Mini-MusicMakers Music Pups from The Music Class Inc. The Spring "Elephant" Collection 2008 Dates: April 5-June 21st ; runs for 10 weeks Manchester South Windsor West Hartford at the Mandell Jewish Community Center Simsbury at the Emek Shalom Early Childhood Center Rocky Hill at Falcetti Music/Pianos NEW!! Middletown at the Green Street Arts Center REGISTERING NOW!!

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What is Mini-MusicMakers?
Mini-MusicMakers is a family-style music and movement class for children ages birth to 5 with their parent or caregiver. The primary goal for Mini-MusicMakers is to help each child to achieve Basic Music Competence. Basic Music Competence is defined as the ability to sing in tune and keep a steady beat. If a child achieves Basic Music Competence, he/she will be able to understand and enjoy listening to music. He/she will also be well-prepared to create music and to play an instrument.

While we take our goal of educating children very seriously, we know that the key to success lies in one word—fun! Everyone has a great time in class, and children love listening to our CDs over and over again at home. Because we know that it is essential for grownups to enjoy the songs as well, we make sure our music isn’t simplistic or babyish. Parents frequently tell us how much they enjoy the music.

What happens at Mini-MusicMakers?

• Singing fosters the development of your child's most important instrument, the voice, through vocal exploration, songs and chants.
• Moving develops body awareness, coordination and spatial relationships, through synchronized movement, creative movement, and simple dances.
• Playing Instruments introduces a variety of musical timbres with percussive instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingle bells, resonator bars and more.
• Creating stimulates your child's imagination and encourages self expression with sound and movement.
• Patterning boosts your child's ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language.
• Listening cultivates your child's heightened attentiveness to sound discrimination.
• Exploring timbre, dynamics, tempo and pitch lays the foundation for conceptualization of elements of music.

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Can my 9 month old and 3 year old attend the same class?
Absolutely! Mini-MusicMakers is an age-integrated class and so the materials and activities are designed to accomodate all children involved in the class, regardless of age. Activities focus on adult/child interaction as well as child/child interaction, so that children of different ages can enjoy class together.

Playful Pups is offered to mixed ages from birth to 5; Cool Cats is for children ages 4 and 5 only, and takes the curriculum to the next level.

Where are the classes held?
Manchester - The MusicMakers Academy, 517 Hartford Road
South Windsor - Temple Beth Hillel, 20 Baker Lane
West Hartford - Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center, 335 Bloomfield Avenue near UHartt
Rocky Hill - Falcetti Music, Town Line Road
Simsbury - Emek Shalom Early Childhood Center
>b> Middletown- Green Street Arts Center, Green Street

What materials are needed for Mini-MusicMakers?
Each family receives a songbook, CD, and a tape. Our recordings are fun, upbeat, and humorous. Each song has a fun musical activity to engage the parent and child in class and at home. We repeatedly hear that not only do the children love the recordings, but the parents enjoy them as well!

What else should I know/How can I save money?

• Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions are 10 weeks long. Summer is usually 7-8 weeks long.
• Each class meets for 45 minutes.
• If you miss a class, feel free to use our liberal makeup policy by attending another class. You must call us to arrange a makeup, as we have a class size limit. However, all makeups must be finished during the current session.
• Please dress your child in comfortable clothes which are easy to move in. We do ask that everyone remove their shoes, so please use appropriate footwear.
• You will receive a $10 discount on the Mini-MusicMakers tuition if your child, a sibling, or mom/dad register with us for private instrumental/voice lessons.
• You will receive a $10 credit on the Mini-MusicMakers tuition if you are refer a new student and they register for and complete a session with us.
• You will receive a $10 discount on the Mini-MusicMakers tuition if you are a homeschooling family.
• If inclement weather forces us to cancel classes, we will announce it on our website, our voice mail and MIGHT announce it on WFSB First Alert website, WVIT Channel 30 website, and News Channel 8 website. It is your responsibility to attend a makeup class. No refunds will be given for weather cancellations.
• Please feel free to bring visiting family and friends to our class. Notice to the teacher ahead of time is appreciated.

Cost (Tuition includes our songbook and award-winning CD):
Playful Pups (birth-5): $155 for the first child

$105 discounted sibling
Siblings under 8 months are always FREE!

No refunds will be made after March 28
No exceptions.
We accept cash, check, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard.