Kindermusik@Home Enjoy the Fun & Learning Anytime!

Extend the magic and learning of a Kindermusik class into your own home. Kindermusik@Home delivers your favorite Kindermusik songs and activities, music, books, and lyrics—as well as recipes, learning games for kids, crafts, and more in a green-friendly digital format.

See for yourself…

Kids (and parents) can interact with videos, printable activity pages, stories, music, games and more! The digital home materials are built specifically to make it fun and easy for parents to connect class-time to home-time, and to enrich both experiences. Access from your iPad, tablet, laptop, computer, or smartphone – and enjoy at home, or on-the-go.

Learn how Kindermusik@Home digital products are the Green Future for Kindermusik and support our mission to be a sustainable company.

Sneak-Peek of Kindermusik@Home

Want to see what it’s all about? Check out one of our new online learning games for kids. This sneak-preview is a memory game you can play with your children – and share with others!

Educational Activities for Kids include:

• Music downloads: songs, rhymes, stories and sounds from class
• Literature book in e-book format, flip through pages, turn audio on or off
• Activity buttons lead to a variety of different activity types
  • dance and movement instructions
  • fingerplay demonstrations and instructions
  • together-in-the-kitchen activities
  • music time
  • listening games
  • vocal play activities
  • video field trips
  • find-it/count-it style activities
  • ideas for pretend play
  • and more!
• The Why It’s Good for Your Child area provides parents info on why these educational activities for kids are useful, important, or developmentally significant.
• Download Center provides Printable Activity Pages and, for the first time, Printable Lyrics Pages for all of the songs in the unit.

Tips for a successful Kindermusik experience

Tips for a successful Kindermusik experience

• Healthy children and parents only
• The health and safety of you and your child are our top priority. If you even think you or your child may be sick, please contact us to reschedule your class. 
• Show up on time, but no more than 5 minutes early
• Our classrooms are not open until 5 minutes before class time. Avoid having your child become fussy from waiting around too long. However, our Hello Song begins promptly at 5 minutes after the class time begins and it is very important your child be present for this opening activity.
• Wash and sanitize your hands (and your child's as well!) before and after class
• Maintaining a happy and healthy classroom is our top priority and that begins with you and your child. Additionally, we sanitize all our instruments. Should your child put one in his mouth, please hold on to the instrument for the duration of the activity and do not share it with another child.
• Wear comfortable clothes and parents must wear socks
• We spend the majority of the class on the floor so dress accordingly. At our Northridge and Valencia locations, parents are required to wear socks which we have on sale for your convenience. For children, barefoot is best as it allows for more sensory stimulation as well as gives them additional traction on our mats.
• Refrain from wearing strongly scented products
• Kindermusik is a sensory experience, and strong scents can be distracting to children and adults in the classroom. Please do not use colognes, perfumes or heavily scented products before the class.
• There is no wrong way to interact in the Kindermusik classroom
• Some children will observe, others will want to touch and handle. Some will explore the classroom. All of these are normal and valid learning styles your child may adopt in the classroom. Feel free to redirect your child to the activity on hand but we also encourage you to give them the freedom to learn and explore in their own way, at their own pace.
• You are your child's favorite voice
• Singing is so important for your child's language and literacy development as well as reinforces the emotional bond between you and your child. And we're serious-- they LOVE your voice. We hope to create an atmosphere where you feel comfortable singing with your child.
• Listen to you Home CD
• And sing and dance along with it to!! We believe you are your child's primary teacher. Encourage their learning outside the classroom by taking the activities we introduced to you and making them your own at home!
• Contact us 24-hours in advance for absences
• Our class sizes are limited. Please make sure to contact us in advance of your absence so that we may schedule your make-up class as well as give other families the opportunity to take their make-up classes during your unused class time.

Spotlight on Learning: Village Dew Drops

Big idea: Vestibular System

A hammock gently swaying in a warm ocean breeze or the quiet creaking of a porch swing in the dappled afternoon sunlight can bring thoughts of a little life balance in an increasingly complex world. As a parent of a child under 2, however, the nursery glider moving back and forth at 10:16pm, 2:01am, and 5:34am might be the closest you can get to that beach or front porch. It can work in a pinch though!
All that nursery rocking reinforces balance of a different kind in your child. The rocking, swaying, and movement stimulate your child's vestibular system, the part of the brain that controls balance. In Kindermusik class, we rock to lullabies, bounce on knees, and even make hammocks out of blankets to help lap babies and crawlers begin to develop their sense of balance and to reinforce balance and stability in young walkers.

