Classes
Fall 2024 session registration now open!
Music education for every developmental level
MusikGarten offers classes for babies all the way up to early elementary school aged children.
Overview
This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.
Structure
Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games and echoes. Babies get to explore their own personal sets of simple rhythmic instruments and discover the different movement and textures of colorful scarves.
Materials and Tuition
Included in the cost of tuition, each family will receive a cd and download code, as well as a wooden shaker, wooden rhythm sticks, and a colorful scarf, all kept together in a cloth bag.
$150
9 week fall session
Fall 2024 session:
September 18- November 13
Wednesdays, 9:30- 10:00 am
classes are located at
2001 W. Kennewick ave., Kennewick, WA
Family Music for Toddlers
Age Range: Walking babies/toddlers through Pre-K
Teacher: Chelsea Spence-Crane
Overview
These weekly, 30 minute classes are designed for young children - full of energy, often on the move, always exploring and learning - and their caregivers. Together you’ll sing, chant, move, dance, listen, and play musical instruments; all activities that bridge the natural connection between music and movement through four wonder-filled semesters.
Structure
Each lesson features movement activities for coordination, body awareness and control, exploration of space, and basic music fundamentals such as rhythm and melody. Class time is also filled with playing instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, drums, xlyophones, resonator bars, and other precussion instruments.
Materials and Tuition
Included in your tuition cost, you'll receive a wonderful CD and download code, a parent activity book, and an instrument or scarf to use at home.
$150
9 week session
Wednesdays, 10:15-10:45am
Fall 2024 session:
September 18- November 13
classes are located at
2001 W. Kennewick ave., Kennewick, WA
Overview
This 45 minute-long class is designed to nurture the emergent independence of the preschool-aged child.
Parents stay for the class, although some of the activities are designed to have the children participate independently of their parents.
Structure
Activities include lots of singing, chants and rhymes, listening games, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which nurture the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic environment.
Materials and Tuition
Included in the cost of tuition, Home materials each semester include a fabric storage bag, 2 CDs and download code, songbook, and manipulatives to allow the learning and fun to continue at home.
9 Week Semester:
$200
Fall 2024
dates and times TBD
Please contact Chelsea for availability- 970-310-3945
classes are located at
2001 W. Kennewick ave., Kennewick, WA
Overview
Your child is now ready for this first part of a two-year learning program that includes singing, creative as well as structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening. This developmentally sound approach to music literacy builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self expression. The children start to work with written musical patterns, too.
Structure
In this 45 minute class¸ your child will be engaged in activities that establish a solid music-making foundation. This year focuses on your child’s fascination with nature and develops a love of instruments. Your child will be introduced to the sounds of orchestral instruments individually, and then in the context of an ensemble. Such a listening foundation will lead to long-term success with music reading in future classes.
Materials and Tuition
In addition to the high quality cd's you've come to love, each semester's family packs come with 2 beautifully illustrated folders with musical element cards, game pieces, and more!
12 Week semester:
We are not offering this class for the Fall 2024 session. Please contact me if you're interested in the upcoming sessions.
Music Makers Around the World
Pre-Piano
Ages: 5-6 years
Teacher: Chelsea Spence-Crane
Overview
This hour long class is designed to accommodate the 5 and 6 year old and is a perfect follow-up for children who have completed Music Makers: At Home in the World. In this class, children explore the music, dances and stories of different cultures.
Structure
As always, the key ingredients are singing, listening, playing instruments, lots of movement, and tonal and rhythm patterns. Through echoing patterns, the children will build a vocabulary of musical phrases which they can recognize aurally and visually, which leads to an understanding of musical notation. At the end of the year, the children will be introduced to the keyboard, using the same method they'll use in Music Makers: At the Keyboard next year!
Materials
Included in the cost of tuition, Materials include a CD, a map, song pages, and notation games. Children will receive 2 packets throughout the 12 weeks
12 week semester:
We are not offering this class for the Fall 2024 session. Please contact me if you're interested in upcoming sessions.
Music Makers at the Keyboard
Ages: 6-8 years
Teacher: Chelsea Spence-Crane
Overview
***Due to the sequential nature of this class, we ask that you commit to a whole school year of Music Makers at the Keyboard.***
The final step on the pathway to music literacy, this program is designed to teach the children to play the songs they've been hearing, singing, and dancing to throughout the years of early-childhood.
Structure
An extension of the work done in Music Makers: Around the World, this class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills and understanding musical notation as set forth in the books, Music Makers: At the Keyboard.
Materials
Included in the cost of tuition, Children will receive 2 books, including 4 CDs and notation games plus a Parent Handbook throughout the 24 weeks.
24 week session:
NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED