Baby Music Well - at Fitchburg Community Center

Bond with the baby in your life through classic childhood songs, rhymes, and chants! Music is a natural way to BOND with your baby, and is so BENEFICIAL to your young one! Join us! Activities during Baby Music Well include connecting, sharing stories, singing, bouncing, rocking , finger plays, nursery rhymes, body awareness games, playful echoes, playing simple instruments, and dancing. We will discuss how each of these activities benefits the child’s developing body and brain!

Come 15 minutes early to connect with others and get used to the room. Stay 15 minutes after to gradually say good-bye and transition to your next activity. 10% sibling discount offered.  $16 off if you register for both sessions together!

Winter Session 1 (Link to Register)
Mondays, Jan 9 - Feb 6 (no class Jan 16), 10:45 - 11:15 am

Winter Session 2 (Link to Register)
Mondays, Feb 13 - March 13, 10:45 - 11:15 am

An instrument kit is required for this class, and can be purchased from the instructor for $20. Kit includes 1 pair of natural wood rhythm sticks, 1 rattle, and 1 cloth scarf perfect for peek-a-boo games - all in a cloth storage bag. All registered children/families should bring payment to the first class and will receive their instrument kit at that time.

 

Toddler Music Well
at Fitchburg Community Center

Sing, play and bond!



This class offers adults the opportunity to play with their children in a way that will delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music.  Activities include singing, bouncing, rocking, finger plays, nursery rhymes, body awareness games, playful echoes, playing simple instruments, and dancing.

Winter Session 1 (link to register)
Mondays, Jan 9 - Feb 6 (no class on Jan 16), 9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Winter Session 2 (link to register)
Mondays, Feb 13 - March 13, 9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Curriculum:  Musikgarten's New Friends; parent book, CD and digital code
This book and music will capture your little one's attention with photos of children their own age and colorful illustrations that bring the songs and chants and rhymes to life. Everyone in the family will love the variety of music. Classics like Hickory Dickory Dock and The Eency Weency Spider. Plus new favorites like Fiddle-De-De and Old Jeremiah. You'll hear fast-tempo music as well as calming, slower relaxing music. 
 

 

 

 

 

Pre-K Music Well
at Fitchburg Community Center

This class is designed to nurture the emergent independence
of the 3 and 4 year old child.

Activities include singing, chants and rhymes, listening games, patterns to echo, and movement games, all of which nurture the child's musical development while satisfying the child's need to learn in a holistic environment.  Themes are associated to nature and activities one would do in each of the four seasons of our year.

Parents stay for the class, although some of the activities are designed to have the children participate independently of their parents

Pre-K Music Well - Register Using This Link
Thursdays, Jan 12 - March 16 (no class on Feb 9)
10:00-10:40 am

Curriculum:  Musikgarten's Cycle of Season - Sun Catchers
Sun Catchers is the second family set in The Cycle of Seasons material ages 3-5 and offers a collection of songs, sounds, poetry and stories, plus additional ideas to explore with your child. Family set includes a Parent Book (56p), 2 CDs with digital download codes, 12 Animal Cards in Cloth Bag
 

 

 

Music Makers  4s and 5s is a first year class for 4-5 year olds in preparation for keyboard playing!

There are two years of potential curriculum for your child to encounter!  Music Makers at Home in the World and Music Makers Around the World.  This class includes singing, creative and structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening, as well as a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression.  The language of music begins to expand from aural learning to visual pattern recognition.

Music Makers at Home in the World; My Home Place Curriculum
10 Consecutive Lessons building upon each other, $230 includes materials
Tuesdays 1:15-2:00 pm Sept 27 - Dec 13 (no class Oct 25, Nov 22)


Music Makers at Home in the World; Woodlands Curriculum
10 Consecutive Lessons building upon each other, $230 includes materials
Tuesdays 1:15-2:00 pm January 10 - March 28 (no class Feb 7, March 21)
Fridays 2:45-3:30 pm January 6 - March 17 (no class Feb 10)

Music Makers at Home in the World; Cattail Marsh Curriculum
10 Consecutive Lessons building upon each other, $230 includes materials
Tuesdays 1:15-2:00 pm April 4 - June 6
Fridays 2:45-3:30 pm March 31 - June 2 
 

Music Makers @ the Home Studio is a class for 5-6 year olds in preparation for keyboard playing!

There are two years of potential curriculum for your child to encounter!  Music Makers at Home in the World and Music Makers Around the World.  This class includes singing, creative and structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening, as well as a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression.  All of this is then taken to the piano keyboard for a first introduction to piano lessons.
 

The Musikgarten Group Piano curriculum is the final step on the pathway from early childhood music to music literacy.  This program is designed to teach the children to begin to play the songs they've been hearing, singing, and dancing to throughout the years of early childhood.

During Piano I year, the children will be introduced to the keyboard.  Through the year, the children will become comfortable with D, C and G major 5 finger positions as well as d, c and e minor.  They will be introduced to the I and V7 (also i and v7) chords to accompany their songs. Transposing their repertoire to all known positions is encouraged as each new position is introduced.

This class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills,understanding musical notation and setting up practice habits as set forth in the book, Music Makers: At the Keyboard, Book One (Red) and Book Two (Green).

Piano Level 1 Groups:  45 minute classes, 4 students max
(older beginning students will be place in groups or partners of similar aged students)

For Piano I  children will receive Book One, 2 CDs/downloads and notation games plus a Parent Handbook. Class size limited and will close when limit is reached.  Further names will be placed on a waiting list.  As children progress through, Book 2 will be offered along with 2 CDs/downloadable music and notation games.

Wait List - to have your child placed on a wait list for next available class, please email beth at beth@bethsmusicwell.com
 

 

In Piano Level 2, the children learn new hand positions that move out of the 5-finger position, new keys and notation games, how to write out familiar songs and will have many more opportunities to compose their own music.  Improvisation games and skills are developed further.  There are more songs to play by ear with more complex parts for the left hand.  Technique exercises will eventually lead to more fluid playing.
The student will work with compositions by many famous composers.  Pieces written by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak and MacDowell are included, some for drumming or dancing, some to explore dynamics and tempi, and some for harmonic analysis.  

Materials include the keyboard book, 2 CDs and notation games.

Pre-requisite Piano Level I.


 

Home materials include books, CDs/downloadable music, and notation games.

Pre-requisite Level 2 (Books 3 & 4).

 

Private piano lessons are 30 minutes of one on one instruction one time a week

Children 8+ years of age or those who have completed Book 6 of the Musikgarten keyboarding program.  

   

 

 

Preschools & Childcare Centers can arrange for a Music Well instructor to come to your facility!  Schedule on a weekly basis for continued comprehensive learning, or schedule less frequently to serve as an enrichment program.  


Plan a FREE music class for YOUR PRESCHOOL - email Beth at beth@bethsmusicwell.com

• Up to 10 children in one class with classroom teacher participating
• 30 minute classes
• instruments and materials provided by Music Well

4K Music Classes - Music class supports and enhances reading and math literacy sills!  Music class supports social emotional learning!  Music class allows for creative expression in a beatiful, universal language!  Music class is not only singing and playing instruments, but also movement in flow, time and space!  Music class prepares the young child for future learning! 
Contact Beth to arrange for music class for your 4k program!  beth@bethsmusicwell.com