Village provides the natural learning your child is ready for from the first days of life. With you at the center of his discovery, Village engages all of your baby’s senses and rewards his curiosity with object and instrument exploration, vocal play, singing, creative movement, and a colorful literature component. Multilevel activities encourage you to make creative choices as baby grows from a lap baby to a crawler, to a walker!

Village opens new windows to show your baby more about the world and to show you more about your baby.

Benefits for Your Child and You

• Educates you about your baby's total development through Kindermusik Foundations of Learning - statements based on the most recent research.
• Encourages joyful participation in a music making community.
• Nurtures bonding between you and your child through intentional touch warm-ups, exercises, interactive dances and musical play.
• Provides natural connections between singing and reading out loud, listening and communicating through literature books.

Village is a 40-minute class for child and parent, once a week for 15 weeks. At Home Materials include 2 CDs, 2 illustrated books, Home Activity Cards, 2 instruments, 4 wall banners, and a Kindermusik bag.

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Offered Spring 2009
 

Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce
Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce is focused on further feeding a baby's language development through the rhythmic nature of nursery rhymes. You and your child will also discover plenty of implied movement activities throughout the semester with many additional movement concepts - like up and down - incorporated into the literature book. Favorite songs and activities from Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce include "Peek-a-boo", "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Beat the Drum," "Roll That Ball", "Sulla Lulla", and "The Blackbird."

The Rhythm of My Day
With an introduction to sign language and highlighted by the concept of a family's daily rituals and routines, The Rhythm of My Day is designed to help parents incorporate music into many of the regular routines found throughout their daily life. Lesson focuses also highlight several other key concepts like diversity of sound, stop and go, syncopation, and singing. Favorite activities and songs featured in The Rhythm of My Day include "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "Golden Slumbers", "Walk All Around", and "Ally Bally."