As for the spring semester, NOW is the time to enroll. Classes begin the 1st week of February.
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I LOVE the units coming up:
Village (babies): Hickory Dickory, Tickle & Bounce .... and The Rhythm of My Day
Our Time (toddlers): Fiddle Dee Dee
Imagine That (preschoolers): Cities: Busy Place, Friendly Faces
Young Child (5-7 years old): Semester 2
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Ages birth - 1.5Hickory, Dickory, Tickle & Bounce & Rhythm of My Day
Some of our favorite activities and songs in The Rhythm of My Day and Hickory, Dickory Dock include Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Golden Slumbers, Walk All Around, Ally Bally, Peek-a-boo, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Beat the Drum, Roll That Ball, Sulla Lulla, The Blackbird, Shoe a Little Horse, Ninna Nanna, Ride-O, and All the Pretty Little Horses. The lessons focus on the key concepts of the diversity of sound, stop and go, syncopation, Sol-Mi, steady beat, up and down, and Major, Minor and Modal tonalities.
Parents can incorporate music into many of the regular routines and rituals of their daily 
lives. A new feature will be the incorporation of simple American sign language into the curriculum. Signing offers families a way to communicate with their babies before the infants are ready to verbally talk. Research has shown that signing among “hearing” children can actually enhance their verbal communication skills. Dr. Marilyn Daniels, a signing consultant for Kindermusik International, has said, “from early in infancy, it is evident that baby is aware of his environment and has the desire to communicate. Introducing sign language to hearing babies has the benefit of allowing adult and baby to communicate before the baby’s vocal chords are developed enough to speak. This silent communication raises self-esteem, eliminates the frustration of not being able to communicate and engages the baby as an active participant in the learning environment.”
Discover the joy of interacting with your baby and the support and nurture you will receive from being with other parents and babies at this unique stage in your lives!
Each semester you will receive two sets of At Home materials.
Each set of Kindermusik Village At Home Materials includes:
- Baby’s Literature Book with specially commissioned art will aid in visual tracking, shape and color recognition and language development.
- a specially designed instrument for baby
- Home CD of the highest quality.
- Art Banners with pictures for baby’s vocal exploration.
Ages 1.5 - 3.5Fiddle-dee-dee Creatures of the animal kingdom, whether furry, web-footed, hoofed, winged or whiskered, are the subject matter for Fiddle-dee-dee. Fiddle-dee-dee takes its name from the beloved folk song about the fly who married the bumblebee. The theme of “fiddling around” is present all semester long. Included are recordings featuring a range of “fiddle” playing styles from classical violin to folk style fiddling and other relatives of fiddles, such as the sitar of India.
traditional folk songs and rhymes. And, of course, there is the original home instrument, a pair of Fiddlesticks! Sporting the bright stripes of a bumblebee, the one-of-a kind Fiddlesticks can be rattled, rolled, tapped and otherwise fiddled with to create fun sounds and play possibilities. The animal theme of Fiddle-dee-dee ties in nicely with musical themes. Animal sounds, which are so appealing to children, naturally prompt imitation and provide abundant active listening and vocal play material. And in the context of moving like animals we are easily able to focus on movement concepts such as high and low, smooth & bumpy, fast and slow.
The songs are chosen for their singability to aid young singers in finding their singing voices. A favorite animal song is Sweetly Sings the Donkey. Simple rhymes such as Bazoo, Bazoo, Butz are a fun part of this curricula.
Two literature books feature adorable, whimsical artwork. Animal Serenade features the cut paper art of Andrea Everbok and snippets of familiar folk songs. This Little Piggy Played the Fiddle is a new version of the familiar toe-tickle rhyme and features music- and movement-oriented little piggies delightfully illustrated by Carol Dee Jung.
Fiddle-dee-dee Home Materials
Included in your home materials is a pop-up box in the shape of a dog house for carrying your home materials, a home activity book with songs to sing and activities for home, two literature books, two CDs, and a pair of Fiddlesticks.
Ages 3 - 5
Cities! Busy Places~Friendly Faces
People on the go, rushing everywhere – in the city! Meet the Busy Places and Friendly Faces of Cities!, the Imagine That! unit in which we will create a city that’s familiar, yet like no other. Imagine a city of music and imagination, where ordinary sounds and sights on the street make a musical ensemble. People shuffle their feet to a 4/4 beat. Street musicians serenade and sing. Clock towers boom, bellow and ring. While 3 and 4 year old children build this city of imagination, they explore a mini-city of skills developing so rapidly in their minds and bodies. The games, music, and pretend play were written specifically to expand this age groups’ learning in the following areas: pre-ensemble development, mathematics, music, social interactions and critical listening.
