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Curriculum
Descriptions
Spring Semester 2010
Fall Descriptions coming soon

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Village |
Our Time |
Imagine That |
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Young Child |
Sign and Sing |
Family Time |
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Developmental Chart--PDF File
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Ages
Newborn - 1.5 years
Feathers/Do-Si-Do
Feathers introduces Baby and
Parent/Caregiver to a delightful range of songs, movement
activities, object play, and vocal play relating to our
feathered friends. The Australian Kookaburra, the African
Ostrich, and many more birds from across the world are featured
in songs, dances, and poems. Both jazz and classical
selections, a Yiddish folk song, a Muskogean melody, and Mother
Goose rhymes set to music are just a few of the colorful and
exciting pieces introduced in this curriculum.
Do-Si-Do stimulates a wonderfully unique experience of
rhythm and movement for Baby and Parent/Caregiver. Movement
highlights include a Virginia Reel, a combination Tango,
Cha-Cha! and a "move-to-it" poem. Other activities range from
chime ball play to instrument exploration and more. Music
selections draw from many traditions, including African
American, Mexican, Romantic, Scottish, South African, and
Southeast Asian.
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Ages 6 months - 3 years
Welcome to Sign &Sing, a first of its
kind joint venture between two of the top early childhood
learning programs in America, Kindermusik and Signing Smart! Use
the power of music, song, and play to create unique
opportunities to share ASL signing with your child. Signing with
young, hearing babies and children enriches their interactions,
relieves frustration, and gives you fascinating insights into
your little one's thoughts, preferences, and ideas. Signing
facilitates early speech and vocabulary development, allows even
very young children the opportunity to initiate conversation,
aids in memory development, and increases concept formation, all
while boosting self esteem. The Sign & Sing curriculum creates a
setting well-suited to fun, communication, and learning. Sign a
song of bears, balls, or bubbles! Watch- can your hands say
'music' to the beat? In every class, learn new, useful, and
interesting 'target' signs to add to you and your child's
growing vocabulary as you sing and play your way to both
increased early communication and long-term learning. This
class gives you the strategies to help you feel empowered and
comfortable communicating with your little one.
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Ages 1.5-3.5 years
Wiggles and Giggles
Wiggles & Giggles
is all about movement (wiggles!) and fun, funny words and
sounds, and emotion (giggles!). There is a strong connection in
this semester to the Our Time theme of bound away and back. The
songs are about humor, laughter, silly sounds and words, and
movement. The child is going back and forth between being
independent and wanting mommy and daddy. Everyday activities
like bath time are highlighted in the delightful book 'Pete and
PJ' from the Kindermusik library. Included as part of the
'giggle', the instrument focus is on silly sounds, like the
Zig-Zag blocks included in the home materials.
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Ages 3.5-5 years
See What I Saw
Books, storytelling, language, drama, puppets - these are all
essential ingredients to the Imagine That! curriculum. Each
acts as a dramatic catalyst for integrating thematic songs,
activities, events, and feelings. In See What I Saw,
you will enjoy the many wonders of a trip to Grasshopper Park.
The music represents a variety of different cultures with songs
from Ghana, Latin America, Greece, and France. You will find
some favorites including “Ha Ha This-a-Way,” “Jim Along Josie,”
and “Mr. Sun,” “A Tisket, A Tasket,” “Shoo-Fly,” “and Allee
Galloo.” There are also many new, original compositions like
the chant “Everything is Just Fine.” The At Home materials then
invite the children to continue the fun and learning at home
through the use of a Kindermusik slide whistle, a play set, two
literature books, a Family Activity Book, and two CDs.
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Young Child Semester 1
Ages 5 to 7 years +
Semester
1
of Kindermusik for the Young Child opens the world to new and
different ways of learning about music. The focus and content
includes beat versus no beat, percussion instruments, brass
instruments, melodic direction, exploring the staff, and
notation. Semester 1 also introduces the glockenspiel, a
pre-keyboard instrument. Some of the favorite themes are "Music
is Everywhere,” "Meet the Mallets," and "Discovering Melody and
Mozart." Materials include 1 CD, Family Song Book,
glockenspiel, Purple KM Tote, Folder & Games Bag, Weekly
Activity Cards, Activity Pages & Manipulatives. Parents present
the last 15 minutes.
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Ages 6 months to 7 years
Our Kind of Day
In
this family-sized version of Kindermusik, the music and
activities involve the five things that happen around your
house: playtime, mealtime, clean-up time, bath time, and
nighttime. Your
At Home Materials
include a hand and finger puppets of the Kangaroo and Joey
characters featured in the two literature books. Plus, two home
CDs of music from class, a home activity guide, and two double
egg shaker instruments. Each item has been carefully created to
bring out the music—and the learning—in your family. Specially
designed to fit the varying ages and learning abilities of your
children, this set will help you bring the learning and the
music-making home, as well as become a lasting, well-loved
favorite of the toy box and book shelf.
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Contact:
Luanne
Kauppila

Licensed Kindermusik Educator
360.825.8870
Please call for a free introductory class.
Gift
Certificates Available!
luanne@luannesmusicstudio.com
www.luannesmusicstudio.com
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