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Spring 2008 Session:

CHILDREN (Ages-0-6) GROUP CLASS TUITION GUIDE
^{Spring Session:  May 12 - 23, June 2 - 27, 2008     (6 weeks)        No classes May 26-30.}

INFANT - PRE-SCHOOL GROUP CLASSES:    REGULAR TUITION          $120.00

YOUNG CHILDREN'S VOCAL OR INSTRUMENTAL CLASSES:  REGULAR TUITION   $120.00 

PRE-TEEN VOCAL GROUP CLASSES:  REGULAR TUITION          $125.00 

 5% DISCOUNTS GIVEN FOR:

Pre-Registration prior to May 9, 2008   OR

"Bring A Friend" to group,  both parties must sign up for full session   

Discounts given for siblings in the same group class! 

(this is a group class picture where violins are "experienced", not a true violin lesson)

Ages 0-6 Music Class Description: 
"Music Hatchery Classes"

INFANT - TODDLER: (0-18 months)
Even before I can walk ,  I can feel the beat of the music as you tap on
my knee or bounce me on your lap.  I bob my head and body as soon as the music starts.  My favorite sight is the smiling face singing with a big expression, and I move my mouth ever so slightly as my impulse to speak and sing wells up insde me!  In my class I have bells to jingle on my feet, castanets to hold and snap, bongos to pat, violins to strum.  I feel the textures of smooth woodblocks, cold metal triagles, fluffy puppets, silky scarves, scratchy sand blocks, boundy balls, shiny cymbals.  My eyes follow the falling bubbles as I listen to Bach.  This is my favorite place:  a place full of wonders for all my senses.

TODDLERS : (18-30 months)
I can walk!  I can twirl!  I can run!  I have my own specail funny dance!  I'm singing to my favorite songs now.  I know the difference between soft and loud, low and high, slow and fast.  With my instruments I can make the sound of a ticking clock, a tapping woodpecker, a snapping clam, a rolling bear, a chugging choo-choo, rain and thunder.  I'm falling in love with music and my favorite instrument is the violin.  At least for today.  Last week it was the guitar.  And I like the tambourine too.  Especailly as a hat.  And those bongos make great chairs.  Gotta run!  Teacher is singing my favorite song and I've got some bubbles to catch!

CHICKENS: (30 months - 3 yrs.)
Wow!  I'm getting good at this music stuff.  Not only can I sing and dance and play a tremolo on my violin, but I can put notes on the lines and spaces of the big felt staff and teacher plays what I write!  I'm starting to keep a steady beat, and I take some turns conducting the other kids with softs and louds.  I can blow the trombone, crash the cymbals, strum or pick the guitar, and make the great big cello sing out loud and low.  I can hop like a bunny, fly like a bird, dig like a puppy, and spin like a top.  I can do it all!

Pre-School Ages: (3 - 4 years)
Music is mine!  I'm a champ!  I can keep a beat, sing my name, build a rhythm with popsicle sticks, sing so-la-so-mi from seeing it on the staff, play a rhythm on a woodwind, a brasswind, a stringed instrument, or one of 15 percussion instruments from all over the world!  I can't wait to learn how to play a "big" instrument when I'm just a little older.  What will it be?  Piano?  Sax?  Trombone?  Cello?  Violin?  I'll try them all!

VOCAL GROUP: (4-6 years)

Vocal Roosters is a class designed for children who love to sing.  This Koda'ly-based class was born out of a frequent parental request for vocal intruction for 4-6 year olds.  THis class touches on a few technical singing points (breathing and head voice strenghening) while enhancing overall musicality with Koda'ly-based singing games and excersises for beginning note-reading.

INSTRUMENTAL  GROUP : (4-6 years)

Instrumental Roosters is an introduction to playing actual music on actual instruments.  Recorders, xylophones, keyboards, and violins are used, as well as a multitiude of percussion instruments.  Singing is encouraged, but not required.