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18 months to 3 Years Our Time
Fall 2010 Classes "Milk and Cookies" (Click to See a Kindermusik "Our Time" Video)

Imagine the aroma of baking cookies, the coziness of the family kitchen, the chatter among sisters, brothers, grandmas, granddads, mom and dad, and the anticipation and excitement of having friends come to visit. Captured in Milk and Cookies, these special moments at home are times to be shared and treasured. Milk & Cookies songs and activities promote interaction between parent and child where the parent gently guides their child's learning and the process of scaffolding takes place. Capturing the security, excitement and familiarity of "at home" moments is the ideal theme for empowering the parent to act as teacher. All activities of course are carefully arranged to maximize your child's growth and brain development in all 6 regions: physical, cognitive, social, emotional, language, and music. This creative and educational adventure consists of 16 classes (1 parent + 15 parent/child.) Come experience the research proven "process" we call Kindermusik!

You'll both love the At Home Materials

You and your toddler will delight together in learning games from our research-based home activity book, mixing it up with the Stir Xylophone, reading and moving to two illustrated Story Books, and listening to the double-CD set with more than 90 minutes of music all packaged in a fun and insulated Lunch carry bag.

* Stir Xylophone
* Two Home CD's
* Home Activity Book
* Two Music & Movement
* Literature Books
* Insulated Lunch Carry Bag

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Benefits for Your Child and You *Recognizes your child's need for both freedom to try and the assurance of your support. *Educates you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy. *Promotes joyful music making as a community. *Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation.

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Preschool 3.5 years to 5 yrs. Imagine That!
Fall 2010 Classes"Hello Weather, Let's Play Together"

Hello Weather! Let’s Play Together. Sunshine, clouds, snow, rain, wind and storms …Mother Nature offers so many variables. This unit takes advantage of those variables to provide three- and four-year-olds with a myriad of creative, weather-related musical adventures. Imagine creating musical storm sounds with a drum and exploring the pitter patter of rain and the whoosh of the wind. Dance along with jingle bells while gliding along an imaginary ice pond or enjoy throwing pretend snowballs. We will create delightful home activity projects like making wind chimes, rain hats, sleigh bells and snow boots.

Musically speaking, children will explore the long, smooth sounds of legato and the short, quick sounds of staccato. They’ll learn about fast and slow tempos. And the use of their very own ankle bells will help develop steady beat in the lower half of their bodies. Plus children will experience the contrasting sounds between a wood block and a tone bar. Hello Weather, Let’s Play Together offers some favorite familiar songs, including Jingle Bells, Mulberry Bush and Over the River and Through the Wood. There are two CDs included in the home materials.

The two original literature books included in the home materials are Michael Finnigan, a rhyming story based on a popular folk song and Hurry Home Little Kittens, a story based on a refrain from Funiculi, Funicula. Kittens are part of the new Imagine That! play set, included in the home materials. Children will create stories while dressing the three little kittens in a variety of clothing items or while creating fun activities for the kittens to do. Imagine a kitten sledding through the snow in his swimsuit!

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Benefits for Your Child and You *Nurtures your child's imagination and creativity. *Creates a learning environment that integrates music, expressive language, peer interaction and pretend play. *Challenges your child through activities that promote problem-solving, making choices and expressing ideas. *Allows your child to have an active role in the development of music and movement activities.

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Pre-K, Kindergarten, 4.5 years to 6 years
Fall 2010 Young Child Levels 1, 2, and 3

Young Child Level 1 - What could be more natural than the child who explores his world through music? Children love singing favorite songs such as "Come and Follow Me," "Star Light, Star Bright," "Train Is A-Comin" and "Bell Horses," echoing vocal patterns and singing games like "Farmer, Farmer". This semester, Mozart is the featured composer and we listen to many of his compositions, including "A Little Night Music" and selections from "The Magic Flute." Other listening repertoire includes "The Clock" by Haydn, "Cloudburst from "Grand Canyon Suite," by Grofe, "The Aviary" from "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens and the percussion and brass families and their individual instruments. The children's favorite activity is playing various percussion instruments for ensembles such as "A Weather Story," "The Birds" and a barred instrument called a glockenspiel for playing melodies. Children love to move to newly composed music for stories like "Into the Woods" and "Magical Dancing Clocks." Other singing games are "Dr. Foster," "Tideo," "Here Comes a Bluebird" and "Wild Bird." Parents will love the musical concepts that the children learn as we lay the foundation for future instrumental study. Concepts in Semester 1 are quiet/loud, steady beat, fast/slow, long/short, high/low, singing/speaking, melodic direction and actual reading and writing non-traditional and traditional rhythm and staff notation.

