- Village: for babies newborn - 18 months old, 45 minutes per week, 8 weeks per session, sessions run back to back.
- Sign & Sing: for children 6 months - 2 years old, 45 minutes per week, 10 weeks per session
- Our Time: for children 18 months - 3 years old, 45 minutes per week, 15 weeks
- Imagine That: for children 3 - 5 years old, 45 minutes per week, 15 weeks
- Young Child:
for children 5 - 7 years old, 60 minutes per week, 15 weeks
- Family Time: for multi-ages, 45 minutes per week, 15 weeks
- ABC Music & Me: two age groups (2-4 years old and 4-6 years old), 45 minutes per week, 4 week sessions (multi-session discount available)
Waiting lists: We keep waiting lists for classes that are full. If you are interested in joining a class that is marked full, please call or e-mail us to be added to the waiting list. Spots do sometimes open up after the start of the semester. If you join a class after it has started, we will prorate the tuition for you.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| 9:30 am | Our Time | Our Time | ABC Music & Me 2-4 yrs | |||
| 10:30 am | Our Time | Village | Our Time (FULL) | Family Time | Village | |
| 11:45 am | Sign & Sing | Village (FULL) | ||||
| 1:00pm | ABC Music & Me 2-4 years | Imagine That | ||||
| 2:45 pm | Imagine That | |||||
| 3:15 pm | ||||||
| 4:15 pm | Young Child 1 | 4:35 ABC Music & Me 3-5 years | Young Child 3 (FULL) | |||
| 5:45 pm |
Imagine your child swinging softly in a blanket or dancing with you around a maypole. Village provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-level activities that includes creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and a colorful literature component, your baby's growth and development are stimulated and all of his senses engaged.
Kindermusik Village, for children newborn to 1 1/2 years of age, incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement. High quality, professionally created class and At Home materials include Kindermusik Foundations of Learning, insights based on current research that educate parents about their babies' unique development.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Spring 2010 Units: Cock-a-doodle Moo and Dew Drops
Days and Times offered: Wednesdays at 10:30, Thursdays at 11:45, Saturdays at 10:30
Fee for 8 week session, including home materials: $167, or about $21 per week
Early Communication -- From the moment a parent meets that little one, there is a strong desire to understand. What is he thinking? Is he hungry, tired, too cold, content? Early on, every baby also has an innate desire to communicate.
In a Kindermusik Sign & Sing class (developed by Signing Smart™), we give parents the tools and knowledge to communicate with their babies using American Sign Language. Through songs and play, both parents and babies learn signs for words like “mommy” and “eat,” and as well as practical signs like “more,” “milk,” and when he’s “all done.” This research-proven signing class for hearing children speeds language development, eases frustration, and enhances long-term learning abilities.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Days and Times offered: Tuesdays at 11:45
Fee for 10 week session, including home materials: $236, or about $23 per week
Music class for families with multiple children ages newborn and up
In fifteen weeks, you'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family.
A one-room schoolhouse approach to music. With older children ready to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones eager to learn, Family Time becomes a multi-layered learning environment. Each week, a Kindermusik Educator will introduce basic musical concepts and then give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.
Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing - all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you - and they'll start developing the skills they'll need in school and on the neighborhood playground. Family Time is also a good choice for families with one child if other Kindermusik classes don't fit the child's schedule.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Spring 2010 Unit: Here, There, Everywhere
Days and Times offered: Fridays at 10:30
Fee for 15 week semester, including home materials: $299 for 1st child, $180 for 2nd child, $100 for each additional child, or about $16 per week per child for two children. Babies younger than 9 months are free!
Can you sound like an elephant? Or hop like a bunny? Our Time encourages your child to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self-control and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming and object identification foster language skills. Creative movement to various musical "moods" develops a sense of balance, timing and spatial awareness. Listening and turn-taking encourage blossoming social skills.
