Kindermusik Imagine That

3 to 5 years
30 classes in an academic year
45 minute class each week
Class with no more than 10 children
Parent Involvement: Last 10-15 minutes of class

Join you’re preschooler on a musical journey of discovery and exploration…a journey limited only by the power of imagination. Pretend play activities along with music, vocal development, storytelling, movement, and literature will capture you’re preschooler’s potential to learn.

Designed for active, energetic, enthusiastic, and imaginative children ages 3 to 5, Imagine That! classes encourage socialization, sharing, and participating in group activities. Singing becomes a focus for enhancing the preschooler’s vocal development as expressive language is just beginning to emerge. You will have fun participating together with your child in the last 10-15 minutes of class during Sharing Time, where we will introduce Home Activities they can enjoy together throughout the week.

What a Parent and Child Will Experience in Class:

Pretend Play — Pretend play activities along with music, vocal development, storytelling, listening, movement, and literacy are a big part of each class. When based upon a child’s real life experiences, pretend play helps develop language, sensory, motor, and cognitive skills.
Musical Variety and Singing — Activities include a mixture of musical genres and styles and provide a setting for children to explore their many voices and to use a “singing voice.” Singing helps with memory and recall, physical development, creativity, and socialization.
Storytelling and Literacy — Each class is built on the development of a story, so you’ll hear preschoolers search for the word to say what they mean and try to keep up with their busy minds, emerging wants, needs, likes, and dislikes.
Parent Involvement — Preschoolers are learning to be self-sufficient in a group setting of peers, while many times still needing the emotional security provided by a parent. The preschooler experiences both in Imagine That! Caregivers participate in the last 10-15 minutes of class. Plus the At Home Materials ensures the learning continues at home with each child’s best teacher—the parent

Enrollment includes:

Developmentally appropriate curriculum for parents and preschoolers, ages 3 to 5 years
Weekly 45-minute class includes a variety of activities, with the last several activities in class shared with parents
Two sets of At Home Materials—40-page activity book, two literature books, play set or game, instrument, and two CDs of music from class.

Home Materials for Imagine That 2011-2012

See What I Saw — In this class, preschoolers use their real experience of playing in the park to create imaginative, storytelling scenarios with music—go on an imaginary trip to Grasshopper Park where they sail down the park slide and then recreate the sound of that experience with a loooong vocal glissando. Each week provides preschoolers one uninterrupted session of imaginative play that’s guided in a very specific, sequential way—with a special sharing time with parents in the last 15 minutes of class Home Materials: Two books—Can You Find Me? and The Ant Picnic Feast, Two Home CDs, See What I Saw Play Set, a Family Activity Book, a slide whistle instrument, a slide whistle and lumi sticks instruments, and a backpack.

Toys I Make, Trips I Take — Think of it like taking a course inside a child’s imagination. We’ll use the theme of a toyshop to make our pretend-creations, using rhythm and songs with every imaginary saw, hammer, and nail. The result is building the preschooler’s sense of a sequence of events, which is good for storytelling, as well as making his ideas a reality. Home Materials: Two books—If I Had a Big Blue Boat and Tippity Tippity Too, Toys I Make, Trips I Take Play Set, Two Home CDs, Family Activity Book, and a drum.