Class Descriptions

Music Pups

Ages: 0-3

The first months and years of life are the most important in a child's musical development. The Music Pups experience helps students develop their pitch and rhythm skills and become more responsive to music in general. While we take our goal of educating children very seriously, we know that the key to success lies in one word -- fun! Everyone has a great time in Music Pups. Children as well as their parents love our activities and listening to our CDs at home. Research shows that early childhood is the window of opportunity to increase the lifelong music aptitude of a child. Music Pups, developed by The Music Class Inc., gives parents the tools to capitalize on this critical time period.

Sunrise

Ages: 2.5-4

Sunrise is a pre-keyboard program aimed at familiarizing preschoolers with the environment of the music class, while at the same time setting up the basics of learning music through songs, games, and dance. Children learn to keep a steady beat, imitate simple rhythm patterns, sing in tune, recognize basic patterns, and understand some basic music vocabulary. A teddy-bear theme helps the children learn about different types of rhythms. This class, like all Music for Young Children® classes, requires parent participation.

Sunshine One

Ages: 3-4
Sunshine One is a keyboard-based program developed for pre-school aged children. The class involves a variety of activities designed to suit the fine motor skills of 3 and 4 year olds and capture their attention. This level is rich in singing, hands on activities, games and stories about ‘critters’ used to help the children learn their notes as the students are introduced to keyboard geography.

Parental involvement is a vital part of the learning dynamic which allows students to experience maximum success of students and sees the parents actively involved both in class and at home.

During the year, we cover the keyboard geography from A-G and introduce notes on the treble clef C, D & E as well as bass clef middle C and B. Students also identify patterns, incorporate solfege (hand signs), reinforce songs through singing and rhythm dictations and ensembles.

Sunbeams One

Ages: K & Grade 1
Sunbeams One is an enthusiastic level for both parents and students. Our class is interactive, enthusiastic and exciting as we incorporate games, singing, solfege, rhythm ensembles, compositions, patterns and a variety of means to teach the well-rounded program to these beginners.

The program teaches the keyboard geography through ‘critters’ and by the end of the course we have covered the scales of C and G Major Scales and a minor (harmonized with bridges). The majority of notes are covered on both the treble and bass clefs by the end of the year.

A rewarding and challenging program for all involved!

Moonbeams One

Ages: Grades 2, 3 & 4
Students in Moonbeams One are ready for full sounding songs. The curriculum is laid out in such a way as to incorporate harmonizing scales with chords right from the beginning. These students learn quickly through means such as patterns, the circle of 5ths, singing, solfege, rhythm dictations, ensembles and composing.