Playing With Music (PARENT/CHILD MUSIC & MOVEMENT CLASS)
Mixed Age - birth to kindergarten
Wednesdays 9:30-10:15
Saturdays 9:00-9:45
@ Electric Machete Gallery
777 Smith Ave. S., St. Paul, MN
*FREE TRIAL class for new families!!
contact: <email obscured>
www.ilikeplayingwithmusic.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/playingwithmusic
Mark Sorvari, who specializes in Music & Movement for Early Childhood has
teamed up with Electric Machete Gallery to offer a mixed age (birth to
kindergarten) music and movement class.
Certified in Orff Schulwerk, trained in Music Together, and experienced in the
Reggio Emilia Approach, Mark offers music that catches a child’s imagination
and that inspires participation, play, and learning through active music
making.
Children will “play with” musical materials in the same way that they learn art
by “playing with” pencils, crayons, and paints or learn language by “playing
with” sounds, words, and ideas. In class, we sing, dance, play instruments,
laugh, and explore music & movement in a relaxed yet focused setting.
Parent testimonials
“Stella (4.5 mo.) is captivated by the other students, Mark and the music and
movement. She has started standing and swaying during songs. She babbles when
we copy rhythms. We sing the “Hello Song” at home every morning and she never
fails to break into a huge smile when it begins. The children are learning not
only about music, but how to make friends, how to share, how to negotiate a
large room, how to express themselves through dance and song in a space that is
safe. This is because of a repeated and open community that the class is
fostering” - Hannah (Longfellow Resident)
“Playing with Music” is a unique offering amongst infant/preschool music
experiences. My 3.5 year old has been enrolled in various music and dance
classes from 6 months, and this is the first one I've felt truly engaged with
as a parent. Mark is responsive to the group as it changes each week: learning
new songs, a special Valentine's Day class, a Bowie dance party. Mark explains
the developmental value of certain movements and rhythms without being
didactic. “Playing with Music” is exactly what it claims to be — play — which
is refreshing in a world of overcommitted and over scheduled children” -
Jeanette (St. Paul Resident)
Mixed Age - birth to kindergarten
Wednesdays 9:30-10:15
Saturdays 9:00-9:45
@ Electric Machete Gallery
777 Smith Ave. S., St. Paul, MN
*FREE TRIAL class for new families!!
contact: <email obscured>
www.ilikeplayingwithmusic.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/playingwithmusic
Mark Sorvari, who specializes in Music & Movement for Early Childhood has
teamed up with Electric Machete Gallery to offer a mixed age (birth to
kindergarten) music and movement class.
Certified in Orff Schulwerk, trained in Music Together, and experienced in the
Reggio Emilia Approach, Mark offers music that catches a child’s imagination
and that inspires participation, play, and learning through active music
making.
Children will “play with” musical materials in the same way that they learn art
by “playing with” pencils, crayons, and paints or learn language by “playing
with” sounds, words, and ideas. In class, we sing, dance, play instruments,
laugh, and explore music & movement in a relaxed yet focused setting.
Parent testimonials
“Stella (4.5 mo.) is captivated by the other students, Mark and the music and
movement. She has started standing and swaying during songs. She babbles when
we copy rhythms. We sing the “Hello Song” at home every morning and she never
fails to break into a huge smile when it begins. The children are learning not
only about music, but how to make friends, how to share, how to negotiate a
large room, how to express themselves through dance and song in a space that is
safe. This is because of a repeated and open community that the class is
fostering” - Hannah (Longfellow Resident)
“Playing with Music” is a unique offering amongst infant/preschool music
experiences. My 3.5 year old has been enrolled in various music and dance
classes from 6 months, and this is the first one I've felt truly engaged with
as a parent. Mark is responsive to the group as it changes each week: learning
new songs, a special Valentine's Day class, a Bowie dance party. Mark explains
the developmental value of certain movements and rhythms without being
didactic. “Playing with Music” is exactly what it claims to be — play — which
is refreshing in a world of overcommitted and over scheduled children” -
Jeanette (St. Paul Resident)
