Kindermusik Our Time

18 months – 3 years
45 minute classes
$68/month, includes tuition, taxes, and home materials January 9 – June 16
Summer Camp 2012: July 10 – August 16 ($98)

Our Time encourages toddlers to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self-control, and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming, and object identification foster language skills, while creative movement to various musical “moods” develops a sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage emerging social skills.  And with you by their side, they will develop the confidence to be creative and original.

Our Time reflects the emotional foundations of school readiness and the latest research on music and early childhood development. Our Time is a unique opportunity for you to interact and learn together with your child in an unhurried and joyful manner.

Spring 2012: Away We Go & Zoo Train

Hop on the train, get in the car, board the plane, and Away We Go! This class focuses on transportation, a favorite topic for toddlers who are on the go, go, go! Sing and play along with favorite songs, such as “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad” and “Wheels on the Bus”. Explore fast and slow, smooth and bumpy, and high and low. Read stories about ways to get around. Shiny Dinah tells the story of a train, and Giddy-Up! has a horse, speedboat, racecar, and more to help you get where you want to go.

Home Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two interactive story books—Shiny Dinah and Giddy-Up! to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book, and two harmonicas designed for toddlers.

In Zoo Train, we’ll take our trains to the zoo! Bring your own stuffed animals for the petting zoo. Wear long white socks on your hands for polar bear paws and learn about real animals in the zoo. Sing songs for clapping time, and use music to help toddlers regulate emotions.

Home Materials: Zoo Train book, Home CD, animal shaker instrument, and poster.

Summer 2012 Adventures: Creatures At the Ocean

Sing sailor songs and make the ocean count. “Five little seashells lying on the shore: Swish! Went the waves and then there were four.” Make homemade kites and fish sandwiches using fish-shaped bread and P.B. and J.

Home Materials: Home CD, pair of seashell castanet instrument, a set of 10 story cards and 5 picture folders.Give children something to sing about in their own backyards. Be the flower from the “seed’s” perspective. Run and jump in rain puddles made from hula hoops. Snack on whole wheat mini-waffles dipped in honey, just like a real honeycomb. Shoo real flies and sing “Shoo Fly.”Home Materials: Home CD, Bunny hand puppet, and a set of 5 picture folders.