Make your own musical 'Fireworks,' have some fun 'Down Under' or sashay to the 'City Blues' there is something for everyone on the Bongos collection this Fall! The original songs and arrangements by the program's coauthors on your take home CD's as well as early childhood standards and folk songs from many different cultures, make the Music Together song collections you receive along with your songbook and parent DVD especially unique.  And all of the songs are suitable for mixed-age groups.

The Mixed age class is the essential Music Together experience, one that a child can attend from birth through age five through all nine song collections (and 3 Summer Songs collections!). This basic class follows the recommendations of child development researchers-grouping children of a variety of ages because this fosters natural, family-style learning. Younger children enjoy watching and imitating older ones; older children learn by leading younger ones; and adults are happy because the children in the family can go to class together. Each child participates at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers-parents, grandparents, nanny-can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.

Ride the "Merry-Go-Round" and join our baker's band to cook up some "Sweet Potatos" as we explore the Music Together Bunny collection designed especially for babies. Every child's development benefits from early exposure to music and movement.  Because the early months are so important, Music Together offers two options for babies. Babies eight months and younger at the time of registration may attend a Mixed Ages Class, whether registered on their own or attending free with an older brother or sister. Babies may also take the special "Babies Class" offered as a one-semester introduction to Music Together.

The music activities and materials are specially designed for parents who want to learn as much as possible about music development in infants. Meet other parents of newborns and learn some fascinating music activities you can recreate at home with your baby.

The Beginner Signing Smart Workshop is for parents new to signing with their baby as well as for those who have already gotten started and are looking for support during the early phases. More than just motivating parents to sign, this workshop helps parents develop a plan for successfully signing with research-proven Signing Smart strategies and techniques. You will learn the Signing Smart Start - how many and which signs to use in the early stages - as well as how to build up your signs as time goes on. In addition, you will learn to create interactions in which your infant or toddler most easily learns signs, how to bring signs into your child's world, and how to recognize your child's first signs.

Through instructor presentation, interactive activities and discussion, and video examples, you will learn over 35 ASL signs, as well as tools, strategies, and resources that will enable you to experience the success of Signing Smart from the very first day. The workshop is perfect for expectant parents as well as those with children from birth through 2 years of age.

The Signing Smart Beginner Play Class Series provides a playful environment where parents or caregivers and their hearing children learn ASL signs and research-proven Signing Smart Strategies while playing and interacting. Activities include gross motor play, large and small group interactions, reading, singing, and much more! The classes are great for families new to signing with their babies as well as for those who have already started. Come enjoy fun and engaging developmentally-based activities that foster intimacy and communication between babies and toddlers and their parents. More than simply teaching "routine" signs, the classes are full of both useful signs as well as ones that are most motivating to your child.

Activities are structured to facilitate both linguistic and cognitive development, building up children's conceptual understanding, memory, and vocabulary. You will learn the Signing Smart Start as well as how many and which signs to use throughout your signing journey. You will also learn Signing Smart Interaction Strategies, how to bring signs into your child's world, and how to recognize and respond to your child's early signs, making signing simple, fun, and successful. To top it off, you will learn relevant developmental information related to sign, word, cognitive, and emotional development-all while playing and interacting!

The Signing Smart Intermediate Play Class Series is for families who have completed at least one session of the Beginner Series and are looking to expand and extend the benefits of Signing Smart. Building off the familiar structure of the Beginner Series, we integrate signs and Signing Smart strategies into gross motor play, large and small group activities, reading, storytelling, singing, and much more; however, the activities, interactions, and signs in the Intermediate Series are more advanced and are designed to take children to the "next level" with both signing and speaking.

The Intermediate Series provides a unique opportunity for families teaching their babies sign language to engage in vocabulary-rich activities that have been developed specifically to facilitate linguistic, emotional, and cognitive development in hearing toddlers. The Play Classes extend parents' signed vocabulary, and at the same time teach parents how to use ASL signs not only as a means of early communication, but also as a powerful vehicle to facilitate long-term learning. Through engaging and developmentally-stimulating activities, you will learn how to use ASL signs and Signing Smart Strategies to: facilitate your child's comprehension of abstract ideas; stimulate your child's memory skills, foster emotional understanding and regulation, encourage symbolic play, enhance overall vocabulary and sentence use (signing and spoken), and advance your child's pre-literacy abilities through strategic sign use while reading, rhyming, and storytelling.

