Summer Camps

Thank you for the amazing support and for all of you who have signed up to participate in my summer camps this year. I am so excited to go on adventures to the Zoo, camping, and the beach with your cute kids.

I need to order the Take Home Materials for each camper by June 1st, so if I haven't heard from you yet, now is your chance! Just do it-it will be so much fun and you will be amazed at the musical education that takes place as well.

Happy singing!

New On the Road Summer Camp

I could not be more excited!! My camps are filling up so I've added another class. I will have another 5 week class of On the Road (3-5 years old) starting June 18th at 10am. This class is also 90 minutes and moms are invited back at 11 for sharing time. Ya for Kindermusik!!!

Summer Camps

My summer camps are filling up fast and I can't wait! I've been busy learning the songs and chants and thinking of fun ways to help bring these adventures to your kids. Here is a quick summary of the 3 camps I'll be offering. All classes start on Wednesday June 14th and run for 5 weeks.


Tell Me A Tale (Age 5-7) Every Wednesday at 3:00-4:30 - Through storytelling, your child will develop an early awareness of rhythm, movement, singing, and drama. Each lesson features a new tale from around the world, explored through multi-instrument and multi-cultural elements. All told, it's an around-the-imagination adventure of the greatest stories from Europe, Malaysia, South Africa, and more.

On the Road (Age 3-5) - Every Wednesday at 1:00-2:30 with moms joining us at 2:00 for sharing time. Your summer vacation becomes a musical learning theme, and makes the most of a preschooler's burgeoning imagination and ability to learn more words and solve problems. Take imaginary trips to summer vacation locations such as the carnival, a summer cottage, and the beach. Crafts use simple materials—most can be found around the house. You'll also learn more about how music improves your preschooler's ability to think, reason, create and express.

Zoo Train! (Age 18 mos -3 yrs)- Every Wednesday at 10:30-11:30. Five lessons feature music, stories, crafts and snacks to stimulate a toddler's emerging sense of imagination, coordination, and ability to learn more words. Tag along this summer with a traveling zoo-train; bring your own stuffed animal for the petting zoo; wear long white socks on your hands for polar bear paws; and learn about real animals in the zoo. Sing songs in new languages. Parents also learn more about child development and how music improves a toddler's ability to think, reason, create, and express.

I'd love to see you and your child at any of these camps! Please let me know if you have any questions. Enrollment will go for about another month.

Listening Equals Learning

"It turns out that mere exposure makes an enormous contribution to how musical competence develops." -researchers at the University of AmsterdamIn Kindermusik class, we tell parents that simply having their child in an interactive musical environment has huge impact.

This impact usually goes well beyond what we are seeing in class. (For example, a child may initially be shy about singing in class. At home, however, she will sing the class songs all the time! We know she's learning and abosorbing). Recent research backs up what we have known and seen for years. According to researchers at the University of Amsterdam (2008), there is evidence that some musical capabilities are developed just by being exposed to music, especially music of the listener’s preferred genre. And we can tell you that Kindermusik kids LOVE their Kindermusik music. (And most parents are closet fans too!)When it comes to music, listening equals learning. Most parents instinctively recognize the power of music and want to do all they can to foster their child’s musical interests and development. One of the easiest things you can do is surround your child with an active musical environment. Kindermusik International’s experience over the past 30 years has shown that for young children –- baby, toddler, preschooler, or big kid -- there’s no better way to listen and learn than with us!

Check out Kindermusik Play, our new e-music site to preview and download some of our music. Have a listen with your kids. They'll be learning!To check out the research, click here.

From ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2008): Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have demonstrated how much the brain can learn simply through active exposure to many different kinds of music. "More and more labs are showing that people have the sensitivity for skills that we thought were only expert skills," Henkjan Honing (UvA) explains.

EM Street Fair

Each Spring our great city of Eagle Mountain does a street fair for all the local business owners. I get to set up a booth and share the joys and benefits of Kindermusik with our community. I'm a little nervous as this will be my first big public push for enrollment, but I am super excited as well!

Please come out and support all the great, talented people in our area trying to be successful at their business. My booth will have a bean bag toss for the kiddos and I'll be handing out lots of fun toys and treats as well. I hope to sign up students for my summer camps that will begin on June 16th. Come out and see me!!

What you can Expect to See.....

Here is a picture of my Kindermusik studio. I just finished up my first little practice class on my road to licensing. I should be done by the end of April, just in time to start a few summer camps. Here is a sneak peak at some of the things you can expect to see at Kindermusik with Jamie......

Lots of new instrument exploration. This is our gathering time activity where each child has a few minutes to explore different rhythm and sounds with new instruments before we start class.

Lots of sharing and learning good social skills.

Lots of precious little bonding moments between children and parents. This is our Johnny Oops finger play, except today we used our own names and the kids loved it!Lots of opportunities for one on one focused experiences with your child. Here he is trying to show his mom how to dance just the right way!Lots of energy!! How loud can we bang the triangle, how high and loud can we play our rhythm sticks, how fast can we swoosh our scarves!! And we tried to play them low and soft, just to even things out.Lots of opportunities to discover and explore new ways to move our bodies and make our own beat.
Plenty of space for coats and shoes to be out of the way for play!

You can expect to see lots of smiley faces, lots of singing and dancing and new discovery as these kids imaginations take us on a new adventure each class. Thank you so very much for all who participated!!

Survey Says.....

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