Level 2:
Kindermusik for 18 months to 3 ½ years
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When life gets especially busy, it’s a special way to connect with my kids.
– Corey M
Meet Jack. His adorable two-year-old dance moves begin the moment he gets out of bed, and he sings through his breakfast. “Is it Kindermusik today, Mama?”
You already know your child loves music, so let’s nurture that!
A Level 2 classroom is a very special place where each child’s learning style is welcomed and helped to flourish.
We love our active wrigglers and our keen-eyed observers; the ones who stick close to their parent and the ones who plop themselves down in the teacher’s lap!
Level 2 treasures the parent-child bond while seeking to engage the children directly in musical discovery. Your little one will feel so special. You will see their confidence grow, new skills develop, and you will share with them a deep joy in the act of musical creation.
What you get
Forty-five minute weekly class led by your fabulously talented Kindermusik Educator.
Insights into how every activity we do is helping your child to develop and strengthen new skills in music, language, abstract thinking, self-regulation, balance, co-ordination and MORE!
A warm, supportive community of families. We are all in this together!
Home resources delivered to your phone, tablet or computer. Includes all the songs and dance tunes, and plenty of info for parents about the developmental benefits of each of our activities. Plus BONUS activities you can try out at home and long after your class is over.
What we’ll do
Toddlers need to explore. Each class focuses on a specific musical concept, which we will explore in many different ways: listening to sounds, moving our bodies, singing, and playing a variety of percussion instruments. Special extras like hoops, parachute and some clever surprises will keep you and your child giggling all day!
Benefits
Up until about age 3, children are mostly learning by observing and imitating others. That’s why the magical combination of parent and child with other adults in a Kindermusik class becomes one of the best kinds of opportunities for using music to fuel a child’s learning and development.
Language Development
Your child is on the edge of a verbal explosion, and Kindermusik gives her lots of opportunities to practice and develop those budding language skills. Singing and vocal play along with Story Time, chants, and finger plays all help stimulate language development in a fun and pressure-free way.
Vocal Development
For toddlers, learning to use their voices starts with imitating sounds, playing with the many sounds our voices can make, singing short songs, and chanting simple rhymes, all with you as a model and inspiration.
Cognitive Development
You’ll be able to enhance your child’s growing comprehension and cognitive skills through happy classroom routines like coming to get instruments and putting them away, musical activities that invite clapping and tapping to music, and themes that engage the toddler’s delightful sense of curiosity and imagination.
Gross Motor Skills
Toddlers on the go love all their Kindermusik classes – we’re never still for very long! From holding and shaking instruments to running and jumping to stopping and going, you will enjoy being part of helping your child’s skills blossom through a wide variety of creative movement.
Fine Motor Skills
At a time when your child is becoming more and more independent, a little practice with smaller-sized instruments, finger plays, and turning pages in a book means that the hand muscles learn to cooperate more and more with the brain.
Social Emotional Development
There’s no doubt that your toddler is becoming his own little person, but he still needs you as his anchor of security. Kindermusik ensures your child’s healthy social and emotional development through predictable routines and special rituals, being around other children, practice with sharing, and best of all, play time with you.
Musical Development
Toddlers are delighted by music, and there’s no better time than in these early years to inspire what will become a lifelong love for music. From drumming to singing to dancing together, you’ll love how Kindermusik inspires your daily routines and strengthens the bond you share.
Kindermusik and Brain Development
Your Kindermusik Educator is also your guide into how each activity contributes to your child’s development. Kindermusik engages in ongoing research about music and brain development that keep us in the forefront of early childhood music education.