Exploring bird sounds with children

“What does a bird say?”  A lot more than tweet, or chirp.   Most children only consider one sound, but an observant child with more experience in bird sounds might ask, “What kind of bird?” 
Fun vocal play with different bird sounds can open up the world of birds, and sounds, with your child, and can have [...]

Hello Weather, Let’s Make Rain Hats and Rain Shakers

We’re singing, and dancing, and making rain music in our Imagine That! class!  Playing in the rain has never been so fun (and so dry), as with our imaginary musical rain excursions.  To enhance our rain play, students designed and created their own Rain Shakers to use for sound effects in our rain story.  AND they designed, created, [...]

Hello Weather, Let’s make a Rainbow

In “Hello, Weather, Let’s Play Together”, a fabulous semester of Kindermusik’s Imagine That program, we are singing and learning about Rainbows.  Our song helps us remember the order of the colors in a rainbow.  The colorful rainbow shaped puzzle pieces in our activity books provides hands-on learning in building rainbows while we’re singing our song.
There’s other songs [...]

Kindermusik Imagine That for Preschoolers

Kindermusik Imagine That!
designed for children from 3 to 5 years old.
Each day in Imagine That! is an imaginative journey filled with music, movement, and exploration leading to whole child development, music development, and learning through play and self-discovery. If you have a child in this age range, you KNOW that their imaginations are in [...]

Children, Children, build me a boat

In the Imagine That! Toys I Make, Trips I Take semester, we have been working together to build toys, and BE toys for an imaginary toyshop – singing our way through the whole process.  The last two weeks, we have been building a boat, and taking imaginary trips in it, reading stories about it, and [...]

Imagine That! A Toy Shop for preschoolers to musically explore

  Kindermusik Imagine That!  is for children from 3 1/2 to 5 years old. 

Spring semester classes are offered on:  Wed. 1:30 pm.    or   Thurs. 11:30 am.    at Explorations V Childrens Museum in Lakeland.  Sessions are 45 min. a week for 15 weeks.  Students attend independently for 30 minutes, then parents join for the last [...]

“Catching” a Steady Beat with very Young Children

A STEADY BEAT is an unchanging continuous pulse.  This is different from the Rhythm Patterns of a specific song.  To illustrate a steady beat, tap with each underlined syllable as you sing the song.
Do you know the Muffin Man, the muffin man, the muffin man.
Do you know the Muffin Man, who lives on Drury Lane.
RHYTHM [...]

Ways to Keep a Steady Beat with Preschoolers

Preschoolers:  practice OWN beat and EXTERNAL beats in variety of ways
This week, the students in the Imagine That! class kept a beat by using their arms and bodies to “See Saw, up and down, in the air and on the ground”.
·         Play steady beat on drum, encouraging child to walk steady, then stop; then encourage other [...]

The imagination of Preschoolers thrive in a Kindermusik Park

  Kindermusik Imagine That!  is for children from 3 1/2 to 5 years old. 

Fall semester classes are offered on:  Wed. 1:30 pm.    or   Thurs. 11:30 am.    at Explorations V Childrens Museum in Lakeland.  Sessions are 45 min. a week for 15 weeks.  Students attend independently for 30 minutes, then parents join for the [...]

Our Imaginative Kindermusik City !

Kindermusik Imagine That!   CITIES! BUSY PLACES~FRIENDLY FACES  -  WEEK 13 
We have had a lot of fun pretending to be in the city visiting all the different shops and people!  The buildings the children made were so creative – we had a post office and a grocery store, a ballet studio, a purse shop, a shoe [...]