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 Spring 2009

Fiddle-dee-dee

Creatures of the animal kingdom, whether furry, web-footed, hoofed, winged, or whiskered, are the subject matter for Fiddle-dee-dee.  Animal sounds, which are so appealing to children, naturally prompt imitation and provide abundant active listening and vocal play material.  In the context of moving like animals, we will focus on concepts such as high, low, smooth, bumpy, fast, and slow.  On the At Home CDs, you will hear a clear emphasis on the stringed instrument family, with instruments such as the mandolin, banjo, lute, classical and folk guitar, harp, string quartet, and double bass.  And, of course, there is the original home instrument, a pair of Fiddlesticks.  Sporting the bright stripes of a bumblebee, Fiddlesticks are a one-of-a-kind Kindermusik instrument that can be rattled, rolled, tapped and fiddled with to create fun sounds and play possibilities.