Kindermusik Curriculum and Theme Descriptions
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Kindermusik Village(0-1.5 years)
Kindermusik Our Time(1.5-3.0 years)
Kindermusik Imagine That(3-5)
Kindermusik For the Young Child(5-7 years)
Kindermusik Family Time(0-7years multiple children)
For newborns to 1.5 years
Class Structure: 8 units, each 8 weeks
Class Length: 45 minutes
Imagine your child swinging softly in a blanket or dancing with you around a maypole. Village provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-level activities that includes creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and a colourful literature component, your baby’s growth and development are stimulated and all of his senses engaged.
Kindermusik Village, for children newborn to 11/2 years of age, incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families with a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement. High quality, professionally created class and At Home materials include Kindermusik Foundations of Learning, insights based on current research that educate parents about their babies' unique development.
Cock-a-doodle-MOO!
How many ways can you sing hello? Animals come to life in this exciting unit Cock-a-Doodle Moowhen singing a “Morning Song” like a pig, horse, snake or cow…….
How many noises does a cow make? Find out how to smack, munch and snore like a cow in a fun chant “This Little Cow Eats Grass”.
In Cock-a-Doodle Moo, enjoy walking down memory lane when you share some other old favourite chants and songs, such as: “Skip to my Lou”, “Old MacDonald”, “The Farmer in the Dell”, “Hey Diddle Diddle” and “Yankee Doodle”
Dew Drops
Dew Drops touches on many well known and traditional chants and songs, such as “Lavender Blue ”, “Blue Bells and Cockle Shells” and “How Does your Garden Grow?”, which will bring back many pleasant memories of your own childhood.
Do-Si-Do
Do si Do Central to this unit is the use every week of Baby’s Book; with is entitled ‘This is my Dance’. Why do we focus on rhythm and movement? When your baby emerges from the womb and the familiar, steady sound of mother’s heartbeat, his brain begins scanning the apparently disorganized world for patterns – elements of consistency to help him make order out of the chaos. Rhythmic activity provides the recognizable, predictable and patterned information your baby wants to latch on to.
Dream Pillow
Dream Pillow: There is a tenderness about Baby’s bedtime that makes it unlike any other time of day. Time slows down. The light changes. And a parent’s awareness is heightened. Every mother and father knows Baby’s breathing, her facial expressions, her cries, her wriggling, sighs and heavy eyelids that lead up to sleep – and often interrupt it during the night! Through the rituals of rocking, nursing, cuddling and singing, parents follow Baby’s cues to lull her to sleep. The loving interaction that defines these rituals is the essence of Dream Pillow. In this unit parents and caregivers are invited to enjoy bedtime closeness with Baby at any time of day by listening more closely, sharing the gifts of singing and talking to Baby and exploring and extending the music in Baby’s environment.
Feathers
Welcome to a world full of Feathers Experience a wide 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. Both Jazz and Classical selections, a Yiddish Folk Song, A Muskogean melody, and Mother Goose rhymes set to music are just a few of the colourful and exciting pieces introduced in this curriculum.
In Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce, you will enjoy exposing your little one to the sounds of language and modelling and encouraging expressive use of the voice with verses such as ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’, ‘Cackle, Cackle’, ‘The Duke of York’, and ‘Dickery Dickery Dare’.
Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce, draws on several traditions and includes English rhymes and songs, a lullaby each from Sweden and Italy, the Mexican favourite ‘La Cucaracha’ and both a nursery song and a dance medley from China.
The Rhythm of My Day
How many ways can Baby Zoom? Hop in the Zoom Buggy! And find out. Through a variety of songs, chants and instrumental selections you will discover that Baby can enjoy rumbling, squeaking, chugging, bumping, vrooming, swooshing and more. What baby sees from the buggy is important. Familiar tunes and old favourites such as Little Red Caboose, Lightly Row and Canoe Song are joined together with new and less familiar songs (soon to become favourites, I suspect!) – all used in activities designed to help Baby move down that fascinating road of development.
Village home materials include :
- Home CD
- Literature Books
- Baby Home Journal
- 2 Art Banners
Benefits for Your Child and You:
- Educates you about your baby's total development through Kindermusik Foundations of Learning - statements based on the most recent research.
- Encourages joyful participation in a music making community.
- Nurtures bonding between you and your child through intentional touch warm-ups, exercises, interactive dances and musical play.
- Provides natural connections between singing and reading out loud, listening and communicating through literature books.
For 1.5 - 3 years
Class Structure: Four units, each 15 weeks.
Class Length: 45 minute
This class is extremely popular, so please book in early to secure your place.
Our Time focuses on your child's healthy emotional development as her confidence, curiosity, self-control, and communication begin to take shape. Our Time recognizes her need for both the freedom to try and the assurance of your support. Instrument exploration nurtures her self-esteem and facilitates her discovery of textures and sounds.
Language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, rhyming and object identification. Creative dancing to different musical "moods" develops her sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness while affirming her urge to move. The anticipation and rewards of listening are introduced, and with turn-taking activities, social skills begin to blossom.
