Susan's Kindermusik of Thunder Bay

Kindermusik's play based philosophy lets kids be kids, and helps make great parenting easier by giving you a window on understanding your growing child! Childhood development experts, researchers, and scientists agree that learning through music can set a child up for success in school and in life. Benefits include: Early Literacy and Language Development: brains love patterns! Active music-making and activities that emphasize steady beat, rhythm, and pitch increase phonological awareness due to similarities in brain functioning between music and language. Plus, stories, nursery rhymes, fingerplays, and songs increase vocabulary acquisition and support early language development. Social-Emotional Skills: Music classes for children cultivate sharing, turn-taking, active listening, cooperation, paying attention, and healthy social interaction with peers and adults. Kindermusik supports the key abilities needed for children to grow into socially confident and capable people. Cognitive Skills: Musical learning provides gains in abstract reasoning, spatial and temporal reasoning, and self-control. Physical Skills: Playing developmentally appropriate instruments and moving to music provides children opportunities to practise both fine and gross motor skills each week in class and at home with you. Music Skills: my classes prepare your child for traditional music lessons, including piano, violin, and voice. In class, children experience steady beat (which is linked to speech and reading fluency, and athletic ability, too!) during bounces, clapping games, movement games and playing instruments. Playing instruments also supports ensemble skills (being able to play together in a group), and develop rhythmic skills. Songs and exploring the voice develop singing skills. In the Kindermusik for the Young Child progam (ages 5 - 7) we explore reading and writing music in the treble clef. Each week in class, I love leading parents, grandparents, and their children and grandchildren through musical and movement activities that bring joy to the day and provide learning for a lifetime! Enroll today at www.susans.ca!