4. Music Makers (Ages 4-8)
WelcomeBy seeking Musikgarten education for your child, you are providing the opportunity to gain a lifetime of benefits and enjoyment for your whole family.
Your child is at an age where he/she is ready to take bigger steps toward music playing, singing, reading, and writing.
Music Makers: At Home in the World (Ages 4-7)
Part 1 of our two -year sequential program gives your child a solid music making foundation. This year focuses on your child's fascination with nature and love of instruments.
Music Makers, Year One:
Provides a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression.
Introduces orchestral instruments and play together
Focuses on building a child's aural (listening) foundation which leads to long-term success with music reading.
Features:
Singing, creative and structured movement.
Training of the ear.
Coordination of body and voice.
Enhancement of self-discipline and social skills.
First steps in reading music.
Stories, songs and sounds from the world of nature: My Home, Woodlands, Marsh, and others.
Introduction to 6 instrumental ensembles, with fine recording and full color posters.
Music Makers: Around The World (Ages 5-8)
Part 2 of our two-year sequential program gives your child a solid music making foundation. This year focuses on your child's fascination with all things new and different.
Music Makers, Year Two:
Explores the music of the British Isles, Germany, and our own Amerindian and African American Heritage.
Features songs, dances, stories, rituals,and customs of these cultures to help your child feel and understand others.
Builds skills in listening, singing, playing instruments, as well as expressive movement and dance.
Offers age-appropriate steps to develop music literacy - symbolic thinking, concentration, memory and self-expression.
Develops ensemble and instrument playing to build on the music-making foundation from Year 1.
At the end of Year 2 your child will have a solid, comprehensive music foundation, an excellent preparation for the next step, whether it be instrumental lessons, singing in a choir, participating in an Orff ensemble or joining a dance class.
Family Involvement:
Each of the 10 units of Music Makers provides a generous packet of activities to help you take the sound environment of class home. Foremost is an outstanding CD with songs, instrumental demonstrations, learning sequences and a story; additionally you will have instrument and nature posters, family activity books, notation games, song pages and games pieces.