We are up and running!

KINDERMUSIK WITH JENNY has finally found its home in Beatrice! I am so excited to announce that we will be holding our classes at the YMCA! This will be a wonderful way to connect with Beatrice families. The fall schedule is up and we are 

ready to enroll! You can view the schedule and enroll here OR at www.kindermusik.com. If you're not sure if you want to make a commitment yet, ask me about trying a free preview class.

Pattern Awareness

Pattern awareness is crucial to learning and memory. Just as in reading stories, singing and rhythmic speech expose participants directly to the patterns of language, including rhythm, speech sounds, syntax, and rhyme.

Tips for parents:

Patterns are all around – outdoors, indoors, in colors, how we arrange items on the counter or table, and even on the clothes we wear. With patterns surrounding us, it’s easy to play “pick up” pattern games with your child. First, point to the pattern. Have your child identify the individual parts. Then work together to point out how it all goes together. If there are objects that can be moved, you can even challenge your child to create some patterns of his own.

You can even try learning about patterns with your Kindermusik instruments!

- Contributed by Theresa Case, whose Greenville, SC program, Kindermusik at Piano Central Studios, is proudly among the top 1% of Kindermusik programs worldwide.

Digital Home Materials

Take a look at our new digital home materials! These are available for our ABC Music & Me classes. What do you think? Do you prefer digital or paper materials?

Why Kindermusik?

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.”-composer Ludwig van Beethoven

The Joy of Music

Music is unique to humans, and as basic as language to human development and existence.  It is through music that a child gains insight into herself, into others, and into life itself.  Perhaps most importantly, music is part of what enables a child to better develop and sustain her creativity and imagination.  Because a day does not pass without hearing or participating in some kind of music, it is to a child’s advantage to understand music as thoroughly as she can.  As a result, she will learn to appreciate, listen to, and partake in music all the rest of her life (adapted from Gordon, 1990).

Ideas for parents:

It can be very simple to surround your child with music – the greater the variety, the better! 

• Singing simple songs together can get the morning off to a great start.
• Child-safe instruments and some recorded music can provide happy times of self-entertainment or together time.
• Quiet, soothing music before naps and bedtime establishes a wonderfully reassuring sleep time routine.
• A dance around the kitchen can soothe the supper-time “fussies.”
• A cuddle and a lullaby at the end of the day adds the sweetest and happiest of memorable moments.

- Contributed by Theresa Case, whose Greenville, SC program, Kindermusik at Piano Central Studios, is proudly among the top 1% of Kindermusik programs worldwide.