Winter/Spring 2012 CLASS DESCRIPTIONS Village “Cock-A-Doodle-Moo” and “Dew Drops” (Each are separate sessions) For Newborns - 18 months and caregiver Each week you’ll dance with your baby in your arms, share songs, lullabies and nursery rhymes, and celebrate the marvelous transformations of the first 18 months. Joyful musical play stimulates your baby’s physical and mental development, engages the senses, and helps establish soothing routines. You and your child will be welcomed into a delightful, baby-safe environment full of creative movement and musical exploration. Multi-level activities are offered for lap babies, crawlers, and walkers. Hop on the hayride in Cock-A-Doodle-Moo! — it’s time to head for the farm! We’ll sing songs about the farm, including “Old MacDonald,” “Hayride,” and “Clever Cows.” You’ll engage in rituals and playful activities with your baby, including infant massage, lap bounces, exercise, and quiet time. Stop and smell the roses in Dew Drops – we’ll play and move together to songs about flowers while exploring Irish and Scottish music. You and your child will be welcomed into a delightful, baby-safe environment full of creative movement and musical exploration. Only enrolled children allowed in class, please. .At Lake Forest and Adler Center: 15-week session (45 min. class once a week). 45 min. once a week; 8-week sessions at Adler Center and Lake Forest, 7-week sessions in Gurnee. Required home materials include full-length home CD, baby’s board book, specially designed age-appropriate instrument, and visual stimulation banners – all for you to use and keep at home! *Lake Forest and Adler Center: Tuition $82* per unit, Home materials $35 per 8-week unit. *Gurnee Park District: Tuition $72* per unit, Home materials $35 per 7-week unit. *NON-RESIDENTS of Gurnee and Lake Forest will be charged an additional tuition fee when registering for classes at their respective park districts. Our Time “Away We Go!” For ages 18 months - 3 years and caregiver Our Time encourages your child to build confidence, self-control and communication skills. Over 15 weeks, we will sing, dance, and play instruments together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 ½- to 3-year-olds. Hop on the train, get in the car, board the plane, and Away We Go! This unit focuses on transportation, a favorite topic for toddlers who are on the go, go, go! Specially designed for active, curious toddlers, Away We Go! uses music and motion to balance the ups and downs of the turbulent toddler years. Through silly songs and tender lullabies your toddler is encouraged to move out for discovery and back to the security of your lap. Your toddler will build confidence, self-control, and communications skills. Copy-cat games teach word sounds and language skills, while instrument play makes it fun to take turns, develop rhythm, and strengthen zipper and pencil-holding fingers. All aboard! “Away We Go!” is one of four non-sequential Our Time units for toddlers. Please note: Only enrolled children and non-mobile siblings allowed in class, please. At Gurnee Park District: 12-week session (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include 2 full-length home CDs, 2 literature books, home activity guide, 2 harmonicas, and carry case. *Lake Forest and Adler Center: Tuition $160*, Home materials $52. *Gurnee Park District: Tuition $128*, Home materials $52. *NON-RESIDENTS of Gurnee and Lake Forest will be charged an additional tuition fee when registering for classes at their respective park districts. Imagine That! “Toys I Make, Trips I Take” For Ages 3 and 4 attending alone Imagine That enhances your child’s learning through music, singing, movement, literature, instrument exploration and imagination. With music as the common thread, each lesson allows your child to reflect, compare, make choices, express opinions and engage in problem-solving activities. In this unit, we’ll build a pretend toy shop filled with boats, trains, balls, jack-in-the-boxes and many other exciting toys, then take make-believe trips over oceans and mountains—singing together all the while. Your preschooler will love telling stories and developing rhythm and abstract thinking skills by playing the Kindermusik drum. Musical activities featuring favorite tunes and new multi-cultural songs will celebrate your child’s ideas and build confidence and self-sufficiency too. They’ll be surrounded in a creative musical environment that integrates music, pretend play, story telling, movement, and more. Children attend alone for the first 30-35 minutes. Grown-ups join the last 10-15 minutes of class for “Family Time” (any waiting siblings may join at this time, also). One of four non-sequential Imagine That units for preschoolers. At Lake Forest and Adler Center: 15-week session (45 min. class once a week) At Gurnee Park District: 12-week session (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include 2 full-length home CDs, 2 story books, Kindermusik drum, manipulative playset, and a home activity book. New