Music Arts

For the fun of music - make friends, make noise, make and listen to great music.

Based on current research and developmentally appropriate methodologies, the Kindermusik curricula uses music as the vehicle for learning during the first seven years of a child’s life, however, the benefits of music extend well beyond those early years.

Childhood development experts, researchers, and scientists agree that learning through music can set a child up for success in school and in life. The benefits of music for children include:

• Early Literacy and Language Development: Active music-making and activities that emphasize steady beat, rhythm, and pitch increase phonological awareness due to similarities in brain functioning between music and language. Plus, stories, nursery rhymes, finger-plays, and songs increase vocabulary acquisition and support early language development.
• Social-Emotional Skills: Music classes for children cultivate sharing, turn-taking, active listening, cooperation, paying attention, and healthy social interaction with peers and adults. Kindermusik supports the key abilities needed for children to grow into socially confident and capable people.
• Cognitive Skills: Musical learning provides gains in abstract reasoning, spatial and temporal reasoning, and self-control.
• Physical Skills: Playing developmentally appropriate instruments and moving around the room to music provides children opportunities to practice both fineand gross-motor skills each week in class and at home with you.
• Music Skills: Kindermusik prepares children for traditional music lessons, including piano, violin, and voice. In class, children may experience steady beat during lap bounces or clapping games, play instruments together to support early ensemble development, learn to tap basic rhythm patterns, sing age-appropriate songs to support vocal development.

What you need to bring: yourself and your child. We encourage all families to leave their personal belongings outside the classroom to eliminate distraction. Water and a few valuables (car keys, phone wallet etc.) can be brought into the class, shoes, coats and bags should be left outside the classroom.