Say Hello To Our New Partners

Please join us in extending a very warm welcome to our latest additions to the Kindermusik community. We now have 38 partners providing Kindermusik programmes to every part of Singapore!

CHERIE HEARTS GROUP OF CHILDCARE CENTRES

Cherie Hearts Group of Childcare Centres is an alliance of companies with broad experience in the provision of quality & innovative early childhood education. Cherie Hearts believes in providing quality one-stop education services that groom the Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social & Language (PIESL) Developments of the children so that parents can spend quality time with their child after office hours, thus Nurturing Quality Family Time! That is also one of the main reasons that we provide various supporting programmes to expose our children widely.

Vision
Building Cherie Hearts as an international household name.

Mission
Nurturing a quality & innovative learning environment where children and staff are respected as unique individuals together in partnership with parents & the community.

Core Values

• Fun & Creative Learning Team
• Parents as Partners
• Quality Care
• Community & Family Involvement
• Results Oriented

Regional Head Office:
Cherie Hearts Group International Pte Ltd
3 HarbourFront Place
HarbourFront Tower Two
#02-01/04
Singapore 099254

PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Singapore Promising Brand Award 2005 Awarded by Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (ASME) & Lian He Zao Bao to organizations that have established a good brand in Singapore	People Developer Standard (PDS) Awarded by SPRING Singapore for organizations that adopt a comprehensive approach in staff training & development
SHELL LiveWIRE Young Busines Start Up Award 2005 (Cham pion Winner) Awarded by Shell & ITE for young entrepreneurs who have established a excellent business start up	MCYS Family Day Care Services (FDCS) Centres Awarded by Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports (MCYS) for 6 out of 700 childcare centres selected to pilot the FDCS.

Kindermusik JUNE Holiday Sale .

Kindermusik products are designed to help your child develop motor skills, analytical & creative thinking, hand-eye coordination and musical skills.

	GERTIE BALL SET OF 2 (U.P $34) S$27.90 (before GST) This special balls Changes Color with Touch! in cold temperature. We're not sure who loves these balls more, adults or children, but everyone wants one!  These soft, squishy balls can be inflated to any level of firmness - slightly less full for smaller hands! Age appropriate: Newborn to age 99
	DREAMLAND CD S$37.80 (before GST) Don’t you love to cuddle up and listen to a relaxing lullaby with your child? This award-winning CD includes a great mix of lullabies from around the world. Send your child off to dreamland surrounded by tranquil music. The soothing melodies are just right for tired parents too!  The booklet that accompanies the CD is filled with interesting tidbits about the lullabies and the featured musicians. Dreamland won the 2004 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio award and many other awards Age appropriate: Newborn to age 99
	CONFETTI BELLS (pair) (U.P. $23) S$15 (before GST) Made exclusively for Kindermusik, Confetti Bells have two bells securely attached to each end of a brightly-colored blue wooden handle. Age Appropriate: Preschooler (3 - 5 years) Young Child (5 - 7 years)

Check out our Studio at Tanglin Mall for more products Tel : 6467 1789

KINDERMUSIK JUNE AND SUMMER HOLIDAY PROGRAM

CREATURES AT THE OCEAN
A music camp for children 18 months to 3 years old

Get ready for a seaside adventure with creatures from the sea and ocean play!

'Creatures at the Ocean' includes delightfully engaging music and movement activities. Throughout each of the six 45-minute lesson, children will explore ocean movements such as a whale spouting, sing to delightful music including a lively Calypso tune, hear an original ocean creature story and make music with unique instruments.

On The Road
A music camp for children 3 to 5 years old

Not planning for an overseas trip this holiday? Why not take imaginary trips to vacation destinations on a bus named ‘Van Go’?

Throughout each of the six 45-min sessions, children will take a very happy and delightful journey playing ‘Eye Spy’, finding shapes in the clouds and explore the road through fun activities.

CREATURES IN MY BACKYARD
A music camp for children 18 months to 3 years old

Limited places! Call us NOW!
Address: 163 Tanglin Road, #03-11B, Tanglin Mall , Singapore 247933.
Telephone: 6467 1789.
Email: enquiries@kindermusik.com.sg

"Speaking" Their Needs

Babies use all of their senses to learn about the world around them. When you integrate a sign, the spoken word ("the mouse ran up the clock"), and a physical example of what the word means (lifting baby up), you give your baby the opportunity to learn through her visual, auditory, and physical senses. You are expanding your child's mind and hel ping him grow linguistically, physically, and cognitively.

Infants can learn and use signs to communicate their needs long before their vocal chords are developed enough to speak. With sign language, your child can learn to express "I'm thirsty," "I'm hungry," or even "Let's listen to music!" Using signs makes communicating with your baby possible as well as enjoyable and satisfying.

Kindermusik Singing and Signing
Up and Down and Up Again

Use "up" and "down" signs in everyday situations— picking up and putting down your child, putting him into or taking him out of his high chair—and you can help your baby connect a spoken word and the meaning of that word with the sign. Add some fun by incorporating the signs into a song or nursery rhyme.

Enjoy singing a song, moving your body, and signing with " Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce."

Here are some simple signs:

• Up: Point right index finger straight up and move it up a short distance.
• Down: Point down with right index finger and move hand down a short distance.

With your child laying down or sitting:

• Say the word "up" while walking the fingers of your left hand up her body and signing "up" with your right hand.
• Do the opposite for "down."

