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Young Child
Music for the Young Child, 5-8 yrs.
Budding Musicians Learn to Play an Instrument, Read Music - and MORE!!
Build a Musical Foundation
using a small-group approach to music education, Kindermusik with Kathy for the Young Child provides a pressure-free class where your child can develop a strong musical foundation by learning the concepts, language, notation, and vocabulary of music. This program is designed to prepare the young child who is eager for first experiences with musical symbols and instrument discovery but is not yet ready for private formal lessons, traditional instruction and performances. Arranged in 4 exciting semesters, music, games and folkdances from Appalachian, African-American, Native American, the African Continent, Pacific Islands and Latin American cultures are introduced and enjoyed. Composers and the rich classical European history are explored.
| Here, your child can explore vocal and musical-ear development, drum rhythms, reading, writing and playing musical notation with a pre-keyboard (glockenspiel), stringed (dulcimer), and wind (recorder) instrument. Beginning Keyboard Instruction is taught in Semester 2, 3 and 4. |
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At Home activities will be given to each student-musician to practice playing their instrument with the parent or caretaker and will prepare them for formal instruction. Parents or caregivers attend the last 10-15 minutes of class.
FALL 2010: Sept 13 - Dec 18
$255 for 14 classes + $75 YC 1 and 3 Home Material and $55 for YC 2 and 4 Home Materials
Click here for Young Child Unit Descriptions
$25 off for NEW ENROLLEES!
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Young Child Semester 1 (new students)
Wednesday.......... 4:45pm ..... SB with Kathy |
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Young Child Semester 2 (new students)
Tuesday............... 4:00pm ..... SB with Kathy |
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Young Child Semester 3 (returning students)
Thursday.............. 3:15pm ..... SB with Molly |
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Young Child Semester 4 (returning students)
Monday................ 3:30pm ..... SB with Kathy
Tuesday............... 5:30pm ..... SB with Kathy
Wednesday......... 3:30pm ..... SB with Kathy |
*This is a 70 minute DROP OFF Class. Parents join in for the last 10 minutes of special musical sharing time with your child.
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Young Child Curriculum Description
Age Range: 5 to 8 years
Class Structure: Four 12-14-week semesters. While each semester builds on the previous, there is sufficient review for new students to be added each semester.
Class Length: 75 minute class each week
Class Size: 8-10 children maximum
What A Parent And Child Will Experience In Class
*Singing and Vocal development. It may sound like a foreign language when a child sings “ta” and “ti-ti,” but this is the language of professional musicians and composers and getting young children ready to read and write simple rhythm patterns.
*Movement and Dance. See children dance expressively to music, giving them the practice they needs to coordinate their body movements to the sound of music. This kind of musical play not only improves musicianship, but physical coordination as well.
*Reading and Writing Music. Young children will learn melodic notation and identify pitches such as the C, A, and D notes on the treble clef, plus rhythmic notation. Eventually even composing their own music.
*Focused listening. Children will learn to identify a range of orchestra instruments and their sound qualities, while also gaining an early awareness and knowledge of composers and masterworks in Western arts tradition.
*Exploring and Playing Musical Instruments. Authentic percussions and drums, string, pre-keyboard, and woodwind instruments expose children to the many choices for future musical study, and at the same time provide them with the opportunity to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction.
*Introduction to Keyboard. Piano fingering and beginning keyboard instruction.
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Semester One. Everything your child learns later in semesters 2, 3, and 4 begins with this early introduction to singing, reading, and writing music and rhythm. Through dances and games that focus on rhythmic development, we'll learn the keyboard instrument and the Orff instrument--the glockenspiel—which will be used throughout all the Young Child classes. Your At Home Materials provide the music, instruments, stickers, and activities for a home version of the same playful activities you'll hear about from class, so your child—and you!—can learn where you're most comfortable: at home.
Home Materials: Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, Home CD of music from class, glockenspiel, and canvas bag (during first semester).
Semester Two.
Playing simple musical patterns and songs on the featured instrument from the first session—the glockenspiel—is a central focus this semester. While learning to sing a melody, and then play the pattern on the glockenspiel and keyboard, we'll delve deeper into the understanding of musical concepts such as piano and forte through orchestra-style music such as the William Tell Overture and Peter and the Wolf. Music appreciation and understanding continues with a complete introduction to the instruments—and the families in which they're grouped—of the orchestra.
Home Materials : Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, and Home CD of music from class.
Semester Three.
Appalachian music is a featured musical style this semester. First, you and your child will build a two-stringed dulcimer instrument with materials that we'll provide. Then in class we'll learn to play chords and simple melodies on the instrument you built together. We'll also explore rhythm concepts through dance with an introduction to the basic steps in jazz, ballet, and tap dances. Further keyboard instruction build on last semester’s curriculum. Your Home Materials include dulcimer-making materials, activity cards, and music that features recordings from Appalachia, African-America, and Native American music, as well as the Western Art music of the Nutcracker Suite.
Home Materials: Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, Home CD of music from class, and dulcimer.
Semester Four.
In this final semester, we'll introduce the recorder instrument and continue with keyboard. As your child is introduced to basic methods of playing simple melodic patterns and songs on the wind instrument, we'll also incorporate the instruments, concepts, and songs from previous semesters. With a special emphasis on multicultural music and storytelling of tales from around the world, your child will learn to improvise and write music, as well as experience the musical styles and stories of the Pacific Islands, Europe, and Africa; plus play special dances and children's games from around the world, including Alpine dances, Mexico, and Ecuador.
Home Materials: Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, Home CD of music from class, and soprano recorder.
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join us anytime mid-semester if a class is not full. Classes will be
prorated, and your first class is always FREE if you are new to
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