Kindermusik Recommended in the Guardian!

Kindermusik classes were recommended in yesterday's Guardian Newspaper by columnist A. Barbieri!

Read the article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/30/family.dramaanddance

Music=Happiness!

Last weekend I had another concert with the orchestra and, one more time, it was amazing! Still now, after almost 20 years playing the cello, it amazes me how good I feel when I play. Of course I have my bad days when the last thing I want to do is sit and play the cello, but it’s just a matter of minutes and boooom! There it comes that amazing feeling again!

Every time it happens I remember my mum. She loves to tell anyone that, when I was a teenager, I told her I didn’t want to play the cello anymore. She knew how much I enjoyed playing but I just wanted to hang around with my friends and play the cello was the last think in my mind at that time.

Well, my lovely mummy “forced” me to continue playing until I was mature enough to make my choices (her words). She said that when I was 18 years old, I could make my choices. Of course, at 18 I had the passion for the cello back and the good feeling was so strong, so strong that I just wanted to play forever!

Today, I am so pleased of my mum’s attitude. Music is so important in my life that I just feel the need to share that “feel good” factor with more and more people. I try to do just that every week, with the classes that I teach. I truly believe this is my mission in this world and I just want children to be happy and have music in their hearts.

Mums and dads out there, get your kids to learn music, to sing, to play an instrument. I can’t explain how wonderful it is but I can say that it truly feels amazing. Your child will be grateful to you forever.

Here is a inspirational video. Have a good day!

Kindermusik Home Materials... priceless!

Unlike most other music programs for young children, Kindermusik is designed as an everyday musical experience. That is why Kindermusik puts so much energy into creating high quality "At Home" materials that are second to none. Thoughtfully crafted sets of materials are purposefully incorporated to provide the most complete and the best possible musical learning experience available for the entire family.

Kindermusik's uniqueness stems from the fact that it recognizes parents as the child's best teacher. Besides attending classes with their child, parents can help the child derive much more benefits from the activities experienced in class by playful engagement in these activities at home.


The Home Materials support this intention marvelously. The Home CD contains all the songs, chants and music taught in class. The Journal / Home Activity Book, besides containing the lyrics and notation for the songs and chants on the CD, also provides many great ideas for fun activities parents may share with their child at home.

These materials will last a long time. Satisfied parents have often told us how the entire family including other siblings have benefited from these activities at home. We have also observed keener participation, and enhanced ability to focus, with children who use their home materials regularly.

Following are some helpful and practical ideas for helping to make your child's life even more musical:

- Play your At Home CD. Children love repetition and the more you play the CD together, the more your child will be comfortable with the songs and activities.

- Use your At Home CD and literature book to add music to your nightly bedtime story ritual.

- Sing to or sing along with your child. Sing to a pet or even a stuffed animal.

- Swing and sway to music, or dance through the water droplets of a sprinkler.

- Record your own songs and listen to your own voices and music.

- Vary your movements and instrument playing. Maintain a steady beat, move to a faster beat, then a slower beat.

- Discuss the music you hear. What does it sound like? What types of instruments do you hear?

- Sing or chant favorite tunes to help pass the time while waiting in a kew or while sitting in the pediatrician's office.

- Explore musical sounds with home-made instruments, using boxes and other assorted containers, scrapers, shakers and jingles.

- Attend community concerts and other local musical events to give your child a taste of many types of music.

- Music at home is a great memory builder for your child. In years to come he will mention the things you did together at home when he was little! ...priceless!

Look what is coming!

Announcing the next Kindermusik term:





newborn to 18 months

Zoom Buggy!
(from 8th Sept to 10th Nov)

This course explores the many ways Baby and Parent can Zoom! Experience the vroom of a rocket ship and the swoosh of the canoe oars - all through a variety of instruments and songs. All those airplane sounds you make with a spoon during feeding time actually help your baby learn language. In this class, learn how sounds like this can develop physical, social, cognitive, and emotional skills as well.

Your At Home Materials pack includes:

- A CD with over 25 specially selected recordings heard in class. A rich musical environment that allows brain cells and neuropathways in your child's mind to strengthen, helping to develop memory skills.

- Playful Picture Book

- Zoom Buggy car

- Art Banners that strengthens vision and promote early literacy

- Baby's Home Journal, with songs, 'Development of the Brain' and 'Ways to Hold Baby' information cards.

18 months to 3 years old

Milk & Cookies
(from 8th Sept 2008 to 2nd Feb 2009)

This course empowers the parent to lead the child through familiar, everyday home activities such as cooking, dusting and washing clothes. Baking cookies, eating cupcakes, blowing hot cross buns, wiggling like a jelly, going grocery shopping and making tea are all represented in familiar songs and activities! Each lesson was carefully created to help your toddler build confidence, self-control, and social skills.

Your At Home Materials pack includes:

- Two Home CDs. At home, music can help your often emotional toddler refocus and regulate his emotions.

- Two Music and Movement Books. Reading together helps your child initialize language and literacy skills.

- Stir Xylophone.

-Home Activity Book. Lots of playful studies: taking turns, family circle dances, field trips, songs to use throughout the day.

- Child's Insulated Lunch Carry Bag

3 to 5 years old

Hello Weather, Let’s Play Together!
(from 8th Sept 2008 to 2nd Feb 2009)

With the weather as our learning theme, we'll explore musical styles that range from Opera to American Folk, and you'll watch as your preschooler becomes self-sufficient in a room full of friends knowing that you're close and nearby. We will learn about sunshine, rain, snow, thunderstorms and more imaginative and delightful weather-related musical adventures. Wether creating storm sounds on a drum or throwing pretend snowballs, children and their families are encouraged to get outdoors and enjoy the world around them.

Your At Home Materials pack includes:


- Two Home CDs. Singing songs helps your child develop a sense of inner hearing, a skill similar to thinking a story or making a plan without speaking out loud.

- Literature Books. Engaging your childs sense of adventure can help them establish sequence of events and predict what happens next.

- Play Set. Pretend play develops creative thinking strategies that develop language, sensory, motor and cognitive skills.

- Pair of Kindermusik Ankle Bells. Developing a sense of rhythm can help children understand patterns, a necessary skill for mathematics.

- Rain Shaker with Scraper. Another instrument to explore how sounds are made.

-Family Activity Book, with easy home-made activity instructions, sheet music, and cut-outs helps you bring the learning home.

- Imagine That! Backpack. (Optional)

See you in class! :-)

Hello all!

It's with great excitement that I start this post!
The idea of this blog is to have a space where I can connect with my enrolled families sharing information about classes, their child's development and the benefits of music to their lives.
And what a best way to start this blog than with this slideshow of our Kindermusik Family Celebration. What a wonderful day it was! 

Lot's of music, quality family time, yummy snacks and of course, lots of fun!
I am really looking forward to resume our classes next week, I've prepared lots of activities for our Kindermusik Adventures summer classes and I hope you all enjoy it. I still have spaces available for the summer course, so do let me know if you haven't enrolled yet.
Watch out this space for much more information to come!

Kindermusik Family Celebration (5th July 2008):