 For
your budding musician, Young Child Year 1
provides a pressure-free
class where your child can develop a strong musical foundation by
learning the concepts, language, notation, and vocabulary of music and
its greatest composers.
What you’ll experience in class:
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Singing and vocal
development.
. It may sound like a foreign language when your child
sings “ta” and “ti-ti,” but he’s using the language of professional
musicians and composers and getting ready to read and write simple
rhythm patterns.
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Movement.
You’ll see
your child dance expressively to music, giving him the practice he
needs to coordinate his body movements to the sound of music. This
kind of musical play not only improves musicianship, but his physical
coordination as well.
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Reading
and writing.
He’ll learn melodic
notation and identify pitches such as the C, A, D and F notes on the
treble clef, plus rhythmic notation. Eventually he’ll even compose his
own music.
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Focused listening.
Your
child will learn to identify a range of orchestra instruments and
their sound qualities, while also gaining an early awareness and
knowledge of composers and masterworks in Western arts tradition.
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Exploring and playing
musical instruments.
. Your child will learn to play notated music on
the glockenspiel, an authentic pre-keyboard instrument.
Children also explore a variety of percussion instruments.
Expose your child to the many choices for future musical study, and at
the same time provide your child with the opportunity to musically
succeed before taking on more formal instruction.
 In Young Child Year 2, students build on
musical skills and
knowledge acquired during Young Child Year 1, including reading,
writing, and playing music in the treble staff, identifying meter,
sharps and flats, and the C major scale. Students continue to play
the glockenspiel while also learning to play the 2-string dulcimer and
the recorder. Young Child Year 2 students benefit from a
multi-cultural emphasis as we study music from Appalachia, the Pacific
Islands, Europe, Africa, Central & South America, African-America music,
and Native-American music. Children learn to appreciate ballet
through the study of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.
Enrollment includes:
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Developmentally appropriate curriculum for children ages 5 to 7 (age 4
1/2 with teacher approval); caregivers attend the last 10-15 minutes
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30-
week school year
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Weekly 60 minute class
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At Home Materials Year One: 2 Children’s folders
with stickers and Music At Home cards, activity page manipulatives, 2
Family Songbooks, Glockenspiel (pre-keyboard instrument), 2 CDs of
music from class, canvas carry bag and 2 games bags.
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At Home Materials Year Two: 2 Children’s
folders with with stickers and Music At Home cards, activity
page manipulatives, 2 Family Songbooks, Dulcimer (string instrument),
Recorder (wind instrument) 2 CDs of music from class, and 2
games bag
Materials & Tuition: $120 Home Materials fee is due at
registration. This covers your Home Materials for the entire
school year. Tuition is $475 for the entire school year.
A monthly installment plan of $55 per month Sept - May is available for your
budgeting convenience.
CF = Copperfield. Cyfair Music & Arts, 7103 Glen Chase Ct, Houston
77095
For more information about what
Kindermusik
can do for you and your child, please call (281)855-8855 or
click here
to send me an e-mail. |