students also receive a durable nylon backpack. *Lake Forest and Adler Center: Tuition $160*, Home materials $56 for continuing IT students, $62 for new IT students. *Gurnee Park District: Tuition $128*, Home materials $56 for continuing IT students, $62 for new IT students. *NON-RESIDENTS of Gurnee and Lake Forest will be charged an additional tuition fee when registering for classes at their respective park districts. Family Time! “Make Way for Music” For Ages 8 months to 7 years Finally, a Kindermusik sibling class! For babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children with their parents or caregivers, this class provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-age activities that include creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and a colorful literature component, all families will enjoy activities including fingerplays, songs, circle dances, story time, and family jam. Families will sing, dance, and move their way through several elements of music: beat and rhythm, staccato/legato, high/low, the major scale, arpeggios, the human voice, instrument families, and ensemble. Non-mobile babies may accompany their families free of charge. 10-week session (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include two books, two Home CDs, Family Guide, instrument activity game, and instrument for each child enrolled. Offered exclusively at *Gurnee Park District: Tuition $96* for the 1st child, $76* each additional child; home materials $52. Family Time! “Up in the Sky” For Ages 8 months to 7 years A shorter version of the traditional Kindermusik Family Time class, this is the perfect opportunity to try out Kindermusik! Offered in the same format as the Family Time class described above, we will sing, dance and move as we explore high/low, up/down, and vocal, spatial, and locomotor awareness. All families will enjoy these developmentally appropriate activities for all ages. Non-mobile babies may accompany their families free of charge. 4-week session (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include family activity magazine, full-length CD, and instruments for each child enrolled. Offered exclusively at *Gurnee Park District: Tuition $38* for the 1st child, $30* each additional child; home materials $15. Kindermusik for the Young Child For ages 5 - 7 "Young Child®" prepares kids ages 5-7 for private music lessons. Through 4 sequential semesters, your child will learn how to read both rhythmic and musical notation, helping ensure his or her successful transition to private piano, violin, etc. “Young Child” provides the opportunity to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols and authentic pre-keyboard, string and woodwind instruments. Students explore many facets of the musical experience--speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing instruments, as well as learning to read and write music. As the capstone to the child's Kindermusik journey, “Young Child” broadens and deepens the child's introduction to the fulfillment and excitement of musicianship. 15-week session (60 min. class once a week) Year One, Semester 2 For Ages 5 - 6 attending alone Playing simple musical patterns and songs on the featured instrument from the first session—the glockenspiel—is a central focus this semester. While learning to sing a melody, and then play the pattern on the glockenspiel, we'll delve deeper into the understanding of musical concepts such as piano and forte through orchestra-style music such as the William Tell Overture and Peter and the Wolf. Music appreciation and understanding continues with a complete introduction to the instruments—and the families in which they're grouped—of the orchestra. Pressure free, developmentally appropriate concepts help prepare children for formal music instruction after age 7. Parent/caregiver attends final 10 minutes of class. 15-week session (60 min. class once a week) Offered exclusively at the Adler Center. Tuition $185, home materials $55 ($75 for new Young Child students). Year Two, Semester 4 For Ages 6 - 7 attending alone In this final semester, we'll introduce the recorder instrument. As your child is introduced to basic methods of playing simple melodic patterns and songs on this wind instrument, we'll also incorporate the instruments, concepts, and songs from previous semesters. With a special emphasis on multicultural music, your child will learn to improvise and write music, as well as experience the musical styles of the Pacific Islands, Europe, and Africa; plus play special dances and children's games from around the world, including Alpine dances, Mexico, and Ecuador. Parent/caregiver attends final 10 minutes of class. Required home materials include a recorder, home CD, games bag, children’s folder and family songbook Required home materials include a recorder, home CD, games bag, children’s folder and family songbook. 15-week session (60 min. class once a week) Offered exclusively at the Adler Center. Tuition $185, home materials $55, continuing students ONLY.
