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Young Child
5 to 7 years
60 minute classes
Once a week for 15 weeks
Tuition and Materials: $305
Kindermusik Young Child is a weekly, 60 minute class designed for children ages 5 through 7 years that provides a pressure-free, developmentally appropriate transition to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. Students explore many facets of the musical experience - speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing instruments, as well as learning about reading and writing music.
Your child will also gain experience with authentic pre-keyboard, string and woodwind instruments. Young Child helps every child develop a confident, joyful voice for singing and speaking as well as essential building blocks for a future of learning.
- Year One
- This is the year that musical seeds begin to sprout! Your child will be introduced to numerous musical concepts including rhythmic notation, reading music, understanding the staff, and how it relates to all the songs we’ve been singing for years. Through the use of an accurately pitched glockenspiel specially made for Kindermusik, we will begin to connect note names with actual pitches, both sung and played, and specific note placement on the staff, achieving a full pentatonic scale by the end of the year.Throughout the year we will introduce your budding young musician to other musical prodigies from history, learn songs and games from around the world, match pitch with our voices and meet all the instruments in a traditional orchestra. We will do all of this while dancing and singing, playing games, telling stories playing with instruments.
- Year Two
- This year continues to build on the musical foundation established in Year One. Our musical adventure takes us out of the traditional concert hall and into the folk history of several different cultures, starting here in America. We will play a two-stringed folk dulcimer in the fall, as well as continuing our work with the glockenspiel.In the spring we will begin to learn the recorder as we travel out of the U.S. and into the broader world in our search for good folk music in many different cultures. Story telling, both with words and with music will be a primary teaching tool for the year, as well as dancing and singing and percussive instrument play. We will add new notes to our pentatonic scale from year one, building up to more than a full octave of notes recognized and named. The concepts of accidentals, dotted rhythms and syncopation and musical forms such as rondo will also be explored.
- Take Home Materials:
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- A CD full of the songs from class for dancing, musical games, and musical accompaniment for instrument play.
- An accurately pitched glockenspiel, rhythm sticks, two-stringed dulcimer or two recorders for making music as a family.
- A Family song Book containing the songs from the CD and in class.
- Weekly, interactive take home cards to continue the musical learning together at home.
- A canvas carry bag, games bag and folder for carrying and storing it all.
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