Kindermusik Adventures
Camps use an integrated approach with music, movement, storytelling, pretend play, drama, and art. Whether bundling up for a journey to "Where Cold Winds Blow" or taking an imaginary trip to a Mexican fiesta, the memories created will last a lifetime. In fact, studies show that young children who receive regular music training demonstrate better motor skills, math ability and reading performance than those who don’t.
Features & Benefits for You and Your Child
- Stimulate a love of the arts.
- Employs arts, crafts, movement, dance, drama, and music to foster creativity.
- Offers your child a fun, musical experience during the summer.
(newborn to 18 months)
Set your baby's day to classical music. With a little more Tchaikovsky in your "Twinkle, Twinkle" repertoire you'll discover new ways your baby benefits from the classics as you both develop an appreciation for the world's most respected music. Each lesson features new activities and songs you can sing for all the places you go together—the store, the playground, the doctor, and more.
- Day one: Baby goes to the grocery store
- Day two: Playing in the park
- Day three: Going to the doctor
- Day four: Going to the beach or pool
- Day five: A family picnic reunion
(18 months to 3 years)
Kindermusik for parents and toddlers ages 1.5 to 3. Lessons feature music, stories, take home crafts and snack ideas to stimulate a toddler’s emerging sense of imagination, coordination, and ability to learn more words. Tag along this summer with a traveling zoo-train; bring your own stuffed animal for the petting zoo; wear long white socks on your hands for polar bear paws, and learn about real animals in the zoo. Fast enough to keep pace with a toddler’s busy feet and emerging sense of steady beat. Sing songs about a trip through the zoo: Polar bears, monkeys, seals, and parrots. Music includes favorites from around the world, such as Australia and Peru. Parents also learn more about child development and how music improves a toddler’s ability to think, reason, create and express.
(3 to 4.5 years)
Kindermusik for children ages 3 to 5. Lessons feature music, stories, take home crafts and snack ideas. This camp makes the most of a preschooler’s burgeoning imagination and ability to learn more words and solve problems. Take imaginary trips to summer vacation locations such as the carnival, a summer cottage, and the beach. Crafts use simple materials—most can be found around the house. Parents will love remembering and singing favorite camp songs along with their child. Create camp memories of singing Kumbaya around a campsite made of rhythm sticks, flashlights, and wispy red scarves. Parents also learn more about how music improves a preschooler’s ability to think, reason, create and express.
(4.5 to 7 years)
Through storytelling, your child will develop an early awareness of rhythm, movement, singing, and drama. Each lesson features a new tale from around the world, explored through multi-instrument and multi-cultural elements. All told, it's an around-the-imagination adventure of the greatest stories from Europe, Malaysia, South Africa, and more.
- Day one: European Bremen Town musicians
- Day two: A Malaysian tale about a small deer who outsmarts a crocodile
- Day three: A story of six blind men and an elephant from India
- Day four: A Lazy Jack Appalachian folk tale about a kid who matches the wrong solution to his pocket problem
- Day five: A Zulu tale from South Africa about a woman who rides a turtle to the bottom of the sea to find stories to tell her children
Stratford Music Academy
1 Hopeton Road
Stratford, PE C1B 1T6
902 894 PLAY (7529)
Start Date TBA; Watch this website, email or call for additional information. The more people we have interested, the sooner we will start these classes.