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Young Child - Level 2
At this age, the young child learns music best when he is actively engaged in making music! Songs and activities that encourage solo singing are "We Sing Hello," "Ten in the Bed," "We Are Dancing" and "Good-bye." Songs and activities that reinforce tonal or rhythmic concepts for music reading and writing are "Lucy Locket," "Mouse Mousie," "Ten in the Bed," "Go to Sleep" and "Sing and Celebrate." Songs that encourage echoing or a response are "Che Che Koolay," "I Have a Little Melody" and "We Are Dancing." Songs that are playful or familiar and call the children into joyful participation are "Jingle Bells," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," "Happy Birthday, "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt," and "If You're Happy and You Know It." Songs used in singing games are "Lucy Locket," "Mouse, Mousie" and "Circle Round the Zero." Beethoven is our featured composer as we listen to "Symphony No. 6." Other listening selections include "The William Tell Overture" by Rossini, "The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi, "The Elephant" from "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens, "Peter and the Wolf" by Prokofiev and "The Young Perons's Guide to the Orchestra" by Britten. Other listening repertoire includes listening to the woodwind and string families and their individual instruments. Children delight in moving to original compositions for learning concepts, "Piano and Forte Dance" and "Dancing Staccato and Legato." Two highlights are the instrumental ensembles, "The Elephant and the Waterfall" where children make sounds to express the story and "Sing and Celebrate," an ensemble for singing and playing different parts. Concepts in Semester 2 are piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, staccato/legato, graphic notation and reading the traditional rhythms of quarter and eighth notes and quarter rest and staff reading of f, g, a, c and d.

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Young Child Level 3 - Children eagerly receive a new instrument for melody playing: the recorder. Many songs that represent diverse cultures from around the world are "Kupulu Kane" from Hawaii, "See the Rabbit Running" from Hungary, "Magic Tom-Tom" from the Congo and "The Chirimbolo" from Equador. Songs and activities that reinforce tonal or rhythmic concepts for music reading and writing are "Momotarosan," "Rain, Rain Go Away," "See the Rabbit Running," "Bow, Wow, Wow," and "Up and Down the Scale." Songs that call the children to joyful participation include "The Alpine Song," "My Head and My Shoulder," "Twinkle, Twinkle," and "My Farm." "The Alpine Song" encourages vocal explorations (yodeling) and "Up and Down the Scale" utilizes the major scale. Dances and patterned movement activities include "Kapulu Kane," a Hawaiian game; "Heel and Toe Polka," an Alpine dance; "Bow, Wow, Wow," "My Head and My Shoulders," "Che, Che Koolay," "Mexican Hat Dance," and "The Chirimbolo" from Central and South America. Children will love participating in ensembles such as "Momotarosan," "The Alpine Song," "The Story of Don Gato," "Twinkle, Twinkle" with a wider variety of percussion instruments such as xylophones and metallophones. Children listen to the music and instruments from the Pacific Islands, Europe, Africa, and Central and South America. Our featured composer in Semester 4 is Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music contains pipe organ and harpsichord. New concepts of reading and writing music are introduced as we learn the staff notes of e, low c, b flat and f sharp; drawing the treble clef; and reading syncopated rhythms. When children complete the two year curriculum, they are prepared for instrumental study. The background is rich and the skills so developed, that learning to play an instrument is much easier; and hence, a lot of fun!

 

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Benefits for Your Child and You *Balances activities that integrate listening, vocal development, movement and performing in instrumental ensemble. *Introduces your child to the written language of music while cultivating music creativity. *Provides age-appropriate musical experiences that lead your child toward a lifetime of joyful music making. *Helps you and your child recognize special interests or skills for future formal music instruction.

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Kindermusik Family Time class for families (Click to See Family Time Video)
with multi-age children ages newborn and up

Come and bring all the children to the same class! We'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family. Family Time is also open to any parent with only one child also.

This one-room schoolhouse approach to music allows for older children to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones are eager to learn. Family Time is a multi-layered learning environment. Basic musical concepts are presented each week along with the instruments and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.

Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing-all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you-and they'll start developing the skills they'll need in school and on neighborhood playground.

Benefits for you and your child

* One convenient class that families can take together
* Introduces musical concepts and develops musical skills
* Allows each child to develop social skills-such as sharing, and turn taking-in a multi-age, multi-child environment
* a multi-age, multi-child environment
* Strengthens the emotional bond among family members

Enjoy the Journey All Week Long

Each family receives a set of At Home Materials designed to integrate the classroom learning experience with the fun, activities you do together as a family. With music from class, story books, and creative play ideas and trivia, the At Home Materials help your children associate learning with the unique time you spend together, bonding as a family. Repetition and family involvement in a 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 place and grow.

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Beginning Piano/Keyboard Classes Fall 2010
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"Piano Discovery for the 5 year old"


5 to 6 year old class. NEW!

How does a 5 year old learn to play an instrument? At this age, music is learned as a language. The piano/keyboard is the instrument of choice for internalizing the sounds and patterns of music, through the child's natural tactile tendency to interact with the keys. Piano readiness is a 16 week get aquatinted time with the keyboard in a fun, story like and fast paced class. Each child will play on their own keyboard in the class. The Kids move around the stations of the room - keyboards, teacher's piano and the white magnet-board - where they go from singing, playing, circle games and notes pre-reading games. The tuition is paid monthly, and the class continues weekly until the end of the 16 weeks. With this primer class under their belt, they will be ready for the older 6-8 year old classes which start 3 times a year. The course includes a book and a CD. Some type of piano or small electronic keyboard is recommended for at home playing.

Class size is limited to 8, so please click the link below to see what times and days are available so you can secure a spot. See you here!

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"Piano - The Keys to Music"

6 to 8 year old classes.
Everyone loves adventure. Imagine your child enjoying a positive and fun experience exploring the keys! This rewarding and motivating class is designed to bring the music out of your child as they discover the mysteries and rewards of learning an instrument. Through fast paced activities and positive rewards, you will see immediate positive results - and smiles. We will guide your child through the basics of Keyboarding with a time-tested curriculum. For over 33 years, Wagner's has developed teaching techniques which are uniquely motivating. Reading, writing, ear-training, singing, ensemble playing, timing, expressiveness and creativity are only a few of the areas of musicianship your child will be introduced to. Piano is not only known to be the best instrument for a musical beginning, but also as a life long tool for understanding and expressing music over a lifetime. Children sit at their own "class pianos." Children also learn values that come out of the discipline of practice (10-15 minutes a day, 5 days a week) as well as the value of meaningful rewards for a job well done. As a family based program, we support the family and social values you are teaching at home.

Class size is limited to 8, so please click the link below to see what times and days are available so you can secure a spot. See you here!

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"Piano - The Keys to Music"

9 to 12 year-olds
Everyone loves adventure. Imagine your child enjoying a positive and fun experience exploring the keys! This rewarding and motivating class is designed to bring the music out of your child as they discover the mysteries and rewards of learning an instrument. Through fast paced activities and positive rewards, you will see immediate positive results - and smiles. We will guide your child through the basics of Keyboarding with a time-tested curriculum. For over 31 years, Wagner's has developed teaching techniques which are uniquely motivating. Reading, writing, ear-training, singing, ensemble playing, timing, expressiveness and creativity are only a few of the areas of musicianship your child will be introduced to. Piano is not only known to be the best instrument for a musical beginning, but also as a life long tool for understanding and expressing music over a lifetime. Children sit at their own "class pianos." Children also learn values that come out of the discipline of practice (10-15 minutes a day, 5 days a week) as well as the value of meaningful rewards for a job well done. As a family based program, we support the family and social values you are teaching at home. As the children grow to become teenagers, Wagner's allows for the learning of contemporary styles and fun songs kids can be proud to share with their friends. We have a library of Rock, Jazz, Boogie and Blues songs they will love to explore. We also introduce them to and utilize the Guitar, Bass, Drums and Synthesizer as they gain skills on the piano. The piano gives the basis for these and all other musical instruments. After 33 years, we have seen that this gift parents give their children becomes an integral part of their lives in the future, and they will thank you for it over and over again.

Class size is limited to 8, so please click the link below to see what times and days are available so you can secure a spot. See you here!

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