Instrumental Explorations       6 years and up

Classes: Wednesday 4:00, Thursday 4:00 or 5:30 + Saturday 2:30

Prerequisites: None (although it is helpful if the student has completed Kindermusik Young Child I, it is not mandatory)

Adult Participation: Although it is not required, it is best for both the student and parent (or supervising adult) to stay and observe the class (i.e. learn by observation). There is a 15-20 minute ÒSharing TimeÓ at the last part of the class in which the accompanying adult does join in with the student.

Materials: Because the curriculum requires the entire 32 weeks and there is an enormous amount of materials to be distributed during the course of the year, these materials will be handed out at even intervals when appropriate. They are as follows:
Kindermusik for the Young Child Semester 3 student packet ( CD, folder, songbook, activity pages, activity cards, and manipulatives, dulcimer and carry bag)
Recorder, carry bag and songbook, Recorder Karate and cd
Intoduction to Music Makers: At the Keyboard Volume I and 2 CDÕs
Note reading flashcards, solfege cards, carry pouches, and much, much more.

Sibling Policy: Due to the specific design of the curriculum, it is necessary that each student have a set of materials thus a sibling discount is not available.

                                   Academic Year (32 weeks)

                       September 19, 2011 - June 9, 2012

New Families-$1,090.00      Returning Families $1,060.00

Payment Options:
Because the fees are for the entire year families may choose one of the following options:

• One (1) payment only due with registration.
  
• Two (2) payments, the first either $545.00 (new family) or $530.00 (returning family) due with registration. The second payment (same amount as the first) due no later than November 1st of the same academic year.

       This year in Instrumental Explorations, your child will experience for him/herself instrumental representatives of the orchestral families, which were discovered in Kindermusik for the Young Child Year One.

      We will continue to use the glockenspiel as our "main base"-learning learning instrument, but straight away in the fall a two-stringed dulcimer is introduced as the representative of the string family. Approximately around the New Year, we will add the wind family representative, the recorder. The children are very please and excited to learn a third instrument and especially to be able to transfer their song repertoire from instrument to instrument.

      Not only are the students learning the instruments, but also all of the treble clef notes, all basic rhythms, and most important, solfegietto, the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la -ti-do language.

      Finally in the spring, the class moves forward to the keyboard. This instrument is now our main learning tool as we continue to build a music foundation that is deep and wide.  Still inside these advanced young persons is the humongous need for movement, which will be provided as we will continue to learn new rhythms, notes, melodies, and dances with the whole body-singing, chanting, stomping, dancing, and yes, sitting and listening also.

         Please note that the class size is limited. Placement in a class is given upon a first-come, first-serve basis REGARDLESS of prior attendance in a class. Each class is 75 minutes long with the parent/caregiver joining in for the last 25-30 minutes. Do allow sufficient time for arrival (bathroom, coats, boots, etc.) before class starts and departure.

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