There’s a city of music—based in songs, recorded works and city sounds. There’s a city of the imagination—of three and four year olds being whoever they imagine themselves to be today, perhaps a broom man today or an opera singer tomorrow. There’s a city of stories—of lost dogs and found dogs and of a globe-trotting photographer. Everyone involved will enjoy rolling all these cities up into one musical, grand adventure.
Along the way, we’ll explore movement-sweeping movement, up and down the elevator movement, dance and freeze like a statue movement. We’ll make music with our Kindermusik Resonator Bars, steadily playing along to the Israeli song, “Zum Gali Gali,” and learning new musical terms and using mallets to create ringing and damped sounds. We’ll build a city out of handcrafted “buildings” brought from home. Then dance around your city together – being careful not to step on skyscrapers! Check the mail and “write” a real letter to share with parents. Play games: a shoe passing game; a street vendor game, and a movement and matching game involving three artists, math, a drum and the Puerto Rican children’s game song, “San Sereni.” We’ll walk down “sidewalks” made of masking tape and freezer paper. We’ll stop and draw our footprints. We’ll take pictures of all that we “see!” We’ll read two Kindermusik literature books, one about a “snappy, zippy” photographer and the other about rhythmically busy shopkeepers.
Enjoy jazz, opera, barbershop quartets, Irish jigs, and Indian recordings by bamboo flutist Shashank in class and on your Home CD. The Home CD also includes a Chinese folk song, “Kang Ding City”; and “Bonjour, mes amis”; and “Sorida,” a greeting song in the Shona language of Zimbabwe; and finally, storytelling and dramatic play in “The Tales of Eddie and Bandit.”
Musical highlights of this unit include learning about the musical terms of glissando, dynamics, tempo and accelerando. Some favorite songs are “I Got a Letter This Morning,” “Walk All Around,” “1,2,3 Click” and “Pretzels for Sale.”
Best of all, in “Cities! Busy Places ~ Friendly Faces,” children from all kinds of communities will find commonalities with their life. We at Kindermusik in Wake Forest hope that you and your child will join families all over the world in turning off the television, turning on the music and welcoming the many adventures that Cities! Can bring to your days together.
Cities Home Materials
In the home materials, each child will receive:
- an Imagine That! Backpack
- a Family Activity Book
- two literature books, Razupazu Toto and Down Our Street
- two CDs
- two Resonator Bars and Mallets
- a Cities Game Board Set. This game board fits together like pieces of a puzzle and includes four decks of 25 cards, setting up over 12 possible games for families.
- A mini City Scene poster, depicting busy city life is included and is used with the Game Board set.
ages 5 - 7
Parent/Caregiver participates in last 10 minutes
Year 1, Semester 2 (Spring Semester) New students welcome!
At this age, the young child learns music best when he is actively engaged in making music! Songs and activities that encourage solo singing are "We Sing Hello," "Ten in the Bed," "We Are Dancing" and "Good-bye." Songs and activities that reinforce tonal or rhythmic concepts for music reading and writing are "Lucy Locket," "Mouse Mousie," "Ten in the Bed," "Go to Sleep" and "Sing and Celebrate." Songs that encourage echoing or a response are "Che Che Koolay," "I Have a Little Melody" and "We Are Dancing." Songs that are playful or familiar and call the children into joyful participation are "Jingle Bells," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," "Happy Birthday, "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt," and "If You're Happy and You Know It." Songs used in singing games are "Lucy Locket," "Mouse, Mousie" and "Circle Round the Zero." Beethoven is our featured composer as we listen to "Symphony No. 6." Other listening selections include "The William Tell Overture" by Rossini, "The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi, "The Elephant" from "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens, "Peter and the Wolf" by Prokofiev and "The Young Perons's Guide to the Orchestra" by Britten. Other listening repertoire includes listening to the woodwind and string families and their individual instruments. Children delight in moving to original compositions for learning concepts, "Piano and Forte Dance" and "Dancing Staccato and Legato." Two highlights are the instrumental ensembles, "The Elephant and the Waterfall" where children make sounds to express the story and "Sing and Celebrate," an ensemble for singing and playing different parts. Concepts in Semester 2 are piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, staccato/legato, graphic notation and reading the traditional rhythms of quarter and eighth notes and quarter rest and staff reading of f, g, a, c and d.
