Fall session registration is now under way! Session runs Sept 15-Nov 22. We hope you can join us! 

Big Kids Classes

The musical fun you've grown to love, with new activities and challenges designed for your older child!

Big Kids Classes
4- to 5-year-olds (Pre-K)

Does your 4- to 5-year-old make up words to songs, dance up a storm, and love to be playful with music?

When your child is young, music has tremendous power to enhance their love of music and the joy it brings, and also their overall development. Because music integrates mind, body, and emotions, music learning supports many other kinds of learning.

Music Together of Portland's Big Kids Class provides opportunities for individual music expression through movement games and song-making activities, and introduces basic reading of music notation. We meet your child where they are, introducing more structure while continuing to play with music in active and creative ways. The Big Kids class can complement or prepare your child for formal music instruction and school-based music education, while giving them a foundation for a lifetime of music enjoyment. In addition, your child will build life skills such as leadership, decision-making, and teamwork with their music skills and understanding.
 

The Big Kids class is a 3-semester, cumulative curriculum, beginning in the fall session.
The class is designed for 4 to 5-year-old preschoolers to take the year before entering kindergarten.
No new students accepted in the spring session as they are too far into the year long curriculum at that time.
Students should plan on returning to their previous class in the spring as tranfers are also not accepted.
 
Adults are welcome to attend and participate in class, or to drop off their child.  
 
Parent Helpers: each week 1 or 2 grownups will sign up to stay and be helpers that week.
No unregistered siblings can attend. 

 

See our Big Kids Class Schedule. 

 

"My 5-year-old loves the Big Kids class! He is learning to read music and sits down with his Music Together® book and can point out the rhythms he is learning in class. He spends hours writing music about different things in his world like bugs and a visit to the zoo. It is amazing to me that such young kids can read and write simple melodies and rhythms."

 

"We have Big Kids Music Class at home using our colored solfege circles and 'writing' the songs  from class. My daughter sits and reads her favorite Music Together songs from the book, following the notes with her finger and  singing. She teaches us the different rhythms she learns in class and we have 'treasure hunts' looking through the songbooks trying to find them. What an amazing musical learning experience for all of us!"