Everyday connection: Rock on! Try out some of the rocking moves from class at home. If your child feels nervous about hammocking in class, try it at home where she feels most comfortable. Think of different ways you can hold your child as you rock or bounce together.

Give the Gift of Music this Holiday!

Looking for great kids gifts this holiday season?
Does your niece or nephew have everything?
Does your mother in-law need a gift idea?
We have a perfect (and easy) solution for those on your Holiday List ages 7 and under…. Kindermusik Gift Certificates!!!
The gift of a Kindermusik Music Class will be far more memorable than the latest toy or gadget. It is a gift that lasts for 16 weeks and the memories last a lifetime! Certificates can be written for any amount and never expire. They can be used towards any future class or materials cost.

What do you hear?

From Kindermusik International's Blog: Minds on Music

Pitter, patter, pitter, patter… I can HEAR the rain.

Musically speaking, rain sounds are short sounds.  The musical term “staccato” refers to sounds that are separated and often short.  It’s the perfect word to use when playing with – and describing – rain sounds.  But did you know that being able to identify a sound as “short” (staccato) or “long” (legato) actually involves some pretty high-level thinking and listening skills?

Active listening differs from simple hearing in that we must choose it as an intentional act. Analytical listening, like the kind we will do in Kindermusik class when we explore different shaker sounds and mimic and identify a variety of rain sounds, takes the development of our music listening skills to a whole new level.

Analytical listening is an absolutely vital skill, for music class and for life because it requires children to:
- Evaluate what is heard and comprehended
- Contemplate and reflect
- Weigh new information against what is already known
- Discuss by sharing thoughts, opinions, and viewpoints

As Kindermusik teachers, it is an awesome privilege for us to be able to help shape a child’s disposition and aptitude for learning music - practicing the skills that lead to competency and enjoyment and encouraging the attitude that music is fun.  Music truly is a powerful tool for representing ideas and expressing individuality, especially when a child develops the ability to listen analytically.

In the Kindermusik classroom where so many of the senses are often engaged simultaneously and where imagination can soar, musical learning truly has the potential to be the strongest and most powerful.

Posted by Theresa Case, whose Kindermusik program at Piano Central Studios is proudly among the top 1% of programs worldwide.

The Benefits of a Steady Beat

Beat is the ongoing, steady, repetitive pulse that occurs in song, chant, rhyme, and music. The steady beat is the most fundamental concept in music. It is the part of music that makes you want to tap your toes, clap your hands or dance. Even newborn babies respond to the steady beat of music, and it is no surprise when you consider they have been listening to the steady beat of their mother's heart from inside the womb.


Most children learn to beat on a drum and keep a steady beat with their arms. This is necessary for being able to use a hammer, saw, or scissors. Through musical exploration in the Kindermusik classroom, your child may develop steady beat competency in the legs & feet as well. This lower body competency is necessary for playing sports, especially dribbling and shooting basketballs, as well as for dancing, skipping, running and even walking easily. 

Total body beat competency even emerges in the ability to speak and read with a smooth cadence, thereby enhancing communication abilities. Studies also show that ability to keep a steady beat is connected with fluency in reading. A study by Phyllis Weikert showed that being “able to keep a steady beat helps a person to feel the cadence (rhythm) of language” and can also affect their sense of equilibrium (earlychildhoodnews.com).

Fostering Life-Long Creativity

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Alarming new research shows that for the first time in American history, creativity is declining. Newsweek magazine is calling it a "Creativity Crisis" and it's no wonder, when a recent IBM  poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the most important "leadership competency" of the future.


How does your child express creatvity in their life? By encouraging creative behavior often throughout childhood and adulthood, neurological patterns change in the brain to make problem-solving faster and better.  You are improving children’s problem-solving abilities and creativity every time you do an instrument exploration (What is another way you can play the sticks?), a role play with movement (How else can you move like a monkey?), and when you introduce new props (What else could this hoop be?).  Participation in Kindermusik class fosters the development of creativity and problem solving! You can count on Kindermusik to keep those creative juices flowing!