The Music Meri Spring Kindermusik Offerings

    

     Home Materials: CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, a board book of colorful flowers—DewDrops, a set of Art Banners for the  nursery wall, and a Flower Bells instrument for music-making at home. 

                                                                                                            Download the DewDrops journal free by clicking here

• L 1-4: Down the Irish Trot: Dancing and singing to the songs of Ireland and England, we move and sing to teach our babies about high and low in pitch and movement. Hand-in-hand, we continue our travels through far off lands discovering steady beat - the underlying, regular pulse in music.
• L 5-8: All the Way to Galway: Follow-the-leader, partner dance, playing with instruments, and hide-and-go-seek all the way to Galway! We find all kinds of ways to experience duration (long and short), and tempo (slow and fast). When these babies are in Imagine That classes in a few years, these words become the musical terms of legato and staccato, lento and allegro.

    Saturdays 10:00 - 10:45 am                  February 4 - June 9, 2012                                    Classroom #3 (blue - base of ramp)

All prices listed include tuition and materials                                 

16 weeks $255.00                  45 minute class/parent and child attend entire time together                         

Available Discounts

Sibling discount for enrolling 2 or more children in a class(es)          Referral Discount: $10 off of yours AND your friend's next class

Away We Go! -- Hop on the train, get in the car, board the plane, and Away We Go! This class focuses on transportation, a favorite topic for toddlers who are on the go, go, go! Sing and play along with favorite songs, such as “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad” and “Wheels on the Bus”. Explore fast and slow, smooth and bumpy, and high and low. Read stories about ways to get around. Shiny Dinah tells the story of a train, and Giddy-Up! has a horse, speedboat, racecar, and more to help you get where you want to go.

Home Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two interactive story books—Shiny Dinah andGiddy-Up! to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book, and two harmonicas designed for toddlers.

• L 1-4: Choo-Choo with You: Oh, we are a traveling bunch now! We take the train, drive the car, bounce, clap, and play! Choo-chooin’ fast and slow, we find new ways to experience tempo in music and poetry. And before we head for home, we steam into the station and stop for a snuggle!
• L 5-8: Hop On, Let’s Go! We giddy-UP horsey and then head DOWNtown on the bus. We dance together in a circle and all fall down! So much fun together wondering about ways to move and sing waaa-ay up high and waaa-ay down low.
• L 9-12: Round and Round Together: Wagons and airplanes, boats and wheels, and instrument play and circle dances - we’re going round and round together laughing and discovering up and down, smooth and bumpy, and all the magic ways to learn while having fun.
• L 13-15/16: Two in a Boat: We’re both parents and adventure buddies for our children as we float down the river or traverse bumpy rapids in boats we imagine for ourselves. We explore the smoothness of legato and the bumpiness of staccato. Hang on for a fun ride while we make music together.

3 1/2 - 5 years 

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 All prices listed include tuition and materials                                 

16 weeks $255.00                   45 minute class/child attends 35 minutes alone and adult joins for final 10 minutes       

Available Discounts

Sibling discount for enrolling 2 or more children in a class(es)          Referral Discount: $10 off of yours AND your friend's next class

See What I Saw -- In this class, preschoolers use their real experience of playing in the park to create imaginative, storytelling scenarios with music—go on an imaginary trip to Grasshopper Park where they sail down the park slide and then recreate the sound of that experience with a loooong vocal glissando.  Each week provides preschoolers one uninterrupted session of imaginative play that's guided in a very specific, sequential way—with a special sharing time with parents in the last 15 minutes of class

Home Materials: Two books—Can You Find Me? and The Ant Picnic Feast, Two Home CDs, See What I Saw Play Set, a Family Activity Book, a slide whistle instrument, a slide whistle and lumi sticks instruments, and a backpack.

                                                          See What I Saw Monthly Mini Themes:

• Lessons 1-4: Adventures at Grasshopper Park: Together we take a trip to Grasshopper Park, stretching our minds and bodies with music and movement and lighting up our imagination to discover all the fun things we can do at the playground. Musical fun with glissandos, slide whistles and wooden instruments get us started on sounds, and playing music together!
• Lessons 5-8: Up in the Treehouse: We’re at the Grasshopper Park today playing with the wind and the sun, climbing trees and exploring the world all around us. We let pretend play and movement do what they do naturally - enrich all the areas of our child’s developing self: physical, social, emotional, and cognitive.
• Lessons 9-12: Our Feathered Friends: Our feathered friends lead us on an adventure where we imagine all the ways we can express ourselves with singing and with movement. As we practice and play, we are strengthening language development, social skills and creativity!
• Lessons 13-15: Going on a Picnic: A picnic at the park is the perfect way to explore the sounds of words, different instruments and celebrate how creative we are. We put all of our ideas, words, music and (pretend) food in the picnic basket for dramatic play and fun learning!

