•A community of families sharing songs, instrument play, rhythm chants, and movement activities in a relaxed, playful, non-performance-oriented setting.
•Music learned through developmentally appropriate activities that support and respect the unique learning styles of very young children.
•Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers participating at their own levels in family-style classes of mixed ages.
•Parents and caregivers contributing to the enrichment of their child’s music environment—regardless of their own musical abilities.
•A new song collection every semester for three years, featuring great arrangements of original and traditional songs in a wide variety of tonalities, meters, and cultural styles.
45 minutes of PURE FUN every week!
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This is the essential Music Together class, one that a child can attend from birth through age five through all nine song collections. This basic class follows the recommendations of child development researchers—grouping children of a variety of ages because this fosters natural, family-style learning. Younger children enjoy watching and imitating older ones; older children learn by leading younger ones; and adults are happy because the children in the family can go to class together. Each child participates at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers—parents, grandparents, nanny—can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.
Every child’s development benefits from early exposure to music and movement. Research has found that long term exposure to a musically rich environment is important to attaining and retaining basic music competence. So continuing past the "mixed ages" classes is important! These classes are for our bigger kids when they are ready to do more improvising with lyrics, melodies and rhythms. We still use the Music Together music collections, but can do more in depth renditions of the songs as well as spur the creative juices of the bigger kids.
Due to the nature of the class and the "advanced" practices we will be using in the 4,5,6s classes, younger siblings will not benefit from them. If there is a younger sibling, our bigger kids are still welcome (and still benefit from) the mixed ages classes. We would encourage you to sign them both up for the mixed ages classes.
