From birth on, sound has been your child's constant teacher. Even before birth, your child was bathed in an ocean of sound, motion, and the rhythmic reassurance of a mother's heartbeat. By 18 months of age, your child's exquisitely sensitive appreciation of sound is ready to be tuned and encouraged. Through Kindermusik Our Time, the ear becomes a portal through which child and parent can together explore an ever-expanding world. Kindermusik Our Time uses music to encourage early creativity and learning in children 18 months to 3 1/2 years. Music is the means of Kindermusik, not the goal. The goal is a more alive, creative, and able child.

In a world of television, video games, and mechanical toys, how can you hope to nurture your child's freedom of self-expression? Stimulate the imagination? Promote self-esteem? Kindermusik Our Time does all this and more at the very time when positive experiences can have lifelong influence. Kindermusik Our Time is first in a three-stage curriculum that complements your child's own inner timetable for learning. Growing with Kindermusik enriches children ages 31/2 to 5, and Kindermusik for the Young Child guides the musical development of children ages 4 through 7. Kindermusik Our Time brings together eight to 12 children, each with a parent or caregiver present, in weekly 45-minute classes of singing, chanting, moving, listening, and playing simple instruments. When a class is over, you go home prepared to keep the Kindermusik experience alive all week.

Ages 18 months to 3 1/2 years are crucial for your child's development on a sensory and feeling level. Your little one is hard at work acquiring emotional responses vital to a healthy, whole personality. Kindermusik Our Time provides musical tools to help your child accomplish this all-important task. Music and movement are the perfect means by which a young child can exercise and strengthen these vital inner capacities. Why? Because music evokes a powerful feeling response, and a child will truly resonate with feelings when presented with properly structured musical experiences. The carefully selected music and movement activities of a Kindermusik Our Time class become the perfect learning setting. Each class provides exactly the sort of playful work for which children hunger, and toward which their own guiding instincts unerringly lead them.

Where, in this age of 200-watt car stereos, does a young child ever learn that music is something created from within a person, not from a noisy box? In Kindermusik Our Time, the key is joyful participation that makes the creation of music a natural part of your child's life. Kindermusik Our Time encourages your child's musical instincts. Promotes rudimentary musical skills. And begins the process of learning to think musically, an integral part of musical development best learned in early childhood. That is why so many music educators have endorsed Kindermusik, and why, since its inception in 1976, the Kindermusik program has grown into an international movement with more than 2,100 teachers in the US, Canada, and ten other countries. The Kindermusik teacher provides materials for use in class. Each instrument and learning aid is chosen to fascinate and inspire. Simple instruments and North American folk songs encourage use, and reinforce your child's birthright as a musical being.

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