Break the winter doldrums by discovering music with your little ones! The Community Music Institute at Lebanon Valley College is now accepting registrations for its Winter/Spring Musikgarten classes. There are programs available for newborns through elementary age.
Along with the Musikgarten classes listed below, the CMI also offers private and group instrumental and voice lessons for all ages and levels of experience. You can contact them at 717-867-6373.
Musikgarten Classes
Family Music for Babies - This is an eight-week program with a 30-minute weekly class, and is taken with an adult caregiver. Each class features bouncing and rocking songs, wiggle and peek-a-boo games, and other fun activities for the two of you. For ages Newborn to 18 Months, 30-minute sessions. Classes start the week of January 29 and are held Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.
Family Music: Dance with Me - This class is attended with an adult caregiver. It is a 12-week program with a 30-minute weekly class. These weekly classes are action-filled for toddlers–full of energy, often on the move, always exploring and learning–and their parents. Together you’ll sing, chant, move, dance, listen, and play simple instruments, all activities that bridge the natural connection between music and movement through four wonder-filled semesters. Each lesson features movement activities for coordination, body awareness and control, exploration of space, and instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, drums, and resonator bars. For ages 16 Months to 3.5 years, 30-minute sessions. Classes start the week of January 28 and are held Mondays at 9:30 a.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Cycle of Seasons: Sun Catchers - This class is a 12-week program with a 45-minute weekly class. This class is taken without an adult caregiver present until Gathering Time at the end of each class. Celebrate your preschooler’s growing independence and love of the outdoors with activities involving the four seasons in The Cycle of Seasons. Developed to build attention and self-expression, activities include singing, chanting, moving, focused listening, musical games, exploring musical instruments, creative movement, and storytelling. The Cycle of Seasons nurtures your growing child’s ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context. For ages 3-5 years, 45-minute sessions. Classes start the week of January 26 and are held Saturdays at 10:15 a.m.
Music Makers: Around the World - This class is a 12-week program with a 60-minute weekly class. Your child is now ready for this two-year learning program that includes singing, creative as well as structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening. This developmentally sound approach to music literacy builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression. The children start to work with written musical patterns, too. For ages 4-7 years, 60-minute sessions. Classes start the week of January 26 and are held Saturdays at 11:15 a.m.
Music Makers: At the Keyboard - Musikgarten children come to the piano ready to play the songs they have learned to sing, dance, and love. Small group lessons at the keyboard capitalize on your child’s delight in making music with others and allow the children to have success quickly playing songs that they know. Your child will learn to play by ear and to read music. A much-loved piano repertoire of familiar songs improves his ability to read and play with fluency–resulting in pride and excitement in making music! For ages 6-8 years, 75-minute sessions. Classes begin the week of January 17. First-year keyboard class will meet on Thursdays at 6 p.m. for 15 weeks.
View Musikgarten tuition information and register online at www.lvc.edu/cmi.
