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Category: Kindermusik

Thank you for a great Fall session, Classes resume January 20th, 2014 at Grow and Sing Studios!

 

Fall classes at grow and sing studios have now concluded. weekly classes resume th eweek of january 20th. thank you for a great fall session. happy holidays.

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Giving Tuesday… Kindermusik scholarship available at Grow and Sing Studios

giving tuesdayHello Friends,

To us, every day should be a “giving” day, and we strive for that throughout the year. However, we think it’s wonderful that today, the day after Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday that we focus on how we can help others. So, we wanted to let you know what Grow and Sing Studios is doing to contribute.

TOYS FOR TOTS
In November, we started our Toys for Tots campaign. This is our final week to collect toys, and we can proudly say that we have already OVERFILLED our box! We are SO excited to turn in our full box of toys to the Marines this weekend.

KINDERMUSIK SCHOLARSHIPS
Each semester, we make available a certain number of Kindermusik scholarships for families in need. We want everyone who WANTS to benefit from the Kindermusik experience to attend, and we do our best to make this a reality. Grow and Sing Studios offers a number of scholarships per year to Arnold Palmer Hospital’s Pediatric Cardiac patients, as well as Pediatric Cancer Patients. We know medical bills are high, and we are thrilled we can bring some joy during a tough time. These scholarships cover tuition and materials so that families can just come and enjoy the experience. Most recently, we have made available scholarships to Autism Speaks and are excited to meet the families these scholarships have been awarded to.

GIVING TUESDAY SCHOLARSHIP OFFER
We would like to offer a scholarship today to a family who perhaps can’t attend right now for financial reasons, or due to medical costs are not able to attend. We want this family who is awarded this scholarship to be available to attend on a weekly basis and this offer is through May 2014. If you or a friend would like to apply to receive this gift, please CLICK HERE to fill out our easy application. At this time, we can only award one scholarship, but this may change in the near future, so we’ll keep all applications in our file and contact you if you are awarded! Applications need to be in by Friday, December 6th at 5pm. All applications will be reviewed and considered and the recipient will be notified soon. We will not announce recipient publicly. This information stays confidential. Thank you.

Have a wonderful Giving Tuesday and Happy Holidays!

 

‘Tis the Season…… the cold and flu season.

A note from your owner/directors, Holly and Will.

We would like to address some questions that are always asked at this time a year, regarding the inevitable cold and flu season. Our class guidelines state to not attend class if you or your child is sick. A good guideline to follow is to be fever free for 24 hours, and for a nose not to be running with anything other than clear. It is VERY common for babies and toddlers to have runny noses due to teething. It is VERY hard to distinguish that from being sick. If you at all feel that your child is under the weather, remain home and schedule a makeup class by emailing .

We wanted to let everyone know our studio wide procedures for attempting to keep our classrooms as sanitized as possible. While it is impossible to guarantee you that our instruments and props are 100% sanitized, we do our best to minimize sickness. We spray instruments, etc. with Clorox Anywhere, and tumble dry all fabric items in the dryer. After doing much research, Clorox Anywhere seems to be the safest product to use for our purposes. Here is a link to read more about the product. 

As those in our classes know, we keep this product ON HAND at all classes so that we can all make an effort together to help avoid the spread of germs. If your child has mouthed an instrument during class, please bring it up to our  “sanitation station” (or as Mr. Richard likes to call it the “spit station”),  when finished and spray it with the Clorox Anywhere. If we all make an effort together, we can try to eliminate spreading sickness to each other. Though again, there is never anything we can do to “guarantee” as in any public setting. 

Again, by spraying our instruments we are not promising a 100% sanitary environment. We stand by the most important way to avoid sickness – WASH HANDS!! We suggest that before class begins, and after class ends, you and your child wash hands with SOAP and WATER if possible.  We try to have some antibacterial gel available as well. We have been using these procedures and guidelines for over 6 years, and they have worked well.

Here is some information about sanitizers.

For alcohol-based hand sanitizers, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends an alcohol concentration of 60 to 95%  of ethanol or isopropanol for the great efficacy in killing germs.  In the study listed above, it was found that some hand sanitizer products purchased from local retail deep-discount stores, advertising the same claims as those found on name-brand products such as Purell, had, in reality, only a 40% ethyl alcohol concentration – much too low to reduce bacterial counts on hands.  In fact, the faulty product seemed to “mobilize the bacteria, spreading them around the hand instead of killing them.” (N.Y.Times: Hand Sanitizers: Good or Bad?  , by Deborah Franklin,  March 21, 2006)

We hope, that by using the Clorox Anywhere, washing hands, and not coming to class sick, we can avoid spreading sickness back and forth. Of course we all know that this just happens, and that no matter what we do, it is still going to occur. All we can do is try our best!

If anyone has ANY questions about this, please don’t hesitate to ask. Again, thank you in advance for working with us on making Grow and Sing Studios a healthy environment for all!!!

One of our favorite weeks: Kindermusik Costume Week!

