| A Village class provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-sensory activities that include creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration as well as colorful literature, your baby’s growth and development are stimulated and all senses are engaged. Kindermusik Village is for lap-babies, crawlers and walkers. It incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement.
- What you and your child will experience in class.
- Variety of Music -
Musical diversity promotes creativity and acceptance, and builds strong neural networks in a baby’s forming mind. In class you will listen, sing and move to songs, rhymes and sounds from all around the world.
Instrument Play - Exploration promotes intrigue and independence. In Village classes, children play with age appropriate, child-safe instruments that deepen their natural sense of rhythm. This helps develop a keen awareness of the distinguishing qualities of sounds, and encourages spontaneity and creativity.
Dance - A classroom full of babies and parents (or care givers) dancing together with their child, helps a little body develop the muscle strength needed to crawl and walk and helps a little heart to fall in love with the sheer joy of responding to music.
Together Time - A Kindermusik class is truly the essence of “quality time,” offering the parent a place to create special memories with their child, gain new insights into their child’s development and nurture their child’s natural love of music.
Story Time and Early Literacy - Listening to stories enhances language and speech development, fosters awareness of sounds, stimulates fantasy and imagination, and encourages a child’s natural love of stories.
- Learn more about the theme of the current and upcoming sessions:
- All Village classes are presented in sessions, and each session focuses on a particular theme. Here is some information about the current session, as well as the next sessions you can enroll in.
Winter Session – Cock-a-Doodle Moo (January 2 – February 25, 2012)
Cock-a-Doodle Moo explores a farm theme through music, motion and multi-senroy activities. Babies will enjoy the movement of a ‘hayride’ and experience vocal play using farm animal sounds. There will be hands on instrument time with bells, shakers, drums and resonator bars.
Home Materials: CD, Story Book, and Sunshine Jingle Instrument
Early Spring Session – Dewdrops (February 27 – April 21, 2011)
Dewdrops is a wonderful unit exploring the world through flowers; perfect for Spring-time. It is a fun collection of songs and music with an emphasis on singing, rhythm, creative movement, lots of instrument exploration and vocal play. It is a treat for the adults to observe the infants interacting with each other in a musical environment.
Home Materials: CD, Story Book, and Flower Bells Instrument
Fall Session II – Feathers (October 17 – December 10, 2011)
Welcome to a world full of Feathers. Experience a wide range of songs, movement activities, object play, and vocal play relating to our feathered friends. The Australian Kookaburra, the African Ostrich, and many more birds from around the world are featured in songs, dances, and chants. There will be lots of hands on time for the children with drums and a large variety of percussive instruments. Jazz and Classical selections, a Yiddish Folk Song, and Mother Goose rhymes set to music, are just a few of the colorful and exciting pieces introduced in this program. The musical activities in this unit stimulate the brain and promote physical, social, cognitive, emotional and language development.
Home Materials: CD, Story Book & Chime Ball
- What Home Materials are provided?
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- CD featuring all the songs and chants from class
- Board book in the class theme with delightful, colorful artwork
- Percussive Instrument with each new unit
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