Babies and toddlers make music in class with their caregivers
Feel the Beat or Meet the Instruments in our classes for ages 4-7.
Babies love to play music in class too!
Babies and toddlers make music in class with their caregivers
group classes
Music Together®
Our essential Mixed Age class is one that a child attends from birth through age 5 and is currently being offered outdoors and in the classroom. Music Together is designed to teach the way young children learn--through play.
We take a natural, family-style approach to all of our classes. The grownups follow the teacher’s lead, so the little ones can watch their musical example and participate at their own level. Babies watch the big kids who show off their developing musical skills—it’s magical to watch the interactions in a Mixed Age class!
During each music class, the teacher leads music activities for the whole family to sing, play, and jam along to. Each class has been designed as an interactive music-making experience for little ones with their grownups. The class includes a range of musical experiences, from playful free-movement to instrumental jam sessions, where each child participates at their own level: singing, moving, listening, watching, or exploring instruments.
During each session, we explore a different collection of songs that draw from folk tunes mixed with sounds from around the globe and chants in unusual tonalities and meters. Each family receives a songbook, CD and download code for the mobile app to bring the music home and make it a part of everyday life and routines.
Holiday Sing-along
After Thanksgiving, celebrate the season with our 3-week Holiday Sing-along mini-session. Get in the holiday spirit by singing festive songs and moving to the beat with your child! Jingle all the way to your weekly class that features a mix of traditional favorites and joyous songs from around the world that celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
Music Together con Español
This bilingual family class is for Spanish speakers looking for a more accessible way to experience Music Together, as well as for families who want some exposure to the Spanish language through music. Families receive a CD plus digital access to the semester’s songs recorded in a mixture of Spanish and English, as well as the English-language songbook and a booklet with the Spanish lyrics. Everyone will have a great time in this Music Together family class that’s accessible to todo el mundo—everyone—regardless of your level of Spanish-language proficiency!
Music Together: Babies Only
Designed to facilitate an active support for infants' musical growth, the goal of this class is to create a special bond between parent and child through music.
The music activities in a Babies class are specifically designed to teach parents how to support music development in infancy and how to connect with their infants through music, using concepts like “purposeful touch,” “sound layering,” and “dancing for baby.” This gentle class is focused on the needs of infants who are not yet crawling, such as babbling with baby, finger plays, infant massage, and large movement.
Meet the Beat
Building on what kids have learned in Music Together classes, 4 to 7 year-olds explore rhythm and pitch through playful activities using a variety of percussion instruments. Kids experience how the beat feels in their bodies through creative movement and how it sounds by singing intervals in Solfege—do, re, mi, fa sol! Improvisation is the name of the game as we build a solid musical foundation that will support growth into private instruction in any instrument. This is a drop-off class.
Meet the Piano
Children ages 3-5 explore pitch, rhythm, and patterns as they build foundational skills that prepare them to be successful at playing the piano. During this 45-minute weekly drop-off class, students will participate in creative movements to help build their technique and finger dexterity. Playful games and chants introduce them to ideas that lead to understanding keyboard geography and concepts of high vs low, loud vs soft, and slow vs fast.
Meet the Ukulele
Ukulele is a great introductory instrument for little hands. This 45-minute group class for children ages 3 to 7 teaches your children proper uke playing position, how to tune their uke, and some basic chords, so that they can begin to sing and play together. There is even a performance opportunity at the end of the session! Caregiver attendance is encouraged, especially for younger children. Learn more about class from Mr. Daniel!
Meet the Violin
This 45-minute group class for children ages 3 to 6 offers them a taste of the violin with musical games, crafts, skill development and performance in a recital at the end of the semester. There’s no need to rent an instrument, because each child crafts a box violin that they use to learn about its parts and how to handle it safely. A wooden bow is provided to learn proper bow technique. Parental attendance is required if the child is not fully potty trained.
Meet the Guitar
This 45-minute group class for children ages 3 to 6 gives them a taste of the guitar through games, crafts, and skill development. It is a great way to expose young children to instrumental instruction to determine if they would like to begin private instruction. Children will craft a box guitar on the first day of class to use. Caregiver attendance is encouraged, especially for younger children. Offered Fall & Spring Semester, so that children have the opportunity to perform in the recital at the end of the session.