There will be two classes offered this spring: Family Music for Babies and Family Music for Toddlers. Classes are held at a church, Hope Chapel, which is in the Brentwood neighborhood of central Austin. A map can be found here. We meet upstairs in Room 26.
Family Music for Babies: Wednesdays, 11:00 am
Family Music for Toddlers: Wednesdays, 10:00 am
Classes will run January 21 - May 6.
(No class March 18 for Spring Break)
Family Music for Babies
Designed for parents and their babies to
take together. This 30-minute weekly class helps you learn
how to play musically with your baby.
Musical play activities:
– Increase your child’s curiosity about
music.
– Develop listening skills and sense of beat.
– Establish a foundation for singing and musical thought.
– Help you form a closer bond with your child.
Features:
– Bouncing and rocking songs.
– Wiggle and peek-a-boo games.
– Superb CD recordings by a fine children’s choir and
outstanding instrumentalists, together with a book
describing the activities and games to play with baby.
– A lovely cloth instrument pouch with rhythm sticks,
Musikgarten rattle and colorful scarf.
Benefits to Child:
- Nurtures a bond of love and security.
- Increases child’s curiosity about music.
- Develops child’s listening skills and sense of flow and
beat through movement.
- Provides model for both parent/caregiver and child.
Cost: $175 for fifteen weeks of 30-minute
classes
Family Music for Toddlers
Participate with your toddler for 30 minutes
each week in singing, chanting, moving, dancing, listening,
and playing simple instruments.
Musical play activities:
– Help develop a strong musical bond with your child and
closer family ties.
– Bridge the natural connection between music and movement.
– Enhance your child’s musical aptitude and listening
abilities.
– Lay the foundation for singing and vocal development,
listening skills, and purposeful movement.
Features:
– Movement activities for coordination, body awareness,
exploration of space, body control and the pure joys of
movement.
– Folk songs for singing, dancing and listening.
– Focused listening examples from both daily life and music
intruments.
– Instruments to explore: rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles,
drums, and resonator bars.
– 4 wonderful semesters, each with a 60 minute CD, a parent
activity book and an instrument or scarf to use at home.
Benefits:
- Channels toddler’s energy productively.
- Facilitates expression of feelings.
- Assists memory through repetition.
- Develops further musical aptitude and focused listening.
Cost: $175 for fifteen weeks of 30-minute classes
Attend a free trial class! Use the
"Contact" form to email me for
details.