What Is a Music Together Parent/Child Class Like around the World?
Fully trained, registered Music Together teachers lead groups of six to twelve children and their parents or caregivers (nannies, babysitters, grandparents, or relatives) in forty-five minutes of music and movement experiences.
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Each weekly class offers a dozen songs and rhythmic rhymes, including fingerplays, small- and large-movement activities, and instrument play.
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Children and their adults have opportunities to create and improvise—making up new words to songs, offering movement ideas, making silly sounds, and sharing musical ideas from the family's play at home.
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The relaxed, playful, non-performance-oriented classroom setting respects and supports the unique learning styles, developmental levels, and temperaments of all participants.
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Each semester features a new song collection, and families receive two CDs—one for home and one for on-the-go—along with an illustrated songbook filled with music-making ideas for spontaneous music play outside of class.
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Music Together classes foster a strong sense of community, not just between parents and children, but among all the families in the group.