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ABC Music & Me

4 to 6 years
45 minute, weekly classes
Tuition and Materials: $69 per month

In an ABC, Music & Me class, your child will embark on a musical journey of discovery and exploration. We’ll play instruments, enhance vocal development, and learn keyboard skills and musical concepts through activities that promote problem solving, self-confidence and individual expression.

What your child will experience in Kindermusik ABC, Music & Me class:

  • Singing. Through games, and interactive musical play, your child will develop the confidence needed to sing. Sometimes the “ta’s” and “ti-ti’s” sound like a foreign language, but they are the language of professional musicians and composers and prepare your child to read and write rhythm patterns.
  • Focused listening. Intentional listening to music and sounds improves attention skills and direction following, which helps to ensure early school success. Discriminatory listening assists the child to listen deliberately (rather than just passively), and to use cognitive skills and deductive reasoning to determine what the sound is.
  • Literacy skills. Your child will develop phonetic awareness and the early reading skills needed in school, and the opportunity to express those sounds clearly, and integrate new language into an ever increasing vocabulary.
  • Creative movement. Dancing develops body control, sharpens direction-following skills, emphasizes teamwork, and builds community. Open movement gives your child the opportunity to explore what they can do and build on it, and practice what they are learning to do.
  • Balance. This class provides a pressure-free approach to learning, but concrete enough because your child’s mind is ready for the more abstract thinking processes that music requires. Play remains the primary a young child learns, so throughout the curriculum there is a consistent effort to balance active learning with the emotional reasoning aspects of a young child’s development in mind.
  • Music appreciation. Your child will be introduced to composers, songs, and styles from around the world in a variety of genres, such as classical, jazz, and folk. Your child will be introduce to music vocabulary, pre-music reading, and more complex music concepts.
  • Ensemble. This class provides the optimum environment to develop teamwork and cooperation skills through ensemble-playing. These guided and fun sessions provide opportunity for vocal exploration, movement and instrument play.
Drums, Drums, Drums, Feel the Music, Jazz Kitchen
Drums, Drums, Drums- We’ll get moving to the beat as your child is introduced to percussion instruments from all over the world. We’ll rhythms and explore fractions as we play “call and response” activities to the sounds of African music.
Feel the Music - Through music, we’ll help your preschooler learn about emotions. We’ll also meet Beethoven and members of the brass family, while exploring major and minor keys.
Jazz Kitchen – Using the multi-talented animals in the story, “Noodles from Scratch,” and jazzy instruments, we’ll be a bunch of cool cats talking about scat singing, and the difference between the white and black keys on a piano.

With the At Home Materials, the learning continues with your child’s best teacher – you!
The ABC Music & MeHome Kit contains a variety of age-appropriate literature, activities, and games – all tied to the class content. If it’s sharing a story from class, listening or singing together, the home kit allows a parent to be involved in the learning process in your child’s first and foremost classroom – at home.

  • CD’s distributed throughout the semester, containing all the songs, rhymes, stories and sounds heard in class.
  • Magazine-style Family Guides which include the stories from class, activity pages, parent notes showing what your child learned in class, and can-do tips to continue the fun and learning at home.
  • Age-appropriate instruments that relate directly to content and concepts addressed in class.