Turn the Music Up!!

Family Time

Enrolling now! Multi-child music class for families, ages newborn and up
Hand in hand you'll see how music helps your family share, laugh, and learn together. In this 10-week class, a trusted Kindermusik Educator will introduce basic musical concepts and give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.

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Baby--newborn to 1.5 years

Showing signs…

Around 5 months, your baby reaches her whole arm towards something she wants. Eventually she'll grab, and perhaps switch something from hand-to hand. Also around this time, her eyes uncross and her vision improves as she focuses and scans slowly moving objects. These two developing skills come together when your baby watches you blow bubbles, making it a perfect exercise for developing eye-hand coordination.

Blow bubbles. When you do, she watches each slowly moving bubble and improves her visual tracking and skills. By the time she's ready to reach up a finger to pop a sudsy circle, you'll know her eyes and hands are working together.

Plus it's relaxing, like watching curtains blow in the window. Add a little music and this playful time becomes a soothing ritual as your baby grows.

Quicktime Bubbles Video

Windows Media Player Bubbles Video

iPod Bubbles Video

Toddler --1.5 to 3 years

I've been working on my hands

Between 12 and 15 months your toddler is more interested in a lot of the littler things, like buttons and pinching cereal. She's also on the verge of a major vocabulary growth spurt. That makes sign language a fun way to match your toddler's interest in using her hands, with her emerging verbal abilities.

Sign & Sing. In this music video, you can quickly learn a few signs for an easy song that you and your toddler can sing together "I've Been Working on the Railroad." A strong steady beat in the music makes this a hands-down favorite.

Quicktime Sign & Sing Video

Windows Media Player Sign & Sing Video

iPod Sign & Sing Video

Pre-Schooler – 3 to 5 years

A hand is worth at least one cute little story

Preschoolers are developing at such a rapid rate that they tend to overestimate their physical abilities even the ones close at hand. So it can lead to frustration when they think they're ready to zip their own coats and buttons, and just can't make their fingers do what they think they should.

Using her hands for fun things such as making hand shadow puppets gives your preschooler some fuss-free practice. Plus, her emerging interest in telling stories and sharing games with friends makes shadow puppet storytelling a hands-down favorite.

One-act play for shadow puppets. Shadow puppets can bring a bed-time story to life using a flashlight and a nearby wall. Put on your own play. Start simple, and eventually, you can make up your own shadow-puppet stories. Experiment making lots of different shapes with your hands and ask your preschooler what she thinks the shape looks like, and ask her to make up her own story.

The script:
What do you call a camel with no humps?
A horse.

Big Kids--5 to 7 years

This game takes a lot of concentration

Your big kid is in a new era of learning, of developing a more sophisticated sense of rhythm, movement, and speech. For that reason, her brain often needs a much-needed break. Like any good recess outside on the playground, hand clapping games like "Concentration" can give your child's mind a chance to revive, and get stronger and most importantly help her laugh and bond with friends.

This is a game of concentration. It brings together rhythm and the skills necessary to "think on your feet" with the fast topic switches.

Quicktime Concentration Video

Windows Media Player Concentration Video

iPod Concentration Video

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