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School Year Themes
Over each school-year enrollment, we'll explore six to seven unit themes. Each themed unit has different music & research-backed activities to nurture little minds and bodies across all learning domains as we sing, dance, create, discover & learn. We'll delve into developmental topics, parenting tips and ways to use music throughout your day to build routines & rituals, smooth out transitions and create cherished moments with music.
Foundations
Nature Walk: Explore the wonder and sensations of the outdoors with this delightful theme. Multi-sensory learning activities encourage your little one to discover the world through their senses: touch, sight, listening, moving and playing! Connect with other parents and babies and learn how music nurtures whole child development.
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Peas & Carrots: It’s delicious fun! We’ll focus on patterns, helping babies to explore, learn and to anticipate in the world around them. Exploring patterns builds strong neural pathways for future success in math, language & music.
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Mama Goose: Nursery rhymes endure for a reason. They're quirky, rhymey, and memorable - and they're also magical for speech and language development, as they work to "wire" the brain for communication before speech even begins! What a wonderful joy to share something with your child that your parents once shared with you.
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Old MacDonald: An inviting classic, this unit is filled with the sights and sounds of the farm. With a hee-haw here and a cock-a-doodle there you and your little one will dance, bounce and explore with multisensory animal-themed activities designed to nurture baby’s developing sense of hearing.
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Little Red Caboose: All aboard the Kindermusik Express! This delightful unit helps you and your little one explore "moving to learn" and "learning to move" through playful, multisensory activities, delightful dances, creative movement, bounces, vocal play, and instrument exploration.
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Bluebird, Bluebird: Your baby is working hard to communicate with you! Using sounds from nature, we'll encourage baby's emerging vocal sounds with delightful multi-sensory activities that spark growth across all learning domains. You'll dance, play, learn and grow - together.
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Peekaboo!: It’s all about play! We’ll enjoy fun games, songs & activities that build patterns of repetition, anticipation and surprise as you explore, laugh, tickle and bond with the power of learning through play.
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Music Makes My Day: Routines and rituals are important to baby’s emotional security. We’ll explore ways to use songs, anticipation and improvisation to add joy and connection and enhance the everyday routines of life as we explore the developmental topic of early literacy beyond books.
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Zoom Baby: Spatial awareness is the focus as we enjoy movement activities that explore distance, speed, placement, hand-eye coordination and more.
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Rise & Shine: Routines & rituals take center stage as we explore morning time around home and around the farm.
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Nighty Night: Baby’s developing vision is our developmental focus as we explore songs and activities about nighttime and the night sky. Plus we'll explore songs that help with bedtime routines & transitions to help you both settle in for a good nights sleep.
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Busy Days: Errands here, adventures there – baby sure has a busy day! Social and Emotional development take center stage as we use music to foster the bonds between infants and their closest caregivers and give you tools to help navigate your busy days with music.
Level 1
Family All Around Me: To toddlers, “family” means everyone around them that loves them. Nurture and grow that special relationship with your little one through activities that provide opportunities for connection, creativity and gross-motor development as we encourage language expansion and vocal expression.
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Zoom!: Toddlers are always on the go! We’ll put that energy to good use as we explore things that go with developmental foci on steady beat, tempo and inhibitory control.
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Around The House: Home is where the heart is and also where the cooking, eating, playtime, bathtime and pets are too! We’ll explore pretend play and symbolic thinking and their role in the development of creative expression.
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Yum: This delicious unit will get us up and moving! Little bodies will learn about musical dynamics through abstract opposite pairs as we dance, play instruments, bounce, explore and learn about foods like broccoli, carrots, blueberries & apples.
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Big Backyard: Our gross motor muscles get a great workout as we explore sandboxes, swings, slides and sunshine. We’ll stomp, wiggle, dance, sing, and make joyful music together.
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Big Red Barn: A toddler classic, this unit is full of delightful multisensory music and learning activities to nurture and grow your little one across all learning domains through vocal expression, active listening, creative movement, instrument play, group dances, bounces and storytime.​
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Way Up High: Spatial awareness and positional vocabulary are the focus as we explore the sky, weather, birds and butterflies through creative movement, singing & instrument play.
