What is Kindermusik? Each week in class you'll sing, play instruments, listen, and dance to music that will impact you and your child in profound ways. Every song, story, and dance has a carefully chosen purpose in this creative curriculum-one that's designed to stimulate and strengthen the vital neural wiring taking place in your child's mind. A Licensed Kindermusik educator will guide you every step of the way so you know how each activity contributes to your child's overall growth and development.
Each class includes home materials: CDs, books, instruments, and more.
Class must have minimum of 8, maximum of 12 students.

Class Details
Starts in	Early September 2008
Class Dates Start	09/09 or 09/10 or 09/11 see detail schedule
Location	University Park United Methodist
Program Name	Kindermusik Village
Program Summary	Your baby's musical journey starts with Kindermusik Village. Village provides an engaging experience of learning and bonding with your baby, a unique place where your baby's growth and development are nurtured and all of her senses stimulated. It is a celebration of your child's natural curiosity and irrepressible joy, all in a developmentally appropriate place tailored just for babies. With the help of a licensed Kindermusik educator, learn how to inspire your child's learning through singing, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and creative movement. Village incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement. We'll provide you with more tools to continue the enrichment at home. You'll bond with your child reading baby's own book & listening to the CDs. And parents receive their own journal filled with ideas for extending the musical activities.
Teacher	Mary Wilcox
Age range	0 months to 1.5 years
Class size	12 students
Class length	45 minutes
Tuition	$170.00
Materials	$70.00
Total	$240.00
Unit Name	Zoom Buggy and Dream Pillow
Unit Description	How many ways can Baby and Parent zoom in Village? Hop in the Zoom Buggy! and find out! Through a variety of songs, chants, and instrumental selections you and Baby will experience the rumbling of a baby buggy, the squeaky stroller, the bumpa bumpa bumpa of the wagon, the train chugging up the track and much more. Baby is the star in Dream Pillow, with each activity carefully planned to stimulate his developing brain, thereby promoting physical, social, cognitive, emotional, and language development. But it is the parent who is watching and guiding this little star on the rise, and Dream Pillow, like all of the Village units, is written with the parent very much in mind.
Materials	includes 2 CDs, 2 board books, 2 instruments, and picture cards
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Class Details
Starts in	Early September 2008
Class Dates	09/09 or 09/10 or 09/11 see detail schedule
Location	University Park United Methodist
Program Name	Kindermusik Our Time
Program Summary	Kindermusik Our Time introduces your child to a musical world filled with movement and sound. Our Time encourages your child to discover the joy of music while building confidence, self-control, and communication skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming, and object identification help foster language skills. Creative movement to a wide variety of music develops a sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness, and affirms a child's urge to move. Listening and turn-taking activities encourage blossoming social skills. Exploration time encourages a child's discovery of specially designed instruments, textures, sounds and movements. And music & movement story time encourages emergent literacy skills. With your help, your toddler can continue learning at home by working in her activity book, listening to her CDs, reading her musical storybooks, or playing with the instrument included in the At Home Materials.
Teacher	Mary Wilcox
Age range	1.5 to 3 years
Class size	12 students
Class length	45 minutes
Tuition	$170.00
Materials	$70.00
Total	$240.00
Unit Name	Milk and Cookies
Unit Description	Imagine the aroma of baking cookies, the coziness of the family kitchen, the chatter among sisters, brothers, grandmas, granddads, mom and dad, and the anticipation and excitement of having friends come to visit. These moments at home are times to be shared and treasured. These special moments are captured in Milk & Cookies. As in the other units of Our Time, the central focus of Milk & Cookies is the toddler's need for security balanced with his need for independence. Milk & Cookies songs and activities promote interaction between parent and child where the parent gently guides their child's learning and the process of scaffolding takes place. Capturing the security, excitement and familiarity of "at home" moments is the ideal theme for empowering the parent to act as teacher through scaffolding. What better way for parents to lead their child than with familiar, everyday home activities such cooking in the kitchen, dusting and washing clothes?
Materials	includes 2 CDs, 2 story books, 1 instruments, 1 activity book, and "lunchbox" carry bag.
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Licensed Kindermusik Educators Mary Wilcox is a certified and licensed Kindermusik Educator.

Jennifer Cleveland is a certified and licensed Kindermusik Educator and a private piano instructor. This is her third year teaching at SoundSteps. Before teaching Kindermusik, she was a music specialist in the Richardson Independent School District. She has been teaching music to young children for over 10 years in church and in schools. She graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education. Jennifer is married to Tracy Cleveland and they have a son, Dawson.

Lisa Muratore Sound Steps Director Licensed Kindermusik Educator, Piano Instructor

Lisa Muratore brought Kindermusik to Dallas in 1997. Since then, the Sound Steps studio has grown to reach hundreds of families throughout the Dallas area.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music education, piano performance, and music theory; a Master of Music Education; and a Master of Theology. She was recently recognized by Azusa Pacific University as an outstanding alumnus from the School of Music.

Before teaching Kindermusik full-time, Lisa taught music in public and private elementary schools in Dallas.
In addition to teaching Kindermusik and piano, she also teaches the Bodyrhythmics music and movement program at The Children’s Center Preschool.

Lisa has received various awards from Kindermusik International:

• Maestro Producer, representing the top 5 percent of Kindermusik programs worldwide. [2000-2006]
• Maestro in Outreach, recognized for considerable efforts to reach underserved populations of children. [2003-2005 classes for Avance Dallas]
• Professional Board Certification, recognizes educators who demonstrate dedication and achievement through classroom experiences and continuing education.

Lisa is originally from central California. She and her husband, Robert Beckelhymer, were married in 2001 and enjoy their two cats.