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The Kindermusik curricula
is designed so that you and your child can
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FROM
THE EXPERTS
The Kindermusik curricula is masterfully designed, using current Early Childhood Educational research, with music as the common thread throughout all the learning domains. With its Integrated Learning approach, each activity within the Kindermusik class, provides learning experiences for your child in many of the learning domains simultaneously.
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"Kindermusik provides the
sound nutrition to improve movement, listening, and
_expression in young children. Through activities
and music making, skills for parents and children
alike create inroads for the great orchestration of
a family's hearts, minds, and bodies."
Don Campbell ,World-renowned authority on the
transformative power of listening and music, and
author of The Mozart Effect® for
Children
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"A
major task for toddlers, that can confuse parents
at first, is resolving the conflict between their
passionate desire for closeness to their
parents-after all, they are still barely out of
babyhood-and their equally fierce drive for
independence. Activities such as those in the
Kindermusik Our Time curriculum provide toddlers
this opportunity. A child can move into the circle
during story time and actively participate if he
wishes, or he can stay close to Mom or Dad and
listen to the story being read. Given this
security, most toddlers will naturally move to
greater, and more appropriate, independence as
they approach preschool age.
Melissa
R. Johnson, Ph.D.Pediatric Psychologist,
Cary
,
NC
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"One
of my strongest impressions of Kindermusik's work is
the variety of musical selections that are there for
children. The selections are of high quality and of
considerable diversity, such that children can
listen and respond to the music of Bach, Mozart,
contemporary composers and cultural traditions
around the globe. Kindermusik understands that
children deserve opportunities to know a palette of
musical colors, and thus through the program provide
windows to the world of people and their artistic
expressions. This rainbow of musical colors is the
stuff that surrounds children through their
Kindermusik training, so that their listening,
movement, singing and playing possibilities are
grounded in history and across cultures. These
musical beginnings set children straight for a
lifetime of well-considered choices in their musical
and cultural valuing."
Patricia Campbell,
Ph.D. Professor of music at University of
Washington and author of
Songs
in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's
Lives, Lessons from the World
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"Current
research has shown that movement is the key to
learning at any age. Our brains fully develop
through movement activities such as crawling,
rolling, turning, walking, skipping, reaching, and
much more. When children and adults participate in
Kindermusik classes, they are developing both
sides of their brains through structured and
creative music and movement activities.
Television, video games and computers have helped
to produce a generation that struggles with
learning problems, hyperactivity and obesity. Many
of these problems can be helped through systematic
music/movement exercises and patterns. Kindermusik
classes have always been fun. Now I feel strongly
that they are also part of our essential learning
process!"
Anne
Green Gilbert Movement
specialist, author of Creative
Dance for All Ages, and director
Of
Creative
Dance
Center
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"As
an early childhood advocate, I have found good music
invaluable as a teaching tool. Kindermusik has taken
the art of combining music with learning to a new
and higher educational level. When children
experience music in their early years, it lasts
throughout their lifetime. Recent literature may
attempt to refute the value of music as it relates
to IQ, but experts cannot deny the effect music has
on the development of a child's complete well-being.
Kindermusik is pioneering a movement that will prove
valuable to children for many years into the future.
As a trainer, with more than 20 years' tenure, I
thank Kindermusik for its contribution to holistic
learning."
Jim Powell, Ed.D.National
director of assessment and evaluation, Kaplan
Companies
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"When introduced
appropriately, music and literature play an amazing
role in the development of infants and toddlers. I'm
happy that Kindermusik has extended their programs
to include this time of life when brain development
is most vulnerable and parents are most in need of
support and direction."
Claudia Quigg, M.Ed.
Founder and executive director of BabyTALK, a
program dedicated to helping parents become better
parents to their children
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"Kindermusik
brings parents and children together for fun and
education. The learning is active, engaging and
developmentally appropriate. Children are exposed to
diverse materials and are provided with rich
opportunities for hands-on experiences with
developmentally appropriate instruments. The joy is
in the process of learning and the result is
children who are more attuned in reaching their full
potential."
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
International family educator and author of Raising
Your Spirited Child,
Raising
Your Spirited Child Workbook,
and Power
Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
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"Kindermusik
is elegant in its integrated approach to a child's
development. Physiologically, touch, movement,
rhythm and sound are the keystones to developing a
healthy vestibular system and optimizing nervous
system and brain growth. The importance of having
families working together, where everyone benefits
from the sense of belonging, gets directly at the
heart of what we, as a society, are needing at this
time to raise healthy, loving children and ensure a
world of peace. All of this is provided in the
Kindermusik program."
Carla Hannaford,
Ph.D.Biologist, educator and author of
Smart
Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head
and
The
Dominance Factor
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