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I Can Do That: Being a toddler can be complicated. There is so much they can do, and so much left to learn! This unit will have us exploring confidence boosting activities that enhance language as we explore social & emotional development.
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Hello Day!: Greet the morning with all of your senses and explore the musical dynamics of high & low through creative movement, fun activities and instrument play that helps your little one develop fine-motor control.
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Playtime: Get ready for a non-stop play-fest of songs & activities that stress the developmental value of predictability, repetition and play. We'll play with activities that develop self control, body awareness and coordination and promote early math & literacy skills.
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On The Town With Bear: Discover how music enhances development across all learning domains as we tag along on an adventure with Bear. Explore the city, country side, emotions and musical dynamic concepts through full body, multisensory play to nurture growth, curiosity and self-expression.
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Rain or Shine: Use all your senses to discover the sights, sounds & feelings of sunny days & rainy days. Children will learn about opposites through finger plays & poems, dancing and instrument play.
Level 2
Up In The Sky: Explore all things that find their home in the sky. Get ready to fly kites, meet Mister Robin, pretend to be clouds and reach for the stars!
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Down on the Ground: Discover the world of creatures found at our feet! We'll hop like bunnies, wiggle like caterpillars, and move high and low like squirrels. This unit will spark your child’s curiosity, inspire imaginative play, and deepen their sense of wonder about the natural world.
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Marvelous Me: Children will build independence and grow their self-esteem by exploring all the things they can do by themselves. They’ll gain self-awareness learning how people, animals & plants grow and change. We’ll celebrate the uniqueness of each child as we sing, dance, move, explore and play.
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Pet Parade: Gather your critters, it’s time for some pet-themed fun as we sing, dance, play instruments and share our experiences of the animals that bring love and laughter into our lives. We’ll gallop like horses, scamper like mice and fly like birds as we develop our motor skills, vocabulary, and imagination.​
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Family & Friends: Celebrate those who matter most. Together, we’ll encourage the development of social skills, foster exploration, creativity and self-awareness.
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Colours & Shapes on the Farm: Its time to encounter a farmyard full of fun! We’ll explore some of the colours, shapes and sounds found on the farm as well as lots of animal friends. This unit is packed full of learning concepts and joyful activities.
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Time for Lunch: Explore food – from preparing to eating – through songs, vocal play, instruments and focused listening activities while we focus on creativity, routines and pretend play. It’s sure to be delicious fun.​
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Silly All Over: Catch a case of the giggles! You and your preschooler will laugh with joy as we wiggle, boing, and jiggle through this unit full of silly sounds and moves. Playful activities foster self control, enhance spatial awareness, and refine fine motor control with engaging instruments and colourful props. Hold onto your funny bones – we’re about to get Silly All Over!
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How Do You Feel?: Identifying, understanding and managing emotions can be complicated, especially for young children who can go from happy to upset and back again in the blink of an eye. The activities, dances and music in this unit provide a fun way for them to learn how to manage their emotions and even understand themselves and others better.
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Go Go Go: Hop in a car, row a boat and ride the rails as we explore all sorts of movement with this transportation theme. Children will develop gross-motor muscles and inhibitory control as we explore tempo and dynamics with lots of creative movement.
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Rhyme Around Town: Hop on the bus, its time to explore downtown, visit the bakery, the cobbler, and the grocery store while we immerse ourselves in the sights & sounds of the city. This unit is full of rhyming words to enhance your child’s listening discrimination and growing language skills.
Beach Days: Breathe in that salty water and take in the wide ocean rolling in and out. Crabs are scuttling, fish are swimming, toes are wiggling, bells are jingling and sun is shining! We’ll build a boat and set out to sail, wiggle our toes in the sand, and learn about sea creatures. Enjoy songs and dances and play all with a fun sea-side theme. Just like a day at the beach, our classes are filled with sun, fun and play!
Level 3
Out & About: Take a trip into the world of imagination, and all you’ll need to pack is a sense of adventure. We’ll strengthen proprioception and gross motor skills as we ride bikes, hike in the mountains, scuttle like crabs, and fly like seagulls. There’s so much to see, learn and explore when we’re out and about.
