Big Kids Classes In Depth
Thanks for your interest in Music Together Big Kids!
Reserve your space in the demo class on March 15!
Big Kids Fall classes are
- 60 minutes long
- 3:30 PM on Thursdays
- located at Sun Soo Tae Kwon Do in West Asheville
- Tuition of $160 covers 10 weeks of classes and all materials. In addition to a special songbook just for big kids and 2 identical CD's, families will receive new Home Play pages to carry the classroom fun/learning into the home.
- $60 discount if a younger sibling is enrolled in any Asheville Area Music Together class
- Parent attendance requirements are a bit different than for Mixed Ages classes...where the parent model in class is core to our curriculum! Parent involvement and role modeling is still crucial for our big kids at home, and parents are welcome to attend every Big Kids class! What is actually required from parents is to attend the first and last class of the Session, to sign up for to be the parent helper at least once in the middle of the Session, and to show up for the last 10 minutes of every class for the lullaby and Goodbye Song. So in a nutshell: attend 3 entire classes, and come 10 minutes before the end of class each week. (note: Some families carpool or have schedule conflicts, and we are not rigid about that last 10 minute thing. However, please come when you can--some children are sad when other parents are around for the lullaby but their own are not.)
- In order to maintain a special learning environment for our special big kids, we cannot have younger siblings in the Big Kids class. Exceptions: Siblings younger than 8 months of age may tag along with the parent and Big Kid ANY time. Younger siblings (any age) are welcome to join us for the last 10 minutes of any class. It's a great moment for *family time* during the lullaby and Goodbye Song.
Whereas Mixed Ages classes are designed to help your child develop the fundamental music skills of singing accurately and in tune and move accurately to a beat, the Big Kids classes will support pre-music-reading skills, noticing and naming musical concepts, tonal and rhythmic solfege, and contextual creativity (individual and group) all while continuing to provide a playful, musically rich class environment. Expect lots of singing, chanting, game songs, rhythm and tonal patterns, a wide variety of movement and plenty of it, instrument play and hand-drumming. There will be no formal instrument instruction.
Big Kids classes will use music from the Song Collections that we use in Mixed Ages classes. If your child has already learned the Bells Song Collection in a previous Mixed Ages class, then he or she will be primed to take musical understanding to the next level with those familiar songs this Winter. If you're unsure about a program where your child will already know the music, check this out. I think you'll be pleased.
If your child has never taken a Music Together class before, or if you missed Bells last time around, don't worry. Big Kids classes are accommodating and appropriate for kids who've never had a music class in their lives. And there's no better way to start your child's musical education than in a relaxed group environment.
Reserve your space in the demo class on March 15!
We are excited to offer the new Music Together Big Kids program for children ages 5, 6, and 7! After several of years of building and improving Big Kids at multiple pilot locations, Music Together, LLC made the program available to qualifying centers for the first time in the Fall of 2011.
