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Kindermusik Sign & Sing
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Age Range: 6 months to 3 years
Class Structure: Two units, each 5 sessions
Class Length: 40 -50 minutes |
A different approach from other sign language programs. Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child, Kindermusik Sign & Sing shows you more than 50 signs your child can use to communicate with you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development in hearing children, you'll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities for your child.
Songs and fingerplays. Already accustomed to fingerplays and rhyme-songs—such as "This Little Piggy"—you'll easily substitute American Sign Language (ASL) signs in familiar songs, improving your child's language skills, fine motor skills, and strengthen fingers for zipping zippers and using scissors.
Learn when you play. You'll never have to memorize a list of signs. This curriculum gives you the ASL signs that are most useful to you, and most interesting to your child. So playtime and everyday items around the house—ball, bubbles, mom and dad—become the objects of learning in the classroom, and sign language becomes a natural, happy part of your child's day.
Hearing children who know signs, learn language almost twice as fast. As early as 11-14 months old, hearing children exposed to sign language put little sentences together faster than non-signing children, who do not begin to combine words into short sentences, such as "Da-da car" until the average age of 20 months.
Study conducted by Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert, Signing Smart program founders.
Benefits for You and Your Child
sCommunicate with your child even before she can form the words.
sEase a child's frustration by helping her communicate what she needs,
speed language development, and enhance long-term learning abilities.
sKnow when your child is most ready to interact and learn.
sLearn sign language teaching methods, such as making the sign on a child's body, on the floor, or hand over hand.
sRecognize and respond to your child's version of signs.
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!
Take a look at a sample of At Home materials. Contact a local educator to find out which unit is being taught. The sample unit below may or may not be offered this semester.
Sign & Sing At Home Materials
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sFamily Activity Guide
sDVD glossary showing 60 signs
sClip-on flashcards that feature photos of both children and adults using family-friendly American Sign Language signs Developed by Signing Smart™
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Try a Sign & Sing activity at home:
'Show me the stars'
A child learns more easily when she can choose the learning moment. Show her the sign for stars when she looks up at the night sky, points, or asks with her eyes, "What's that?" Make the sign for the star, say the word, and sing the song, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and you increase her ability to learn the word, as well as the sign.
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