Welcome

Congratulations! By considering music education for your child at an early age, you have taken a first step toward bonding musically with your child and enriching your family life with active music-making. Children are naturally drawn to music, which will make your time with them in Musikgarten both fun and beneficial.

Why Musikgarten

The Plan – Only Musikgarten offers a comprehensive, sequential plan for the musical development of your child from birth through age 5. Each of our six courses stands on its own and fits the developmental needs of the child. Class time is educational, fun and purposeful.

 

The Teachers – Your Musikgarten teacher is a highly trained professional with classroom and field experience in early childhood music education and child development.

 

The Curriculum – Musikgarten’s programs are based on meeting the developmental needs of children as they grow. Favorite songs, stories,
and dances are revisited throughout – building on what each child has mastered and enjoyed – making successful learning easier.

 

Family Involvement - You will receive CDs, family activity guides and instruments to continue the bonding and fun of music with your child at home.

Benefits of Early Childhood Music

Music’s melodic and rhythmic patterns awaken and stimulate neural pathways in the brain that help develop memory, math skills, and powers of abstract and creative thinking. Music touches all spheres of development:

– Language
– Self Expression
– Concentration
– Social Interaction
– Fine Motor Skills
– Listening
– Problem Solving
– Teamwork
– Goal Setting
– Coordination
– Confidence
– Self Esteem
– Music Playing
– Creativity
– Family Involvement
– Poise
– Bonding
– Voice Expression
– Family Interaction
– Emotional Development

 

Overall, music activities are ideal for your growing child.

– Music immerses the child in language.
– Evokes movement.
– Stimulates the brain.
– Fosters physical coordination.
– Develops listening skills, the foremost necessity for learning.

All in a group setting that builds community

Family Music for Babies

Family Music for Toddlers

Cycle of The Seasons

All Together Now - a Mixed Age Class

Family Music for Babies

Newborn – 18 Months

Designed for parents and their babies to take together.

This 40-minute weekly class helps you learn how to

play musically with your baby.

 

Musical play activities:
– Increase your child’s curiosity about music.
– Develop listening skills and sense of beat.
– Establish a foundation for singing and musical thought.
– Help you form a closer bond with your child.

 

Features:
– Bouncing and rocking songs.
– Wiggle and peek-a-boo games.
– Superb CD recordings by a fine children’s choir and outstanding instrumentalists, together with a book describing the activities and games to play with baby.
– A lovely cloth instrument pouch with rhythm sticks, Musikgarten rattle and colorful scarf.

Fall 2008 Class Times:

Tuesday 9:15-9:55

 

Cost: $60 per month

Materials: $30

 

*Please call or email to put your name on a waiting list for the classes that have not yet made.

 

*If coming for a makeup, please call ahead of time so that the teacher may prepare for your child and to verify that the class is meeting that day.

 

Family Music for Toddlers

Participate with your toddler for 45 minutes each week in singing, Chanting, moving, dancing, listening and playing simple instruments.

Musical play activities:
– Help develop a strong musical bond with your child and closer family ties.
– Bridge the natural connection between music and movement.
– Enhance your child’s musical aptitude and listening abilities.
– Lay the foundation for singing and vocal development, listening skills, and purposeful movement.

Features:
– Movement activities for coordination, body awareness, exploration of space, body control and the pure joys of movement.
– Folk songs for singing, dancing and listening.
– Focused listening examples from both daily life and music intruments.
– Instruments to explore: rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, drums, and resonator bars.
– 4 wonderful semesters, each with a 60 minute CD, a parent activity book and an instrument or scarf to use at home.

Fall 2008 Class Times:

Tuesday 10:00-10:45

 

Cost: $60 per month

Materials: $30

 

*Please call or email to put your name on a waiting list for the classes that have not yet made.

 

*If coming for a makeup, please call ahead of time so that the teacher may prepare for your child and to verify that the class is meeting that day.

Cycle of Seasons

Celebrate your child’s love of nature and growing independence through activities involving the four seasons (45 minute class).

Musical play activities:
– Nurture 3 year olds’ ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context.
– Develop listening, focused attention, imagination, creativity, and self-expression.

Features:
– Singing, chanting, moving, focused listening, musical games.
– Exploring musical instruments, creative movement and storytelling.
– Family packets for each season of the year. Each packet contains an outstanding CD, 8 full-color illustrated cards, and a parent activity book, all in a cloth Musikgarten pouch.

Fall 2008 Class Times:

Tuesday 3:00-3:45

 

Cost: $60 per month

Materials: $35

*Please call or email to put your name on a waiting list for the classes that have not yet made.

*If coming for a makeup, please call ahead of time so that the teacher may prepare for your child and to verify that the class is meeting that day.

All Together Now - a Mixed Age Class (Toddlers and Preschoolers)

Musikgarten’s All Together Now recaptures the magic of nursery rhymes (a wonderful part of our cultural tradition featuring delightful language and playful rhythms) in a versatile mixed-age curricula for children birth to four. There is lots of movement for those toddlers, while three year-olds and older will learn language skills and use their imaginations in fun new ways.

 

Each program is full of music, movement, imagination, and class time fun. The unique Music for Movement compositions on the CDs will enable children to explore walking and jumping (Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick), twisting and turning (Oliver Twist, you can’t do this!) and many more concepts which are just right for your toddler movers and shakers!

 

Both children and parents will find that after just one class, they’ll look forward to many more!

 

Parents will receive a family packet with CD, parent book and either an instrument or manipulative.

 

- Mixed Age Class provides lots of interaction and movement.
- Great for families with children in more than one age group.
- Enhance language skills and imagination

 

Fall 2008 Class Times:

Tuesday 10:50-11:45

 

Cost: $60 per month

Materials: $25

*Please call or email to put your name on a waiting list for the classes that have not yet made.

*If coming for a makeup, please call ahead of time so that the teacher may prepare for your child and to verify that the class is meeting that day.