Age Range: Newborn – 18 months
Class Length: 45 minutes, once a week, with caregiver
School year Length: 30 classes (4 unit themes)
 
If your child ages out of Village during the school year,
we'll help you easily move up to Our Time, for toddlers.

Option available to take individual 7 or 8 week units. 
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Kindermusik Village: A Bonding Experience

A Kindermusik Village class provides a delightful environment for learning, using a unique blend of multi-level activities. You'll experience special bonding moments between you and your baby and add in a unique blend of musical activities that stimulate and engage all of the senses. Your educator will use the latest research on early childhood development to teach you how to encourage your baby’s learning through vocal play, object exploration, instruments, and creative movement. You'll have a special place for learning and connecting with other parents/caregivers and their babies.

What you’ll experience in class

Variety of music.
Musical diversity builds strong neural networks in a baby’s forming mind, which is why each Kindermusik unit contains an array of musical styles, sounds, and genres.

Instrument play.
Age-appropriate experiences with child-safe instruments enhances a sense of rhythm and steady beat, develops a keen awareness of the distinguishing qualities of sound, and encourages spontaneity and creativity.

Dance.
A classroom full of baby and adult pairs dancing together 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 you a place to create special memories with your child, gain new insights into your child’s development, and nurture your child’s natural love of music.

Expert advice.
A Kindermusik educator explains “what-to-watch-for” every step of the way and how each activity enhances your child’s complete development.

Learning continues at home
With the At Home Materials, the learning continues at home with your child’s best teacher—you!
Every unique unit of Kindermusik Village comes with a CD of songs from class, a beautiful board book, and an instrument for music making at home. You'll also receive a card with instructions for downloading your unit's music for free from Play.Kindermusik.Com.

Sept to Nov: Feathers introduces you and your baby to a delightful 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 across the world are featured in songs, dances and poems. A Yiddish folk song, a Muskogean melody, and Mother Goose rhymes set to music are just a few of the colorful and exciting pieces introduced in this curriculum. We'll help your baby develop an early appreciation, and accelerated aptitude, for language, movement and music.

Nov to Jan: Do-Si-Do stimulates a wonderfully unique experience of rhythm and movement for Baby and Parent/Caregiver. Movement highlights include a Virginia Reel, a combination Tango, Cha-Cha! and a “move-to-it” poem. Other activities range from chime ball play to instrument exploration and more. Music selections draw from many traditions, including African American, Mexican, Scottish, South African and Southeast Asian. You'll learn why dancing with your baby helps develop vital learning skills - from head-to-toe!

Jan to March: 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 that stimulate language development through vocal plays with animal sounds. You'll experience musical concepts such as high/low, fast/slow and smooth/bumpy to help your baby develop a "listening" and "feeling" vocabulary for these contrasts.

March to May: Dew Drops encourages you and your little one to stop and smell the roses - and the Lily of the Valley, and tulips, and pansies...In this wonderful garden-themed unit you 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 explore traditional Irish and Scottish music by dancing to a jig, moving to an "Irish Trot", and exercising to "Did You Ever See a Lassie?" One of the highlights of class is exploring the sense of smell, which is linked to memory and plays an important role in early learning.

 

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