About Musikgarten

Musikgarten is an early-childhood program that teaches children music the way they learn language.  It begins with listening and experimentation and then invites the children to naturally join in as they develop.  The classes progress from babies through early elementary school, teaching them first to understand and create music and then teaching them how to read it and write it; just like we do language. 

I currently teach the preschool curriculum, Cycle of Seasons, intended for ages 3-5.  I have also created a preschool program to coincide  with the Musikgarten curriculum.

 For your young child every day is new, fresh, exciting, filled with new people, things, and events.  Events that appear ordinary to us as adults are a never-ending source of wonder and engagement for the child.  With no sense of time but the present, your child lives each moment completely.  The smallest happening is a momentous event!

This year, in The Cycle of Seasons, we are taking delight in the discovery of the world around us with all of our senses.  We imagine and create.  We are learning to focus listening skills to recognize and discriminate between different sounds.   We are learning about the language of music, patterns and songs, dances and stories.    Your child will begin to build a musical vocabulary.  Your child’s ear – a vital organ of learning – is at a crucial point of development, and The Cycle of Seasons provides a rich, fun, musical, magical environment in which this development can take place!

 

For more information, visit the Musikgarten site.