Welcome To Our New Partners.

We like to extend a warm welcome to the following new partners:

Centre for Special Needs Children

Our new partner, Ovspring Developmental Clinic & Therapy Center was conceived by a group of medical, allied health professionals and parents, with first hand experience of the difficulties faced by families of children with learning and living difficulties. The clinic and center offers paediatric medical services as well as assessment, diagnosis and intervention programs for children with special needs such as occupational therapy, speech language therapy, functional skills, social skills, handwriting and Kindermusik groups.

Ovspring’s team of professionals work cohesively to understand, identify and create the right mix of therapeutic environments. This includes use of music, sensory motor and a variety of other approaches, all of which are tailored to the needs of the individual child. In line with its family-centered philosophy, Ovspring also provides parent services, school support and counseling as part of its comprehensive range of services.

For more information visit our website at www.ovspring.com

Bring A Friend Scheme

We will give a $25 Kindermusik voucher for every friend you introduce to our studio programs. There is no limit to the number of friends you can introduce! This scheme is only applicable to current Kindermusik parents. So hurry parents! Bring your friends down to our studio at Tanglin Mall for a trial class tomorrow! For terms and conditions, please speak to our friendly studio staff.

Check Out Our New Family Time Programme

For busy parents with kids of various ages, we now offer our new Family Time.

This is a multi-age class that families can take together. The programme introduces musical concepts and develops musical skills. It allows each child to develop social skills such as sharing, turn-taking and learning in a multi-age, multi-child environment. How is that for family bonding!!

Masterface theatre

Your baby already uses the techniques of great storytellers. You can read her like a book. She pulls her ear when she's tired. She makes a face at that impending spoonful of strained peas.
She's predicted what happens next when she giggles before the last piggy goes "all the way home." Repeating familiar stories like these with exaggerated physical gestures—making faces, changing voices, touching and tickling her toes in "This Little Piggy"—helps her identify the pattern, or the sequence of events, of that story in her mind.
Here's how you can help to define that pattern for your baby:

• When singing songs or playing games like "This Little Piggy," leave out the last phrase "all the way home" and she will "fill in the blank" eventually developing her ability to "hear" a story or song internally.

"I am the story"

A toddler learns the power of the spoken word when he says "no." He usually gets an instant response from the adults around him. And eventually he realizes that words produce other actions. He says "bottle" or "juice" and out comes the bottle. Out comes the juice.
He's interested in stories that produce similar reactions—reactions to him from adults. The hard part is helping him sit still long enough to get to "the end" of stories. He likes to move and has a hard time understanding others' points of view.
Here's how to help your toddler "become the story." With enough repetition, he can eventually "pretend" to read the entire story to you.

• Provide actual objects of the ones mentioned in the book. Use real stuffed animals, musical instruments, or little plastic boats.
• Demonstrate the action words. If it's a story about a boat, rock back and forth. Stand up and pretend to zoom around the room.
• Sing a favorite song in a section, like "Wheels on the Bus," for a book about trucks.
• Build anticipation and ask, "What's next?" before you turn the page.
• Substitute your toddler's name for the main character of the story.
• Put together a photo-story of a typical day for your toddler. Take pictures in the morning as you go through the rituals of his day. Sit with your toddler and tell the story about what's happening from one picture to the next.

Sounding pictures

A preschooler has an almost supersonic sense of hearing, one she uses for developing phonemic awareness, or the ability to break down sounds so she can learn to spell and read. It typically develops as a preschooler plays around with poems, songs, and stories filled with rhymes and alliteration.
You can help your preschooler "play" a storytelling game while developing her listening skills at home.

You need:
A tape recorder
Paper and crayons or markers

• Ask her to go around the house and record the sounds that she would hear in her favorite story.
• Ask your preschooler to draw a picture that represents those sounds.
• Put the sounds and pictures together and ask your preschooler to retell the story without the book.

Story box

Stories that are less predictable, with less predictable endings, satisfy a big kid's curiosity for more information and new words. Turning around and telling one herself is a different story altogether. It's also the mark of great storytellers and public speakers: to think on your feet and use words in creative ways that hold a person's interest.
This activity develops your big kid's interest in books and stories, as well as her understanding of the elements of story. The fun for her is filling in the blanks between those actions.

That's a square story
Your big kid can make up her own story using two storytelling boxes. Roll one box to determine the character then roll the second box for the action. Then your big kid "acts out" the story.

You need:
Two medium-sized boxes, cube-sized works best
Paper
Scissors
Glue
A tape recorder or journal to write down the stories your big kid creates

• Create the character box. Choose favorite characters from a familiar story, movie, or cartoon. Tape, draw, or paste those faces on all six sides of the character box.
• Create the action box. Create six examples of actions those characters would do and paste them on the box.

Let the story "roll"

• Roll each box, one at a time. Your big kid then "acts" that sequence out based on the character and the actions on the box.
• Ask questions: What was that character thinking? What was she wearing? How did she feel?
• Write down or record the plot. Or your big kid can write the story down.