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Let’s Play: This unit mixes favourite toys of childhood with the magic of music and pretend play. Imagination, inspiring visuals and creative play encourages children to explore, discover and learn about themselves and their world.
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Animals-A-Dancing: Get ready for lots of creative movement, dancing and self-expression with Little Frog and his animal friends. Vocal development will be enhanced as we go on a journey of self-awareness to discover our favourite dance, instrument, animal & song.
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Splash!: Baths, boats, and beaches make a splash as children explore the sounds, sensations, movements, and music of all things wet and bubbly. We’ll explore abstract opposites with repetition and novelty to stimulate learning and strengthen neural pathways.​
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On The Go: Children are always on the go which makes this unit exactly their speed. We've gathered music, movement, pretend play, listening and storytime inspired by things that go - trains, planes, cars, wagons and even feet - to get us up and moving. Engaging activities will enhance your child's self-control and spatial awareness development.
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Around the Farm: Put on your overalls and boots—it’s off to the barnyard for some farm-time fun. We’ll discover farm plants, farm animals, and farmyard songs, sounds, and games. Activities will strengthen fine and gross-motor skills, develop inhibitory control and foster focused listening with intriguing and interesting sounds.
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In My Garden: Discover the hidden delights of the backyard through listening, singing, movement, and pretend play. We’ll buzz like bees, hop like grasshoppers, crawl like snails, fly like butterflies, and sing like birds. This creative unit strengthens body control as we explore tempo, dynamics and musical expression.
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Wild Animal Park: Discover a world of Animals at the Wild Animal Park. We’ll slither like snakes and pounce like leopards, encounter tiny tree frogs and enormous elephants, and explore amazing habitats from around the world that are high and low, hot and cold, dry and rainy. Activities will enhance social-emotional development as well as highlight the power of Kindermusik on early brain development.
Make Believe: Climb aboard the S.S. Pretend and set sail for treasure island. This unit is an action-packed, pretend-play adventure that focuses on the fun of literacy, movement and sequencing. There is so much to discover as we Make Believe!
Outside My Window: Science & music meet in this unit where we’ll explore rhythm and dynamics along with patterning and categorizing while we discuss and discover different seasons of weather.
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Carnival of Music: We’re all natural music makers. We hum while we work and play, sing along with music in the car and tap our fingers and feet to the beat. In this carnival-themed unit, we’ll become more comfortable with instruments and our ability to play them while we explore timbre, steady beat and ensemble experiences. We’ll also learn about carnivals – rides, foods, sights & sounds.
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Home Sweet Home: Up and at ‘em, there’s work up to be done all around this great big house (or den, or nest, or burrow)! We'll discover how to turn everyday tasks —like painting, hammering, cooking and cleaning up—into musical teamwork fun as we explore the relationship between sounds and symbols.
Level 4
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Take your child's musical learning to a new level where they engage their whole body and mind. With introduction to musical notation, the music staff, musical dynamics and more complex tuned instruments, this class has all the full-body, hands-on experiences you've come to love in a Kindermusik class.
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In level 4, children build upon skills they have developed in previous Kindermusik class experiences and apply them in order to learn a tuned instrument played with mallets called a glockenspiel which is shown in the image above. Through weekly classes and take home practice, your child will succeed in learning the notes on the major scale, reading and singing written melodies and being able to play a handful of songs on the glockenspiel independently.
This program is the perfect introduction to more formal music learning but still has all the wonderful components of a Kindermusik class that you know and love - hands on, full-body learning with multi-sensory techniques and props.
Tuition includes everything your child needs to be successful with no additional fees or costs for the entire session (September to May) including the glockenspiel which is theirs to keep!
Graduates of Level 4 will be eligible to enroll in Level 5 where they will build their skills and confidence by learning to play a stringed and woodwind instrument - both of which are included in tuition and theirs to keep.
Level 5
Mixed-Ages
In the 2022-2023 school year, we'll explore the Level 2 themes. Mixed-Age classes are a wonderful option for families to explore, bond, learn, laugh and grow together in a family class atmosphere.