"KINDERMUSIK
WITH ELLEN SINGH"
E-NEWSLETTER
SUMMER
2012
An email newsletter
that informs all Kindermusik Enthusiasts and/or interested parties of my program
happenings such as upcoming classes, birthday parties, special
events
SIUE Suzuki
Program Presents: “Kindermusik with
Ellen Singh”
desingh@juno.com
618-792-6190
BLOG:
kindermusikwithellensingh.blogspot.com
FACEBOOK: “SIUE Presents Kindermusik with Ellen
Singh”
SIUE Suzuki Progam Attn: Kindermusik
Box 1771, Edwardsville, IL 62026
ATTENTION Kindermusik Enthusiasts!
It’s time to register for FALL Kindermusik classes! Class space availability is “first come, first serve” and it fills up fast! It’s not too early to make sure you and your child have a secured place in a Kindermusik class this September!
Below you’ll find exciting information and new details about my upcoming class offerings. Also, you will find the Kindermusik Class Registration Form for your convenience. I hope to see you and your child(ren) in class with me this September!
FIRST, ADD SOME KINDERMUSIK TO YOUR SUMMER!
Join me for a monthly
“Kindermusik Playdate” at Once Upon A Toy Store in Edwardsville!
A PLAYDATE is a
“register and pay ahead” single “themed” 30-45 minute class for you and your
children ages birth through 5 years old with required At-Home Materials for each
family. Registration fees include the
class plus At-Home Materials (i.e. instrument and Kindermusik CD or Music
I-Card).
Playdate
Dates & Themes
Thursday,
May 3 10am – “Animals Are
Everywhere”
Wednesday, June 27 10am – “Picnic Day”
Tuesday, July 17 6:30pm – “Dear World, I Love You”
Wednesday, August 8 10am – “Music Move Us”
Tuesday, September 18 10am – “Leaves in the Wind”
Monday, October 15 6:30pm – “It’s Cold Outside”
Tuesday, November 6 11am – “Thankfulness”
Wednesday, December 5 11am – “Jingle Jangle”
Wednesday, June 27 10am – “Picnic Day”
Tuesday, July 17 6:30pm – “Dear World, I Love You”
Wednesday, August 8 10am – “Music Move Us”
Tuesday, September 18 10am – “Leaves in the Wind”
Monday, October 15 6:30pm – “It’s Cold Outside”
Tuesday, November 6 11am – “Thankfulness”
Wednesday, December 5 11am – “Jingle Jangle”
(More
monthly playdate dates to be announced in the new
year!)
All Class & High Quality At-Home Materials
(instrument & music CD or E-Music Card) Fees are included in this 30-45
minute class for ages birth to 5 years. One at-home materials package required
per family. (Fees vary depending on number of children per family registered.)
One child registration fee is $12 with each additional child $3
each.
Registration forms are available at the toy store AND on their website. The store staff will collect your registration fees and form.
Registration forms are available at the toy store AND on their website. The store staff will collect your registration fees and form.
Playdate
information & dates are also posted on my Facebook page and Blog AND on the
toy store’s website and Facebook page:
Register ahead
at the store.
KINDERMUSIK CLASSES at SIUE THIS FALL 2012
You’ll find exciting information and new details about my upcoming Kindermusik classes (Thursdays & Saturdays) here AND on the SIUE Suzuki website. Please see email attachments: Playdate & Fall Class Registration Forms.
Kindermusik is a music and movement program with curriculum for children ages birth through seven years old. More specifically, Kindermusik classes provide a holistic musical and learning experience in the critical first years of young children and their families. This developmental program, guided by a proven methodology combining music and childhood development, provides opportunities to foster child-parent relationships and gain a lifelong love of music and learning. This program is great preparation for future Suzuki students as well! It is taught by a trained and licensed Kindermusik educator. The SIUE Suzuki Program presents “Kindermusik with Ellen Singh” which provides you with this program!
“VILLAGE” Class: (Birth to 1 ½1/2 Years
Old) Semester Theme: Dream
Pillow
This title alone brings images of rocking, cuddling, singing, and lulling to sleep. But leading up to sleepy time are many upbeat and playful activities. Babies and Adults will swirl to a dreamy cloud dance “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland.” They’ll also play baby appropriate instruments to “Aiken Drum,” and “Sarasponda.” Favorite nursery rhymes like “Wee Willie Winkie,” and “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling,” are sprinkled throughout the classes. It’s easy to weave many of the class songs and activities into your families’ daily routines.
What a Parent and Child Will Experience in Class:
- Variety of Music -- Musical diversity builds strong neural in a baby’s forming mind, which is why each Kindermusik semester contains an array of styles, sounds, and genres.
- Instrument Play -- Age-appropriate experiences with child-safe instruments enhance a sense of rhythm and steady beat, develops a keen awareness of the distinguishing qualities of sound, and encourages spontaneity and creativity.
