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Where kids grow up making music!
 

Summer 2010
Wagner's Kindermusik
& Piano/Keyboarding Classes

cccQuick Links Grouped By Age


Kindermusik Special Classes
Family Time 2 children Birth - 6 Yrs.

 

 



Newborn to 18 months Kindermusik Village
Summer Classes “Peekaboo, I Love You"/"Busy Days”
(Kindermusik Village Video )


Session 1 (5 Weeks)

Peek-A-Boo! I Love You!

More than just a curious story, Mother Goose games like peek-a-boo help your baby understand language. So in this special program, uncover more ways to say "I love you" using American Sign Language, soap bubbles, blue-star sponges, and parent-baby dances. Plus, you can meet with other newborns and families in the community and learn how music improves the child development process. Chime balls, scarves and humongous scarves come into play, as well as other assorted instruments. Share the gift of language, song, play and movement with your baby in this world of Mother Goose with Peek-A-Boo! I Love You. Enjoy the beautiful Peekaboo book that has been uniquely designed for the curricular with lots of creativity.

Home Materials :

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Session 2 (5 weeks)

Busy Days
Using all the places you go with your baby as a theme, we'll expand your repertoire of on-the-go, attention-getting songs, and rhymes to grow with you both. Each lesson features new activities and songs you can sing this summer—at the store, the playground, the doctor, and more.

You'll both love the At Home Materials
Home Materials : At Home Materials include: Hardcover book, a wooden rolly cage-bell, CD features a slip-in, slip-out lyric book inside the case, and a home activities poster.


Specifically created by Kindermusik jingle bells, chime balls, unbreakable mirrors, and scarves used in class

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Benefits for Your Child and You
*Educates you about your baby's total development through Kindermusik *Foundations of Learning - statements based on the most recent research.
*Encourages joyful participation in a music making community.
*Nurtures bonding between you and your child through intentional touch warm-ups, exercises, interactive dances and musical play.
*Provides natural connections between singing and reading out loud, listening and communicating through literature books.

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18 months to 3 Years Our Time 18 months to 3 Years Our Time
"Creatures Of The Ocean/Zoo Train!"(Click to See a Kindermusik "Our Time" Video)

Session 1 (5 weeks)

Creatures Of The Ocean
Get ready for a seaside adventure with creatures from the sea and ocean play. In Creatures at the Ocean, your child is introduced to a number of whimsical waterfront friends, including the seagull, crab, dolphin, octopus, and whale. Beach fun is the focus with beachball play, pretend kite play, sand play, and sheet-simulated waves! Throughout each lesson, your child explores ocean movements such as a whale spouting, sings to delightful music including a lively Calypso tune, hears an original ocean creature story, and makes music with delightfully unique instruments such as shakers, castanets, and more. Home materials provided include a home CD and picture folder and a pair of specially designed seashell handle castanets for family music making.

You'll both love the At Home Materials
Home Materials :
Home materials provided include a home CD and picture folder and a pair of specially designed seashell handle castanets for family music making

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Session 2 (5 weeks)

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Zoo Train! "

Zoo Train!: Your toddler and the train make a natural match—always on the move. Bring your own stuffed animals for the petting zoo. Wear long white socks on your hands for polar bear paws. Sing songs for clapping time and use music to help children regulate emotions.

You'll both love the At Home Materials
Home Materials:

 

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Benefits for Your Child and You
*Recognizes your child's need for both freedom to try and the assurance of your support.
*Educates you about the interactive nature of the total development of your child through music, movement and literacy.
*Promotes joyful music making as a community.
*Encourages the building of characteristics related to successful learning in school: self-confidence, curiosity, self-expression, social skills and cooperation.


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Preschool 3.5 years to 5 yrs. Imagine That!
"Confetti Days"/"On the Road"

Session 1 (5 weeks)

Confetti Days-Get ready for a seaside adventure with creatures from the sea and ocean play. In Creatures at the Ocean, your child is introduced to a number of whimsical waterfront friends, including the seagull, crab, dolphin, octopus, and whale. Beach fun is the focus with beachball play, pretend kite play, sand play, and sheet-simulated waves! Throughout each lesson, your child explores ocean movements such as a whale spouting, sings to delightful music including a lively Calypso tune, hears an original ocean creature story, and makes music with delightfully unique instruments such as shakers, castanets, and more. Home materials provided include a home CD and picture folder and a pair of specially designed seashell handle castanets for family music making.

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Session 2 (5 weeks)
" On The Road"

Relive your childhood with your child. Every song is likely to revive a memory from your summers' past. Play "Eye Spy" and find shapes in the clouds to pass the time. Take imaginary trips to vacation destinations on a bus named "Van Go"

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Benefits for Your Child and You
*Nurtures your child's imagination and creativity.
*Creates a learning environment that integrates music, expressive language, peer interaction and pretend play.
*Challenges your child through activities that promote problem-solving, making choices and expressing ideas.
*Allows your child to have an active role in the development of music and movement activities.
 

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Pre-K, Kindergarten, 4.5 years to 6 years
"Tell Me a Tale"/"Around the World"

Session 1 (5 weeks)

Tell Me A Tale
Through storytelling, your child will develop an early awareness of rhythm, movement, singing, and drama in Tell Me a Tale, the newest Kindermusik Adventures summer camp. Each lesson features a new tale, crafts, and snacks 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.

