
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 magazine-style Family Guide (includes the class “story,” a series of knock-knock jokes)
- 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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