First Steps in Music

Help your child explore the expressive qualities in music.

Become tuneful, artful, and beatful babies and toddlers!  Play and sing together, helping your child to reach their full potential in singing, vocabulary and movement skills while exploring the expressive qualities in music.  This program is presented in partnership with the Fort Wayne Children's Choir through a grant from PNC Foundation and 3Rivers Credit Union Foundation.  

Please register.  Space is limited. Register for all programs online at www.acpl.info/calendar, on the ACPL mobile app, or by calling the branch.

 
The goal of First Steps in Music is to enable all participants to reach their full potential in singing, vocabulary, and movement skills, with an emphasis on developing sensitivity to the expressive qualities in music. Each class is  designed to be playful and enjoyable to children, while providing a carefully planned curriculum that includes developmentally appropriate activities. Children are not taught formally about the specifics of music, but rather they play with music through a series of eight well-rounded activities based on the First Steps in Music curriculum.

The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir offers First Steps in Music classes to children ages 0 to 3 years old in coordination with the Allen County Public Library, and funded by the PNC Bank Foundation and Three Rivers Credit Union Foundation.
 
Through the 8 basic activities included in classes based on the First Steps in Music curriculum, children and their parents/caregiver experience singing, creative movement, simple instruments, finger-plays and more with the help of the rich collection of traditional songs and rhymes from past generations.
 
Example activities for First Steps in Music:
·    Pitch exploration
·    Song fragments
·    Simple songs
·    Arioso (Child-centered tunes)
·    Song tales
·    Movement exploration
·    Movement for from and expression
·    Movement with the beat