KINDERMUSIK FOR THE YOUNG CHILD : 5 - 7 YEARS OLD
Semester 1
1 hour class without caregiver
Held once a week
15 week long session
Pricing for 15 week session
$250 (or option of $123.64 at registration time, $46.12 Sept 1, Oct 1 & Nov 1)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
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 a keyboard 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).
Using a small-group approach to music education, Kindermusik 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 and its greatest composers.
The 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 formal lessons and traditional music reading with an instrument. Parents or caregivers are encouraged to attend the last few minutes of class.
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: 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: 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 percussion, 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.
FREE MUSICAL EXPLORATION- HELD ON THE FOLLOWING SATURDAYS AT THE UUUS LOCATION FROM 12:00PM – 1:00 PM. For currently registered families. All family members welcome! Aug. 28, Sep 18, Oct 23, Nov 20, Dec 18.
Payment Terms:
Monthly Payment Option: A $3 per month convenience fee will be added to each monthly installment. Monthly installments will be calculated on receipt of this form and based on your chosen class(es) and an email confirmation will be sent to you. First monthly payment will be charged upon receipt of this form and will include the cost of home materials AND first month’s tuition. Remaining monthly payments will be automatically charged on the 1st of each month. Credit card must be valid THROUGH the session so we may carry through the payment plan easily. Thanks!
There will be a fee for all returned checks. No refunds or credits will be given for any unattended classes or for any unfinished semester. You are financially repsonsible for the entire class tuition amount and any home materials that you requested or ordered. Pro-rating will be allowed during registration time only if you know you'll have to miss. Once session begins, no pro-rating will be honored. You make makeup as many classes as you miss within the same session. These makeup classes need to be arranged with the director or your teacher. Classes are filled first come, first serve. You may received a 3rd party survey from Kindermusik about your experience.