- Dance -- A classroom full of baby and adult pairs dancing together helps a little body develop the muscle strength needed to crawl and walk and helps a little heart to fall in love with the sheer joy of responding to music.
- Together Time -- A Kindermusik class is truly the essence of “quality time,” offering the parent a place to create special memories with their child, gain new insights into their child’s development, and nurture their child’s natural love of music.
- Expert Advice -- A Kindermusik Educator explains “what-to-watch-for” every step of the way and how each activity enhances a child’s complete development.
- Learning Continues at Home -- With the home materials, the learning continues at home with the child’s best teacher—the parent!
Enrollment Includes:
q Developmentally appropriate curriculum for parents and babies, ages
newborn to 18 months
q Class of no more than 12 babies with parents
q 8-week semester
q Weekly 45-minute class that includes new and unique parent and baby
activities
q Learn about 30 songs, lullabies and nursery rhymes and play over
100 activities together by the semester’s end
q
At-Home Materials including: A board book that
calms and relaxes—Dream Pillow Lullaby, Home CD of the songs heard in
class, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and
promotes early literacy, and a baby instrument for music-making at
home.
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8-Week Class Runs Sept 13 - Nov 1 for Thurs Class & Sept 8 – Nov 3 for
Sat Class
Tuition: $132 (by September 5) ($9 per class + $60 At-Home Materials Package)
“OUR TIME Class”: (1 ½ through 3 Years Old) Semester Theme:
Milk & Cookies
Make
everyday home activities and chores easier and more fun with music! Cook and
sing to “The Muffin Man”; dust and clean to the original song “In My House”; get
ready to wash clothes to the delightful poem “Washing Machine”. Baking cookies,
eating cupcakes, blowing on hot cross buns, wiggling like jelly, going grocery
shopping and making tea are all represented in familiar as well as new songs.
Move, play, and sing together in developmentally appropriate activities created
just for 1 ½ through 3-year-olds. Capture the familiar and new moments of the
day and learn how music can impact your toddler.
What
a Parent and Child Will Experience in Class:
- Instrument exploration and ensemble skill development -- Children will explore the physical characteristics and sounds of age-appropriate instruments which will eventually lead them to discover their potential for beat, rhythm, melody, and ensemble playing.
- Vocal play -- Through vocal play, toddlers learn to form vowels and consonants, say words and phrases, and imitate rhythm and vocal inflection. In Kindermusik Our Time, vocal play is presented within the context of songs, chants, and activities done in class.
- Exploration Time -- Children will love discovering specially designed instruments, textures, sounds, and movements.
- Story time and early literacy -- Listening to stories enhances language and speech development and fosters awareness of sounds, teaches use of language, and sends the message that words and symbols have meaning. The same experiences that help toddlers learn to read a book also help them learn to read music.
- Movement Activities -- Each class provides various opportunities for movement such as synchronized movement, group dances and circle games, and even expressive movement.
- Together Time -- Kindermusik is the essence of quality time, allowing parents to make the most of the fleeting toddler years, giving them the time and the tools to make music and memories together in class and at home.
- Expert advice -- A Kindermusik educator explains how the musically based activities enhance a toddler’s complete development.
- Learning Continues at Home -- With the home materials, the learning continues at home with the child’s best teacher—the parent!
Enrollment Includes:
q Developmentally appropriate curriculum for parents and toddlers, ages 18 mo. thru 3
years
q 10-week semester
q Weekly 45-minute class
q At-Home Materials
including: : 2
books—At My House and Cookies, 2 Home CDs, stir
xylophone instrument, and a Home Activity Book—all arriving in a durable lunch
bag.
q 10-week Class Runs Sept 13 – Nov
15 for Thurs Class & Sept 8 – Dec 1 for
Sat Class
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Tuition: $155 (by September 5)
($9.50 per class + $60 At-Home Materials
Package)
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ENROLL NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE IN
CLASS!
CLASS REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All Classes will be held on Thursdays and Saturdays at Southern Illinois University -Edwardsville in partnership with the SIUE Suzuki Program. Classes are 45 minutes. (Class times subject to change due to enrollment numbers.)
Tuition includes all class fees AND high quality At-Home Materials Package.
Please Note: The non-refundable class fee is due in full with registration form and confirms your space in the class. At least one participating adult must accompany the child(ren) in all classes. DO NOT bring non-enrolled siblings.
Contact
If you have any questions or would like class
registration materials and/or to schedule a birthday party, please contact Ellen
Singh. She would be happy to describe
the wonderful benefits of being part of the ofKindermusik class
experience.
RESOURCES: Learn More about
KINDERMUSIK
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www.kindermusik.com Kindermusik International
(KI) has a fantastic website including a parent section designed just for
YOU! You can also register (FREE!) to
receive their monthly parent email entitled. “Tune-In” which has great music and
child development tips plus more!
