Class curricula

Feathers

The musical poems of Woody Guthrie, bird songs, and the naturally occurring sounds in nature help babies develop an early appreciation - and accelerated aptitude - for language, movement, and music in this class.

Home Materials: CD with over 25 specially-selected recordings from class, Kindermusik chimeball, a colorful picture book of birds - Feathers, and a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy.

Do-Si-Do

Pick up your baby and dance. Dance the Charleston, the Tango, and the Cha-Cha and learn why dancing with your baby helps develop vital learning skills - from head-to-toe. In this class, play a variety of baby appropriate instruments, a dance with fun props.

Home Materials: CD with songs from class, an instrument - Kindermusik eggshaker and scarf, a picture board book - Do-Si-Do - with lilting move-to-it rhyming text, and a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy.

Cock-a-doodle-Moo!

Hop on the hayride - it's time to head for the farm! In this class, you will sing songs about the farm, including “Old MacDonald,” “Hayride,” and “Clever Cows.” You'll engage in rituals and playful activities with your baby, including infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time.

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

Stop and smell the roses - and lily of the valley, and tulips, and pansies. In this class, parents and babies will play and move together to songs about flowers, such as “Jasmine Flower,” “How Does Your Garden Grow?,” and “White Coral Bells.” You'll also hear traditional Irish music, dance a jig and move to the “Irish Trot.”
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.

Zoom Buggy!

Swoosh, vroom, and clickety-clack your way through this delightful unit. Babies and adults will dance, sing, and play instruments to the theme of being on the go. Chug around the room to the song “Little Red Caboose,” hold on tightly while “Riding in the Buggy,” and dance your way to “Zoom-e-oh!”  Engage in rituals and playful activities such as infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time.

Home Materials: Colorful board book of different vehicles - Zoom Buggy,Home CD of the songs heard in class, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens visions and promotes early literacy, and a Zoom Car baby instrument for music-making at home.

Dream Pillow

This title alone brings images of rocking, cuddling, singing, and lulling to sleep. But leading up to sleepy time are many upbeat and playful activities. Babies and Adults will swirl to a dreamy cloud dance “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland.” They'll also play baby appropriate instruments to “Aiken Drum,” and “Sarasponda.” Favorite nursery rhymes like “Wee Willie Winkie,” and “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling,” are sprinkled throughout the classes. It's easy to weave many of the class songs and activities into your families' daily routines.

Home Materials: A board book that calms and relaxes - Dream Pillow Lullaby, Home CD of the songs heard in class, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy, and a Star baby instrument for music-making at home.

Hickory, Dickory, Tickle, and Bounce

Research shows the more you expose your baby to nursery rhymes and songs, the stronger those emerging language-learning skills will be. That's why these Mother Goose-like stories and rhymes are the main theme of this class. Plus, you'll develop research-proven communication strategies with your child through listening activities, speaking "parentese," and sign language.

Home Materials: CD of beautifully arranged nursery rhyme and songs from class, a rhyming picture board book - Hickory, Dickory, Tickle, and Bounce, a set of Art Banners, and an instrument for music-making at home.

The Rhythm of My Day

This class will help you bring more rhythm and routine to your baby's day, as well as help develop lasting learning skills. We'll show you how and tell you why music can help your little one soothe into the day's schedule and help build a strong body and mind network for learning. You can bring home those same stress-free play and relaxation techniques from class, and incorporate them into your daily routines.
Home Materials:CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, The Rhythm of My Day -  A colorful picture board book with class themes, a set of Art Banners, and an instrument for music-making at home.

Busy Days

Peekaboo, I love you!

