Why Musikgarten and not a different early childhood music and movement program?
Musikgarten’s emphasis on listening and purposeful movement in the context of a sequential music program is unique. Research documents that children today are over-stimulated visually and need purposeful movement and music training more than ever. The Musikgarten curriculum fosters imaginative behaviors and emphasizes active, thoughtful participation, not entertainment for its own sake. Musikgarten is unique in these respects and will give your child something that many activities and products on the market today will not. In class, we sing, dance, bounce, rock, and generally have a good time. But there is a purpose in everything that we do. There are always multiple reasons for each of the activities that make up the class, sometimes musical, sometimes developmental, and often times both. The educators who wrote the curriculum have extensive expertise in how children learn (in general) and how children learn music (specifically).