Kindermusik Our Time is designed for children 1 1/2 years to 3 years of age. Along with an accompanying parent or caregiver, children meet weekly for a 45-minute class and enjoy singing, moving, listening and interacting socially, and playing simple instruments. Exploration Time encourages a child's discovery of specially designed instruments, textures, sounds and movements; language skills are fostered with singing, sound imitation, and vocal play; Music & Movement Story Time encourages emergent literacy skills; and creative dancing affirms a child's urge to move.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Spring 2010 Unit: Away we go
Days and Times offered: Tuesdays at 10:30, Wednesdays at 9:30,
Thursdays at 10:30, Fridays at 9:30
Fee for 15 week semester, including home materials: $299, or about $20 per week
Imagine That! takes you and your child on a musical journey of discovery and exploration...a journey limited only by the power of imagination. Pretend play activities are integrated with music, vocal development, storytelling, movement and literature to capture your child's potential to learn and to encourage cognitive and literacy skills, creativity and individuality.
Kindermusik ImagineThat! is designed for active, energetic, enthusiastic, and imaginative 3- and 4-year-olds and encourages socialization, sharing, and participating in group activities. Singing becomes a focus for enhancing the preschooler's vocal development as her expressive language is just beginning to emerge. Parents and siblings are invited to participate in Sharing Time, the last 15 minutes of the 45-minute class.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Spring 2010 Unit: Toys I Make, Trips I Take
Days and Times offered: Tuesdays at 2:45, Fridays at 1:00
Fee for 15 week semester, including home materials: $309, or about $21 per week
Listen as your child astonishes you with her newfound ability to create musical compositions. Kindermusik for the Young Child provides a pressure-free, developmentally appropriate transition to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. Kindermusik provides the opportunity to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols and authentic pre-keyboard (glocenspiel), string (dulcimer) and woodwind (recorder) instruments.
Young Child helps every child develop a confident, joyful voice for singing and speaking as well as essential building blocks for a future of learning. Designed for children ages 5 through 7 years of age, classes meet once a week for 60 minutes. Parents and siblings are invited to participate in Sharing Time, the last 15 minutes of the 60-minute class. Students explore many facets of the musical experience: speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing instruments, as well as learning about reading and writing music. As the capstone to the child's Kindermusik journey, Young Child broadens and deepens the child's introduction to the fulfillment and excitement of musicianship.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Spring 2010 Units: Semester 2 (for children 4 1/2 - 6 years old, usually pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or 1st grade) and Semester 4 (successful completion of Semester 3 is a prerequisite for Semester 4).
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Days and Times offered:
Semester 2: Tuesdays at 4:15 - 5:15
Semester 4: Thursdays at 4:15 - 5:15 (FULL)
Fee for 15 week semester, including home materials: $354, or about $23 per week. (Compare to piano lessons!)
Singing. Moving. They call it fun. We call it learning! Join us for a month-long introduction to or continuation of the wonders of Kindermusik! Designed by the same people who design the other Kindermusik curricula, ABC Music & Me is a developmentally appropriate, high quality music and movement program designed to further the social, listening, and learning skills that are necessary for early school success. Each lesson emphasizes a different area of your child's development: confidence, coordination, vocal expressiveness, careful listening and early exposure to reading skills. Detailed home materials let you continue the learning, oops, we mean fun, at home!
A child's experience in ABC Music & Me will include:
Songs and rhymes to develop phonetic awareness and early reading skills, playing rhythm instruments in time with music to improve hand-eye coordination and strengthen fine motor skills, focused listening with music to improve skills in following directions, developmentally-appropriate songs to develop vocal chords and expressive speech, learning that emphasizes storytelling, imaginative play, and taking turns.
Class size maximum: 10 children
Spring 2010 Schedule: each unit is 4 classes
For children 2-4 years old with adult: Wednesdays at 1:00 - 1:45 and Saturdays at 9:30 - 10:15
Outside my Window: January 9, January 16, January 23, January 30
On the Go: February 3/6, February 17/20, February 24/27, March 3/6
Home Sweet Home: March 13/17, March 20/24, March 27/31, April 10/April 7
For children 4-6 years old (drop-off): Wednesdays at 4:35 - 5:20
Sing a Story: December 9, December 16, January 6, January 13
Sounds Abound: February 3, February 10, February 17, February 24
Drums, Drums, Drums: March 3, March 10, March 17, March 24
Fee for each 4-week unit including home materials: $89, or about $22 per week.
*Sign up for three units and the fee is $249, or about $21 per week, a savings of $18!*
Contact us
Hearts and Minds Music, LLC
19 Danbury Road
Ridgefield, CT 06877
(203) 438-4939
heartsandmindsmusic@yahoo.com
