Family Music for Babies (newborn - 18 months) 

Tuition: $70 per term     Materials: $65 – used for two terms

 

All babies are born with an aptitude for music. But research shows that their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to nurture a child's music aptitude is through active music making. By singing and dancing for and with our children in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles we are helping our children reach their full music potential.

 

This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.

 

Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games and echoes.  Download a registration form or a re-enrollment form.

 

Family Music for Toddlers (16 months - 3.5 years)                           

Tuition: $70 per term    Materials: $60 – used for two terms

 

Toddlers want so badly to be independent, yet they are still so very dependent.  This class gives them the words, music and life skills to cope with that.  Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed.  Download a registration form or a re-enrollment form.

 

Cycle of Seasons (ages 3 and young 4s)

Tuition: $70 per term    Materials: $70 – used for two terms

 

This class is designed to nurture the emergent independence of the 3 and young 4 year old.  Activities include lots of singing, chants and rhymes, listening games, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which nurture the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic environment.

 

At this level parents are still present for the class, though some of the activities are designed to have the children participate independently of their parents.

 

Home materials including a CD, songbook, and manipulatives allow the learning and fun to continue at home.  Download a registration form or a re-enrollment form.

 

Music Makers: At Home in the World (ages 4 & 5 years)

Tuition: $70 per term    Materials: $60 – is used for two terms

 

This class cultivates the child's musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and manipulative games.

 

Rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are dealt with using themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings.

 

Material packets include a CD, a poster and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book.  Download a registration form or a re-enrollment form.

 

Music Makers: Around the World (ages 5 & 6 Years)

Tuition: $70 per term    Materials: $60 – is used for two terms

 

This class is the perfect follow-up for children who have completed Music Makers: At Home in the World and preceeds the piano program.

 

In this class, children explore the music, dances and stories of different cultures. As always, the key ingredients are singing, listening, playing instruments, lots of movement, and tonal and rhythm patterns. Through echoing patterns, the children will build a vocabulary of musical phrases which they can recognize aurally and visually, which leads to an understanding of musical notation.

 

Materials include a CD, a map, song pages, and notation games.  Download a registration form or a re-enrollment form.

 

Music Makers: At the Keyboard I (ages 6 – 9 years)

Tution: $70 per term    Materials: 2 x $85 per year

 

The final step on the pathway to music literacy, this program is designed to teach the children to play the songs they've been hearing, singing, and dancing to throughout the years of early-childhood. An extension of the work done in Music Makers: Around the World, this class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills and understanding musical notation as set forth in the books, Music Makers: At the Keyboard.

 

Children will receive 2 books, including 4 CDs and notation games plus a Parent Handbook throughout the 30 week year.  Download a registration form or a re-enrollment form.

 

Music Makers: At the Keyboard II (Graduate of Year I)

Music Makers: At the Keyboard III (Graduate of Year II)

 

Musikgarten Adults (All Adults)

Tuition:  $70 per term    Materials:  $50 per term    Total:  $120 per term

 

Have you always wanted to play the piano?  Now you can!  Our group setting is ideal to keep you inspired and motivated while you learn about and explore the world of music!  It is easier to read than you think, and very rewarding.

 

This program takes place over one year.

 

Holiday Programs

 

All Together Now – A Mixed Age Class (Toddlers & Preschoolers)

Tuition:  $70    Materials:  $50    Total:  $120 per holiday program

 

Two holiday programs - two weeks of 30-40 mins each weekday (ie 10 sessions) - Nimble & Quick and Twist & Turn

 

Musikgarten’s All Together Now recaptures the magic of nursery rhymes (a wonderful part of our cultural tradition featuring delightful language and playful rhythms) in a versatile mixed-age curricula for children birth to four.  There is lots of movement for those toddlers, while three year-olds and older will learn language skills and use their imaginations in fun new ways.

 

Each program is full of music, movement, imagination, and class time fun. The unique Music for Movement compositions on the CDs will enable children to explore walking and jumping (Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick), twisting and turning (Oliver Twist, you can’t do this!) and many more concepts which are just right for your toddler movers and shakers!  Both children and parents will find that after just one class, they’ll look forward to many more! 

 

Parents will receive a family packet with CD, parent book and either an instrument or manipulative.

 

Nature Trail (ages 4 – 7)

Tuition:  $70    Materials:  $50    Total:  $120 per holiday program

 

A two week holiday program for the older child, this outdoor exploration of the living world of nature uses tools for exploration to enhance sensorial learning whilst they sing, move and make music with instruments in a natural setting.

 

Benefits:  Spurs appreciation for nature by highlighting its wonders and delights.  Showcases the unique music of nature and lively forms in all animal and plant life.  Turns the holidays into an exciting journey of musical discovery!

 

Others

 

God’s Children Sing (ages 16 months – 5 years)

Sunday School program

 

Addresses the spiritual aspects of the young child's life through inspiring songs and joyful dancing.  Focuses on the experience of those closest to them, such as family, friends and nature.  Nurtures a child's ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context.  Enhances a child's musical aptitude and listening abilities.  Stories from the Bible are accompanied by appropriate prayers, songs and rituals. Enhances moral concepts in daily life. Helps direct energy to expression of feelings.  Religious tenets will be learned by the children in a joyful manner.  

 

CD features dancing, rocking, finger plays, bouncing, patterns, focused listening and beginning instrument play.