Music Sprouts

About the Classes:

¯rewarding musical experience

¯ curriculum based on music education

¯developmentally appropriate

¯ long time proven

¯challenges the child, allowing them to grow

¯program incorporates infants all the way up to four-years old

¯award-winning, highest quality, most durable instruments

¯allows parent and child to have a bonding experience through music

¯prepares for piano through music vocabulary, pitch matching, phrasing, and form

Classes Offered (each class is 45-min./8 classes per session $139 + $40 for instrument backpack)

1. Babies & parent/caregiver (6 mo. to 1.5 yrs old)

Massage rhymes

Action rhymes

Singing

Movement in circle songs and scarves

Exposure to high quality instruments developmentally appropriate for babies (instruments have round handles for easier grip and have round edges for safety as the babies explore the instruments with their mouths)

Floor/Chair games 

Lullabies

2. Toddlers & parent/caregiver (1.5 to 3 yrs old)     

Steady beat activities with motions and percussion instruments

Pitch matching

Circle Songs

Listening (differentiating between different types of music i.e. march vs. lullaby)

Movement

Exposure to timbres of a variety of different ethnic instruments

3. Kids & parent/caregiver (3-4 years)

Creates a strong foundation for any future musical pursuit and is essential before note reading is taught

Free and structured movement/instrument activities

Focused listening activites and pitch matching

Dynamics/tempo

Learn iconic + traditional notation (quarter/eighth notes rhythmic patterns)

Solfege though singing, body solfege, Curwen hand signs and movement

Develop skills for private instrument lessons, such as finger numbers, rhythm, patterns

Glockenspiel playing is incorporated as the students progress to beginning piano learning simple songs with iconic notation