Our Time focuses on your child’s healthy emotional development as confidence, curiosity, self-control, and communication skills emerge.

Shakers, humongous scarves, hoops, mirrors, and more encourage your child to try new experiences—and you can guide each adventure. Children engage in "purposeful play" with instruments, learn finger plays, listen to sounds of the world around them, move to music, sing along, and enjoy music & movement storytime. Language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, rhyming, and object identification. It’s a great time of giggling, wiggling, and bonding!

Benefits for Your Child and You

• Recognizes your child's need for both freedom to try and the assurance of your support.
• Educates you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy.
• Promotes joyful music making as a community.
• Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation.

Our Time is a 40-minute class for child and parent, once a week for 15 weeks. At Home Materials include 2 CDs, 2 illustrated books, a Home Activity Book, and a specially designed instrument.

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Offered Fall 2010

Milk & Cookies

Imagine the aroma of baking cookies, the coziness of the family kitchen, the chatter among sisters, brothers, grandmas, granddads, mom and dad, and the anticipation and excitement of having friends come to visit. These moments at home are times to be shared and treasured. These special moments are captured in Milk & Cookies. As in the other units of Our Time, the central focus of Milk & Cookies is the toddler's need for security balanced with his need for independence. Milk & Cookies songs and activities promote interaction between parent and child where the parent gently guides their child's learning and the process of scaffolding takes place. Capturing the security, excitement and familiarity of "at home" moments is the ideal theme for empowering the parent to act as teacher through scaffolding. What better way for parents to lead their child than with familiar, everyday home activities such cooking in the kitchen, dusting and washing clothes?