	Fall 2011 CLASS DESCRIPTIONS Village “Feathers/Do-Si-Do” For Newborns - 18 months and caregiver With you at the center of your child’s discovery,Village engages all the senses and rewards curiosity with object and instrument exploration, vocal play, singing, creative movement and a colorful literature component. Multi-level activities are offered for lap babies, crawlers, and walkers. In Village, we target language, physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development. The musical poems of Woody Guthrie, bird songs, and the naturally occurring sounds in nature help babies develop an early appreciation—and accelerated aptitude—for language, movement, and music in the "Feathers" portion of the class. In "Do-Si-Do" you will pick up your baby and dance! Dance the Charleston, the Tango, and the Cha-Cha and learn why dancing with your baby helps develop vital learning skills—from head-to-toe. You and your child will be welcomed into a delightful, baby-safe environment full of creative movement and musical exploration. Only enrolled children allowed in class At Lake Forest: 15-week session (45 min. class once a week) At Adler Center and Gurnee Park District: “Feathers’” and “Do-Si-Do” are two separate 8-week sessions (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include full-length home CD, baby’s board book, specially designed age-appropriate instrument, and visual stimulation banners – all for you to use and keep at home! Lake Forest enrollees receive two complete, yet different, sets. Adler Center and Gurnee Park District: Tuition $82* per unit, Home materials $35 per 8-week unit. Lake Forest: Tuition $160*, Home materials $70 for entire semester. *NON-RESIDENTS of Gurnee and Lake Forest will be charged an additional tuition fee when registering for classes at their respective park districts. Our Time “Wiggles and Giggles” For ages 18 months - 3 years and caregiver Our Time encourages your child to build confidence, self-control and communication skills. Over 15 weeks, we will sing, dance, and play instruments together in developmentally appropriate activities created just for 1 ½- to 3-year-olds. This unit, "Wiggles & Giggles", is all about movement (wiggles!) and fun (giggles!). We'll enjoy songs about humor, laughter, and silly sounds and words. Included as part of the 'giggle', the instrument focus is on silly sounds, like those made by the Zig-Zag Blocks your child will receive in the At Home Materials. Watch how music activities can impact your toddler's cognitive, physical, social-emotional, and language development. “Wiggles and Giggles” is one of four non-sequential Our Time units for toddlers. Please note: Only enrolled children and non-mobile siblings allowed in class 15-week session (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include 2 full-length home CDs, 2 literature books, home activity guide, Zig-Zag blocks instrument, and carry case. Tuition $160*, Home materials $52. *NON-RESIDENTS of Gurnee and Lake Forest will be charged an additional tuition fee when registering for classes at their respective park districts. Imagine That! “See What I Saw” For Ages 3 and 4 attending alone Imagine That enhances your child’s learning through music, singing, movement, literature, instrument exploration and imagination. With music as the common thread, each lesson allows your child to reflect, compare, make choices, express opinions and engage in problem-solving activities. In this unit, "See What I Saw", children use their real experience playing in the park to create story-telling scenarios with music. They’ll be surrounded in a creative musical environment that integrates music, pretend play, story telling, movement, and more. Children attend alone for the first 30-35 minutes. Grown-ups join the last 10-15 minutes of class for “Family Time” (any waiting siblings may join at this time, also). One of four non-sequential Imagine That units for preschoolers. 15-week session (45 min. class once a week) Required home materials include 2 full-length home CDs, slide whistle instrument, lummi sticks instrument, 2 story books, manipulative playset, and a home activity book. New students also receive a durable nylon backpack. Tuition $160*, Home materials $56 for continuing IT students, $62 for new IT students. *NON-RESIDENTS of Gurnee and Lake Forest will be charged an additional tuition fee when registering for classes at their respective park districts. Kindermusik for the Young Child For ages 5 - 7 "Young Child®" prepares kids ages 5-7 for private music lessons. Through 4 sequential semesters, your child will learn how to read both rhythmic and musical notation, helping ensure his or her successful transition to private piano, violin, etc. “Young Child” provides the opportunity to explore voice development, rhythm, notation, musical symbols and authentic pre-keyboard, string and woodwind instruments. Students explore many facets of the musical experience--speaking, singing, moving, dancing, listening, creating and playing instruments, as well as learning to read and write music. As the capstone to the child's Kindermusik journey, “Young Child” broadens and deepens the child's introduction to the fulfillment and excitement of musicianship. Year One, Semester 1 For Ages 5 - 6 (or permission of instructor) attending alone Semester One introduces the glockenspiel, which gives children the opportunity to learn simple melodies and accompaniments. Activity pages encourage first experiences with “reading” and “writing” music. Parent/caregiver attends final 10 minutes of class. Required home materials include a glockenspiel, nylon carry bag, home CD, games bag and family songbook. 15-week session (60 min. class once a week) Offered exclusively at the Adler Center. Tuition $185, home materials $75. Year Two, Semester 3 For Ages 6 - 7 attending alone – continuing students ONLY This is the 3rd semester in the sequential Young Child curriculum. Semester 3 builds on the child’s natural interest in musical instruments with an introduction to the two-stringed dulcimer! Learning about Appalachian music and the dulcimer’s heritage sets the stage for a sampling of Native American music. Parent/caregiver attends final 10 minutes of class. Required home materials include a dulcimer, home CD, games bag, children’s folder and family songbook 15-week session (60 min. class once a week) Offered exclusively at the Adler Center. Tuition $185, home materials $75.

Kindermusik® by Susan About the instructors: The Director, Susan Henning, holds a B.S. in Music from Illinois State University and has taught Kindermusik since 1999. She is a Maestro level instructor, owning one of the top 5% largest Kindermusik studios in the world. Susan is a faculty member at the College of Lake County, where she teaches "Music Activities for Young Children" to prospective early childhood educators. In addition, Susan is the Senior High Choir Director at the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville. Music has always been a vital part of Julie Brouton’s life. She has worked with children in a volunteer capacity through church and community theatre since she was in high school, and has recently started working on earning her certificate in Early Childhood Education. Kindermusik allows her to meld her love for children and her passion for music into a career. Julie hopes to share the joy that music brings to h own life and to open up creative possibilities for young children and their families.