Kindermusik Home Materials have ARRIVED!

If you’d like to receive your materials before classes start in January, call Miss Mindy at 602-350-9197 to arrange for pick-up. We’re going to have some fun making music, and learning together!

December Music Note: Christmas Choreography!

Christmas time with all its hustle and bustle doesn’t always bring out the best in our children. There is an abundance of excitement to contain and channel. How do you help your children plan, guide, and self-regulate their behavior? You CHOREOGRAPH! Notice I didn’t say dance, but choreograph! Free dancing has some wonderful benefits, but that’s not the subject of this Music Note. Choreographing requires a child to think, plan, listen attentively, and then self-regulate their movements to a story based on cues in the music. This is similar to the patterns used to write a story or essay. (Incidentally, if your child is having a hard time writing, having him act out or use small toys or objects to play through his story. This will make it easier for him to organized and understand the ideas he will be writing about.)

A child can choreograph by himself, with siblings, or you can all choreograph together as a family. If you can get them excited about what they are choreographing they will spend hours putting together a special performance for you to enjoy on Christmas Eve. Remember that boys may want to create a funny number rather than more serious creation. Here are some ideas:

Dance the Christmas story-Pick an instrumental version of a traditional Christmas carol that has great variety in tempo and sound. Then figure out which parts of the story fit the different parts of the music selection. Don’t have the children talk out the story; have them move in ways that communicate what is going on. Don’t try to teach them steps or specific actions, just have them dance freely to communicate. Have them use cues from the music to know when to change from one part of the story to another. You can also do just part of the Christmas story like the Angels appearing to the Sheppards. (Suggested Music: The Holly & the Ivey)

Be Elves at Santa’s Workshop-This can be a lot of fun and is easy to figure out what to do. Suggest some funny things that could happen, like elves bumping into each other and falling, or spilling hot chocolate. (Suggested Music: In a Workshop Way Up North)

Be Santa Delivery Presents-This offers a lot of scope for imagination. You need reindeer, Rudolf, Santa, etc. This could work with an instrumental version of Up on the Housetop.

Be Christmas Bells-Ring out the news of Christmas, the children can plan parts in the song to join hands and circle, or dance together in pairs, etc. (Suggested Music: Christmas Bells, if you have bells for notes, C, E, G, they match perfectly with the song. Hoppy Lobby sold these type of bells last year.)

http://www.musick8kids.com/ this website has all the songs I’ve suggested. You can download them for $0.99. Look under kids, then select browse all songs, next scroll through to the songs I’ve suggested. You can listen to the songs before purchasing and downloading them. Another wonderful song on this website is Sing We of Christmas.

Some of my fondest Christmas memories are of dancing as a family in front of our lighted Christmas Tree. We love watching home videos of us dancing together; they bring loads of laughter and delightful memories. Have a wonderful Holiday Season!

Give your child or grandchild the gift of Kindermusik this year!

Enroll in Kindermusik with Miss Mindy by December 5th and receive a $20 discount on your semester tuition. Remember tuition costs include the take home materials that are part of each Kindermusik class. For more information call Miss Mindy at 480-892-2918!

Take Home Materials

Included in the price of every Kindermusik class are unique and age-appropriate materials for the child to take home and use. Home material kits include an engaging book, CD's of songs and music used in class, and other specially designed materials to integrate the class experience with the time you spend together at home. Most kits include an instrument. Home materials allow you and your child to make everyday a Kindermusik day!

Class Schedule

To view the classes Miss Mindy is currently teaching at Imagine Arts Studio in Katy, Texas, click Here .

Classes taught by Miss Mindy

Kindermusik Village -birth to 18 months, provides a delightful environment unlike any other. Through a unique blend of multi-level activities that include creative movement, vocal play, object and instrument exploration, and colorful literature components, baby's growth and development are stimulated and all senses are engaged. The class incorporates the most current research on early childhood development and provides families a special place for learning and connecting with other parents and babies through music and movement. Parent and baby learn together how to use musical play to enhance cognitive and physical development.


Our Time - 18 months to 3 years encourages toddlers to uncover an engaging musical world while building confidence, self control, and communications skills. Singing, imitating sounds, rhyming, and object identification foster language skills, and creative movement to various musical “moods” develops a sense of balance, timing, and spatial awareness. Listening and turn taking encourage blossoming social skills. Our Time reflects the emotional foundations of school readiness and the latest research on music and early childhood development. Our Time is a wonderful way for parent and child to grow, bond, and learn while playing together.


Imagine That - ages 3 to 5, takes the preschooler on a musical journey of discovery and exploration…a journey limited only by the power of imagination. Pretend play activities are integrated with music, vocal development, storytelling, movement, and literature to capture the preschooler’s potential to learn and encourage cognitive and literacy skills, creativity, and individuality. Imagine That is designed for active, energetic, enthusiastic, and imaginative children ages 3 to 5. Classes encourage socialization, sharing, and participating in group activities. Singing becomes a focus for enhancing the preschooler's vocal development as expressive language is just beginning to emerge. The parent and child have fun participating together in the last 10 to 15 minutes of class during Sharing Time. The class provides home activities for the family to enjoy together throughout the week.

Kindermusik for the Young Child - ages 5 to 7 uses a small group approach to music education and provides a pressure-free class where a child can develop a strong musical foundation by learning the concepts, language, notation, and vocabulary of music and its greatest composers. The program is designed to prepare young children for traditional music lessons and help them develop the skills needed for music reading and playing an instrument. Authentic percussion, string, pre-keyboard and woodwind instruments expose children to the many choices for future musical study, and provide them with the opportunity to musically succeed before taking on more formal instruction. Parents or caregivers are encouraged to attend the last 10 to 15 minutes of class. Young Child classes last approximately 75 minutes. Children who participate in all four semesters of Young Child receive and learn to play a glokenspiel, two-stringed dulcimer and a recorder.

Contact Miss Mindy

I'd love to tell you more about Kindermusik and anwer any questions you might have!

Phone: 602-350-9197 (cell)

Email: kindermusikwithmissmindy@gmail.com

The Imagine Arts Studio address is:

21406 Provincial Blvd.

Katy, TX 77450

The studio is located inside Provincial Professional Park. Coming from Mason Rd., turn east onto Kingsland. Turn left onto Provincial Blvd. (at Shell Station). Turn into first drive way on your left behind the Shell Gas Station. Our building will be down on your left.