Description: These classes are action-filled for toddlers, preschoolers and their parents - full of energy, often on the move, exploring and learning, balanced with calming moments to help regulate their emotions.

Activities: We'll experience the joy of playing together through finger plays, wiggling and tickling activities, body awareness songs and bouncing songs. Dancing with scarves and hiding games are also part of the fun!

Musical & Developmental Goals: They'll also be engaged in rocking and bouncing activities, circle songs and listening excerpts and tonal and rhythmic patterns to shape listening skills and acquaint the child with the nuances of music. Movement is a big part of this class to allow children to feel the beat of music and learn about spatial awareness while enhancing their gross motor skills and coordination with instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, occasional use drums.

Parents! It is normal for children to wander during this class, and adults are not to worry... they are still listening while in the environment and taking everything in!

Materials: Additionally, you’ll receive a wonderful CD & Digital Download recordings by a fine children’s choir and outstanding instrumentalists. Using your parent guidebook along with an instrument or scarf that comes with the Semester materials to use at home for more fun time together.

Celebrate your preschooler’s growing independence and love of the outdoors with musical activities around the theme of nature. This class nurtures your growing child’s ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context.​

Activities include: singing, chanting, moving, focused listening, musical games, exploring musical instruments, creative movement and storytelling. ​

Musical & Developmental Goals: This class is will not only establish the child's foundation for music learning through tuning the voice, developing aural skills, promoting control of gross and fine motor movements, but it will also expand listening capabilities, build self-discipline and social skills through ensemble development, and promote independence and interdependence through movement - skills that impact school readiness and all areas of academic learning.

Materials: Fun family packets including wonderful music on 2 CDs + Digital download, Parent guide-songbook and animal picture listening cards are included for use at home to increase family involvement in the learning process and foster the love and appreciation of music and nature.

Description: This class is Level 1 of our Music Makers & Piano curriculum designed to bridge the gap between earlier Family Music classes and the groundbreaking Music Makers at the Piano class. Children almost 5 years and older are now ready for a more structured music learning experience.

This Music Makers class cultivates the child's musical development through singing, tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, guided listening, instrumental play and manipulative games. Activities are presented in a developmentally sound, playful manner; the focus is on learning through process rather than performance.

​Musical Activities & Goals: Rudimentary music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are dealt with using themes from the child's home environment and natural surroundings. Children begin learning more about rests, common melodic patterns, rhythmic patterns, tempo, dynamics and instrument classification etc. Parents join in towards the end of the session.

We will be doing a wide variety of “hands-on” activities designed to build a strong musical foundation through:

• Drumming & percussion instrument play
• Developing the singing voice
• Movement, both creative and structured
• Building the necessary listening skills to lead to long-term success in instrumental study
• Beginning the process of playing in ensembles along with learning about orchestral instruments
• The first steps in reading music
• The songs, stories and sounds from the world of nature in different environments: My Neighbourhood/At the Seashore/Woodlands/Cattail Marsh/Meadow
  

​Instruments Used: Rhythm sticks, Drums, Jingles, Resonator Bars, Glockenspiel, Piano-Keyboard.

​​+Materials: Packets with themed materials [ Parent Guide book, Musikgarten Recordings, Poster, Coloured Photos]

Musikgarten is the only programme that caters for the unique developmental needs of children at each age.

Musikgarteners get to explore culture through a variety of classical and folk songs and dances from all around the world, including repertoire in foreign languages such as Spanish, French, German..

All of the classes are interrelated, so that material introduced at one level serves as building blocks for the next level.

By using only the highest-quality educational resources and instruments, you can help deepen a child's appreciation for music and the natural world around, building a foundation for life-long music making

As the children grow-up in Musikgarten, this sequential planning makes it easier for the students to develop musical competence and graduate to instrumental playing and performance.

The Musikgarten teacher presents music in a way that appeals to parents and their children and nurtures children’s natural inclination toward music, movement and learning.