It’s here! We look forward to this week all year long here at Grow and Sing Studios. We invite all our classes to dress up in their costumes, and we have a week long party! Our classes enjoy making spider webs, doing the monster mash, and so much more! We welcome all newcomers in for previews at any time, but THIS WEEK is not one to be missed!!!!costume week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby music class, toddler music class, craft pumpkin parties oh my!
Happy Halloween!!!

Win free Kindermusik classes or Orlando Piano Lessons

Follow AND Interact with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to earn a chance to win a free month of Kindermusik Baby, Toddler, Preschool and Young Child Music Classes in Orlando, Volusia and Osceola (or $60 towards any other Grow and Sing Studios offering including our East Orlando piano lessons)

How to play: This week (Oct. 14 – 20) post a magical musical moment from home, class, piano lesson or a party with #growandsing in your post along with a tag (@) to our page (this is so we see your post!). We will enter ALL posts into a random draw and pick the winner on Sunday 10/20/13 at noon. Feel free to include photos, videos, bonding moments at home, fun class stories, testimonials and more.
Each post this week is an entry so feel free to go HASHTAG /
TAGGING crazy! We may also get inspired to give out a 2nd creativity prize as well! Remember we can only see posts you make public!

grow and sing hashtag contest

October in Florida!

As our friends from up North start to gear up for cold weather, snow boots, heavy jackets and seat warmers, families here in Florida are finding ways to embrace the new “Fall” Season in our 86 degree weather!

Here are some creative ways we get into the spirit here at Kindermusik with Grow and Sing Studios in Florida (just to name a few)!

We play with colorful fabric Fall leaves INDOORS while reading a story about Autumn!
fall activity in kindermusik class
fall activity in kindermusik class

We paint pumpkins!
child painting pumpkin

and make them magical with some “magic glitter”

We use black yarn to weave a spider web, and welcome our “itsy bitsy spider” friend!
spider web music activity

and we gear up for what is bound to be the BEST Costume Week EVER!!
costume week
Here’s to the start of a wonderful Fall season to friends near and far!
Enjoy this coloring sheet to get you in the spirit! :)
this little light of mine... i'm gonna let it shine! let it shine! let it shine! let it shine!
HAPPY HAPPY FALL!

Find out more about our Fall fun:
ITSY BITSY SPIDER KINDERMUSIK PLAYDATES

CRAFTY PUMPKIN PARTIES

OUR CLASSES AND FUN!

GROW AND SING STUDIOS ON FACEBOOK

This month, join a Crafty Pumpkin Party!

We are excited to present “Crafty Pumpkin Parties” this month as special events in select locations! TONS of fun with 2 take home projects, music, story time and snack! Must sign up in advance so we can prepare materials! LEARN MORE HERE!
crafty pumpkin party

 

Grow and Sing Studios featured on MTV

Grow and Sing Studios featured on MTV’s Teen Mom 3. Air Date 9/30/13. Note: MTV spelled Kindermusik incorrectly, but we assure you we submitted the proper information to the network (and are thankful Ms. Holly was donning her Kindermusik shirt), however, despite that we are completely HONORED by the opportunity to be a part of enriching a family’s life from the show, and feel so blessed that our segment was a true depiction of the magic that happens in a Kindermusik classroom, and that was spread around the world. We ♥ Kindermusik :) Enjoy!
Grow and Sing Studios featured on MTV’s Teen Mom 3. Air Date 9/30

ms. holly teaching kindermusik class- featured on mtv

SCHOOL YEAR CALENDARS

CLICK HERE FOR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
CLICK HERE FOR CLASSROOM GUIDELINES

Our School Years include 35 active weeks of classes with some scheduled weeks off which are noted below.

SCHOOL YEAR 2024 – 2025
School Year begins – August 12th, 2024
OFF – Thanksgiving week – Nov. 25 – 29, 2024
OFF – Holiday/Winter break – Dec. 16, 2024 – Jan. 5, 2025
HURRICANE MAKEUP WEEK IN SELECT LOCATIONS – Dec. 16 – 20, 2025
School Year Resumes after Winter Break – Jan 6, 2025
OFF – Spring Break – March 17 – 21, 2025
School Year ends – May 16, 2025

Click here to view school year information.

 

SUMMER 2025 CALENDAR

CLICK HERE FOR CLASSROOM GUIDELINES

This Summer we are excited to offer a 6 week session of classes. If you are traveling during any of our “on” weeks, we are happy to pro-rate the value of up to 2 classes.
Week 1 – June 2 – 6
Week 2 – June 9 – 13
Week 3 – June 16 – 20
Week 4 – June 23 – 27
NO CLASSES WEEK OF JUNE 30 – HAPPY 4TH OF JULY
Week 5 – July 7 – 11
NO CLASSES WEEK OF JULY 14 – KINDERMUSIK EDUCATOR’S CONFERENCE
Week 6 – July – 21 – 25

Click here to view Summer options.