Village
Age Range: Newborn to 18-months
Class Structure: Once a week for 8 weeks
Class Length: 45 minute class each week
Tuition: $185.00 for 8 weeks (includes Personal Material Pack)
Village classes provide 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.
Dream Pillow
This title alone brings images of rocking, cuddling, singing, and lulling to sleep. But leading up to sleepy time are many upbeat and playful activities. Babies and Adults will swirl to a dreamy cloud dance “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland.” They’ll also play baby appropriate instruments to “Aiken Drum,” and “Sarasponda.” Favorite nursery rhymes like “Wee Willie Winkie,” and “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling,” are sprinkled throughout the classes. It’s easy to weave many of the class songs and activities into your families’ daily routines.
Personal Material Pack: A board book that calms and relaxes—Dream Pillow Lullaby; streaming access to the 30 songs heard in class plus many more albums; a humongous scarf, chime ball, shape bell, double-sided egg shaker, and baby bell for music-making at home.
The Rhythm of My Day
This class will help you bring more rhythm and routine to your baby’s day, as well as help develop lasting learning skills. We’ll show you how and tell you why music can help your little one soothe into the day’s schedule and help build a strong body and mind network for learning. You can bring home those same stress-free play and relaxation techniques from class, and incorporate them into your daily routines.
Personal Material Pack: Streaming access to 27 beautifully arranged songs from class on the Kindermusik app; The Rhythm of My Day — a colorful picture board book with class themes; a chime ball, scarf, maraca, egg shaker, cage bell, and rainbow shaker for music-making at home.
Hickory, Dickory, Tickle, and Bounce
Research shows the more you expose your baby to nursery rhymes and songs, the stronger those emerging language-learning skills will be. That’s why these Mother Goose-like stories and rhymes are the main theme of this class. Plus, you’ll develop research-proven communication strategies with your child through listening activities, speaking “parentese,” and sign language.
Personal Materials Pack: Streaming access of 33 beautifully arranged nursery rhymes and songs from class on the Kindermusik app; a rhyming picture board book—Hickory, Dickory, Tickle, and Bounce; a scarf, egg shaker, shape bell, snail clacker, chime ball, and mini tambourine instruments for music-making at home.
Feathers
The musical poems of Woody Guthrie, bird songs, and the naturally occurring sounds in nature help babies develop an early appreciation—and accelerated aptitude—for language, movement, and music in this class.
Personal Materials Pack: Streaming access to over 25 specially-selected recordings from class plus many more on the Kindermusik app; a colorful picture book of birds—Feathers; a chime ball, egg shaker, scarf, cage bell, baby-safe mirror, and snail clacker for music-making at home.
Do-Si-Do
Pick up your baby and dance. Dance the Charleston, the Tango, and the Cha-Cha and learn why dancing with your baby helps develop vital learning skills—from head-to-toe. In this class, play a variety of baby appropriate instruments, a dance with fun props.
Personal Materials Pack: Streaming access to 28 songs from class plus so much more on the Kindermusik app; This Is My Dance picture/board book with lilting move-to-it rhyming text; an egg shaker, scarf, mini maraca, chime ball, and shape bell for music-making at home.
DewDrops
Stop and smell the roses—and lily of the valley, and tulips, and pansies. In this class, parents and babies will play and move together to songs about flowers, such as “Jasmine Flower,” “How Does Your Garden Grow?,” and “White Coral Bells.” You’ll also hear traditional Irish music, dance a jig and move to the “Irish Trot.”
Personal Materials Pack: Streaming access to 31 beautifully arranged songs from class plus so much more on the Kindermusik app; a board book of colorful flowers—DewDrops; a scarf, egg shaker, shape bell, snail clacker, and a baby rainbow shaker instrument for music-making at home.
Cock-a-Doodle-Moo!
Hop on the hayride—it’s time to head for the farm! In this class, you will sing songs about the farm, including “Old MacDonald,” “Hayride,” and “Clever Cows.” You’ll engage in rituals and playful activities with your baby, including infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time.
Personal Materials Pack: A picture board book with charming farm animals and the sounds they make—Cock-a-doodle-Moo; streaming access to the songs heard in class plus many, many more on the Kindermusik app; shape bell, chime ball, scarf, and egg shaker instruments for music-making at home.
Zoom Buggy!
Swoosh, vroom, and clickety-clack your way through this delightful unit. Babies and adults will dance, sing, and play instruments to the theme of being on the go. Chug around the room to the song “Little Red Caboose,” hold on tightly while “Riding in the Buggy,” and dance your way to “Zoom-e-oh!” Engage in rituals and playful activities such as infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time.
Personal Material Pack: Colorful board book of different vehicles—Zoom Buggy; streaming access of the 27 songs heard in class on the Kindermusik app; chime ball, egg shaker, scarf, shape bell, shape shakers, and snail clacker for music-making at home.