 When a child shows interest in music, a parent explores what options exist for encouraging the exploration and interest in music. Generally, private study is not usually recommended until a child is about 8 years of age when a child’s brain develops the ability to combine input and output in several senses at once. Children who grow up in Kindermusik have had chances to succeed, be nurtured and encouraged in their early creative explorations, and develop a core of music theory and concepts instilled through voice, body, and mind. Music for them is a natural part of their environment, and they have gained the language of note, rhythm and expression to give them the ability to enjoy a greater success in lifelong music making.
The Kindermusik curriculum grows with the child’s developing needs. Research continues to develop scientific evidence that MUSIC MAKES A DIFFERENCE. Not only does music shape lifetime attitudes toward appreciation of the arts, it links understanding humans in the context of their culture. In addition... But most important… |
Fall 2010 Schedule
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1 1/2-3 year olds 9:30 – 10:15 a.m. |
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1 1/2-3 year olds 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. |
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Milk & Cookies Milk & Cookies makes 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. Kindermusik gives children opportunities to actively choose what they will do and how they will do it. The parent gently guides their child’s learning through a process called scaffolding. Move, play and sing together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 1/2 to 3-year-olds. Capture the familiar and new moments of the day and learn how music can impact your toddler. Home Materials: Two books—At My House and Cookies, Two Home CD’s, Stir Xylophone instrument, and a Home Activity Book—all arriving in a durable lunch bag.
1 1⁄2 years to 3 years Parent/Caregiver attends with child Total Cost: $160 |
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Hello, Weather! Let's Play Together Sunshine, clouds, snow, rain, wind, storms…Mother Nature offers so many variables. The fall semester of Kindermusik Imagine That! takes advantage of those variables to provide three- four- and five-year-olds with a myriad of creative, weather-related musical adventures. To the preschooler poised with the merging power of his imagination, anything is possible and everything is a story waiting to be told. Imagine creating musical storm sounds with a drum. Picture your Kindermusik students exploring the pitter-patter of rain and the whoosh of the wind. Dance along with jingle bells while gliding along an imaginary ice pond or enjoy throwing pretend snowballs. It’s all part of the fall class entitled, Hello, Weather! Let’s Play Together. Through this integrated curriculum, your child will be learning to value and express themselves musically, given opportunity to participate in imagination and pretend play, and construct their understandings of the world through literacy and communication of the story. Families are given ideas for extended learning through delightful home activity projects like making wind chimes, rain hats, sleigh bells and snow boots. Home Materials: Two books—Michael Finnigan and Hurry Home, Little Kittens, Hello Weather Play Set, Two Home CD’s, Family Activity Book, and Instruments—ankle bells and a rain shaker with scraper (guiro).
3 - 5 years Child attend without parent/caregiver Total Cost: $180 |
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Young Child Semester One helps every child develop a confident, joyful voice for singing and speaking, as well as essential building blocks for a future of learning. Designed for children ages 4 1/2 through 7 years, classes meet once a week for 60 minutes. Students explore many facets of the musical experience—speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing instruments along with learning about reading and writing music. As the capstone to the child’s Kindermusik journey, the Young Child curriculum broadens and deepens the child’s introduction to the fulfillment and excitement of musicianship.
4 1/2 - 7 years Child attend without parent/caregiver Total Cost: $285 |
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“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace.” – Plato Young Child Semester Three continues the musical journey to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols and authentic pre-keyboard, string, and woodwind instrument. The Young Child curriculum, building on over 25 years of experience, works through the rudiments of note reading and writing to engage children in a variety of musical experiences. Children play a variety of instruments, dance to music from various American cultures, and participate in creating and playing in musical ensembles. Students develop attentive listening skills as they follow directions, imitate melodic and rhythmic patterns, and play together in ensemble. At this point, children have the skills and background to compose their own melodies. Children are intrigued and challenged as they learn to play a three-stringed dulcimer! Appalachian, Native American, and African American music provide the medium to broaden and deepen the child’s musicianship through creating, reading, writing, and moving to music.
5 - 7 years Child attend without parent/caregiver Total Cost: $285 |
Tuition Discounts: referral 10% 2nd child 20% twins 30%
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NEW LOCATION: Kindermusik for Village (ages birth to 18th months) Date: Every Thursday morning Cost: $10 drop-in (no need to pre-register) Materials accompanying each curriculum are (includes a CD of the music used in classes, a board book, Owning your own materials allows families to recreate the experiences we have together at home in the child’s primary learning environment. Contact me or Michelle at |
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Naomi Doerr has worked with music and young children since 1985 in preschool settings and in the intimate setting of her home studio. She holds a Bachelor in Music Education from Texas Lutheran University. Mrs. Doerr taught Kindermusik when her own children were young and has returned to teaching what she considers to be the best choice of activity you can make for your child during their formative years. In addition, Mrs. Doerr teaches piano, flute, and guitar in her private studio to students of varied age, ability, and motivation using creativity and compassion to focus on the learning style and interests of each person.
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Music is a Gift We Give!
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of
others cannot keep it from themselves.
Home Studio
7657 S. Galena Peak
Littleton, CO 80127
Phone: 720-981-3563
e-mail: doerrmusic@gmail.com
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