Early Childhood
Proudly using the Musikgarten curriculum for babies - 9 year olds!
Classes begin the week of September 20, 2010.
Each class is designed to run the entire 2010-2011 academic year.
Tuition is listed for semester one which runs (for most classes) through
mid-late January.
A
completed registration and a deposit of $50 are required to secure your child’s
place in class.
Family
Music for Babies
(Newborn – 18 months)
All babies are born with an aptitude for music. But research shows that
their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to nurture a
child's music aptitude is through active music making. By singing and dancing
for and with our children in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles we are
helping our children reach their full music potential.
This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical
setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the
child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing,
bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured,
laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural
discrimination.
Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger
plays, body awareness games and echoes.
Monday
11:45 – 12:20
15
weeks - $185 includes tuition and materials (CD,
song book and instrument packet)
Family Music for Toddlers
(18 months - 3 Years)
This class is designed to bring the
joy of music and movement to children and their caregivers.
Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument
playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is
nurtured and skills are developed.
Monday 8:15 am – 8:55 am
15 weeks - $185 includes a CD, parent book and instrument each
semester.
Cycle of
Seasons (Ages 3 - 5)
This class is designed to nurture the emergent independence of the 3 1/2 to 5
year old. Activities include lots of singing, chants and rhymes, listening
games, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which nurture the child's
musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic
environment.
Parents stay for the class for much of the first semester, although some of the
activities are designed to have the children participate independently of their
parents.
Monday
11:00 – 11:40
Monday
6:45 – 7:25
15
weeks - $220 Materials include 2 packets
throughout year, 2 CDs, songbook, and manipulatives which allow the learning
and fun to continue at home!
Saturday
9:00 – 9:40
14
weeks - $208
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
age 5. Opportunity abounds for exploration and interaction with
babies and movement for toddlers, while three year-olds and older will learn
language skills and use their imaginations in fun new ways. This is a
great opportunity for families with siblings in different age groups to make
music together!
Each class is full of singing, moving, playing instruments, listening, and
using our imaginations. 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 movers
and shakers.
Home materials include a different CD and songbook each semester, as well as a
different manipulative each semester (i.e. rhythm sticks, beanbag, etc.),
allowing the learning and fun to continue at home.
Monday: 10:15 - 10:55
Monday
6:00 – 6:40
15
weeks - $205 Materials
include a family packet with CD, parent book and either an instrument or a
manipulative.
Saturday 9:45 – 10:20
14 weeks - $185
Music Makers: At Home in the World
(Ages 4-6 Years)
This class cultivates the child's
musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and
stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and
manipulative games. Rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat
competency, ensemble development, and music notation are dealt with using
themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings.
Monday 12:45 – 1:45 Great time for the home schooled or SCDS
PK students staying only half day!
15
weeks - $320
Material packets include a CD, a poster and game pieces, notation games,
instrument pages and a book.
Music Makers: Around the World
(Ages 5 1/2 - 6 1/2 Years) Pre-Piano Class
This year focuses on your child's fascination with all things new and
different. Over the course of the year we will explore the music of the British
Isles, and Amerindians. We will also explore the culture of Germany and
African-American Heritage. The program features songs, dances, stories,
rituals and customs of these cultures to help your child feel and understand
others. It builds skills in listening, singing, playing instruments, as well as
expressive movement and dance. Every class offers age-appropriate steps to develop
music literacy - symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression.
Your child will have a solid, comprehensive music foundation, an excellent
preparation for the next step, whether it be instrumental lessons, singing in a
choir, participating in an Orff ensemble, or joining a dance class. This class
is also a pre-piano class and all participants are encouraged to join Music
Makers: At the Keyboard program following completion of the full year of Around
the World.
Tuesday 2:15 – 3:25 – Great time for
SCDS Kindergarten and 1st graders or any home schooler!
15
weeks - $365 Materials include a CD, a poster
and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book. Children receive
2 packets throughout the semester.
Saturday
10:20 – 11:30
14
weeks - $344
Music
Makers: At the Keyboard (Ages 7 - 9
Years)
Music Makers: At the Keyboard…
…is a group method.
…works well with 7 – 9 year olds.
…develops aural skills.
…involves children in singing and
movement activities.
…is based on a repertoire of
melodic, tonal, and rhythm patterns, and familiar songs.
…leads to true music literacy,
enabling the child to “hear what s/he sees” and “see what s/he hears”.
…follows a careful sequence in
teaching the children to read music, including notation games,
mystery songs, and dictation activities.
…provides a solid musical foundation
for all subsequent music making.
…is a logical follow-up to early-childhood
music classes.
…enables kids to figure out how to
play their favorite songs.
…starts in a five-finger position.
…helps kids to aurally recognize
patterns within songs and utilizes solfege as a means of naming and organizing
those patterns.
…begins with a chord approach and
encourages kids to figure out the appropriate accompaniment as they begin
to recognize melodic/harmonic relationships.
The final step on the pathway to
music literacy, this program is designed to teach the children to play the songs
they've been hearing, singing, and dancing to throughout the years of
early-childhood. An extension of the work done in Music Makers: Around the
World, this class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills
and understanding musical notation as set forth in the books, Music Makers: At
the Keyboard.
Tuesday
4:45 – 5:55
Thursday
3:05 – 4:15 (great time for SCDS families and home schoolers!)
15
weeks - $365 Children will receive an activity
book, 2 CDs and notation games plus a Parent Handbook.
Saturday
11:30 – 12:40
14
weeks - $344
