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ABC Music & Me

2 to 4 years
45 minute, weekly classes
Tuition and Materials: $72 per month

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

  • Songs and rhymes and finger plays. Your child will develop phonetic awareness and the early reading skills soon needed in school.
  • Tapping, clacking, and ringing instruments. Playing in time with music  improves hand-eye coordination, and develops the ability to keep a steady beat, vital to physical skills like dribbling a ball, riding a bike, skipping and cutting with scissors.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Instrument and manipulative play. These activities strengthen fine motor skills, improve eye hand coordination, and develop patterning – a skill essential to good reading and math performance.
  • Singing. Developmentally-appropriate songs in a child’s natural first range develop vocal chords and expressive speech.
  • Learning. A multi-sensory, whole-child approach integrates physical, cognitive, social, and emotional learning domains. This method emphasizes storytelling, imaginative play, and taking turns.

Carnival of Music, Animals A Dancing, Around the Farm

Carnival of Music – Featuring a story about Barley Bear and his day-long quest to find a piece of shoo-fly pie at the fair. We’ll focus on activities to help your child feel comfortable in group-play and group-learning situations.

Animals A Dancing – Dancing, hopping, rolling, and stomping. We’ll move like all of our animal friends and develop muscle coordination and spatial awareness along the way.

Around the Farm – In class, your child’s memory and sequence skills will strengthen with stop-and-go games tucked into stories and pretend play about animals on a farm.

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.