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Little Bears - Class Descriptions
Overview :: Schedule + Tuition :: Teachers :: Registration :: Free Classes
NEW! Lullaby Bears: prenatal and newborns up to 4 mos.
Lullaby Bears is a singing group specifically designed to nourish and support moms, dads, pregnant mothers, grandparents and other caregivers as well as their babies. Singing together is not only a great way to get your singing voice in shape, but is also a great way of developing a sense of community. After you warm up your voices, the teacher will guide you through some simple singing technique and teach you lullabies from different traditions, and even how to write your own! This class is taught by Julia Norton, whose album Lullaby Island won a Parents' Choice award in 2007 and is recommended by Mothering magazine.
[photo by: Julie Bernstein] Baby Bears - 4 months to 1 year
This class will introduce your child to the wonderful world of music through lap songs, finger-plays, sing-alongs, and rhythm-based activities. Parents in this class learn to sing a variety of playful and soothing rhythms and melodies to bring home and use for bath time, dinner time, play time and sleepy time. Please bring a blanket.
Bouncy Bears - 1 year to 3 years
Children in this class will create musical sounds and rhythms with their voices and bodies, play finger games, dance and move to the music, hear familiar and new songs and rock out during the percussion instrument jam. Parents be warned: there will be lots of jumping, bouncing, moving, grooving and playing in this class!
Boogie Bears - 3 years to 5 years These pre-schoolers are ready to rock and roll, raise the roof and jam out! Children will discover their own talking and singing voices, dance to the beat, and explore rhythm with real musical instruments. Let's make some music and boogie down to it!
Mixed Bears - 6 months to 5 years This class is specially designed for parents with more than one child. Babies, toddlers and big kids all join in the music making fun, watching and learning from one another. There will be plenty of music, movement and instrument play for children of all ages.
[photo by: Josh Berkowitz]
Music & Movement - 2 to 4 years
In this class, children play real instruments, create sounds and rhythms with their own bodies, hear familiar and new songs, and begin to explore their talking and singing voices. Through play-oriented activities and songs, teachers encourage children to move creatively and explore gesture and space. There is lots of jumping, bouncing, spinning, moving, grooving and playing in this class!
Bear Cubs - 4 years to 5 years This class is designed for older pre-schoolers who are ready for more challenging and structured musical guidance. Through playful experiences with singing, moving, listening and playing instruments, children will develop fundamental skills such as pitch and rhythm matching that will help them to be successful in future music learning, such as piano and other instrument lessons. Basic rhythmic notation and solfege will be introduced. This is a drop-off class taught by Dr. Julia Hunt Nielsen assisted by Little Bears Director Barbara Murphy.
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