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Kindermusik Village: A Bonding Experience
The Kindermusik Village class provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-level activities that include creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and a colorful literature component, baby’s growth and development are stimulated and all senses engaged.
Kindermusik Village is for lap babies, crawlers, and walkers. It incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement.
Village Curriculum Description
Age Range: Newborn to 18 monthsClass Structure: 12 classes in a semester with two different, eight week themes—length may vary by locationClass Length:45 minute class each weekClass Size: Class with no more than 10 babies with parents
What a Parent and Child Will Experience in Class:
- Variety of Music – Musical diversity builds strong neural in a baby’s forming mind, which is why each Kindermusik semester contains an array of styles, sounds, and genres.
- Instrument Play — Age-appropriate experiences with child-safe instruments enhance a sense of rhythm and steady beat, develops a keen awareness of the distinguishing qualities of sound, and encourages spontaneity and creativity.
- Dance – A classroom full of baby and adult pairs dancing together helps a little body develop the muscle strength needed to crawl and walk and helps a little heart to fall in love with the sheer joy of responding to music.
- Together Time – A Kindermusik class is truly the essence of “quality time,” offering the parent a place to create special memories with their child, gain new insights into their child’s development, and nurture their child’s natural love of music.
- Expert Advice — A Kindermusik Educator explains “what-to-watch-for” every step of the way and how each activity enhances a child’s complete development.
- Learning Continues at Home — With the home materials, the learning continues at home with the child’s best teacher—the parent!
Enrollment Includes:
- Developmentally appropriate curriculum for parents and babies, ages newborn to 18 months
- Class of no more than 10 babies with parents
- 12-week semester with two different, six week themes (length may vary by location)
- Weekly 40-minute class that includes new and unique parent and baby activities
- Two sets of At Home Materials—one for each mini-theme—each including a CD of music from class, literature board book, age-appropriate instrument, and a set of art banners
- Learn over 30 songs, lullabies, and nursery rhymes and play over 200 activities together by the semester’s end
Benefits for Your Child and You
- Educates you about your baby’s total development through Kindermusik Foundations of Learning – statements based on the most recent research.
- Encourages joyful participation in a music making community.
- Nurtures bonding between you and your child through intentional touch warm-ups, exercises, interactive dances and musical play.
- Provides natural connections between singing and reading out loud, listening and communicating through literature books.