Early Childhood Music ClassesMusikgarten Music Classes

Music education can help young children develop their language skills. Research shows that music education can improve vocabulary, grammar, and syntax in young children, and can also help them develop better phonological awareness.

Music education can also help young children develop their cognitive skills. Studies have found that music education can improve memory, attention, and reasoning skills in young children.

Music education can help young children develop their motor skills. Through singing, dancing, and playing instruments, children can develop better coordination, control, and fine motor skills.

Music education can also help young children develop their social and emotional skills. Through group music activities, children can learn to work together, develop empathy, and regulate their emotions.

Music education can help young children develop an appreciation for different cultures and traditions. Through exposure to music from different cultures, children can learn about different musical styles and instruments, as well as gain a better understanding of cultural diversity.

Perhaps the most important benefit of early childhood music education is that it can help children develop a lifelong love for music. By exposing children to music at a young age, they are more likely to develop a deep appreciation for music and continue to engage with it throughout their lives.

(30 mins weekly lesson with parents)

Designed for parents and their babies to take together, these weekly classes help you learn how to play musically with your baby. Each class features bouncing and rocking songs, wiggle and peek-a-boo games, and other fun activities for the two of you. When you go home, you can continue the fun with a superb CD recorded by a fine children’s choir and outstanding instrumentalists. Using your parent guidebook along with rhythm sticks, a Musikgarten rattle, and colorful scarf will give you both hours of enjoyment.

Musikgarten’s musical play for babies:

• Increases your baby’s curiosity about music
• Develops listening skills and a sense of beat
• Establishes a foundation for singing and musical thought
• Helps you form a closer bond with your baby
• Gives you and your baby a chance to interact with other parents and babies

(45 mins weekly lesson with parents’ sharing time)

Celebrate your preschooler’s growing independence and love of the outdoors with activities involving the four seasons in The Cycle of Seasons.. Developed to build attention and self-expression, activities include singing, chanting, moving, focused listening, musical games, exploring musical instruments, creative movement, and storytelling. The Cycle of Seasons nurtures your growing child’s ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context.

Fun family packets including wonderful music CDs are included for use at home to increase family involvement in the learning process.

(60 mins weekly lesson with parents’ sharing time)

A three-year learning program for children to experience activities that lead to ‘Musical Literacy’ and readiness for individual instrumental learning. ‘Musical Literacy’ means the ability to play by ear and by reading notes. This program also includes singing to nurture the child’s aural development, creative as well as structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training, and guided listening. This developmentally sound approach to music literacy builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression. The children start to work with written musical patterns, too.

Music Makers lays the groundwork for keyboard success.

Year 2 and 3 introduce much-love piano repertoire, develops and enhances comprehensive musicianship at the keyboard, refines body control and ear tuning, improve the ability to read and play with fluency, further challenge the child to acquire and master more advanced technical skills, and continues to build a foundation for life-long instruments playing.

The benefit of learning keyboard in the group:

• develop children’s confidence and skills
• overcome nervousness about performing for others
• respond spontaneously
• inspire motivation by learning from each other
• developing teamwork and cooperation
• refine discipline and patience
• encourage creativity and innovation
• build interest in music and in practice
• improve hand coordination in handling musical instruments
• * opportunities to explore and experiment with various types of musical instruments

Making music can also raise young people’s aspirations and achievement at school, and provide wider personal and communication skills in real life, not least the skill of continuous learning.

(50 mins weekly lesson with parents’ sharing time)

Parents and children get their first-hand experience of playing-by-ear in this class. Songs loved, sung and experienced in previous classes are translated into playing on the keyboard. Fun activities of music and movement and percussion playing are still very much a part of this course. Written musical patterns are introduced here, beginning with the rhythm patterns and tonal patterns that the children have been singing in the class since there were babies.

The Piano Partners class is designed for children between the ages of 6 and 9 who have completed the Music Makers: At the Keyboard class. This class provides a more advanced piano education experience, with a focus on developing technical skills, musical interpretation, and ensemble playing.