Our Time encourages your child to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self-control and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming and object identification foster language skills. Creative movement to various musical moods develops a sense of balance, timing and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills. Kindermusik Our Time is designed for children 1.5 years to 3 years of age. Along with an accompanying parent or caregiver, children meet weekly for a 40-minute class and enjoy singing, moving, listening and interacting socially, and playing simple instruments. Exploration Time encourages a child's discovery of specially designed instruments, textures, sounds and movements; language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, and vocal play; Music & Movement Story Time encourages emergent literacy skills; and creative dancing affirms a child's urge to move. Benefits for Your Child and You Recognizes your child's need for both freedom to try and the assurance of your support. Educates you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy. Promotes joyful music making as a community. Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation.   Enjoy the Journey All Week Long Kindermusik is much more than a weekly class. And your At Home materials you receive from your educator are just the tools you need to continue that one-of-a-kind experience together as a family. While we plant the seeds of learning through music in the classroom, you will use the At Home materials at home to cultivate lifelong learning. Family involvement in your child’s learning is a fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the parent is the child’s most important teacher and the home is the most important place for a child’s learning to take root and grow. After all, there’s no better way to nurture your child’s development – and you’ll love doing it together – every day! Our Classes are divided into different sessions. Click on a CLASS SCHEDULE to see what we are offering for that session Find a class now! FALL 2011  Wiggles & Giggles is all about movement (wiggles!) and fun, funny words and sounds, and emotion (giggles!). There is a strong connection in this semester to the Our Time theme of bound away and back. The songs are about humor, laughter, silly sounds and words, and movement. The child is going back and forth between being independent and wanting mommy and daddy. Everyday activities like bath time are highlighted in the delightful book 'Pete and PJ' from the Kindermusik library. Included as part of the 'giggle', the instrument focus is on silly sounds, like the Zig-Zag blocks included in the home materials.   WINTER 2010 Toddlers love to GO. Going is their gift, their license to venture out into the world and their means of retreating to the security of Dad or Mom. With toddlers' desire to go comes an attraction to other things that go - people, animals, pull toys, tricycles, cars, planes, and the list goes on. Away We Go! focuses on things that go, leading you in an exploration into the world of transportation. "What are things that go?" "How do they go?" "How do they sound when they go?" "Can I go like that?" "Can I make sounds like that?" Guided by these simple questions we'll journey through developmentally appropriate activities relating to trains, cars, buses, horses, wagons, airplanes and boats.   FALL 2010  Imagine the aroma of baking cookies, the coziness of the family kitchen, the chatter among sisters, brothers, grandmas, granddads, mom and dad, and the anticipation and excitement of having friends come to visit. These moments at home are times to be shared and treasured. These special moments are captured in Milk & Cookies. The central focus of Milk & Cookies is the toddler's need for security balanced with his need for independence. Milk & Cookies songs and activities promote interaction between parent and child where the parent gently guides their child's learning and the process of scaffolding takes place.   WINTER 2011 Creatures of the animal kingdom, whether furry, web-footed, hoofed, winged or whiskered, are the subject matter for Fiddle-dee-dee. Animal sounds, which are so appealing to children, naturally prompt imitation and provide abundant active listening and vocal play material. In the context of moving like animals we will focus on concepts such as high, low, smooth, bumpy, fast, and slow. On the At Home CDs you'll hear a clear emphasis on the stringed instrument family, with instruments such as the mandolin, banjo, lute, classical and folk guitar, harp, string quartet and double bass.