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Session 2 (5 weeks)
"Around The World"



Say hello in five different languages when you visit a new country each lesson: Germany, Japan, Africa, England and Mexico. Play the native instruments. Drape sheets over cardboard boxes and sing over German mountaintops. Toss peanuts on the floor and bring good luck to one's home with this Japanese custom. Send messages in Nigeria with "talking drums."

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Benefits for Your Child and You
*Balances activities that integrate listening, vocal development, movement and performing in instrumental ensemble.
*Introduces your child to the written language of music while cultivating music creativity.
*Provides age-appropriate musical experiences that lead your child toward a lifetime of joyful music making.
*Helps you and your child recognize special interests or skills for future formal music instruction.



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Kindermusik Family Time class for families with multi-age children ages newborn and up (Click to See Family Time Video)

Session 1 (5 weeks)

Come and bring all the children to the same class! We'll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family. Family Time is also open to any parent with only onechild also.

This one-room schoolhouse approach to music allows for older children to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones are eager to learn. Family Time is a multi-layered learning environment. Basic musical concepts are presented each week along with the instruments and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.

Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing-all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too. In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you-and they'll start developing the skills they'll need in school and on neighborhood playground.

Benefits for you and your child

* One convenient class that families can take together
* Introduces musical concepts and develops musical skills
* Allows each child to develop social skills-such as sharing, and turn taking-in a multi-age, multi-child environment
* a multi-age, multi-child environment
* Strengthens the emotional bond among family members

Enjoy the Journey All Week Long

Each family receives a set of At Home Materials designed to integrate the classroom learning experience with the fun, activities you do together as a family. With music from class, story books, and creative play ideas and trivia, the At Home Materials help your children associate learning with the unique time you spend together, bonding as a family. Repetition and family involvement in a child's learning is a fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the parent is the child's most important teacher and the home is the most important place for a child's learning to take place and grow.

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Piano/Keyboarding - Summer 2010
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"Camp Boogie Woogie"
The 6 to 8 year old.

Everyone loves adventure. Imagine your child enjoying a positive and fun experience exploring the keys! This rewarding and motivating class is designed to bring the music out of your child as they discover the mysteries and rewards of learning an instrument. Through fast paced activities and positive rewards, you will see immediate positive results - and smiles. We will guide your child through the basics of Keyboarding with a time-tested curriculum. For over 33 years, Wagner's has developed teaching techniques which are uniquely motivating. Reading, writing, ear-training, singing, ensemble playing, timing, expressiveness and creativity are only a few of the areas of musicianship your child will be introduced to. Piano is not only known to be the best instrument for a musical beginning, but also as a tool for understanding and expressing music over a lifetime. Children sit at their own "class pianos." Children also learn values that come out of the discipline of practice (10-15 minutes a day, 5 days a week) as well as the value of meaningful rewards for a job well done. As a family based program, we support the family and social values you are teaching at home.

Class size is limited to 8, so please click the link below to see what times and days are available so you can secure a spot. See you here!

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9 to 12 year-olds "Camp Boogie Woogie"

Everyone loves adventure. Imagine your child enjoying a positive and fun experience exploring the keys! This rewarding and motivating class is designed to bring the music out of your child as they discover the mysteries and rewards of learning an instrument. Through fast paced activities and positive rewards, you will see immediate positive results - and smiles. We will guide your child through the basics of Keyboarding with a time-tested curriculum. For over 33 years, Wagner's has developed teaching techniques which are uniquely motivating. Reading, writing, ear-training, singing, ensemble playing, timing, expressiveness and creativity are only a few of the areas of musicianship your child will be introduced to. Piano is not only known to be the best instrument for a musical beginning, but also as a tool for understanding and expressing music over a lifetime. Children sit at their own "class pianos." Children also learn values that come out of the discipline of practice (10-15 minutes a day, 5 days a week) as well as the value of meaningful rewards for a job well done. As a family based program, we support the family and social values you are teaching at home. As the children grow to become teenagers, Wagner's allows for the learning of contemporary styles and fun songs kids can be proud to share with their friends. We have a library of Rock, Jazz, Boogie and Blues songs they will love to explore. We also introduce them to and utilize the Guitar, Bass, Drums and Synthesizer as they gain skills on the piano. The piano gives the basis for these and all other musical instruments. After 31 years, we have seen that this gift parents give their children becomes an intregal part of their lives in the future, and they will thank you for it over and over again.

Class size is limited to 8, so please click the link below to see what times and days are available so you can secure a spot. See you here!

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Adults "Camp Boogie Woogie!"

You have wanted to do this for yourself, and there is no better time than right now. Music can take you out of the "day to day" like nothing else can. Get lost in learning about music through the keyboard and you'll realize as we all have - it's a great escape - a way to sharpen your brain, to express yourself - and most of all to have a good time developing your talent through this healthy and rewarding hobby. While the rewards are too numerous to mention, I will say that we will be exploring the following areas of musicianship: chords and chordal accompaniments, techniques for strengthening your fingers, various styles of music, duet and ensemble playing, methodologies for continued development and success in music, ways to be creative through music, and music theory. See you here!

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Wagner's School of Music is located at the La Mesa Springs Shopping Center,
8060 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, CA 91941 • (619) 460 - 0992 • Fax (619) 460-0993