Now enrolling for Spring 2012!

The KinderCenter has classes for every stage of your child’s development. Explore the links below to learn about each age-specific program as well as what classes are being offered next!

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Classes Scheduled for Spring 2012:

Village: Cock-a-doodle MOO! and Dew Drops

Village Overview: for infants up to 18 months

Kindermusik Village classes provide a special place where you can connect with your baby and other families through music and movement.  Each week you’ll dance with your baby, share songs, lullabies and nursery rhymes.  Joyful musical play stimulates your baby’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development and engages her senses.

Hop on the hayride – it’s time to head to the farm!  Cock-a-doodle-Moo incorporates a farm theme for lots of fun with baby.  Then, stop and smell the roses – and the lilies of the valley and the pansies and the tulips . . . Dew Drops uses a spring theme.  Parents and babies will also dance to traditional Irish music.

Home Materials: 2 CDs, 2 board books, 4 art banners, sunshine jingle instrument, flower bells

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Our Time: Away We Go!

Our Time Overview: 18 months – 3 years

Hop on the train, get in the car, board the plane, and Away We Go! This unit focuses on transportation, a favorite topic of toddlers who are on the go, go, go!  Trains, planes, cars, boats, horses – you name it and the mode of transportation is covered!  Lots of fun!  This joyful, fun-filled class promotes interaction between parent and child while focusing on the toddler’s need for security balanced with his need for independence. Singing, dancing, story time and instrument play are a part of each class.

Home Materials: 2 CDs, 2 literature books, home activity book, 2 harmonicas and carry bag

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Imagine That!: Toys I Make, Trips I Take

Imagine That! Overview: 3 – 5 years

A toy shop filled with boats, trains, balls, jack-in-the box and many other toys create the back drop for this fun-filled semester of Toys I Make – Trips I Take. Children are encouraged to be expressive, creative, musical and to use their imaginations to their fullest potential. Imagine That! classes provide your child with a natural love of music, because the music is presented as a simple pleasure and an everyday part of life.  Music becomes a means of expression and a source of learning. Your preschooler will develop rhythm and abstract thinking skills while classes help prepare him for the transition to kindergarten.

 Home Materials:  CDs, 2 literature books, play set, family activity book, drum.

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Young Child 2 and Young Child 4

Young Child Overview: 5 – 7 years

Each week Young Child puts together the building blocks for more formal music instruction including rhythm notation,     musical symbols and focused listening – preparing your child for a lifetime of learning and fulfilling music-making. Young Child is a sequential 4 semester (2 year) program. Young Child 1 sets the foundation. Young Child 2 continues learning begun in Young Child 1 – adding several new, but familiar songs on the glockenspiel (a barred instrument).

The dulcimer, a 2 string folk instrument is added in Young Child 3 and children in Young Child 4 begin learning to play the recorder and study music from around the world.

Young Child 2 is for ages 5-6.

Young Child 4 is for ages 6-7.

Young Child 2 Home materials include:  CD, children’s folder, weekly activity pages and stickers, games bag, family songbook.

Young Child 4 Home Materials include:  CD, children’s folder, weekly activity pages and stickers, games bag, family songbook and recorder.

Instruments Used: glockenspiel, dulcimer and recorder