Are you looking for one special thing to share with your child? One that will let you both:

Dance and move ~ Sing and rhyme ~ Play instruments ~ Imagine and explore ~ Laugh and learn!

 

You’ll find all of this and more each week in Kindermusik classes! Designed by experts in early childhood music and education, trusted by families for over 28 years, winner of several national parenting awards, Kindermusik is the world’s leading music and movement for young children.

Kindermusik introduces your child to the joy and adventure of music and then moves at his pace, affirming and building on his interests, ideas, and skills. From birth through age seven your child can grow and learn without pressure to perform, only encouragement to explore and discover. You’ll witness a developmental evolution in language skills, literacy, listening, problem solving, social skills, self-esteem and a love of music!

In Kindermusik you’ll find:

• Small class sizes (10 or fewer per class)
• Highly qualified, certified teacher:

      Allyson MacCauley, BA in Music, Degrees in History Education and Political Science, with several year teaching and performance.

     Parents and children who love spending time together and making new friends

• Home materials which include high quality music recordings on CD and follow-up activities
• Classes designed for each developmental stage

 

Cathedral families are eligible for tuition discount.

Spring classes will begin in February.  To be sure your schedule is accommodated, get in touch soon with

Allyson MacCauley (828-318-3100) allysonmarief@hotmail.com 

 

 

NEW:

Kindermusik Family Time - “MAKE WAY FOR MUSIC”

Newborn to 7 Years

Come and bring all the children to the same class! We'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family.  This one-room schoolhouse approach to music allows for older children to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones are eager to learn. Family Time is a multi-layered learning environment. Basic musical concepts are presented each week along with 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.

Kindermusik Family Time:  Thursdays 5:30 pm

In Make Way for Music, families will sing, dance, and move their way through an exploration of several elements of music: beat and rhythm, concepts and contrasts (such as staccato and legato, high and low, the major scale, and arpeggios), the human voice, instrument families, and ensemble. They’ll engage in developmentally appropriate activities that the whole family can enjoy together, including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time, and family jam.

 

Home Materials: Two books—Drum Circle and Animals on Parade, two Home CDs,  Family Guide, an instrument-matching board game and two fingerdrums.

CURRICULA FOR FOUR DISTINCT AGE LEVELS

Kindermusik Village

For the new born to 18+ months (with parent/ caregiver)

Time:  Thursdays 10:15 am;

 

Cock-a-Doodle-MOO! explores a farm theme through music, motion, and multisensory activities. Baby will enjoy the movement of a "hayride," the vocal play and discovery using farm animal sounds (cock-a-doodle-OINK!), and lots of singing activities ranging from classic favorites like “Old MacDonald” and “You Are My Sunshine” to a Swedish rhythm song and a beautiful Armenian lullaby. Home Materials: A picture board book with charming farm animals and the sounds they make—Cock-a-doodle-Moo, a CD of the songs heard in class, a Sunshine Jingle instrument for music-making at home, and a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall.

DewDrops takes Baby and Parent/Caregiver into the middle of a flower garden, seeing the DewDrops glisten in the morning sun and feeling the cool breeze blow, a true multi-sensory experience! Varying styles of music are represented from the lively Celtic dance of the Belfast Hornpipe to the gentle, soothing melody of “Scarborough Fair.” Whether hammocking, dancing a jig, exploring a drum, singing a lullaby, or using a mirror in vocal play activities, Baby and Caregiver can celebrate the joys of music and their special relationship. Home Materials: CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, a board book of colorful flowers—DewDrops, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall, and a Flower Bells instrument for music-making at home.

 

Kindermusik Our Time

For 1 ½ to 3+ (with parent/caregiver)
Time: Mondays 2:15; Thursdays 11:15

Away we Go!

 

Away We Go! -- Hop on the train, get in the car, board the plane, and Away We Go! This class focuses on transportation, a favorite topic for toddlers who are on the go, go, go! Sing and play along with favorite songs, such as “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad” and “Wheels on the Bus”. Explore fast and slow, smooth and bumpy, and high and low. Singing, dancing, hoops, balls, scarves, stories, and a variety of classroom instruments. Shiny Dinah tells the story of a train, and Giddy-Up! has a horse, speedboat, racecar, and more to help you get where you want to go. Home Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two interactive story books—Shiny Dinah and Giddy-Up! to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book, and two harmonicas designed for toddlers.

 

Kindermusik Imagine That!

For 3 - 5+ (families sharing in the final 15 minutes)
Time: TBA

 

Toys I Make, Trips I Take begns in a very remarkable toyshop filled with boats, drums, jack-in-the boxes, trains, and many other toys that bring a glimmer into the children's eyes. Later we explore the sea in a Big Blue Boat and in boats we “build” ourselves.

And then we take exciting train trips to exotic places.

 

While activities are centered on a child’s pretend play and imagination, Toys places a strong musical emphasis on singing, steady beat, and ensemble, as well as rhythm and rhythmic patterns. This unit introduces another musical concept - in which the beat gradually increases in pace -- accelerando. The music journey will focus on creating a stimulating musical environment that integrates music, pretend play, storytelling, movement and more.

Songs include such familiar ones as “A Sailor Went to Sea,” “Down By the Station,” and “Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay,” as well as Chinese, Israeli, Spanish, and French folk songs. You’ll also enjoy some new jazz arrangements and fiddle tunes. The featured instrument is the drum.  Your own Kindermusik drum and a variety of classroom drums will be prominent through listening and playing activities.

In addition to the specially designed drum, home materials include two literature books to facilitate language, listening, creative, and conversational skills, two CD’s, a home activity book, and an interactive Toy Shop play set.

 

 

Kindermusik for the Young Child

Semester 1: for K and 1,TBA

 Kindermusik for the Young Child is a sequential program with four 15-week semesters.

 

The first year provides foundation for studying piano; the third and fourth are an introduction to string and wind instruments.

While each semester builds on the previous, there is sufficient review that new children may join in semesters two and three. Each semester continues to involve children in singing, listening, playing instruments, and moving expressively.

All "At Home" materials include a folder, attendance stickers, ID stickers, home DC, and family songbook. In addition there is the one-time purchase for semester one, of carry-bag and glockenspiel. And in semester three, the dulcimer kit; semester four, the recorder.

Semester 1 broadens the child’s musical experience through the introduction of the glockenspiel. Basic rhythmic and pitch notation are explored through movement, games, and manipulatives.

Children also learn about percussion and brass instruments and are introduced to Mozart and some of his music, including The Magic Flute.

Semester 2 further develops the child’s instrument-playing skills while developing the greatest instrument of all—the voice! Concepts of piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, and legato/staccato are featured. Information about string and wind instruments is shared as well as an introduction to Beethoven.

Peter and the Wolf provides an exciting introduction to the whole orchestra.

Pressure-free, developmentally appropriate concepts help effectively prepare children for formal music instruction after age seven.

Semester 3 introduces the dulcimer (a 2-string, corrugated cardboard instrument to assemble and decorate at home that has a remarkably fine sound.) Other concepts include call and response, improvisation, meter, further staff notation, and a touch of Tchaikovsky. Topics include the music of Appalachia, the sea, our Afro-American heritage, Native Americans, and the world of dance.

Semester 4 brings the sounds of wind through the playing of the recorder! Many new musical terms are learned, as well as all the notes of the C scale.

Other teachers in the area include:

Yvette Odell, West and South Asheville, Weaverville singandtwirl@gmail.com

 

Maria Wood, North and South Asheville, Black Mountain maria@davidgrover.com

Debra Huff, Mars Hill, dhuff@mhc.edu