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.

As a parent, you're also an important witness and guide to your child's self-exploration. No prior musical training is required to nurture your child's joyful musical disposition. It's just waiting to blossom.

During each semester, your child receives a full-color folder, a games bag, and picture, song and drawing pages, illustrating many of the class themes, songs, and activities. Home materials 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.

As they watch their children grow and learn at home and in class, Kindermusik parents feel a special joy that comes with knowing they are giving their child a loving, positive experience at precisely the age and in precisely the manner for it to have the most powerful impact.

Kindermusik for the Young Child restores music to a place of natural importance in a child's social and family life. And helps the child develop skills of listening and thinking musically.

By age seven, a Kindermusik child knows the satisfaction of making music with others and is already experimenting with reading and writing the universal language of musical notation. A Kindermusik "graduate" is a child eager for instrumental lessons, ready to sing in a choir, to join in music classes, take part in an ensemble, or simply enjoy music as a part of life.

That's why so many music educators have endorsed Kindermusik. Since its inception in 1976, the Kindermusik program has grown into an international movement with more than 2,100 teachers in the U.S., Canada, and ten other countries.

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 for the Young Child, 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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