Pied Piper Music For Littlies

This program provides four terms of sequential activity to broaden and deepen the music experience for children in the pre Preschool year. Meeting once a week for 45 minutes, children explore the world of music – speaking, singing, moving, listening and playing percussion instruments. A rich musical environment for the young child is one that provides varied opportunities to experience and explore music. Therefore the stimulation of the group experience in the weekly lessons and whatever individual ‘musical play’ the lessons result in at home are equally important to the program. To that end, the parent/child team is encouraged to keep a scrapbook of all the songs/poems used in class and to provide a visual stimulus for each to which the child can respond at his or her leisure.

Three-year olds

Meeting once a week for 45 minutes, children explore the world of music speaking, singing, moving, listening and playing percussion instruments. Various activities are used to assist the children to an understanding of these concepts when used with reference to music. Tone colour is explored through the use of a wide number of non-pitched and pitched percussion instruments.

The ‘opposites’ are introduced:

loud – soft
fast – slow
thick – thin
high – low

Four-year olds

Some basic concepts are introduced (or revisited and extended)

Including

Difference between beat and rhythm
Reading of simple rhythmic notation
Simple musical terms and signs (ie. repeat, forte, piano)
Tone color (Pitched and unpitched percussion, Voices)

Five-year olds

Some basic concepts are introduced (or revisited or extended)

Including

Introduction of time signatures
Introduction to pitched notation
Simple forms
Tone Colour (Pitched and unpitched percussion, Instruments of the orchestra, Voices)

Each lesson finishes with a simplified folk dance. It is not expected that the children will master the correct movements and style of all of the dances, however it is expected that the enjoyment of their adult partner will flow on to them and that this role model will help to ensure the child’s love of this more structured type of movement.

Babies 0 to 18 months

For specific details about the curriculum see details at Kindermusik Village

Toddlers 18 months to 2+ years

For specific details about the curriculum see details at Kindermusik Our Time

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