Family music classes for children ages baby, toddler to preschool
Enabling families to enhance their lives with the ability to make music
Enabling families to enhance their lives with the ability to make music
Classes are fun, but the learning keeps going at home with a songbook, a cd and an access code for music download, parent guidebook and child growth chart.
Registered families receive access to the song collection used in class so they can listen and play with the music at home, ensuring continuity between classes, and allowing families
Classes are fun, but the learning keeps going at home with a songbook, a cd and an access code for music download, parent guidebook and child growth chart.
Registered families receive access to the song collection used in class so they can listen and play with the music at home, ensuring continuity between classes, and allowing families to repeat the fun activities we do in class in their own homes.
Tuition
$205.00
Sibling rates:
6 months and under: Free
7-9 months: $65.00
10 months and older: $120.00
Young children learn
through play and experimentation and by watching and listening to the grownups they love.
Setting an example as an enthusiastic participator in music activities is the best thing any parent or caregiver can do to help set a child on the road to a lifelong love of music.
This is our goal in class: to expose the children to the language of music.
You are your child’s most important music teacher right now!
Parents don't need to have music skills—they just need a desire to play and have fun with their children!
Children learn to speak music in the same way they learn to speak English - by hanging out with grown-ups who speak to each other.
Our teachers are specially trained to cre
You are your child’s most important music teacher right now!
Parents don't need to have music skills—they just need a desire to play and have fun with their children!
Children learn to speak music in the same way they learn to speak English - by hanging out with grown-ups who speak to each other.
Our teachers are specially trained to create a safe atmosphere so you can happily join in, experiment, or get silly—
and feel closer to your child while doing so.
Each week, we gather in our classes to make music as a community. We use songs from around the world with a rich variety of styles that’ll have you tapping along in no time. Music Together is the perfect family activity to enhance the bond between caregiver and child.
Wiggling, singing, and laughing with your child is so much fun, it's easy to forget how much learning is taking place! Our research-based curriculum not only develops music skills, it nurtures creativity, self-expression, and confidence while also supporting social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Because these benefits build over time, children enjoy the fullest growth in each of these areas when they participate as consistently as possible up through kindergarten.
It is expected that you stay home if you or your child are sick, or if anyone in your household has been confirmed positive for a contagious disease.
This includes Covid 19 signs and symptoms, undiagnosed open sores, diarrhea, colourful nasal discharge, headaches, unexplained rashes, pink eye, and any and all other communicable health conditions.
We offer make-up classes due to illness, contact us and we will schedule one.
Please reach us at info@squamishmusictogether.com if you cannot find the answer to your question.
Music Together® is designed for children ages birth through kindergarten. At Music Together we believe that music ability is as much a basic life skill as walking and talking, and that all children can start learning as soon as they are born. In time, they will sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with pleasure and confidence in the music of their culture. Music Together classes nurture the child’s natural enthusiasm for music and movement as we sing, dance, chant, and play instruments in an informal setting that will enrich her musical environment and guide her towards a lifetime of music-making enjoyment.
Enhance your child's experience in class by remembering to sing, sing, sing and move, move, move your body. Your active participation is the key to your children learning and growing musically. Support the creation of a music only environment while in class by not talking to your children or other adults during the 45 minutes. Since it is difficult for a young child to mask out adult conversation please wait to socialize till after class, and instead contribute to the creation of a musical environment for the children to absorb.
Try not to give verbal directions. It can be tough to restrain the impulse to give your child directives such as "Do what she is doing, hold your instrument this way” but children respond best by just seeing and hearing you doing (and enjoying) it yourself! Wandering toddlers is fine, but If you want your child to come back to you, avoid calling to him from across the room. If necessary, redirect your child physically back to you or the circle. Of course watch out for your child’s safety, but mostly your job is to just relax, and have fun!
Each class has a maximum of 15 registered families
In the 1980s, Music Together pioneered the development of the mixed-age approach in early childhood music. In each class we strive to create a musically rich, developmentally appropriate environment where the whole family can enjoy music and nurture skills at the level right for each child. Mixed-age classes also provide a rich learning environment because children of different ages thrive when they interact with each other: the babies are often fascinated by the older child, and the “big” children enjoy helping and sharing with the “little” ones. This approach is based on research from music education, early childhood development, and family relationships, as well as our 30 years experience in the field.
Yes!! Both or either parent, grandparents or caregivers are welcome to attend class at any time – no need to ask. Whole family music making in your home is extremely valuable to your child's musical development, and attending class occasionally helps the other family members to join in at home.
Add an aPlease feel comfortable to nurse your child in class, but we ask that you refrain from eating at Music Together. If your child must have a snack, please enjoy it off to the side. Absolutely no food in the music making circle. nswer to this item.
Each child has their own learning style and we endeavour to first find out which one your child has, and then support it. Some will sit quietly and observe while taking it all in, some will try anything out loud even if they haven't mastered the skill yet, some will need to move and explore their surroundings. We are happy to let them move around the room. All will learn if we keep offering the example, if we keep singing and dancing.
Please contact us if you need to book a make-up class.
Make-up classes can be booked due to illness, holidays or medical appointments.
We offer up to 3 make-up classes per semester. These are a bonus and are not guaranteed.
If you miss your scheduled make-up class without canceling it on the website, it will count as a booked make-up class.
Make-up classes are offered on a space-available basis and MUST be booked within the current term.
Please note that there are a limited number of make-up spots available in each class date.
If the District of Squamish schools are closed, then we are closed too.
If the kids are going to school in the snow/sleet/rain/hail etc., our classes are running.
When registering on this website:
• More than two weeks prior to classes start – full refund minus $10 admin fee.
• Less than two weeks prior to classes starting – refund minus $75.
• No refunds after the first class.
Non-attendance does not constitute a withdrawal and all tuition fees are forfeited if we are not informed of your withdrawal before classes start. If circumstances necessitate withdrawal from class, please contact us.
If I am sick, I will move the class to Zoom if I am capable.
I reserve the right to cancel one class per semester for sickness.
Anything beyond that will be reimbursed at $10 per class for up to 3 weeks.
"Music Together has enriched our family’s life! Lise-Anne is an inspirational teacher — warm, knowledgeable and FUN! Her classes are the highlight of our week.
Thank you Lise-Anne, you rock"
"I have been taking my son to Music Together since he was six months old and it has become a foundation in our family, for a love of music and instruments. Lise-Anne is an amazing teacher and we feel so lucky to have found her class"
"Music Together is so far the best thing we have done for our little one, that's for sure."
"We enjoyed every minute of the class. Not only did it allow us to let W explore music, but participating in the class really helped him learn to share."
"M is always singing, when she plays on her own, in the car, on walks... listening to her really tugs at my heart. We're all looking forward to another great season of new songs."
"I have found the song collections to be useful to me as a parent....when things get overwhelming, singing a song with the kids or starting a dance party helps calm me down and be a better mom. The kids and I have appreciated and benefited from our classes with you. So, thank you - you have made a difference."
604-905-9520 1930 Diamond Rd
Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pm
Saturday - Sunday: Closed
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