The Fall 2006 schedule is now available, as is the July issue of our studio newsletter. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, enter your e-mail address in the box at right of the screen. For the fall schedule, click on this
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e-mail me to request a paper copy. Besides the fall schedule, this issue of the newsletter included ways to request a class that fits your schedule, special offers to save you money on the fall semester of Kindermusik, our new "Satisfaction Guaranteed" policy, and a welcome to the newest member of our staff--Sarah Beth Sobek.
As promised, here are the descriptions of our Fall 2006 Unit themes (thanks, Lori!):
Village (birth to 18 months)-- Dream Pillow/Zoom Buggy, Each semester of Village includes two themes (both are included in the tuition price) which means that you get TWO sets of At Home Materials. Baby is the star in
Dream Pillow, with each activity carefully planned to stimulate his developing brain, thereby promoting physical, social, cognitive, emotional, and language development. But it is the parent who is watching and guiding this little star on the rise, and
Dream Pillow, like all of the Village units, is written with the parent very much in mind.
How many ways can Baby and Parent zoom in Village? Hop in the
Zoom Buggy and find out! Through a variety of songs, chants, and instrumental selections you and Baby will experience the rumbling of a baby buggy, the squeaky stroller, the bumpa bumpa bumpa of the wagon, the train chugging up the track and much more.
Our Time (18 months to 3 years)--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 special moments at home 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. The songs and activities promote interaction between parent and child where the parent gently guides their child's learning.
Imagine That! (3 years to 5 years)--Books, storytelling, language, drama, puppets - these are all essential ingredients to the Imagine That! curriculum. Each acts as a dramatic catalyst for integrating thematic songs, activities, events, and feelings.
Hello, Weather! Let's Play Together encourages children and their families to get outdoors and share time together in all types of weather.
Young Child (5 years to 7 years)-- Young Child provides a pressure-free, developmentally appropriate transition to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. Kindermusik provides the opportunity to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols and authentic pre-keyboard, string and woodwind instruments.
Young Child helps every child develop a confident, joyful voice for singing and speaking as well as essential building blocks for a future of learning.
For children ready to take private lessons, Miss Sarah highly recommends
Elmo Lopez Music Studio (722-0727, Sara Lopez).
Sign & Sing (6 months to 3 years)--Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child,
Sign & Sing shows you signs that your child can use to communicate with you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development in hearing children, you'll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities for your child. You'll never have to memorize a list of signs. This curriculum gives you the ASL signs that are most useful to you, and most interesting to your child.
Family Time (birth to seven years)--Join a room full of families in music making with this unique Kindermusik curriculum designed to apply musical and developmental learning in a multi-age, multi-child, family environment. This program explores five musical themes--play time, meal time, clean-up time, bath time and night time--and gives your family songs and activities that you can do together throughout the week. Included with tuition for each family is a set of At Home Materials (2 different CDs. "Sing, Play and Grow! A Family Guide to Musical Fun," 2 different Jellybean Band books, 2 double-egg shakers, Jellybean Band domino game, Kangaroo hand puppet, and a Joey finger puppet).
Music Box (Bring Kindermusik to your preschool!)--Music Box is a developmentally appropriate curriculum for musical learning designed specifically for children enrolled in a preschool.
Music Box helps your preschooler explore the world with exciting games and interactive songs that foster self-expression and creativity. Tapping out rhythms on sticks, shaking jingle bells, moving, dancing and singing are all part of your child's play in the
Music Box world. We are always available to do free demos at Laredo preschools.
If you missed the article about Owen Duggan in Friday's San Antonio Express-News, I recommend you check him out. Duggan is a San Antonio elementary school music teacher and dad of a preschooler. Noah and I spent some time listening to him this afternoon, and we love his brand of children's music--smart, silly, and all-around fun for the whole family.
