Spark your child’s music journey
Early Childhood Music Pathway
TMC’s Early Childhood Music Pathway for 3 to 5 year-olds lays a
strong and essential foundation for their first steps as musicians.
The Tiny Circle
Music Appreciation (3-year-olds)
Develop the little musician in your child with The Tiny Circle – TMC’s music and movement class for three-year-olds. Parent-and-child will both enjoy a time of bonding through music and movement, storytelling and music-based activities.
Each 10-lesson term is themed to help your child experience different aspects of music while learning about the world around them.
- 40-minutes per lesson
- Parent-accompanied
- 10 lesson modules
- 3 modules in total
- Home activities and playlists provided to create a musical environment at home
Fees
- One time TMC Registration Fee: $65 (including administrative costs, TMC bag and folder)
- Course Fees: $400 per module of 10 lessons
- Material Fees: $20 including all resources, booklets, home activities and playlists provided for the course
The Little Circle
Grow with Music (4-year-olds)
The Little Circle is a music and movement class for 4-year-olds that will grow your child’s curiosity and excitement about music making. Children will be introduced to music concepts like rhythm and solfège, and experience a wide range of music forms and genres.
The parent-accompanied classes are conducted in small groups, and sessions are designed to be loads of fun! Classes transition to non parent-accompanied as students become more independent.
Objectives
- Develop singing, aural and rhythm skills.
- Develop gross psychomotor and fine motor skills through music and movement.
- Draw connections between music and the world we live in.
- Experience parent-child bonding through shared musical sessions.
- Explore tuned and untuned percussion and musical instruments
- Build creativity and imagination through music, storytelling and play.
- 45-minutes per lesson
- Parent-accompanied intially, transition to independent learning (non parent-accompanied)
- 11 weeks per term
- 3 terms in total
- Home activities and playlists provided to create a musical environment at home
Fees
- One time TMC Registration Fee: $65 (including administrative costs, TMC tote bag and folder)
- Course Fees: $440 per module of 11 lessons
- Material Fees: $20 including all resources, booklets, home activities and playlists provided for the course
The Junior Circle
Pre-Instrumental Course (5-year-olds)
The Junior Circle is a music and movement class for 5 year olds which develops the budding musician in children, as they explore rhythm, singing and basic musical skills in preparation for instrumental learning.
The interactive music and movement classes inspired by Dalcroze and Kodaly methods are tailored for 5-year-olds, to cultivate their interest in music, and develop creativity through music-making in a fun and nurturing environment.
Objectives
- Develop singing, aural and rhythm skills based on Kodaly and Music Circle Time songs as well as nursery rhymes.
- Develop psychomotor and kinesthetic abilities through music and movement.
- Showcase imagination and creativity through performance.
- Explore a variety of pieces from different cultures, genres and periods.
- Discover various instruments through sound and play.
- Learn to play the xylophones.
Learning Outcomes
- Sing in pitch, scales and songs using solfège.
- Aurally identify chords and tonality.
- Aurally and visually identify rhythms.
- Display kinesthetic and musical development.
- Improvise/compose short melodies using learned melodic patterns
- Be able to describe basic stylistic traits of a piece.
- Display basic skills in playing of learned instruments.
- Be kinesthetically and aurally ready to learn an instrument
- 45-minutes per lesson
- 11 weeks per term
- 4 terms in total
- Independent learning (Non-parent accompanied)
- Home activities and playlists provided to create a musical environment at home
Fees
- One time TMC Registration Fee: $65 (including administrative costs, TMC tote bag and folder)
- Course Fees: $440 per module of 11 lessons.
- Material Fees: $40 including starter pack, all resources, booklets, home activities and playlists provided for the course.
- Xylophone Rental: $20
