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The Performance School of Music Launches Fall Semester At Grimsby Museum

Grimsby, Ontario – Last week, the Performance School of Music launched its new semester classes of Kindermusik, the world’s leading music and movement program for children from birth to seven years of age.
Kindermusik fosters the total development of young children through a combination of music and movement. Parents with newborns, toddlers, and 4 through 7-year-old children can participate in Kindermusik activities -- jingling bells, pounding drums, floating scarves, “hooting” owl sounds and little feet moving in time to music -- for a valuable learning experience for both the child and the parent or caregiver.
The Performance School of Music offers a complete development program where both children and parents learn through music and movement. Grimsby native Jennifer Averink founded the Performance School of Music 10 years ago in Burlington and began offering Kindermusik classes in 2004. Over the past three years Averink has built her Kindermusik program to Maestro status, an award from Kindermusik International in recognition of having proven masterful in reaching large numbers of families with the Kindermusik experience. Last month, Jennifer returned to Grimsby along with Kindermusik educators- Kelly Tiernay and Renae Witten, to launch her latest Kindermusik program, being offered at the Grimsby Museum.
Jennifer Averink strongly believes that Kindermusik provides a powerful experience for a child. “The many songs and activities in Kindermusik class enhance a child’s total development by strengthening physical, emotional, social, and cognitive skills at a very early age,” explains Averink. “Teaching children through Kindermusik has allowed me to experience the joy of watching children learn and grow through music. Kindermusik creates a warm, creative learning environment for both parents and children.”
Free demo classes are being offered this month for new families of all age groups, newborn to five years. Classes being offered this session are Village, newborns to 1½ years; Our Time, 1½ years to 3 years; Imagine That!, 3 to 5 year olds; and Sign & Sing, a sign language class, 6 months to 3 years old. This semester the Performance School of Music is offering classes at the Grimsby Museum on Monday mornings, Tuesday mornings and early afternoons and Saturday mornings.
To register for a free demo class, or for more info on the Kindermusik program at the Grimsby Museum, call 1-866-611-3012 or visit the Performance School of Music website at http://www.psmusic.ca/.

The newest music class for children 4-6 years old, developed by Kindermusik. The Performance School of Music is now offering this exciting new class at the Burlington and Ancaster locations. "What's so exciting?" you ask...This class is age appropriately developed for children 4-6, and it includes a piano preparation element. That means that your child will learn basic music skills specific to the piano in preparation for either the Young Child curriculum or private piano lessons. These classes are starting every 4 weeks and are being held on Tuesdays. Check the website for exact times at each location. Visit www.psmusic.ca and go to the Kindermusik page where you can download the schedule specific to your most convenient location. Check back often as classes fill quickly!

Open House Dates

Back to school is just around the corner...Can you believe we are half way through August already. I hope everyone has had a great summer and has had some time to relax and enjoy all of the sun we have had this year. My dogs and I have certainly been taking advantage of all of this fine weather!

As much as I have been loving the time off, I am really looking forward to getting back to music lessons and Kindermusik classes so that I can catch up with all of you. On that note... I want to invite everyone to this year's open house. We will be taking registrations as usualy, but this year we are also having some draws to celebrate back to school. You could be the lucky one to win a Junior Drum Kit, or a free semester of Kindermusik, or a J.J. Heart Guitar! Tell all of your friends to join you at our open house and earn some referral dollars to put toward this year's tuition. There may even be a few surprises for the kids!

The open house dates for Burlington and Ancaster are August 28th, 29th and 30th from 4-7:30 pm and on September 8th from 10:30am-2pm. The Kindermsuik open houses in Oakville are taking place on August 25th from 2-5pm (OakPark Moms & Tots) and on September 8th (time & place to be determined). In Grimsby our Kindermusik open house is scheduled for September 4th from 5-7:30 and September 15th from 10:30 - 2pm. Both Grimsby dates will be held at the Grimsby Museum.

I hope to see you all at the open house! Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Burlington PSM Renovations

I am very excited to see what the PSM will look like in September. I have hired a contractor and he's been working to build a new office. Actually we will now have 2 offices - one for Jenn and one for Kendra. These 2 offices will also serve as their teaching rooms, which means that there will be one more teaching studio come September. I have also planned for the small Kindermusik room to be expanded. More room to dance and play! I hope that you will all enjoy the upgrades as much as we will.

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Priority Registration Starts NOW!

Just a reminder to all of our fantastic Kindermusik families that we are beginning the priority registration now. We open up the registration for next term for you 2 weeks before we open it up to the rest of the world. We want to make sure that you get your preferred times. The classes are already filling up! Sign up today to reserve your spot in your child's favourite class. You can get your registration form online at www.psmusic.ca or you should have received one by email. Let us know you if did not receive our email regarding registration. We want to make sure all of our records are up to date.

Wellness House Concert

That was a great concert! We all got lost but eventually found our way to the Wellness House in Burlington on the "second" Itabashi Way. Thanks to everyone who made it out to the show. I thought it was one of the best community concerts that we have ever performed! I am sure we all left with warm fuzzies after seeing all of the smiles that your music brought to the faces of our audience. I can't wait to do it again.

Congratulations! It's a Boy!

Sarah G., a voice teacher at the Performance School of Music, called us to announce the arrival of her first born...a healthy baby boy named Samuel. He was born on October 27th/06 and weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. Congratulations! We can't wait to hear him sing!

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Only 2 More Sleeps!

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Thursday Village Classes

Attention all of Miss Kendra's Thursday Village Families...Nov. 9th classes are cancelled. Kendra is fighting off a cold and does not want to pass on any illness...Plus she sounds funny!! The class will resume next week and the unit will be extended by one week. See you all next week.

Everybody needs a parade.

What an awesome drum line. This group played for us at the opening ceremonies of the convention. Cymbals twirling, drums dancing, and sticks flying... I was so caught up in the energy and actual acrobatics that I didn't notice they were playing a percussion rendition of "Wild Thing" (Alycia brought this to my attention later that day.)

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I just got back from a Kindermusik convention in North Carolina where I learned so much my head hurts! I was so lucky to listen to such a passionate and exuberant presentation by the wise and zany Ben Zander of Boston Philharmonic fame, and his "Sphinx-like" wife Ros Zander. I hope that I can pass along to you just a little bit of energy I received at this 5 day event. The most important thing that I brought home with me from the conference is the reassurance that what we do here at the Performance School of Music is so important to the lives of the children we serve. If every child on the planet began their life with 7 years of joyful learning and development through music we would have peace on this planet. Just a thought...