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Music Together is an early childhood music and movement program with family classes for children from birth through age eight—and the grownups who love them! First offered in 1987, our music classes help little ones develop their innate musicality—and much, much more.
Every week in our classes, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and the grownups who love them®, come together to play musically and meet new friends. Little ones love playing along in class, and caregivers love being a part of their child’s development. And everyone loves our songs and music that’ll have you tapping along in no time.
Each season, we offer Mixed Ages Classes (for children 0 – 5), and Rhythm Kids® (for big kids 4 – 8 years). Classes run in 9 or 10-week sessions during the school year, and we offer a 6-week session during the summer! During each season, each enrolled family receives an illustrated music book, as well as every song we’ll sing on CD, via digital download, or on the Music Together app!
Enrolled families choose a primary class time to attend for the session and are able to make up any missed classes during alternate class times as long as there is space is available.
Cost for regular classes including take-home materials:
First Child – $225
Additional Sibling over 9 months – $75
Additional Sibling under 9 months- free
Third Sibling- free
Registering one child in Rhythm Kids and another in Music Together? Email us so we can apply a $100 discount on the second class.
Please Note: During the summer and late fall mini sessions, shorter sessions are offered. Pricing varies for these sessions based on their duration.
Enrollment in each class is limited to 6-12 mobile (crawling or walking) children, and classes will be combined or canceled if enrollment minimum is not met by the Tuesday before class is scheduled to begin.
HOW TO REGISTER A SIBLING:
1. Register one child first.
2. Look for your confirmation email for the link to register a sibling at the $75 rate. If you are registering a sibling under 9 months old, please reply to the confirmation email to let us know their name and birthday.
3. If you have questions or run into any trouble, send us an email at info@popovskyperformingarts.com or call us at 717-517-8543 and we will help get you set.
Mixed Age Family Classes
for infants through 5 years old
Each week in Music Together® classes, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and grownups who love them gather each week for 45 minutes of music time. Your teacher will lead you and the other families in music activities ranging from small finger play to circle dances and from lullabies to full-on jam sessions, all the while creating a playful and relaxed environment. After all, children learn best through play! You’ll have so much fun in class we bet you’ll hardly notice how much learning is taking place.
In addition to weekly music classes, you’ll take home Music Together’s award-winning materials, including an illustrated songbook and recordings of the songs we sing each week delivered straight to your phone via the Music Together app. The songbook was specially designed with young children in mind, with words and a simple musical line to support pre-literacy in both reading language AND music, as well as pictures that help evoke the mood or story of the songs on each page.
Music Together features 12 original song collections that are offered in a three year rotation, allowing you to enroll in class for three consecutive years. Families who stay enrolled for three years learn over 225 songs from diverse cultures, styles, and tonalities– a truly amazing foundation for your child’s lifelong musical journey.
Music Together® classes are the perfect place to make magical musical memories with your family, whether you consider yourself to be musical or not!
Rhythm Kids Classes
for big kids ages 4-8
Big kids know what they like. Telling silly stories. Playing games. Being in charge. Designed specifically for pre-K and early elementary students, our active Rhythm Kids classes for big kids tap into how children this age are wired to learn, with music games, animal rhythm stories, and lots of stomping-flying-climbing fun. By the end of the semester, they’ll be proud to show off what they’ve learned: to you, their friends and teachers, and—let’s face it—for some kids, every person they meet!
Each week in class we will work with djembe drums, play musical games, make musical stories, play with animal rhythm patterns, and explore music from across cultures. The children in class are given many choices and opportunities to share their ideas with the group, and we work together to keep things musical even when we are stomping like elephants, jumping like kangaroos, or doing the worm as we embody snakes.
Classroom activities engage children as they solo, work in ensembles, play new patterns, and improvise. All of this supports your child’s social and listening skills, self-expression, and self-confidence like only music can. Just like Music Together classes, you receive a songbook and access to the recordings, plus access to the Music Zone – an online portal full of bonus videos and activities to deepen the learning at home.
Fun-filled Rhythm Kids® classes naturally support your big kid’s rhythm development and help them prepare for formal music lessons.
We Teach the Way Children Learn
At Music Together, we know that children learn differently than adults. They learn instinctively and constantly, and teach themselves through imitation and play, through being immersed in their environment, and through interaction with adults and older children. The family-like setting of Music Together classes creates an ideal learning environment. And it’s all based in research in early childhood and music development.
Learn about the research behind Music Together at the Music Together Worldwide website.
