Class Descriptions
Play is a wonderful way for baby and the family to play together. Musical play activities provide caregivers with opportunities to help baby develop physically, emotionally,, socially and intellectually. These intimate, interactive activities anticipate and support signs of development as they occur daily, in an environment of trust and security. In Class we will rock, bounce, dance, sway, and play with simple musical instruments and create an environment perfect for a baby. At the same time, the caregiver has the chance to learn wonderful new musical activities that can be shared throughout the rest of the week.
We meet in a climate controlled indoor music space with carpeted floors.
Home material includes music in a CD or digital Download format, a parent booklet and a special set of classroom instruments used only by your child (Their own set of sticks, their own rattle and a lovely scarf in a cloth bag). You can take this home weekly or leave in the studio and take home at the last class.
The program is now being offered with a drop in option. Home material is sold at the studio and is mandatory after attending move than one class.
| Tuition: | $35 |
| Materials: | sold separately |
| Total: | $35 |
Help your child discover the love of music! This summer (2021) our classes will be outdoors and we are very excited to be sharing music with our friends again in person.
Playing outdoors is such fun for children, and so very important, especially in our day. There are many sounds to hear, wonderful places to play and work, and room to move, move, move! Go outside with your child!
Activities Include:
- Sing about ducks and birds
- March around to The Grand Old Duke of York
- Go fishing
- Listen to the Robin or Owl sing
- Make music with your friends and family
- Musikgarten recordings that will keep your attention. You’ll hear fast-tempo music as well as calming, slower relaxing music. The recordings come in two formats: CD and downloadable recordings.
- 24 page children’s picture/activity book
Introduce your child to many summer time sounds and movements in nature
Activities include
- Going down to the creek (fishing, frogs, and worms, flies, and kingfishers)
- Enjoying a picnic with eating, dancing, and playing instruments
- Visiting the meadow with Little Rabbit, chipmunks, green frogs, and mockingbirds
- Making sound games to take home
- Discovering • Bugs and bees: zooming, fiddling, buzzing, and dancing to The Flight of the Bumblebee • Birds and trees, butterflies and millipedes, bird talk and bird sounds
- Creating your own percussion ensemble with Weather is Full of the Nicest Sounds!
Family Activities and Materials
Musikgarten CD and downloadable recordings of outstanding music for movement, singing and listening
8 full-color animal cards
Delightful parent book
Hand-sewn storage pouch for materials
“This class has captured all the fun of summer and given our family new ways to spend time together.”
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 recorded music from the program in CD and 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 this coming Winter/Spring Session is Family Music for Babies I all new activities and recordings.
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!
| Tuition: | based on remaining classes |
| Materials: | included in Total Cost |
| Total: | price upon request |
The program is now being offered with a drop in option or a group of classes you would choose by date. See above for full description of program. Price would be calculated by number of classes you are joining ($35 per class) and Home Material ($50). To drop in one class only you do not need to purchase the material but I highly recommend it. Upon joining the second class you will be required to purchase the home material.
| Tuition: | Drop in option |
| Materials: | $50 - must purchase if attending three plus classes |
| Total: | $35 per class |
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New Friends is this sessions unit of for all our Toddler music Classes. We will delight in the endless energy of your children, their joy in bouncing, rocking, and dancing with you, and in seeing them develop in this wonderful, musical environment! As we watch them grow, we can imagine them singing in the choir, playing in the band, or playing songs on the piano for a family gathering in just a few years. As we sing, bounce, rock, dance, and play instruments together we are laying the foundation necessary for success in music, regardless of which path your toddler takes in the future.
Our 2 and 3 year olds are always moving! In fact movement is not only your young child’s favorite new-found skill, it is your child’s most effective way to learn. Although children eventually have to learn to “sit still and listen” they can not do it yet, and engaging them in purposeful movement activities is the perfect preparation for this all-important skill.
| Tuition: | based on remaining classes |
| Materials: | Included in Total Cost |
| Total: | Price upon request |
| Tuition: | $35 per class |
| Materials: | $50 |
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.
| Tuition: | based on 15 classes |
| Materials: | $50 |
| Total: | price upon request |
| Tuition: | based on number of classes - $35 per class |
| Materials: | $50 |