Kindermusik Family Time
Music class for families with multiple children ages newborn and up
In ten weeks, you'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family.
A one-room schoolhouse approach to music. With older children ready to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones eager to learn, Family Time becomes a multi-layered learning environment. Each week, a Kindermusik Educator will introduce basic musical concepts and then give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.
Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing—all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you—and they'll start developing the skills they'll need in school and on the neighborhood playground.
- One convenient class that families can take together
- Introduces musical concepts and develops musical skills
- Allows each child to develop social skills—such as sharing, and turn-taking—in a multi-age, multi-child environment
- Strengthens the emotional bond among family members
Enjoy the Journey All Week Long
Each family receives a set of At Home Materials designed to
integrate the classroom learning experience with the fun, Friday night
activities you do together as a family. With music from class, story books,
and creative play ideas and trivia, At Home Materials help your
children associate learning with the unique time you spend together, bonding
as a family. Repetition and family involvement in a child's learning is a
fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the
parent is the child's most important teacher and the home is the most
important place for a child's learning to take root and grow.
Family Time At Home Materials are designed for two children
Spring 2008
Make Way For Music
In Make Way for Music, families will sing, dance, and move their way through an exploration of several elements of music: beat and rhythm, concepts and contrasts (such as staccato and legato, high and low, the major scale, and arpeggios), the human voice, instrument families, and ensemble. They’ll engage in developmentally appropriate activities that the whole family can enjoy together, including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time, and family jam. In their At Home Materials, families will receive two fingerdrums, one Sing, Play, & Grow home activity guide, two children’s storybooks (Drum Circle and Animals on Parade), a hand puppet and finger puppet of Rex (the lion member of Family Time’s Jellybean Band), and an instrument-matching board game. Get the family band together, and Make Way for Music!
Families will receive:
- Sing, Play & Grow! A family guide to musical fun—a book full of activities and information about child development, as well as fun facts about the songs enjoyed in class.
- Jellybean band puppets: Rex the lion (hand puppet and finger puppet).
- 2 Home CDs
- 2 fingerdrums.
- 2 Jellybean Band books with activity pages, comic strips about the band, and stories. This unit’s stories are Drum Circle and Animals on Parade.
- A matching board game