Foundations: Baby Boogie is all about joyful bonding through music! Caregivers learn delightful ways to play musically with their babies while nurturing sensory development and natural musicianship. Together we enjoy bouncing songs, peek-a-boo games, tickling rhymes, baby massage, dancing, and playful prop exploration.

Live guitar and high-quality recorded music accompany our activities, filling the room with rhythm and melody. Even our youngest babies respond with smiles, giggles, and coos as they begin to recognize and anticipate changes in meter and tempo. This class is a sweet bonding time and a wonderful way to meet other families. Older and younger siblings are always welcome to join.

Foundations: Baby/toddler :This class  is all about joyful bonding through music with your baby & young toddler! Caregivers learn delightful ways to play musically with their babies while nurturing sensory development and natural musicianship. Together we enjoy instrument play, bouncing songs, peek-a-boo games, tickling rhymes, baby massage, dancing, and playful prop exploration.

Live guitar and high-quality recorded music accompany our activities, filling the room with rhythm and melody. Even our youngest babies respond with smiles, giggles, and coos as they begin to recognize and anticipate changes in meter and tempo. This class is a sweet bonding time and a wonderful way to meet other families.  .

Stage 1: Toddler Jamboree (Ages 1 & 2's)  

Movement is the heart of Stage 1! Toddlers explore rhythm and sound while developing motor skills through instruments such as tambourines, bells, and a wide variety of wooden percussion instruments, including lollipop drums. Props like balls, bubbles, scarves, bean bags, soft blocks, and canopies inspire imaginative play while building both fine and gross motor coordination.

While we continue familiar bouncing rhymes and chants, “songtime” is introduced as children begin to sing along to their favorite tunes. As the year progresses, rhythmic sounds, movement games, and carefully chosen instruments help toddlers learn to walk, play, and sing with confidence. The curriculum grows right alongside your child, preparing them for the next stage of musical discovery.

(Ages 4 & 5 yr olds)Imaginary play is one of our favorite ways to help preschoolers broaden their musical horizons as they begin to discover the joy of playing and singing together in an ensemble. Children are introduced to our full range of instruments—including our beautiful Orff instruments such as glockenspiels and resonator bells—and begin orchestrating familiar songs with more than one instrument.

They’ll delight in learning how to be a conductor, acting out songs, exploring simple dances, and experimenting with solo singing, echo singing, and group singing to develop strong pitch and vocal skills. We also introduce the use of musical notes and music vocabulary in fun, age-appropriate ways. Puppets, props, and creative movement continue to enrich their experience, while exposure to classical, folk, and world music expands their cultural awareness.

This is a child-only class,  Parents stay outside, and last 5 minutes we will bring you into class for an activity 

 Join us in this fun-filled music and movement class without adults:   songs, activities, and instrumental music geared just for your older preschooler or kindergartner. Language, movement, rhythm, and melody are used in game form to develop coordination, self-concept, and creativity, and important listening skills, as well as to promote social and emotional skills, sell- esteem and leadership skills.  Children will explore 1. echo, group singing and acting out musical stories and exploring songs and musical activities from around the world.. 2. dancing and creative movement using scarves, streamers, puppets, hoops, beanbags, canopies, parachutes .3. Exposure to beginning musical notation with our very popular wooden music notes, 4. learning how to be a conductor, 5. Orchestrating songs with our beautiful Orff instruments, percussion and ethnic instruments. 5. Solo, echo, and group singing to develop good pitch and vocal skills, and learning how to sing into a microphone are just some of the activities.  This is designed for children who are not yet ready for formal lessons of learning to play a musical instrument, but designed to build a foundation for playing an instrument later on. This class is offered without a caregiver

Stage 2: I can do it myself - Independence Day is here! This is a wonderful age for making music, as children are eager to participate in independent activities while learning to observe and follow the example of the teacher. The children now have a choice of being with their grownup or sitting as a group with their teacher. Echo singing and call and response are encouraged to develop language, listening, and pitch matching skills. Children learn the rhythmic differences between walk, run, tippy-toe, gallop, and march. Using our many varied instruments, children learn how to make "soft" and "loud" sounds, and when to play "fast" or "slow". Circle dances, creative movement, puppets, felt board activities, and songbooks provide a creative dimension to their music-making experience. By the end of the year, children will be playing the full range of our vast instrument collection - drums, shakers, metals, woods, tambourines, and resonator bells. All are designed to allow the children to accompany themselves while they sing and to fully express themselves rhythmically. They will start to play together as a group and learn to accompany themselves on various instruments. At the end of the year, to everyone's delight, they will be encouraged to entertain us with a solo!

 Join Miss Andrea for 45 minutes of musical fun with songs, stories,  movement activities, puppets, , drums, instruments, prop play, song stories, flannelboard stories- scarves, parachutes, &  hoops. This class is geared for older ones, two, three &  young  four-year-olds. We will combine the curriculum from our toddler jamboree and kids jamboree classes. (All siblings young or older are welcome to participate).

This class is geared toward for walkers and active toddlers. We will be introducing our toddlers to a multitude of instruments: shakers, woods, and drums during the course of this session.  Children will be engaged in play with various props and puppets, movement, wiggles, tickles, and bouncing rhymes as we introduce them to traditional and original songs through guitar play and quality recorded music.  Come join the fun!