Social & Emotional

Our lessons are thoughtfully crafted to encourage self-regulation, and to promote healthy social interactions. Your child will explore emotions—their own, those of their friends, and those of the characters in the songs and stories they hear, in a guided, and safe environment. In class, your child will acquire new skills that will build their self-esteem, develop a sense of belonging through community-building rituals, and learn to manage their impulses by following directions and taking instruction. Our enjoyable class activities allow your child to experience positive peer interactions by encouraging cooperation, turn-taking, and sharing.

Creative

Our classes are the incubator for creative expression—it’s a place where your child is encouraged to be imaginative, uninhibited, and inventive. During instrument play, your child can find new ways to make sounds with shakers; in movement activities, they dance expressively to music of varying tempos; and in pretend-play activities, they move like butterflies, imitate bird calls, and pretend to bake cookies!

In class we’ll nurture your child’s creativity and challenge them to come up with new and expressive ways of doing things to help them to become better problem-solvers and more innovative thinkers later in life.

Literacy & Language

Kindermusik classes are chock full of language learning. Silly rhymes and catchy songs offer opportunities for vocal development, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary building, and storytime strengthens pre-reading skills such as print awareness and auditory discrimination. Through musical activities and interactions with their teacher and peers, children also develop conversation skills and the ability to speak rhythmically and expressively. And, results from a recent independent research study showed that preschoolers who participated in the Kindermusik curriculum for as little as 30 minutes each week showed a 32% greater gain in their phonological awareness than the control group.

Physical

Our classes are full of physical activities that promote the over-all health and well being of your child. They will build core strength as they dance in a circle and skip around the room; they develop eye-hand coordination as they toss scarves in the air and catch them; and they stimulate their vestibular systems by rocking and swaying to relaxing music. Throughout class, children are asked to respond to aural and visual cues with movement, creating a multisensory learning experience that brings abstract concepts down to a clear, concrete, experiential level.

Math & Logic

Research indicates that counting while moving or playing music can help children better internalize early math concepts, while listening to and making music develop and strengthen the very same neural pathways that are used for completing complex spatial reasoning tasks.

Our classes offer your child numerous opportunities to develop early math proficiency. When your child learn songs, rhymes, and rhythms, they’re building prediction and pattern-finding skills. When they participate in dance and movement activities—and learn where they are in relation to objects in their environment—they’re building spatial awareness. And when they tap 1-2-3 on the drum, count steps in a circle dance, and sing songs that incorporate numbers, they’re learning about one-to-one correspondence and counting.

Cognitive

The study, practice, and discipline of making music gives the brain a workout—it develops and expands neural pathways, forming stronger and more complex communication networks. Music education build’s listening and auditory processing skills; promote memory and recall; and strengthen executive function, the set of cognitive abilities that controls planning, organizing, goal formation, and more.
During our classes, your child is introduced to new concepts and topics that help them gain a better understanding of themselves and the world around them. They learn song lyrics and dance routines that test their memory and recall skills, practice focusing on and listening attentively to original stories and unique animal sounds, and learn about cause and effect through instrument and prop play. Our activities encourage problem solving, symbolic thinking, reasoning, and more—all in a musically engaging and developmentally appropriate way

Musical

Maybe it goes without saying, but our Kindermusik classes drive children’s musical development. Our activities are designed to develop vocal skills, foster music appreciation, and build a foundation for formal music instruction later on. In class, your child will learn to play all kinds of age-appropriate instruments and to appreciate music of varying styles and origin. They learn to recognize and decode musical symbols, and they’re introduced to musical concepts and terms as they play and move presto, largo, allegro, staccato, and legato to a variety of rhythms.