Kindermusik Classes Now Enrolling for 2014

Kindermusik classes are now enrolling in Toowoomba for 2014.  All you have to do is  visit the website and sign up for a free demo class and someone will be in touch to tell you about our latest offerings.

We have classes for babies from birth for an 8 week term up to children of 7 years of age.  We will be starting again on Monday 14th July, 2014 for term 3 but classes are filling fast and some will book out.

If you wish to get the class of your choice, contact us today.

Baby Music Classes

Kindermusik Toowoomba have classes for children ranging from birth.  What does a 2 week old child gain from Kindermusik?  When children are born, they are making neural connections at a faster rate than ever.  For the first 3 years of life, they have more neural connections than they will in the rest of their lifetime.  The amount they have to learn in such a short amount of time is atounding.

Kindermusik simply uses that time frame to assist learning in a fun way.  Babies are very tactile and we introduce new stimuli in a way that they can understand.  Up until about 9 months or a year old, babies have not developed the hand sensors and are still putting everything in their mouths.  They do this because the sensors around the mouth are still the most active and this is where they are getting their information from.  We do tactile activities to help them experience different textures and surfaces.

We rock with our babies to stimulate the vestibular system. This is essential in them learning how to crawl and walk and helps them focus when moving.  Rocking is a lovely gentle way of stimulating this system and making it strong.  We also stimulate it in a different way by moving with our children.  Running, galloping, swaying, tiptoe.... they all feel different to our babes when in our arms.

We explore different types of music and timbres.  This helps with language acquisition and sound discrimination.

Class is a feast of stimuli in the right way at the right time.  It is as much a brain workout as it is a body workout but loads of fun for both bub and Mum.

Toddler Music Classes

Toddler music classes are fun and educational with Kindermusik Toowoomba.  Kindermusik is a classroom experience for children birth to 7 years where they laugh, learn and grow.  With a variety of activities and experiences, each child will learn new skills, not only in the music arena, but also life skills, such as turn taking, sharing, social skills and emotional confidence.

Kindermusik allows each child to learn at their own pace, with parents helping children up until the age of 3 years in the classroom setting to extend their knowledge using scaffolding.  This is a technique coined by an educational psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, who said that there is a "zone of poximal development" where a person of greater skill can lead a person who has not yet acquired the skill to a place of knowledge and accomplishment.

In lamens terms, parents can extend on the knowledge already acquired by their children by modeling new ways of doing things.  Sometimes, the child can be the one with the skill teaching the parents, when they think of new ways of playing the sticks, bells or ways to move with a scarf.

This way of learning incorporates all learning domains so that language starts to flourish, physical skills start to become more confident and children learn to control their bodies.

Class time is fun but the fun doesn't stop there.  With take home materials, parents can enjoy the quality of the classroom experience at home with the same music, books and instruments.  Kindermusik really does teach life skills of learning in a way that encourages creative family music making in the home environment.