Music shapes lifetime attitudes toward appreciation of the arts and develops the understanding of humans in the context of their culture.

Music and music related activities stimulate development in every area of the brain. You witness what areas of development are being stimulated each time you turn on the radio and your child reacts. Does he sit quietly and listen? If so, your child's cognitive development and communication skills are being addressed (hearing). Does she move her body? This indicates that her motor skills are being targeted. Does he begin to vocalize? Language development, specifically speech is responding. Does she want to cuddle? Your child's emotional well-being and bonding are affected. Music helps children express creativity while nurturing their physical and vocal development as well as their self-esteem and independence. Music plays a significant role in promoting growth and development!

 ….music establishes patterns of brain development
….music is crucial to language development
….music through movement makes vital connections for emerging literacy
…music provides tools essential for problem-solving
…music fosters emotional bonding and self-esteem
…music activities are helpful in developing the eyes

But most important…
….music is fun!!!!
Fall 2008 Schedule

Birth to 1 1/2 years
Parent/Caregiver attends with Child
Zoom Buggy
All those airplane sounds you make with a spoon during feeding time actually help your baby learn language. In this seven-week class, learn how sounds like this can develop physical, social, cognitive, and emotional skills. Hop in the Zoom Buggy! As we sing, dance, read, listen, and move, your child connects experience with language, sound, and visuals to encourage early literacy. Join a group of parents and children as we enjoy rumbling, vrooming, swooshing, chugging, squeaking, and bumping together. Engage in rituals and playful activities such as infant massage, lap bounces, exercises, and quiet time.

At Home materials include over 25 specially-selected recordings from class, a colorful board book, two Art Banners for the nursery wall, and a baby instrument which moves the learning beyond our time together into the everyday home experience. .

Monday
11:00 - 11:45 am
7 sessions / 45 minute class
Parent/Caregiver attends with child

Birth to 1 1/2 years
Parent/Caregiver attends with Child
Dream Pillow
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 parents 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 family's daily routines.

At Home Materials, including a board book, Home CD of the songs heard in class, a baby instrument and two art banners, provide resources which can help you give your child daily doses of music-making at home.

Thursday
11:00 - 11:45 am
7 sessions / 45 minute class
Parent/Caregiver attends with child

1 1⁄2 years to 3 years
Parent/Caregiver attends with child
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 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.

Wednesday
9:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Thursday
9:30 – 10:15 a.m.
14 sessions / 45 minute class
Parent/Caregiver attends with child

3 to 4 years
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- and four- 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).

Monday
9:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Tuesday
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
14 sessions / 45 minute class
Children attend without Parent/Caregiver

4 1/2 to 7 years
Young Child Semester One
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 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, or as a launching point for your child’s musical study, the Young Child curriculum broadens and deepens the child’s introduction to the fulfillment and excitement of musicianship. Children will begin playing a glockenspiel, a small 15 bar xylophone, as their first instrument.
Tuesday
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
15 sessions / 60 minute class
Children attend without Parent/Caregiver

5 to 7 years
Young Child Semester Three

“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.

Monday
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
15 sessions / 60 minute class
Children attend without Parent/Caregiver
*All classes include At Home Materials with CD, books, & activities
Tuition Discounts: referral 10% 2nd child 20% twins 30%

About the Educator
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.
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@msn.com

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