KMFamilyTime

Four non-sequential semesters on a two-year rotation.

Fall 2010 ~ Our Kind of Day

Spring 2011 ~ Here, There, Everywhere

Fall 2011 ~ Movin' & Groovin'

newborns to 7 years

enrolling one or more children in a family

Family Time ~ This class becomes a multi-layered learning environment with the older children ready to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones eager to learn. During each lesson, you will be introduced to basic musical concepts, and you will have 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 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 the neighborhood playground.

Tuition ($180) & Materials ($66): $246**

Do you qualify for **DISCOUNTS? (returning from previous semeser OR Paid-In-Full OR sibling)

Kindermusik is affordable for every family with PAYMENT PLANS

Tuition is prorated and materials are in full for late enrollment

Material Contents: (one set of home materials per family)

2 CDs, 2 literature books, 2 instruments, 2 puppets, activity book w/musical notation and lyrics, carry box/bag

Why are the Materials Required? Making the Most of Home Materials

Each item has been carefully created to bring out the music—and the learning—in your family. Specially designed to fit the varying ages and learning abilities of your children, these materials will help you bring the learning and the music-making home, as well as become a lasting, well-loved favorite of the toy box and book shelf.

Class Length: 15 lessons, 40 minutes, once per week

Notes: Students are to be accompanied by parent/caregiver.

Please inquire about visiting (not enrolled) children.

Minimum of four families to 'make' a class.

Limited to 10 or 11 children in Webster. Not offered in UCity at this time.

Information about Family Time from Kindermusik International

Movin' and Groovin' (fall)

Movin’ & Groovin’ is a romping, rolling, stretching good time for the whole family. This unit will explore lots of different ways to move - high and low, fast and slow, zigzag, curvy and more. Family members will chug around the classroom like trains, clip-clop like horses and roll over like puppy dogs. They’ll hear a story about playing tag together in Can You Catch Me? and read about a jungle hokey-pokey in Put Your Left Paw In.

The Home Materials include: two CDs with music from class; Sing, Play & Grow! a family guide with musical fun, activities and information about child development, as well as fun facts about the songs enjoyed in class; Jellybean band puppets-Rascal the monkey (hand puppet and finger puppet); two monkey den-den drums; two Jellybean Band books with activity pages, comic strips about the band and stories-Can You Catch Me? and Put Your Left Paw In.

Make Way for Music (spring)

Families will sing, dance and move their way through an exploration of several elements of music: beat and rhythm, concepts and contrasts (such as staccato and legato, high and low, the major scale, and arpeggios), the human voice, instrument families and ensemble. They’ll engage in developmentally appropriate activities that the whole family can enjoy together, including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time and family jam.

two fingerdrums; two children’s storybooks (Drum Circle and Animals on Parade) and an instrument-matching board game.

Our Kind of Day (fall)

Our Kind of Day features music and activities which involve the five things that happen around your house: playtime, mealtime, clean-up time, bath time and nighttime.

The Home Materials include: two CDs with music from class; Sing, Play & Grow! a family guide with musical fun, activities and information about child development, as well as fun facts about the songs enjoyed in class; Jellybean band puppets-a Kangaroo and a Joey (hand puppet and finger puppet); two double egg shaker instruments; two Jellybean Band books with activity pages, comic strips about the band and stories-Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and Bouncing On the Bed.

Here, There, Everywhere (spring)

The five sub-themes center around different family outings: a visit with a friend, an outing at the park, a trip to the city, an afternoon at the aquarium and a day on the farm. The story Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! is all about moving like animals and Jingle-Jangle Jambourine is about following a girl who has lost her jambourine during the day's outings (to the very same places visited in the curriculum - what a coincidence!) as she looks for it, finding at home at the end of the story.

At Home Materials include: two CDs with music from class; Sing, Play & Grow! a family guide with musical fun, activities and information about child development, as well as fun facts about the songs enjoyed in class; Jellybean band puppets-Wags the dog (hand puppet and finger puppet); two jambourines to enjoy in the classroom and at home-one green and one purple; two Jellybean Band books with activity pages, comic strips about the band and stories-Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! and Jingle-Jangle Jambourine.