What are Kindermusik home materials, and what do we do with them?
Again, a foundation of the Kindermusik philosophy is the belief that young children learn best in a family environment, and that music needs to be a part of everyday life, rather than simply a once-a-week activity. In order to accomplish this, families must think of their Kindermusik class as the springboard for a week’s worth of play and idea development. Home materials, carefully designed to suit the child’s stage and the family’s needs, provide the tools for this portion of Kindermusik learning. Professionally recorded CDs provide music for dancing, singing along, creating and playing along with homemade ‘instruments’, or just for joyful listening as songs from class time are remembered, reinforced, and committed to memory. Story books enhance a home library and are much loved developers of early literacy. Home activity journals, books, and cards provide the family with tested ways to expand the week’s themes beyond the classroom experiences with games, parenting information, and cr
