one Early Childhood Music Class
Now Offering a Drop-In Option!
While this program is designed to be most beneficial when families commit to the full 15-week session, a limited number of drop-in spots are now available. Regular weekly attendance best supports children’s learning by helping them feel comfortable with the music and activities and by building a sense of musical community with other families.
Families planning to attend more than one class are required to purchase the Home Materials for the session they are joining.
| Tuition: | $30 for one class |
| Total: | $30 for one class |
5 early child music classes
Save when you purchase a package of five early childhood music classes! Classes may be used for Family Music for Babies, Family Music for Toddlers, or Cycle of Seasons programs. Home Materials must be purchased separately if your family has not already purchased them.
| Tuition: | $27.50 per class |
| Total: | $137.50 (does not include home material) |
45 Early Childhood Music Classes
Save even more when you purchase a package of 15 early childhood music classes! Coupon may be used for Family Music for Babies, Family Music for Toddlers, or Cycle of Seasons classes. Home Materials must be purchased separately if your family has not already received them.
| Tuition: | $25 per class |
| Total: | $375 (does not include home material) |
Family Music for Babies and Non walkers (Babies and Non- Walkers)
WHY... should you join a babies Music class?
- All babies are born with music aptitude.
- Babies absorb the sounds of music in the same way they absorb the sounds of their spoken language.
- Recent studies have shown that music affects the physical, emotional, and intellectual development of babies and strengthens cognitive and sensory development.
- Patterns heard in class feed the ear-brain connection and start to form the language of music. Before long they will be imitating those patterns, developing for life their sense of pitch and rhythm.
Who joins music classes for Babies?.Who is this for? How old does the baby have to be? This class is for any baby, at any age, up to about 16 or 18 months. Some moms have signed up for the class before the baby is born, then come back later with baby in tow!
What happens in a babies class? Lots of singing, dancing, rocking, steady beat, instruments, scarves, rhymes, finger plays, lullabies, and games. All designed to introduce little ones to the language of music, while at the same time equipping parents with songs and rhymes for every occasion! This class developmentally addresses your babies needs, and provides bonding moments for caregivers.
What is the Home Material? You will receive digitally recorded music from the program in Downloadable format, a parent handbook with all the lyrics to all the songs we sing in class (and lovely explanations of the movement we include at every class), and a cloth instrument bag that holds a set of sticks, a wooden rattle, and a soft scarf for your babies' exclusive use. No need to share germs!
Note: The home material for each 15-week session changes. The CD (as seen in the picture) has been phased out and is no longer included.
The Home Material is filled with a wealth of new music to share with your baby and your growing family.
So plan to join us for music class devoted to your baby all year long!
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| Materials: | Family Music for Babies I |
| Total: | $47.25 for Home Material only (does not include tuition) |
Family Music: Animal Friends (Ages 15 months - 3 years)
What Animal Friends have you seen?
Maybe cows, pigs, or chickens on a farm? Or dogs barking and cats roaming in your neighborhood?
Explore all of your animal friends!
Sing familiar songs like The Farmer in the Dell and The Three Little Kittens, or soon to be new favorites The Wild Horses and See the Pony
Instrumental pieces like The Carnival of the Animals will spark the imagination of your child.
Tap, dance, bounce and jump
Discover fun, new instruments and play old favorites
Parents/caregivers and children will experience the joy of making music together. Toddler movers & shakers will stay active while the adult provides the security needed for the child to explore.
Families will receive:
An outstanding Musikgarten recording of over 60 minutes for moving, singing and listening in Both CD and Downloadable Song File formats.
A 48-page children’s book with colorful artwork for children and parents to follow along with as they listen or read
| Materials: | Animal Friends Home Material |
| Total: | 37.95 for Home Material only (does not include tuition) |
Cycle of Seasons:Sun Catchers (3 - 5 years old)
The Cycle of Seasons: SunCatcher program is the Winter/Spring Session of the Year Round Cycle of Seasons program especially geared for young Children who are 3 or 4 years old. Research overwhelmingly shows that children learn best at this age in an environment filled with both music and movement. We include movement because children grow and develop as whole human begins in a "doing" environment. Music is a key element in this holistic program. When music, movement, and language are integrated, the benefits are incalculable both intellectually and psychologically. In this class, we will sing, play instruments, explore movement in stories, develop listening skills, dance and share music with a treasured adult. We will draw central themes from nature and celebrate the changing seasons, and in this particular class the material will be based on Winter and Spring time.
The program has 15 classes in the session Accompanying the classes is home material aimed to bring the class activities into the families home life. Purchase of the home material is mandatory for all families participating.
| Materials: | Suncatchers Home Material |
| Total: | $51.45 for Home Material only (does not include tuition) |
Music Makers At Home in the World (4 1/2, 5s and 6s)
60 minute classes
This music and movement program gives your child a solid music making foundation in a fun music filled environment. We focus on your child's fascination with nature and love of instruments. The program provides a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression, introduces orchestral instruments and ensemble play and focuses on building a child's aural (listening) foundation which leads to long-term success with voice, enhancement of self-discipline and social skills, first steps in reading music.
Material for Session 1: My Home Place and Woodlands
The first session home material includes:
1. Red Tote bag
2. Music Makers Album
3. Material for My Home Place and Woodlands (see images below)
The Units, My Home and Woodlands each contain:
- a Poster folder (10" x 15") and game pieces
- a CD and a code for downloadable recordings
- a Parent Booklet
Material for second Session: 2 (starts in January): Marshes and Meadows
| Tuition: | $540 |
| Materials: | $106.04 |
Fall: Music Makers: Around the World (pre-piano) (5s, 6s and early 7s)
Fifteen 75 minute Classes
This year focuses on your child's fascination with all things new and different. Over the course of the year we will explore the music of the British Isles, Amerindians, Germany and African American Heritage. The program features songs, dances, stories, rituals and customs of these cultures to help your child feel and understand others. It builds skills in listening, singing, playing instruments, as well as expressive movement and dance. Every class offers age-appropriate steps to develop music literacy - symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression. Your child will have a solid, comprehensive music foundation, an excellent preparation for the next step, whether it be instrumental lessons, singing in a choir, participating in an Orff ensemble, or joining a dance class. This class is also a pre-piano class and all participants are guaranteed a spot in the Music Makers: At the Keyboard Program or pre-keyboard program.
Cost of program includes 15 classes and the home material needed for each session. The cost is more if the child is newly entering the program and needs an album and a Musikgarten Red Tote Bag (Bag only needed if classes are at the studio).
Home material for the first semester includes (items marked with * are for new students only):
- British Isles Poster (10" x 15") and game pieces
- British Isles CD and downloadable recorded music
- Amerindian Poster (10" x 15") and game pieces
- Amerindian CD
- parent Booklet for both British Isles and Amerindian
- *Red Musikgarten Tote Bag
- * Music Makers Notebook (to store all home materials)
- Germany (10" x 15") and game pieces
- Germany CD
- African-American Heritage Poster (10" x 15") and game pieces
- African-American Heritage CD
- parent booklet for both Germany and African-American Heritage
| Tuition: | $540 |
| Materials: | $104.25 ($120.01 for new students) |