Age Ranges:
3 to 4 1/2 years and 4 to 7 years
Class Structure:
16 weeks
Class Length:
40 minutes
ABC Music & Me is an all new award-winning music enrichment program for 3 to 7 year olds. This age specific program was created by Kindermusik International, the world's most trusted brand in musical learning for over 25 years.
Reaserch shows that music improves your child's memory, cognitive development, learning skills, and ability to express emotion. Music makes your child a better learner, teaches self-control, improves coordination, enhances creativity, and inspires your child with a lifelong appreciation of music and movement. Plus, it's fun!!
Your 3 to 4 1/2 year old
In ABC Music & Me every week, that busy brain and non-stop body move, make music, listen, learn, and get a multisensory workout!
Benefits to your child:
- Integrates physical, cognitive, social, and emotional learning domains for a whole-child approach to teaching
- Uses a multisensory approach to teach eary music concepts such as loud and quiet or high and low.
- Invites children to explore the joy of group learning, practicing social skill s such as turn-taking and coordination.
- Prepares children to practice the listening and attention skills that ensure early school success.
Your 4 1/2 to 7 year old
A more physically coordinated learner and eager, abstract thinker, your child is engaged with a new musical style or culture each month in ABC Music & Me.
Benefits to your child:
- Introduces young musicians to composers, songs, and styles from a variety of genres such as classical, jazz and folk.
- Builds a sturdy foundation for music education by introducing children to music vocabulary, pre-music reading, and more complex music concepts such as largo and presto or legato and staccato.
- Provides fun, guided, ensemble-style opportunities for vocal exploration, movement, and instrument play
- Offers a primer for early keyboard skills.
3 Home Kits are given out each term.
If it's sharing a story from class, singing together, or listening as yoru child explains the difference between a quarter and an eighth note- your Home Kits keep you involved as if you were in class every week.
During the 15 weeks your child will receive:
- One 40 minute class each week
- Weekly e-mail from the teacher
- A family magazine with stories, activities, the units learning focus, plus developmental information that details your child's emerging learning strengths.
- CD with over 20 songs, rhymes, and stories from class
- New age appropriate instrument every other kit