The Advanced Signing Smart Workshop is relevant for families of children ages 18 months through 3 years. Whether you are already using Signing Smart techniques with your toddler or preschooler - if you are completely new to Signing Smart - come and learn how to use signs and Signing Smart strategies to enhance your child's spoken language skills and to facilitate cognitive and emotional development.

Through instructor presentation, interactive activities and discussion, and video examples, you will learn how to be Signing Smart in support of your child's concept formation, reasoning / problem solving skills, and inference-making abilities. Working from whevever your sign vocabulary is currently, we will teach you how to take advantage of Signing Smart to help your child understand nuances of spoken English, to promote early literacy, to aid in discipline, and much more!

This Signing Smart Workshop is relevant for childcare providers and teachers of hearing infants and toddlers and is specifically geared towards those who work with multiple children simultaneously. More than just motivating teachers to sign with the babies and toddlers in their care, this workshop helps professionals develop a plan for successfully incoporating signs and research-proven Signing Smart strategies and techniques into their classrooms. By using group-orientated Signing Smart strategies, teachers will enhance spoken language skills, facilitate cognitive and emotional development, and take advantage of this powerful classroom management tool. As a result, teachers will notice a decrease in children's frustration, aggression, and tantrums, and an increase in constructive interactions and positive affect.

Through instructor presentation, interactive activities and discussion, and video examples, you will learn simple but successful Signing Smart techniques that make signing a welcome addition to your work with children. You will learn the Signing Smart Start in a group setting, as well as how many and which signs to use as you introduce Signing Smart to your entire class. You will further learn how help children access your signs in the hectic environment of a classroom, how to implement our simple and successful strategies that make signing a breeze, as well as how to recognize what signs look like on children's hands.

This Signing Smart Workshop is relevant for teachers of hearing preschoolers (regardless of whether or not the children signed as infants and toddlers). Much more than a series of songs to sing with signs interspersed, this one-of-a kind workshop emphasizes simple but sophisticated and strategic uses of signs for preschoolers aged 3-5. Research has shown that hearing children exposed to ASL signs display enhanced vocabulary, spelling, and reading skills, as well as advance literacy skills.

Through instructor presentation, interactive activities, and discussion, teachers will learn how to use signs and Signing Smart strategies and techniques to facilitate preschoolers' language and cognitive development, spatial abilities, and understanding of time. Participants will also learn how to use Signing Smart to encourage early literacy skills and to aid in classroom behavior management. This workshop makes a wonderful in-service or teacher-training for either freestanding preschools, or those that are affiliated with national chains. Developed to allow even novice signers to successfully integrate ASL signs and Signing Smart strategies easily and seamlessly into ongoing curriculum.

This is a great introduction to the world of private music instruction. Your child can learn to read and write music while still singing, dancing and socializing with their peers. The classes take place in small groups (maximum of 4 students per class) so your child can get the individual attention they need to be successful at their first instrument.

Piano classes take place on real digital pianos (not keyboards) with the weight and feel of standard piano keys. In the drum class children will explore a variety of drums from different cultures, learn rhythm reading and even make a drum of their own. With a chordal approach to beginning guitar, even the youngest guitarist can learn simple songs while exploring music theory.

This signing class for toddlers and preschoolers is fun for both the seasoned signer as well as the preschooler with no signing experience. In this class we explore the world of words while using American Sign Language as a tool to teach your child their ABC's and initial sounds. By singing, dancing and even drawing our letters in oatmeal, we concentrate on giving your child a multi-sensory learning experience with letters and language.   And it is this type of grounded learning experience which is the foundation needed to truly understand and retain the abstract concepts of letters and words.

In this class we will explore pre-reading skills as well as take those first leaps into spelling and sight reading.  Every other week we will introduce a new book and a set of words which we will finger spell, sing about, and play with, making the words on the page come alive. Students coming into this class should be able to recognize capital letters and have a firm grasp of initial consonant and vowel sounds. Knowledge of the ASL alphabet is desired but not required.

A great introduction to Sing, Sign & Plays award winning programs, each fun filled class contains music, craft, snack and exploration time all related to a fun engaging theme. Sign up for one day or several, it's all up to you. Add a sibling for half-price and if you decide to join us for 3 days you can pick a fourth class for free!