Essentially, Our Time provides the safety of training wheels for the bicycle of pre-school!
Kindermusik Our Time At Home materials include 2 CDs, 2 Music and Movement Books, a Home Activity Book, and a specially designed instrument, all to encourage self-directed play and the experimentation introduced in pre-school.
Wiggles & Giggles
Wiggles & Giggles features songs, activities, and literature books surrounding the ever exciting theme of taking a bath, animal movements, and love for family and friends.
Away we Go!
Away We Go guides parent and child to explore the exciting world of things that go! Singing, dancing, and developmentally appropriate activities lead this transportation adventure to the discovery of trains, cars, buses, horses, wagons, airplanes, and boats.
Milk & Cookies
Milk & Cookies empowers the parent to lead the child through familiar, everyday home activities such as cooking, dusting, and washing clothes. Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping, and making tea are all represented in familiar songs and activities!
Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Fiddle-Dee-Dee takes its name from the beloved folk song about the fly who married the bumblebee and the theme of "fiddling around" is present all throughout the semester. Creatures from the animal kingdom, whether furry, web-footed, winged, or whiskered are explored in this unit.
Benefits for Your Child and You
- Recognizes your child's need for both freedom to try and the assurance of your support.
- Educates you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy.
- Promotes joyful music making as a community.
- Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation.
For 3 – 5 years
Class Structure: Four units, each 15 weeks.
Class Length: 45 minutes.
Imagine That! provides a carefully integrated curriculum of music, movement, and pretend play where your child's unique interests will be fully engaged in an environment that invites the development of the whole child - allowing for curious young minds, bodies, and voices to reflect, compare, make choices, express opinions, solve problems, sing, and move.
For the pre-school age child, every day is a new discovery waiting to happen. With Imagine That!, you and your child can explore those discoveries together. No two Imagine That! classes are ever the same - class activities grow and change based on children's active participation.
By creating an environment in which children contribute ideas, express opinions, and offer personal preferences, Imagine That! nurtures development and learning while recognizing that individual differences are not only acknowledged but also treasured.
Kindermusik Imagine That! at home materials include 2 CDs, 2 Music and Movement Books, an interactive play set, a specially designed instrument, and a Family Activity Book.
Cities! Busy Places - Friendly Faces
In Cities! Busy Places – Friendly Faces preschoolers and their families are invited to explore the many people and places of the city. Your child’s imagination will soar as he/she explores the grandeur of city buildings, the bustle on the footpath and the many people in city neighbourhoods.
Hello Weather, Let's play Together!
In Hello Weather, Let’s play Together! Preschoolers and their families meet an approaching thunderstorm, swirling wind gusts, flaky snowflakes and bright sunny skies that elicit more imaginative play and discovery than a day can possibly hold.
See What I Saw
In See What I Saw preschoolers and their families are invited to explore the exciting world of outside play. Your child’s imagination will soar as he/she explores Grasshopper Park.
Toys I Make, Trips I Take
In Toys I Make, Trips I Take, Preschoolers and their families meet a Toy Maker who introduces the children into the wonderful world of the Toy Shop. Meet the exciting ‘Jack-in-the-box’, a whirly swirly ‘Spinning Top’ and a ‘Big Red Ball’ when he tells a wonderful creative story called ‘ The Toy Maker Story’.
Benefits for Your Child and You
- Nurtures your child's imagination and creativity.
- Creates a learning environment that integrates music, expressive language, peer interaction and pretend play.
- Challenges your child through activities that promote problem-solving, making choices and expressing ideas.
- Allows your child to have an active role in the development of music and movement activities.
For 5 - 7 years
Class Structure: Four units, each 15 weeks.
Class Length: 60-75 minutes.
Young Child provides a pressure-free, developmentally appropriate transition for your budding musician where she can musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. In small, movement-oriented classes, your child develops her greatest instrument - her voice - while she learns the symbols and vocabulary of music-making.
She develops instrument- playing skills with the introduction of the glockenspiel, recorder, and dulcimer, as listening activities strengthen her ability to discern a variety of instruments and musical concepts. Through creative learning activities, she begins to read music and to create musical compositions - tangible accomplishments that instill positive emotions about her own musicality. Soon, a request of "Mom, I want to take piano" may surprise you.
Kindermusik for the Young Child at home materials include a folder full of activities, an illustrated family songbook, a games bag, professionally recorded music on CD, a musical instrument, and a carry bag.
Benefits for Your Child and You
- Balances activities that integrate listening, vocal development, movement and performing in instrumental ensemble.
- Introduces your child to the written language of music while cultivating music creativity.
- Provides age-appropriate musical experiences that lead your child toward a lifetime of joyful music making.
- Helps you and your child recognize special interests or skills for future formal music instruction.
Music class for families with multiple children ages newborn and up.
In fifteen 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 neighbourhood playground.
Benefits for you and your child
- 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