Singing fosters the development of your child's most important instrument - the voice - through vocal exploration, songs and chants.
Moving develops body awareness, coordination and spatial relationships through synchronized movement, creative movement and simple dances.
Playing introduces a variety of musical timbres with percussion instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingle bells, drums, resonator bars and simple instruments your child creates at home.
Creating stimulates your child's imagination and encourages new exploration with sound and movement.
Patterning boosts your child's ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language.
Listening cultivates your child's heightened attentiveness to sound discrimination.
Exploring timbre, dynamics, tempo and pitch lays the foundation for conceptualization of the elements of music.
Kindermusik Imagine That is an ongoing process that involves the teacher, the parents, the child and the materials. Your licensed Kindermusik teacher is a well-trained professional educator. Working from the wisdom that children in fact teach themselves, the Kindermusik teacher will gently guide and coach your child's important transformation. The parent-child bond is just as important to the process. By working with you child at home and in class, you become a part of this dramatic time in your child's development. Parents take part with their children for a few minutes at the end of each class. And you can build on the class lessons together at home with activities like drum-making, musical concept games and movement exploration. A full-color picture songbook illustrates many of the class themes, songs and activities covered each semester. Audio tapes and weekly at home activities allow the child and parents to continue the learning experience during the week so that music becomes a natural and important part of the family life. And what about the recipient of all this highly structured developmental encouragement? Your child simply delights in all of it - the music, the movement, the instruments, the other children and most of all, the discovery of his or her own inner musical disposition. And like people of all ages, your child delights in being treated with acceptance, appreciation and respect.
- Kindermusic parent
If you peek in on your child's Kindermusik Imagine That class, what are you likely to see? You'll see 3 and 4 year olds learning to apply themselves to a task. Expressing themselves vocally. Working happily in groups. And gaining the all-important abilities to listen, to think and to express creatively in the world. In an age of 100-channel television and computer games, it's a good feeling to know that our children will respond with joyful enthusiasm when offered the chance to create and learn for themselves. Why not offer your child that chance?
For thousands of years, sitting at the feet of their elders, children of all cultures have received a rich musical heritage of folk songs, finger games, and ballads. Music and music-making were a natural part of life in the home and community.
Today, sadly, our musical experience is often passive and mass-produced. People making music together in their daily lives has become a rarity. How many families today spend evenings singing or playing instruments with friends and neighbors?
Yet music-making is food for the spirit. When we regain it, we regain a vital harmonizing force in the individual, the family the community, and the world.
When you enroll your child in Kindermusik Imagine That, you have the satisfaction of giving your child an experience deeply yearned for - the opportunity to sing, move, and make music as part of a community - safe, secure, respected, and understood.
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