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Ages 0 - 11 months
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Age 1
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Age 2
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Age 3
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Age 4
Class Descriptions
All classes begin with 10 minutes of free-play, 30 minutes of instruction and 5 minutes of packing up and good-byes. Access to the Smart Start™ Family App is given to every family to enable home follow-up.
Babies Age 0 - 11 months
DOB: September 2, 2024 - September 1, 2025
Children are naturally curious about music from a very early age, and the positive atmosphere of this class helps foster lifelong connections with music, builds strong parent-child emotional bonds, and provides a weekly forum for social interaction. The goal of this course is to expose you and your child to the basic concepts of music through sensory awareness and self-creation, with particular attention paid to beat, rhythm, and listening skills. Infants are just beginning to explore the world around them, and that includes their musical world. In this class, you and your child will start to learn about the fundamentals of music through movement, singing, and play. The course is designed to foster basic cognitive skills through a musical framework, and to help parents and caregivers learn ways to interact with the child through music. A typical class begins with a greeting song, followed by gentle bouncing games, finger plays, movement, and many songs. A care provider accompanies their child for all classes for this course.
Ages 12 - 23 months
DOB: September 2, 2023 - September 1, 2024
The active, music-based activities in this class help support your child’s cognitive, social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development, while facilitating parent-child bonding. Coordination, body control, and spatial awareness skills are accrued through games built around walking, dancing, and age-appropriate percussion instruments such as shakers, drums, and bells. As infants grow into toddlers, their musical abilities and needs develop as well. This class works with toddler’s ever-expanding cognitive skills through rich and engaging musical activities with the child and caregiver.
Activities focus on topics such as musical memory, creative artistic play, and active imitation. Parents and caregivers both participate, providing further exemplars to interact with your child musically.
Age 2
DOB: September 2, 2022 - September 1, 2023
This class focuses on developing gross motor function in toddlers by encouraging them to move their bodies in time to sounds and music. At age 2, children are beginning to develop more complex cognitive skills that will aid them later in life. These classes focus on cognitive skills relevant to music, such as sustaining attention, remembering songs, and recognizing perceptual cues. Children in these classes will learn how to apply these skills towards musical exploration, and gain greater musical independence through basic musical skills. At this age, parents or caregivers assist their child’s musical creativity and gain further skills for musical interaction with their child. With an emphasis on the fundamentals of listening and singing, playing simple instruments like maracas and drums, and taking turns, this course helps develop music competence and fosters confidence, belonging, and security among its weekly attendees. A care provider accompanies their child for all classes for this course.
Age 3
DOB: September 2, 2021 - September 1, 2022
In this class, children learn foundational musical skills such as tempo, meter, pitch, and volume together through educational, movement-based games and multi arts activities. By age 3, children are beginning to develop their singing voices, and as such, singing a wide range of songs is a vital component of the Smart Start™ curriculum. By age 3, children’s basic cognitive skills are in place. Smart Start™ is designed to work with these cognitive skills through activities such as recognizing musical patterns, focusing on the most important aspects of music, and understanding connections across artistic representations. Socialization and personal growth are strengthened via group engagement. Many children are ready for an independent music class without their care provider at age three. We would like the parent or caregiver to attend the first number of classes (typically a minimum of 5). Once they have transitioned out of the classroom, we ask that they stay on the premises, close to the classroom, in case the child needs any assistance.
Age 4
DOB: September 2, 2020 - September 1, 2021
Children are introduced to a variety of instruments while developing their musical skills using proven Smart Start™ activities. Instruments are provided for use in class. Children strengthen their ability to replicate rhythms, sing melodies, and begin to read music. Smart Start ™ activities have also been shown to strengthen development of key cognitive skills in attention, memory, perception, and cognitive flexibility. By age 4, children start organizing and better understanding their world. These classes are designed to use their increased attention, organization, and planning to aid their musical creations. Children begin to learn the basics of music theory and are encouraged to apply their creativity to musical and artistic activities. These classes provide the framework for learning a musical instrument, singing, or any other type of musical activity.