ChiME Childhood Music Education
Music Lessons for Kids

music lessons for kids – toddlers – ages 1-3 years

Fairy Wrens (1-2yrs)

Introduce your child to the wonderful world of music through all their senses as they explore vocalising and moving, playing, listening and feeling.

We offer: a safe, welcoming space; fun, accessible instruments; new as well as ‘golden oldie’ songs and games to continue enjoying at home; lots of repetition to develop familiarity and ownership

Willie Wagtails (2-3yrs)

As you know, they are on the go-go! This program is non-stop fun: singing, dancing, playing instruments, using props and games as they discover music and build new friendships. We discover and play with the important, first building blocks of music: go and stop, slow and fast, soft and loud, high and low.

We offer: plenty of space for our Toddlers to move their bodies; interesting instruments to explore; new songs and games to play at home

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music lessons for kids – prep – ages 3-4 years

Whipbirds

Let’s make music with our friends, while we will develop our:
social skills: turn-taking, sharing, caring and listening to each other
personal skills: self-control and concentration, independence
physical skills: gross motor, fine motor and vocal control

We offer: a safe place to practice our developing social awareness; more challenging songs and games to build our physical and mental abilities/skills

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music lessons for kids – jam – ages 4-7 years

Junior Age Musicians

JaM-1: Lyrebirds (Ages 4-5 years)

JaM-2: Lorikeets (2nd Year Kindis)

What is music? Why does it sound like that? How does music work?

We help our Junior age Musicians develop their understanding of music, by exploring the music concepts:

Tempo (beat and rhythm), Dynamics (volume), Timbre (how sound is made), Pitch (high and low), Style (from pop to folk, multi-cultural to classical)

We create and play our own music, moving and grooving with our friends, using our growing skills and knowledge.

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music lessons for kids – jam-s – ages 5-7 years

School Age Musicians: Currawongs

This is the one year abridged JaM course for school-age children (Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2) who are new to ChiME. Classes are 60 minutes, students are placed in similar age groupings with a maximum of 10 students in each class.

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music lessons for kids – transition

JaM Graduates – for children who have completed JaM

Using skills developed in JaM, students spend a fun year exploring over 15 different instruments, to find one they might like to learn. They will spend three weeks trying various orchestral brass, strings, percussion and woodwind instruments, as well as guitar, keyboard, recorder, speech, drama and singing. They are then assisted in choosing an instrument to learn, which includes our exclusive MISA questionnaire (Musical Instrument Suitability Assessment)

We offer: smaller classes (maximum of 6) to enable focussed learning and support; orchestral instruments of various sizes suitable for children to safely and successfully explore

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music lessons for kids – intro

New students in Years 3 or 4 at school

InTrO Year (Instrument Try-Out) is an exciting 12-month course specifically for students in Year 3 and 4 at school who have not participated in the JaM program. It combines elements of JaM and Transition.

Students spend the year trying over 15 different instruments as they learn about the various music concepts. They are then assisted in choosing a suitable instrument or focus.

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music lessons for kids – misa

Musical Instrument Suitability Assessment (MISA)

As part of Transition and InTrO, parents are given the opportunity to complete a MISA questionnaire to assist the family in choosing an instrument or study best suited to their child.

This assessment is also available for older children (8yrs and above) not enrolled in the ChiME program.

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