Check out our summer options for 2009! We have a variety of choices. 1-day camps, 3-day camps, 1-week camps and 5 week camps. Babies, toddlers and preschoolers meet once a week for five weeks. Children ages 4-7 have lots of choices! Check out the guitar and piano camps for adults and for children. Older kids will enjoy the Musical Theatre Camps. Scroll down for specifics regarding one and five week camps. Click here for one-day, 2 hour camps.Summer%20One-day%20camps%202009.htmlSummer%20One-day%20camps%202009.htmlshapeimage_9_link_0
Summer Camps 2009!
Peek-a-boo, I Love You! ~ newborn to 18 months (Village age) Parent participation: Parent or caregiver attends entire class with child. Class Length: 5 lessons, 45 minutes, once per week Fee: $105 Materials: Home Materials include: Book, Home CD, Village cage bell instrument, and poster. Set your baby's day to classical music. With a little more Tchaikovsky in your "Twinkle, Twinkle" repertoire discover new ways baby benefits from the classics as you develop an appreciation for the world's most respected music. Each lesson features new activities and songs that the parent can sing for all the places baby and mom go together—the store, the playground, the doctor, and more.
 
Newborn to 18 months
 
Zoo Train! ~ 1½ to 3½ (Our Time age)
Parent participation:  Parent or caregiver attends entire class with child.
Class Length: 5 lessons, 45 minutes, once per week
Fee: $105
Materials: Home Materials include:  Book,  animal shaker, CD with lyric book, home activities poster.     
 
Tag along this summer with a traveling zoo-train; bring your own stuffed animal for the petting zoo; wear long white socks on your hands for polar bear paws; and learn about real animals in the zoo!  Sing songs in new languages!  Parents also learn more about child development and how music improves a toddler's ability to think, reason, create and express.  This musical camp features music and stories to stimulate a toddler's emerging sense of imagination, coordination, and ability to learn more words!  Includes singing games, movement, musical exploration, instrument play as well as snack and craft ideas for at-home use.
 
3  to 5 years
 
On The Road!~ 3 to 5 (Imagine That! age)
Parent participation:  Parent or caregiver attends last 15 minutes with child.
Class Length: 5 lessons, 60 minutes, once per week
Fee: $115
Materials: Home Materials include:  Home CD with lyrics, book, home activities poster, wooden frog guiro instrument
 
This camp makes the most of a preschooler's burgeoning imagination and ability to learn more words and solve problems. Take imaginary trips to summer vacation locations such as the carnival, a summer cottage, and the beach. Parents also learn more about how music improves a preschooler's ability to think, reason, create and express.  This musical camp includes singing games, story time, movement, musical exploration, instrument play as well as snack and craft ideas for at-home use.  At-home craft ideas use simple materials—most can be found around the house.
 
 
 
Tell Me A Tale ~ 5 to 7 (Young Child age, entering Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade grade Fall 2007)
Parent participation:  Parent or caregiver attends the last 5 minutes of class.
Class Length: 5 lessons, 2 hours, M-F
Fee: $140
Materials: Home Materials include:  Home CD featuring multi-cultural music, literature book,  parent poster,  and lummi sticks.  Campers will make and eat their own snacks.  Art and craft activities included each day.


Through storytelling, your child will develop an early awareness of rhythm, movement, singing and drama. Each lesson features a new tale from around the world, explored through multi-instrument and multi-cultural elements. All told, it's an  around-the-imagination adventure of the greatest stories from Europe, Malaysia, India, Appalachia, and South Africa.
 
 
5 to 7  years
6 months to 3 years
Five week session
(June 3rd through July 1)
El Paseo location
    
Wednesdays     10:00 - 10:45 p.m. Wednesdays       5:30 - 6:15 p.m.
Thursdays 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Thursdays 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.   One week session (June 15-19) El Paseo location M-F 1:00-3:00 p.m.
 
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Sign & Sing ~ Ages 6 months to 3 years
Parent participation:  Parent or caregiver attends entire class with child.
Class Length: 5 lessons, 45 minutes, once per week
Fee: $105
Materials for Session A: Family Activity Guide,  DVD glossary showing 60 signs, Clip-on flashcards that feature photos of both children and adults using family-friendly American Sign Language signs developed by Signing Smart™. She learns the American Sign Language signs for her favorite words, and you can communicate with your little one before she ever says her first word. In this class we’ll help you teach your child the signs for “HELP,” “FINISHED,” “MOM,” and “DAD” and use the research-proven techniques to ease frustration, speed your child’s language development, and enhance thinking skills. You’ll sing and play together with toys, bubbles and balls; your child will delight in new ways to express her feelings and ideas. And you’ll take home expert teaching methods, like making a sign in front of your child, on your child’s body, and when she looks up at you in wonder as if to ask, “What’s that?”
Five week session
(June 3rd through July 1)
El Paseo location
Wednesdays    9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Wednesdays    4:30 - 5:15 p.m.
 
1 1/2 to  3 1/2 years
Five week session
(June 3rd through July 1)
El Paseo location
Five week session (May 14 through June 11) El Paseo location Thursdays 6:00-6:45 p.m. Musical Theatre Camps for kids 7-13 Grades 2nd-4th Grades 5th -8th ------------------------------ Musical Instrument Camps Guitar Rocks! Piano Blast Off! Click here to find out more! Summer Camp Brochure Summer Camp Brochure Summer Camp Brochure
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Here, There, & Everywhere~ Birth to age 7
Parent participation:  Parent or caregiver attends entire class
Class Length: 5 lessons, 45 minutes, once per week
Fee: $115 for first child. Add $50 per additional sibling (5 week session, includes materials)            
Materials: Home Materials include:  Two Books—Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! and  Jingle-Jangle Jambourine, Two Home CDs, Family Guide, board game, Waggs the dog hand puppet and finger puppet, and two jambourine instruments. game.    
Here,  There and Everywhere You’ll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family. A one-room schoolhouse approach to music. With older children ready to show the little ones how it's done and the younger ones eager to learn, Family Time becomes a multi-layered learning environment. Each week, we will introduce basic musical concepts and then give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.    
 
Birth to 7  years
Five week session
(June 3rd through July 1)
El Paseo location
    
Wednesdays     11:00 - 11:45 p.m. Wednesdays       6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
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