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Early Childhood Education
Discover the joy of introducing music to a young child through one of our early education music classes, specially designed for the preschool aged child.
Our small class sizes and variety of convenient courses will help prepare your child for a lifetime of music appreciation, while they gain critical social and developmental skills.
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There is a registration fee of $20 per child for new enrollments.
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For questions about our Early Childhood Education classes, send us an email here.
Current Course Offerings in Early Elementary Education:
Kindermusik™ Village (newborn-18 months)
Kindermusik™ Village involves the family in music making that nurtures the bond between parent and child while acknowledging each young child's unique responses and development timetable. Your educator will teach you how to encourage your baby's learning through vocal play, object exploration, instruments, and creative movement. Each class meets once per week for 45 minutes. (8 weeks)
Tuesdays 10:45-11:15 am Tuition: $120; Materials: $33.95
Thursdays 11:00-11:45 am (6% tax not included)
Kindermusik™ Our Time (18 months-3 years)
Our Time encourages your children to be creative, to initiate their own ideas and to respond in their own ways, while your active participation gives the security they need. As you play instruments, sing, move, and explore, you'll uncover an engaging musical world while building your child's confidence, self-control and communications skills. Each class meets once per week for 45 minutes.
Tuesdays 9:30-10:15 am Tuition: $150; Materials: $47.95
Wednesday 1:00-1:45 pm (6% tax not included)
Joyful Family (1-4 years)
Joyful Family is a musical experience for the whole family. Singing, games, songs, stories, dance and movement, and instrument exploration will engage the whole family in discovering the world of music. Each class is 45 minutes long.
Wednesdays 9:30-10:15 am Tuition: $150; Materials: $27.00
Wednesdays 10:30-11:15 am (6% tax not included)
Saturdays 9:30-10:15 am
Kindermusik™ for the Young Child (4 1/2 - 7 years)
Young Child provides two years of activities to broaden and deepen the music experience. Children explore the world of music--speaking, singing, moving, listening, playing percussion instruments, and learning about writing and reading musical notation. Parents attend the first class with their child. Each class meets once per week for 60 minutes, with parents or care-givers participating in the final 10 minutes. Year one (4 1/2 through 5 1/2 years), children receive a glockenspiel and a folder with weekly activities and games. Year two (for ages 5/12 through 7), students receive a simple dulcimer, which the children will construct and play, a recorder, and folder with weekly activities and games.
Tuesdays 4:30-5:30 pm (Level 2) Tuition: $165; Materials: $71.95
Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 pm (Level 1) (6% tax not included)
Classes For Future Sessions
Kindermusik Sign and Sing® offers parents and caregivers techniques for communicating with children through American Sign Language (ASL) signs and singing. Playful songs and activities help parents become comfortable with signing. These shared activities promote healthy families by fostering intimacy, communication, and learning between parents and children. Each class is 45 minutes for 5 weeks each session. Materials include Family Activity Guide, DVD glossary showing 60 signs, Clip-on flashcards that feature photos of both children and adults using family-friendly American Sign Language signs.
Kindermusik Family Time® "Our Kind of Day" In this family-sized version of Kindermusik, the music and activities involve the five things that happen around your house: playtime, mealtime, clean-up time, bath time, and nighttime. Your At Home Materials include hand and finger puppets of the Kangaroo and Joey characters featured in the two literature books. Plus, two home CDs of music from class, a home activity guide, and two double egg shaker instruments. Each item has been carefully created to bring out the music - and the learning - in your family. Specially designed to fit the carying ages and learning abilities of your children, this set 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.
SUMMER Special Classes will be available in Summer 2009.
All Early Childhood classes will be held in the Joyful Sounds Studio located at 21-B Newport Drive.
Students can join at any time; tuition fees will be prorated accordingly, material fees will stay the same. To submit a question, or, to find out more information about what class may be the right one for your child, click here.
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Joyful Sounds School of Music is a corporate sponsor of All Kids Can Learn International. The establishment of these villages is an amazing story!! Click here to learn more.
Joyful Sounds School of Music is a proud supporter of Children of Zion, a home for AIDS orphans based in Namibia, Africa. Click here to learn more about this wonderful charitable organization.