From the moment you became a parent, you wanted the best for your child.
In class, we engage your child in music and movement activities that
also promote language, social and emotional skills, early math and early
literacy, physical coordination, creativity, and more. Plus, your child
will learn basic music vocabulary and notation—all setting the stage
for future school success and formal music lessons. Parents join the fun
for the final activities.
Level
4 is the perfect bridge from Level 3 to Young Child 1. If your child
isn't quite ready for the Young Child class, this is your class! It is
the perfect class to prepare your child for our "cream of the crop"
curriculum, Kindermusik for the Young Child!
WINTER/SPRING
SESSION 2023
January 9 - May 4
Age Range: 4 years - 5.5 years old (drop off class)
Class Structure: 45 minutes each week
Cost: Registration is $20 for each family. Tuition (15 weeks), books,
and digital music will cost $260 (4 payments of $65).
Winter/Spring Themes
Join the Parade (January): Everyone loves a parade, march
along to the music as we explore the woodwind family of instruments and wind
instrument from Japan and Central America too! Forte and piano take center
stage in movement and ensemble development, with favorites like the Piano
Forte Dance, I Like to Play the Sticks, American Dance, and Yankee
Doodle - we have lots of marching to do!
Feel the Music (February): Music is a powerful trigger for
emotions, and emotions can powerfully inspire the creation of music. Young
children are still in the early stages of learning to feel and express their
emotions. In this unit, we explore how music can elicit feelings as well as how
to express feeling through music. We listen, move, play instruments, sing, and
engage in pretend play. We start with the simple concept of facial expressions
as they relate to music and build up to listening to and engaging with the
music of one of the great masters of emotion, Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Sing a Story (March): This unit invites the
children backstage at the opera. Quirky and exciting characters like Papageno,
the Queen of the Night, and a variety of stage hands show off the texture of
the voice in the solo aria and duet, and show us just how many hands it takes
to put on the big show! Learning about the beloved Mozart inspires the composer
in all of us as we discover the musical staff and notes that show how dots on a
page can turn into beautiful music.
Under the Rainbow (April): Take a magical trip to the
land of leprechauns and rainbows. Not only will this unit tickle the children's
sense of imagination and fun, but there is a robust music curriculum in this
pot of gold. Introduction to melodic direction is explored through song,
movement, instrument play, and graphic notation. Lean into the sounds of real
and varied instruments - the low double reed bassoon, the high piccolo, and the
trombone!
SUMMER 2023
June Session weeks - May 29, June 12, June 19, & June 26
July Session weeks - July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31
Age Range: 4 years old - 5.5 years old
Class Structure: 45 minutes each week
Cost: $5 registration fee plus $10 deposit student with balance paid on the first day of class ($55).
Summer Themes
June - Just say the word drum and any child within earshot will be ready to play. In Drums, Drums, Drums, we will focus on drums, percussion instruments, and music from Africa and South America as we clap, tap, move, play, and echo different rhythms. You will learn to recognize the sights and sounds of many different drums, play a drum, and get up and move your body to the rhythms. too!
July - Jump into the rhythms of Latin America with Jumping Beans! Peek into the rain forest, explore expressive movement, investigate quarter notes and quarter rests, sing and learn some owrds and phrases in Spanish, and you guess it - jump, jump, jump!
Take a sneak peek into the classroom here!
