Family Music for Babies (Newborns - 18 Months) 14 week session


All babies are born with an aptitude for music, but research shows that their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to nurture a child's music aptitude is through active music making. By singing and dancing for and with our children in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles we are helping our children reach their full music potential.

This class offers adults the opportunity to play with your baby in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.

Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games and echoes.

Materials/registration: $30, includes a CD, a song book and an instrument packet
Tuition: $140 (summer tuition $80)
Total: $170

Class time: Wed. 11:15 - 11:45

Other days/times TBD

"At home the songs and massages can cheer him up and calm him down like nothing else can...And now that he's 10 months old, he really enjoys class and we both love interacting with the other babies and moms." - Kendra, mom of Daniel








Family Music for Toddlers (15 months - 3 Years) 14 week session


This thirty minute class is designed to bring the joy of music and movement to toddlers and their caregivers. Activities include singing, dancing, focused listening and simple instrument playing, creating an environment in which the child's music aptitude is nurtured and skills are developed. Toddlers begin to learn a vocabulary of rhythm and melody patterns, the building blocks of music, through echo games.

Materials/registration: $30, packet includes CD, a rhythm instrument and a songbook
Tuition: $140 (summer tuition $80)
Total: $170
Class times:
Wed.10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Fri. 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

"My toddler has this ability to dance to any type of music.  Being in [    ] Music has broadened our music choices.  She loves her instruments and proudly carries them everywhere.  She loves to march around the house and we have our own parades while playing the maracas and tambourine." - Amy, mom of Madison, 2 1/2



Cycle of Seasons (Ages 3 1/2 - 5) 14 week session


This forty-five minute preschool music class is designed to nurture the emergent independence of the 3+ and young 4-year-old. Activities include lots of singing, stories and rhymes, listening games, playing instruments, patterns to echo, and movement games. All of these activities support the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a creative, holistic environment.
Parents stay for the class, although some of the activities are designed to encourage the children to participate independently of their parents.

Home materials packet (one per semester) includes 2 CDs, a songbook, and manipulatives, allowing the learning and fun to continue at home!

Materials: $40
Tuition: $165 (summer tuition $95)
Total: $205

Class times: TBD

Music Makers: At Home in the World (Ages 4-7 Years) 14 week session


This sixty minute class cultivates the child's musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and manipulative games. Rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are developed using themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings. Caregivers share in last ten minutes of class.

Each materials packet includes a CD, a nature picture with animal game pieces, music notation games, instrument posters, and a parent booklet. Children receive four packets throughout the year (two 14-week semesters). FOR INFORMATION ABOUT JOINING A CLASS MIDWAY THROUGH THE YEAR, call Leslie at (425)244-3902.

Materials: $45 per 14-week semester, ( second $45 due in December), $90 total for materials annually
Tuition: $195 per semester, $390 tuition annually (summer tuition $115)
Total: $480 for the 28 weeks

 

Class times:

Wednesday 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Other days/times TBD





Music Makers: Around the World (Ages 5-8 Years) 14 week session


This seventy minute class is designed to accommodate the 5- and 6-year-old and is a perfect follow-up for children who have completed Music Makers: At Home in the World. In this class, children explore the music, dances and stories of different cultures. As always, the key ingredients are singing, listening, playing instruments, lots of movement, and tonal and rhythm patterns. Through echoing and playing patterns, the children will build a vocabulary of musical phrases which they can recognize aurally and visually, leading to an understanding of musical notation. Caregivers join in last ten minutes. This class is an excellent preparation for studying piano in Music Makers: At the Keyboard next year!

Each unit's packet includes a CD, a map, song pages, and notation games. Children will receive 4 packets (British Isles, Amerindians, Germany, African-American heritage) throughout the 28 weeks, comprised of two 14-week semesters.

Materials: $45 per 14-week semester, (second $45 due in December), $90 total for materials annually
Tuition: $195 per semester, $390 tuition annually (summer tuition $115)
Total: $480 for the 28 weeks

Class times: TBD

Music Makers: At the Keyboard (Ages 6-9 Years) 28 week session

Graduates of Music Makers Around the World (5-7yo) will continue to develop their musical ears and expand their music-reading, as the music in their heads comes out of their fingers at the piano/keyboard. Older newcomers will discover how natural it is to become musical and to play with ease.

Games, singing, and movement are a part of every lesson. The group experience capitalizes on children's delight in making music with others, and greatly enhances the skills of rhythmic competency, listening, and music-reading far beyond what a "private" experience offers.

Each student should have a keyboard or piano at home for practicing, and a CD-player nearby for interactive playing and listening.