All prices listed include tuition and materials    

16 weeks $300.00  for new students               60 minute class/child attends 50 minutes alone and adult joins for final 10 minutes

16 weeks $269.00 for continuing students (student whose sibling attended this class a previous year)                             

16 weeks $255.00                            

Available Discounts

Sibling discount for enrolling 2 or more children in a class(es)          Referral Discount: $10 off of yours AND your friend's next class

Semester Two -- Playing simple musical patterns and songs on the featured instrument from the first session—the glockenspiel—is a central focus this semester. While learning to sing a melody, and then play the pattern on the glockenspiel, we'll delve deeper into the understanding of musical concepts such as piano and forte through orchestra-style music such as the William Tell Overture and Peter and the Wolf. Music appreciation and understanding continues with a complete introduction to the instruments—and the families in which they're grouped—of the orchestra.

Home Materials: Children’s Folder with stickers, games bag, and Music At Home Cards, Family Songbook, and Home CD of music from class.

• Lessons 16-19: Toot Toot! Train is a 'Comin: Music is in the sound of a train, and the song of a bird, the cheer of a crowd at a ball game and in the family of instruments that make an orchestra. Careful listening will unlock the door to understanding and enjoying the world around us.
• Lessons 16-19: Music for Special Times: Whether it is Happy Birthday or Here Comes the Bride, music defines our celebrations. Your child will celebrate learning music as we discover where notes live on the musical staff, how both quiet and loud are exciting and how making music is a cooperative adventure.
• Lessons 20-23: Music Moves Us: Loud or quiet, heavy or light, happy or sad, music provides a way for your child to understand, experience and express all of this and more. Join us as we meet the great composer Beethoven compose a song about an elephant and a waterfall and learn about the family of string instruments.
• Lesson 20-23: Musical Emotions: Learning to use music to change the way we feel is good idea. Music has the power to help us calm down, rev up, day dream, or focus. How does that happen? We will explore this idea and learn about one of the world’s most famous composers, Ludwig Van Beethoven.
• Lessons 24-27: Does It Bounce or Does It Fly? What draws us all to music is its many flavors or variation, in volume, intensity, smoothness, or sharpness. We are discovering how to listen carefully to identity these sounds, then lets – MOVE like this: glide, fly, slither, float, jump, bob, boing, trot. PLAY these: drums, triangles, shakers, woodblocks, chimes. DRAW pictures of what we are hearing. We have a flavor for every learner!
• Lesson 24-27: Musical Games: It is so fun to learn through music! Circle Round the Zero, Che Che Koolay, The Music Machine and We are Dancing are all games we will use to learn more about our rich musical world.
• Lessons 28-30: Sing and Celebrate! The instruments of the orchestra are a wonderful collection of families! String, brass, woodwind and percussion – beautifully introduced in our focus piece for this unit: Peter and the Wolf.
• Lessons 28-30: Meet the Orchestra: Families Just like our families, instruments belong to a family too. They look, feel and sound similar. Join us as we explore the orchestra - Woodwind Family, Percussion Family, Brass Family and String Family - as depicted in the classic story by Sergi Prokofiev; Peter and the Wolf.

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ABC Music & Me 2 - 4 year-olds offerings:     Parent/Child classes                                      Classroom #3 (blue - base of ramp)

      Fridays  11:00 - 11:45 pm      Unit 1: 12/2 - 1/6/12   Unit 2: 1/13 - 2/12

                             45 minute class/child attends entire class with parent or caregiver

  4 weeks for   $65                                                                   
  8 weeks for $125                                                                   
12 weeks for $180                                                                  1

ABC Music & Me 2 - 4 year-olds offerings:     Child ONLY classes                                      Classroom #3 (blue - base of ramp)

     Fridays       12:05 - 12:35 pm           Unit 1: 9/30 - 10/21    Unit 2: 11/4 - 12/9     Unit 3: 12/16 - 2/3/12    Unit 4: 2/11/12 - 3/2/12 

     Thursdays    4:00 -  4:30 pm            Unit 1: 10/6 - 10/27    Unit 2: 11/3 - 12/1     Unit 3: 12/8 - 1/12/12    Unit 4: 2/2/12 - 2/23/12

ABC Music & Me 4 - 6 year-olds offerings:       Child ONLY classes                   Classroom #3 (blue - base of ramp)

Mondays     12:05 - 12:35 pm    Unit 1: 10/3 - 10/24    Unit 2: 10/31 - 12/5   Unit 3: 12/12 - 2/6/12    Unit 4: 2/13 - 3/5/12

Thursdays    3:30 - 4:00 pm      Unit 1: 10/6 - 10/27    Unit 2: 11/3 - 12/1     Unit 3: 12/8 - 1/12/12    Unit 4: 2/2/12 - 2/23/12

All prices listed include tuition and materials               Discounts Available to enrolled Saint Paul Preschool students
4 weeks for   $60                                                                   4 weeks for $50 per month
8 weeks for $110                                                                   8 weeks for $50 per month (or single payment of $100)
12 weeks for $145                                                                  1 week for $45 per month (or single payment of $135)