The Music Class Curricula for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
The Music Class has several programs designed for children with a parent or caregiver. We also have a program for preschool or childcare centers where parents are not in the room. Please review our options below, and feel free to email us with any questions!
The Music Class®
Parent/child classes for children ages birth through 4 years old
The Music Class is a fun-filled program of singing, dancing, movement, and instrument play. The Music Class quick facts:
- Every family gets the music to take home every session. The program includes 3 years of different music collections, plus accompanying lesson plans and teacher training materials.
- Research-based activities nurture young children's musical development by motivating parents and caregivers to engage in musical activities with their children. Through teacher modeling, play, parent education, our acclaimed music, and the joy of our classes, TMC helps parents create a stimulating musical environment for their children.
- Consistency and familiarity are provided through our recommended session structure. Classes meet once a week, usually in 10-week sessions. Families attend the same class each week, helping children and parents bond with their teacher and classmates.
- Mixed-age classes create an active, fun environment where children of different ages (such as siblings) can enjoy class together and learn by observing each other, as well as the adults in the room!
The Music Class® Big Kids
Parent/child classes for 4- and 5-year-olds
TMC Big Kids includes the same fun spirit and activities as our mixed-age program, plus more challenging activities designed to capitalize on the ability and creativity of “big kids”. As with all TMC programs, every family gets the music to take home every session. Goals for TMC Big Kids include:
- Improving children's pitch and rhythm skills. In addition to The Music Class style singing and movement activities, we include individualized tonal and rhythm instruction each week to challenge each student at his or her own level.
- Developing critical listening skills, such as identifying when notes are correct or incorrect while listening to familiar songs.
- Learning about band and orchestra instruments and practicing identifying the sounds they produce.
- Introducing the piano. Fun keyboarding activities help prepare our students for future keyboard or piano lessons.
The Music Class® Infants
Parent/child classes for babies who have not started walking
TMC Infants includes the same fun spirit, musical variety, and complexity as our mixed-age classes, with activities designed especially for little ones who have not begun to walk. As with all TMC programs, every family gets the music to take home. Highlights include:
- The perfect introduction to music education and a group class setting. This slower-paced class is designed with new parents in mind to facilitate both babies' and parents' early needs.
- While using the same music as the mixed-age and Big Kid classes, TMC Infants activities and learning objectives are specifically designed for the very young.
- TMC Infants focuses even more on parents, both allowing time to bond in class and providing extra parent education about how to integrate musical learning into everyday life at home.
- Families receive The Lullaby Collection in addition to the session's music.
The Music Class® Keyboard
Parent/child classes group keyboard classes for ages 5 - 7
In our Keyboard classes, we teach aural skills alongside technical skills, and students learn to play by ear before we introduce music notation. Children and their parents learn together in groups of up to eight families utilizing our Sound Habits® curriculum. Highlights include:
- Weekly group lessons taught in a fun, playful way. Each class is 45 minutes long and progresses in a series of three sequential 10-week sessions: fall, winter, and spring.
- Guided home practice sessions (provided on our app). Students are expected to practice for about ten minutes, at least 3 times per week.
- Recitals featuring student solos, parent-child duets, and child-child duets and ensembles.
- Beginning harmony, transposition, and improvisation.
- Building self-esteem and self-discipline.
- Developing many musical skills that transfer easily to other instruments.
- Opportunities for parent-child bonding while learning a new skill together- an experience that becomes increasingly rare once children reach school age!
The Music Class® for Schools and Childcare Centers
A music education program for preschools, family care, and childcare centers for children from infancy through kindergarten.
TMC Schools is a fun way to bring quality music education to preschools and childcare centers, emphasizing immersion and repetition in early childhood education. Highlights include:
- Exposure to The Music Class's extensive, highly acclaimed catalog of recorded music, with a new song collection every six months for 3 years.
- Play-based teaching approach featuring engaging movement activities and fun musical instruments to make music time a highlight of every child’s day.
- Online training and detailed lesson plans packed with video examples make it easy for classroom teachers or music specialists to lead the program.
- Family access to the music on the TMC Tunes app for each new song collection, so children can be immersed in the same music at school and at home.
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