Imagine That Week 8

We had a lovely class today. Thanks so much for bringing in all the lovely statues and photo albums. I didn't have my camera today, but perhaps you could take a photo of your statues and add them to the blue cities folders in your backpack. It's nice to have some momentos of the course.

I loved the expressive singing of Bonjour Mes Amis today. It's lovely to hear them singing so joyfully.

This week at home explore counting together, there are some great ideas in your home book.

Next week is a bank holiday so there will be no class. For extra homework why not get out your chime bars and play along to steeple bells on your home CD. Be sure to keep practising the chime bars as I need lots of helpers for the Young Children's Festival on 13th June.

New Village Courses

Kindermusik Village
0 – 18 months
Rhythm of My Day
(Includes Baby Massage and Sign Language)
Week commencing 4th May 09
Duration 8 weeks
Wednesdays 9.00 am or 11 am

Cost: £40 + £25 materials (£65 can be paid in 2 instalments)

This class will help you bring more rhythm and routine to your baby's day, as well as help develop lasting learning skills. We'll show you how and tell you why music can help your little one soothe into the day’s schedule and help build a strong body and mind network for learning. You can bring home those same stress-free play and relaxation techniques from class, and incorporate them into your daily routines.
Home Materials: CD of beautifully arranged songs from class, The Rhythm of My Day—a colourful picture board book with class themes, a set of Art Banners, and an instrument for music-making at home.

All courses take place at the Hythe Community Centre, Colchester

Imagine That Statues

Please remember to bring your statue to class this week. Look in your home book for helpful ideas.

Here are some of our statues from last time.

Young Children's Festival

Please keep the 13th June free in your diaries. We have been invited to take part once again in the Young Children's Festival in Castle Park.

We would very much like to showcase some of the things we have been working on this term.

Imagine That students will be invited to bring along their chime bars to play and we will also be performing "We are Fine Musicians".

Young Child students will be invited to bring their glockenspiels and show some of the things we have been working on this term.

Exact timings will be given nearer the day. Please let me know if you can come along

Young Child

We had a great class this week. It is great to see the way the children's skills are developing in singing and in the playing of the glockenspiel.

Everyone really enjoyed working together in groups to make our musical picture of the Elephant playing in the river and it was lovely to see the children's creative ideas as they used the percussion instruments in effective ways.

Please take some time to practise your melody cards over the Easter break. Can you put them in the right order to make the Bell Horses tune? Be sure to add the star sticker to your favourite card.

Look back through the rest of the Home tasks we have had to do this semester and see if you can play through the other exercises.

See you all back again after the Easter holidays.

Statue Sculptures

We have had great fun pretending to be statues in class.

You have a few weeks to complete your family activity before classes start back after Easter. Look in your book at Activity 6.

See if you can spot any statues around town. There is the great modern take on Boudicea near Asda in Colchester. What other statues can you find?

Have a go at making your own statue and be sure to bring it back to class for us all to see.

Imagine That 23rd March

What a lovely, lovely class we had today! The children are all such gems. They so actively participate in the story of Eddie and Bandit going off to look and bring him home - all the while without realising it honing their singing skills and moving their bodies to the steady drum beat.

They all seem to thoroughly enjoy the class and I always think it a shame that you parents do not get to see some of what goes on. I am always happy if you would like to sit in a lesson, so please take the opportunity to do this at some point (not all at once).


This week at home look in your Home Guide and see if you can make a game together a bit like the one we played together at the end of the lesson. Be sure to let us see what you have done for next week!