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www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/music/suzuki “Kindermusik with Ellen
Singh” is part of the SIUE Suzuki String Development Program and is open to the
entire community! There, you will find
the Kindermusik webpage with program information and a printable class
registration form.
q Facebook at “SIUE Presents Kindermusik with Ellen
Singh”
q BLOG:
kindermusikwithellensingh.blogspot.com
KINDERMUSIK
BIRTHDAY
PARTIES!!
Want a unique birthday activity for your child's next
party?
Choose Kindermusik
with Ellen Singh's Birthday Party Activity Package and have a fun, interactive music & movement activity
that your child will love and
you don't have to plan!
A Kindermusik Birthday
Party Activity is great musical fun that your child will LOVE and you
don’t have to plan! It’s approximately 30 minutes of a “mini-Kindermusik”
class (i.e. music & movement with samplings of class activities) specially
designed to be age-appropriate to your child. The party activity includes such
fun as singing, moving, listening, dancing, circle songs, story time (a birthday
book!), playing instruments, parachute play, etc. All music, instruments, props,
etc used are provided for the activity.
Fees: $50 for up to six children ($7 per each additional child) Deposit ($40) due to secure your date/time w/ balance due day of the party (There may be a time/travel fee for parties booked outside the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon area.) Please Note: I do not schedule parties on Sunday.
Kindermusik Birthday Parties available at Once Upon A
Toy Store too!
Contact the store for details.
Also offering
Kindermusik One-Time Activities / Demonstrations for your play group, preschool,
daycare, church group, etc.
WHAT ARE KINDERMUSIK PARENTS SAYING
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM?….
“Our Saturday morning Kindermusik class has become a
special time for my daughter and I to sing, dance and play together. Now
attending our third semester of classes with Ellen, it has been a joy watching
my daughter’s development since her first class at 8 months, and now approaching
age two! I have loved seeing her little face light up for class."
With Ellen and the fun and engaging curriculum of
Kindermusik, I am happy to be fostering in her a love and appreciation for all
kinds of music.” Candice K. – Our Time
Class
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"A year ago the "Village" class introduced my son to the
art of music. Now that we've started our second semester of the "Our Time"
class, it is very obvious how the program has not only developed his love of
music, but has also developed his gross/fine motor skills (dancing, clapping,
and playing instruments) and social skills (sharing, confidence, and tolerance)!
I highly recommend this class to every parent! We love Kindermusik!" Ellyn K. – Our Time Class
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Both of my daughters have been kindermusik students and
have thoroughly enjoyed each class. Every time we met I could see my girls
developing their musicality and having a wonderful time. Miss Ellen is creative,
fun-loving, and very organized. And the kindermusik materials are of high
quality. Our family highly recommends signing up for kindermusik classes!” Emily K. – Our Time
Class
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"I recently enrolled my daughter for a
second semester in Ellen's Kindermusik Village class. She loves the group
setting and happily smiles and giggles as we dance and sing around the room! She
has always loved listening to music at home, but through Ellen's class she has
learned the steadiness of the beat, anticipation, and familiarity and joy with
hearing the songs we play at home and sing each week in class. I highly
recommend Ellen's Kindermusik class for socialization, development and simply
learning and enjoying music with your little one!” Andrea B. – Village
Class
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“Our family is some of Kindermusik's biggest fans! Not
only do we look forward to the fun-filled class each week, we love using the
at-home materials as part of our everyday routine. I am thrilled we have been
able to participate in this program - I can't recommend it enough!” Sara S. – Our Time
Class
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“Our family has enjoyed 6 semesters of Kindermusik with
Ellen Singh’s program at SIUE.
Kindermusik has been a great way to bond with our young daughter. Watching her develop and grow with the
curriculum has been a great pleasure.
From the eye contact with a smile while singing her Kindermusik songs
when she was 4 months old to now (nearly 3 yrs old) when she brings us her
favorite Kindermusik books to read to her." The parent perspective details
that Ellen provides has helped us recognize the advancements she was making even
at just a few months old. It’s amazing
to see the children’s cognitive recognition and development that is obtained
though the music in the Kindermusik program.
The at home materials are not only lots of fun for the
children, but they have become household treasures that will be in our memory
books forever. We are big believers in the program and
would encourage any parent to try Kindermusik!”
Rob & Sonyia H. – Village & Our Time
Class
THANK YOU for your continued support and
interest in Kindermusik and for sharing the love of music with your
child(ren)!
I look forward to having you and your child(ren) join me in one of my future classes; at a Kindermusik special event; and/or at your next birthday party for a musically fun time together!
I look forward to seeing you in class this September!
Ellen Singh, Licensed Kindermusik Educator
