BIG KIDS, 5-7 years
Class Length: 45 minutes, once a week, drop-off with option to attend last 15 minutes
Kindermusik Musicians class (ages 5-7)
Coming Fall 2024! Location, day & time TBD.
Units Offered:
Fall - Spring 2024-25 - Year 1 of 2
Sept - May
Pricing
Fall & Spring
Installments:
$72.00 monthly/ $60 for siblings + home kit fee of $60.00
Joining us after the start of a unit?
We'll gladly prorate you!
Materials
Year 1
This Kindermusik Kit includes: Fiddlesticks, Glockenspiel with mallets, Glockenspiel Book, and Game Pieces Packs in a Kindermusik purple bag. Designs may vary.
Our most advanced classes offer children the opportunity to use music notation to play a variety of instruments. As children grow musically throughout Level 5, they develop strong social-emotional, problem-solving, and pre-literacy skills that help boost school readiness and encourage a natural love of learning.
Activities
Learning how to understand simple music notation and play the glockenspiel, dulcimer, and the recorder
Experiencing steady beat, meter, and rhythm through listening to music, moving, singing, playing instruments, and reading and writing music notation
Learning new music concepts through listening, moving, singing, game-playing, visuals, and imaginative play
Listening to music and sound with an analytical ear and paying close attention to pitch variation and timbre between specific instruments
Developing their speaking and singing voices through listening, imitating, and exploring
Participating in a variety of ensemble experiences, including instrumental ensembles, vocal ensembles, and group dancing
Skills & Benefits
Ability to read traditional and non-traditional music notation
Growing ability to extend what has been learned in one context to a new context
Awareness of steady beat, meter, and rhythm, essential musicianship skills with ties to physical development and coordination
Development of self-confidence, musicianship, collaboration, and creativity through teamwork, peer interaction, and communication
Ability to distinguish specific sounds within words and increased awareness of the rhythmic structure of language and developing speaking, reading, and listening skills
Understanding of music reading, beat competence, expressive movement, singing, instrument playing, and ensemble participation, skills that are beneficial in fields of study that involve problem-solving, creativity, coordination, persistence, fine-motor capabilities, and team participation
Make Up Policy
One make-up class may be used per Fall and Spring at a Saturday Playdate or other Kindermusik with Donnis location