While kneeling, hold your child with your left arm (cradling, or holding on your hip). Begin singing or chanting the rhyme " Hickory, Dickory, Tickle and Bounce."

• When saying the word "up," stand up and sign "up" at the same time.
• When saying the word "down," crouch down and sign "down" at the same time.

What Happens If...?

Toddlers are knee-deep in the "language growth spurt." On average, an 18-month-old knows around 20–50 words. By the age of three, this same child will be able to speak around 1,000 words and will understand 2,000 to 3,000. The area of your child's brain that is tied to language can be stimulated by movement. Exposure to a variety of movement words helps her link movement and language at a time when word acquisition is occurring at a fast pace. Labeling your child's movement with both words and signs can help her develop her vocabulary.

Signing with your toddler gives her the opportunity to learn in many different ways—physical coordination, or 'motor' skills, are engaged along with language, thinking skills, and social interactions. Your child is not only learning sign language, she is develo ping her eye-hand coordination and her speaking, language, conversational, and social skills.

Kindermusik Singing and Signing
Jum ping Fingers

The act of jum ping increases your child's leg and trunk strength and helps develop better physical coordination. And, of course, it's fun! Now, introduce your child to the sign "jump" and lead her on a finger jum ping expedition.

Jump around the house with your toddler, using the word "jump" to label the movement. Then, tell her you can say jump with your fingers. Show her how to make the sign for "jump." (Put your left hand in front of you, palm up. Place the tips of the index and middle finger of your right hand on the palm of your left hand and bounce them up and down, like they are jum ping.) Jump your fingers around the house—on beds, across tables, up walls, and around corners. Then, lead the expedition back to a table where you can create "finger jum ping art." Get out finger paint and paper, dip your fingers

Aaaaannnnnndddddd.....They're Off

Look at those children go. Preschoolers run, skip, dance—here, there, and everywhere. While movement is important, learning to stop is equally important. Learning to stop the "go" leads to impulse control in other areas. Inhibitory control, the ability to stop oneself and wait, is important in social interactions where taking turns is involved. Using a signal to indicate to your child when to be quiet or stop moving can help your child learn to control himself.

Inhibitory control also plays a major role in conversation. Your preschooler is learning how to have a conversation—speaking when it is his turn and listening when it is not. Learning the art of conversation is crucial to successful social interactions throughout life.

Kindermusik Singing and Signing
The Stop

Playing "stop and go" games helps children practice control over their physical bodies and revel in their mastery of this control. Consider using the "Stop" sign with your child.

Stop: Hold left hand out, palm facing up. Place right hand sideways on left palm, little finger side down, thumb side up. Make an up and down chop ping motion.

"Stop and Go" Game Suggestions

• Sing a song with your child while walking around the room. During the song, stop walking and say and sign, "stop." Take turns being the "stopper."
• Try out different movements—skip ping, twirling, hop ping, running—while singing about them. Sing a movement word to a familiar tune, then sing and sign "stop" and stop moving.
• If you have several children, play a game where they see who can stop the fastest. Play music and push "pause." Who stopped and signed stop first? Take turns pausing the music.
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Curious and Curiouser

Five- to seven-year-olds are curious. Your child probably asks you countless questions each day. How does that work? What does that mean? Why do you do that? Young children's inquisitiveness leads them to bounce from one interesting idea or activity to the next.

At this age, teaching your child simple sign language allows her to focus on one activity and practice attention skills. Plus, the motion connected to the word strengthens the learning. Learning to sign involves her closely watching the person signing, translating that sign into a word in her mind, and forming her own hands into the opposite image of what she sees. Besides practicing paying attention, sign language enhances her eye-hand coordination, language skills, cognitive thought, and spatial reasoning (the ability to understand how her body moves through space). The Singing Hands activity is a fun way to start.

Kindermusik Singing and Signing
Singing Hands

Make your hands dance! With your child, sing and sign "Star Light, Star Bright."

Signs for "Star Light, Star Bright:"

Star: Point index fingers forward. Alternately, pushing off the other finger, move each finger forward and a little upward, as if striking flint to get a spark.

First: With left hand, make a "thumbs-up" sign. Touch the tip of the thumb with the right index finger.

See: Make a "V" with index and middle fingers. Touch face below eyes with palm facing face. Swing hand around and forward so that the fingertips point forward.

Wish: Place hands palm up in front of you. Move towards you and bend fingers as if gras ping something.

Tonight: First, place hands palm up and fingers pointing up in front of you. Move arms down. Next, place left hand, palm down, at chest level. Move the right hand over the left hand in an arc, as if it is the sun setting.

It's a Musical Life

For the Ahrens family, the ritual of a weekly Kindermusik class became the special time for grandparents and grandchildren to bond.

Kindermusik Intergenerational Music Making
Songs of Love

Music is a natural source for connecting across the generations. As you and your child establish or initiate relationships with older relatives and friends, here are some ideas to help you get started.

• It's not too late to send a Valentine! Select several "love" songs and record your child and a grand-relative singing them together. Consider adding musical instrument accompaniment. Present the recording and a card to the grand-relative as a "singing Valentine." If older relatives live out of town, record yourself and your child and send your love by mail.
• "Adopt" a grandparent. The winter holidays bring many visitors to seniors in group care settings. Meanwhile, other times of the year can be quieter and potentially isolating for some. Inquire at a senior community about programs that pair families with seniors for social interaction. Initiate contact this month and plan to visit each month going forward to continue the relationship.
• Invite a grandparent or great-grandparent to attend Kindermusik class with you and your child .