Kindermusik® = Music skills = academic skills = life skills

Kindermusik® is so much more than just music. Research proves that early integration of music into your child’s daily routine improves his or her ability to think, reason, create, and express. Music makes him smarter. With more than 25 years experience in early childhood development, Kindermusik® is the world’s most respected name in musical learning. Trained and licensed educators provide carefully researched, developmentally appropriate music and movement programs for children—newborn to age seven—both in class and at home.

In a Kindermusik® class, educators lead children and their parents or caregiver through joyful activities using music and movement. Each Kindermusik® class is a world of discovery and adventure. In every class, you witness a child’s developmental evolution in language skills, literacy, listening, problem solving, social skills, self-esteem, and musicality. And it happens within a nurturing environment full of energy, imagination, music, dancing, and playful delight. The shared learning experience creates a unique bond between parent and child and the child associates learning with fun and musical play.

Every Kindermusik® semester comes with a set of At Home Materials. Each includes a book, CD, age-appropriate instrument, and activity book or journal. The classroom learning continues at home when you set aside time each day with your child to read, do unique, creative activities, or listen to music—all using the At Home Materials.

The Kindermusik® core curriculums are for four different age groups: Village (newborn to 18 months), Our Time (18 months to three years), Imagine That! (3 to 5 years), and Young Child   (4½ to 7 years). Sessions run eight weeks for the youngest age group and 15 weeks for the others, and each group meets once each week.

Each class provides children with new and different experiences and skills. In Village, through a unique blend of multi-level activities that includes creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and a colorful literature component, a baby’s growth and development are stimulated, and all senses engaged. In Our Time, singing, imitating sounds, rhyming, and object identification foster language skills. Creative movement to various musical ‘moods’ develops a sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills. In Imagine That!, pretend play activities are integrated with music, vocal development, storytelling, movement, and literature to capture a child’s potential to learn and to encourage cognitive and literacy skills, creativity, and individuality. And in Young Child , Kindermusik® provides the opportunity to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols, and authentic pre-keyboard string and woodwind instruments.

Kindermusik® offers a curriculum for preschoolers (ABC Music and Me ), one for teaching American Sign Language (Sign and Sing), and one for families (Family Time).

For a listing of our latest classes, click here or call Marie at (309) 676-4609 (ext. 202).