Musikgarten Sessions

15 months—3 years
Session I: Tuesday 10:30 am - 11
Session II: Thursday 9:30 am - 10
Session III: Thursday 10:05 am - 10:35
Winter: Jan 13—Apr 14 (13 classes)

Participate with your toddler for 30 minutes each week in singing, chanting, moving, dancing, listening and playing simple instruments.
Musical play activities:

• Enhance your child’s musical aptitude and listening abilities.
• Lay the foundation for singing and vocal development, listening skills, and purposeful movement.
• Materials a 60 minute CD, a parent activity book and an instrument or scarf to use at home.

3—5 years
Session I:  Tuesday 11:05 am - 11:50
Session II: Thursday 10:40 am - 11:25
Session III: Thursday 3:05 pm - 3:50
Winter: Jan 13—Apr 14 (13 classes)

Celebrate your child’s love of nature and growing independence through activities involving the four seasons.

• Nurture the child's ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context.
• Develop listening, focused attention, imagination, creativity, and self-expression.
• Explore musical instruments, creative movement and storytelling.
• Each packet contains an outstanding CD, 8 full-color illustrated cards and a parent activity book, all in a cloth Musikgarten pouch.

4-5 Years
Session I: Tuesday 9:20 am - 10:20
Session II: Thursday 4 pm - 5
Winter: Jan 13—Apr 14 (13 classes)

One-hour classes are dedicated to rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation, using themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings.

• First steps in reading music.
• Coordination of body and voice.
• Stories, songs and sounds from the world of nature such as My Home, Woodlands, and Marsh.
• Material packets include a CD, a poster and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book. Children
  receive two packets during the 13 week session.