You and your baby will have so much fun playing and singing "peekaboo" with scarves in "Peekaboo, I love you!" Babies will love playing with balls, splashing their toes in water and popping bubbles too! Learn how to say "I love you!" using Auslan sign language and strengthen your loving bond dancing and rocking together. There are plenty of opportunities for your babies to interact with other babies during these sensory-packed music-filled lessons! 
Home Materials: CD of lovely music, songs and chants, a colourful "Peekaboo, I love you!" board book, a duck bath mit, a rubber "gertie" duck ball, a home activity poster with ideas and suggestion to support babies learning at home

Wiggles & Giggles

The more than 30 songs, 15 dances, and eight different instruments create these unique music activities, designed to reflect the importance of movement in the life of a toddler.

Home Materials: Double CD features 50 songs, sounds, and recordings of favorite activities from class; two story books - Watch Me! and Pete and P.J., to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book; and specially-made pair of zigzag blocks - instrument to develop rhythm and hand-eye coordination-all conveniently stored in a Wiggles & Giggles carry bag.

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. Read stories about ways to get around. 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.

Milk & Cookies

Make everyday home activities and chores easier and more fun with music! Cook and sing to “The Muffin Man”; dust and clean to the original song “In My House”; get ready to wash clothes to the delightful poem “Washing Machine”. Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery shopping and making tea are all represented in familiar as well as new songs. Move, play, and sing together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 ½ to 3-year-olds. Capture the familiar and new moments of the day and learn how music can impact your toddler.

Home Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two books - At My House and Cookies, two Home CDs, stir xylophone instrument, and a Home Activity Book - all arriving in a durable lunch bag.

Fiddle-dee-dee

We'll meet many animal characters in our books, activities, and songs - each specifically chosen for a toddler's emerging interests and physical skills. With silly, bumpy lap bounces we'll help toddlers develop rhythm while further developing their ever-emerging language skills. With a special stringed instrument emphasis in the music from class, parents can bring home the violin, cello, and orchestra sounds to help their toddlers stay happy and engaged learners at home, too.

Home Materials: Double CD featuring songs from class; two interactive storybooks - This Little Piggy Played the Fiddle and Animal Serenade to develop early literacy skills; Home Activity Book, and a pair of Fiddlestick instruments.

See What I Saw

In this class, preschoolers use their real experience of playing in the park to create imaginative, storytelling scenarios with music - go on an imaginary trip to Grasshopper Park where they slide down a park slide and then recreate the sound of that experience with a loooong vocal glissando. Each week provides preschoolers one uninterrupted session of imaginative play that's guided in a very specific, sequential way - with a special sharing time with parents in the last 15 minutes of class

Home Materials: Two books - Can You Find Me? and The Ant's Picnic Feast, Two Home CDs, See What I Saw play set, a Family Activity book, a slide whistle instrument and lumi sticks instrument and a backpack.

Hello Weather! Let's Play Together

Sunshine, rain, snow, thunderstorms and more in this imaginative and delightful weather-related musical adventure. Preschoolers create storm sounds with a drum to "Wild Storms", jump in pretend puddles to "Mud Puddle Jump", throw pretend snow-balls to "Snowballs" and sing along to "Colours of the Rainbow". With weather as our learning theme, preschoolers will explore musical styles that range from opera to American folk and become more self-sufficient in a creative musical environment that intergrates music, pretend play, storytelling, movement and more.

Home Materials: Two books - Michael Finnigan and Hurry Home Little Kittens, Hello Weather play set, Two Home CDs with over 63 recordings of the stories, games and weather sound effects played in class, a Family Activity book and two instruments - ankle bells and rain shaker with scraper.

Toys I Make, Trips I Take

Take a trip inside your child's imagination. We'll use the theme of a toy shop to make our pretend-creations, using rhythm and songs with every imaginary saw, hammer and nail. The result is building the preschooler's sense of a sequence of events, which is good for storytelling as well as helping them to turn their ideas into reality.

Home Materials: Two books - If I Had a Big Blue Boat and Tippity Tippity Too, Toys I Make, Trips I Take play set, Two Home CDs, a Family Activity Book and a drum.

Cities! Busy Places - Friendly Faces

In this unit, the cityscape and the people who live there are the theme. Explore the sights and sounds of the city, learning through pretend play which comes naturally to preschoolers.  We'll be rhythmically busy playing storytelling games and handcrafting city buildings from materials from home so we can make our own city scape! Plus every activity has some at-home adaptations so the parent can take part in the learning. With a pair of resonator bars as a featured instrument, and a multicultural, jazzy collection of music, preschoolers will develop the social and intellectual skills they'll need in school.

Home Materials: Two books - Razupazu Toto and Down Our Street, Cities! Game Board Set, Two Home CDs - collection of multicultural and jazzy music heard in class, Family Activity Book and a pair of resonator bars as the featured instrument.

ABC Music & Me Laugh & Learn Curriculum

Splash!

This month we’ll think and talk in 3s. In class we’ll sing songs that help your child seek and find that pattern, such as singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Even the things in your Home Kit this month comes in 3s—when you listen to the music, share the activities, and splash around with this blow-up beach ball.

Home Kit: Beach ball, Home CD, and magazine-style Family Guide (includes the class story Bath Time)

Let’s Play

All the ways you play—at home, in the school yard, during your family time together—is this month’s theme. In class we’ll play “Follow the Leader” and other playground games to help your toddler develop listening and singing skills while strengthening movement and hand-eye coordination. In your Home Kit, find more activities, songs, and games you can do together to play and learn at home, too.

Home Kit: Mini Tambourine, Home CD, and magazine-style Family Guide (includes the class story Golden Bear)

Silly All Over

 This month gives children a case of the giggles. They will listen to silly sounds, move in silly ways, and read a story about a mouse that puts clothes on all the wrong places. Laugh a little, and get Silly All Over!

Home Kit: Pair of green sand blocks, Home CD, and magazine-style Family Guide (includes the class story Silly Mouse Gets Dressed).

Our Kind of Day

Music time isn't just at music class, it's all day long! What better way to build family bonds than to sprinkle music and movement throughout playtime, mealtime, clean-up time, bathtime, and nighttime? At each lesson, parents are given ideas for creativity and insights into their child's development. With catchy songs such as “Wishy, Washy, Wee” for bathtime, “Go Into the Kitchen” for mealtime, and "Love Somebody" at bedtime - parenting becomes easier and a lot more fun! Over the course of 10 weeks, each lesson is packed with singing, listening, storytime, puppet play, creative movement, instrument play, family jams, and sharing.

Home Materials: Two Books - Bouncing on the Bed and Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes, Two Home CDs, Family Guide, domino game, Hopper the kangaroo hand puppet and Bounce the joey finger puppet, and two double-egg shaker instruments.

Here, There and Everywhere

the five sub-themes center around different family outings: a visit with a friend, an outing at the park, a trip to the city, an afternoon at the aquarium, and a day on the farm. Move like animals with this unit's story Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! And follow a girl's adventure as she loses her jambourine during the day's outings and then finds it in the story Jingle-Jangle Jambourine.

Home Materials: Two Books - Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! and Jingle-Jangle Jambourine, Two Home CDs, Family Guide, board game, Waggs the dog hand puppet and finger puppet, and two jambourine instruments.

Movin' & Groovin'

is a romping, rolling, stretching good time for the whole family. This ten-lesson unit of Family Time will explore lots of different ways to move - high and low, fast and slow, zigzag, curvy, and more. Family members will chug around the classroom like trains, clip-clop like horses, and roll over like puppy dogs. They'll hear a story about playing tag together in Can You Catch Me?, and read about a jungle hokey-pokey in Put Your Left Paw In. Show your best groovin' moves - it's time for Movin' & Groovin'.

Home Materials: Two Books - Can You Catch Me? and Put Your Left Paw In, Two Home CDs, Family Guide, Rascal the monkey hand puppet and finger puppet, and two monkey den-den drums.

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, Rex the lion hand puppet and finger puppet, an instrument-matching board game and two fingerdrums.