Parent - Child Music

Ages 6 -36 months

First Steps in Music offers a research-based, developmentally-appropriate music class to stimulate your child’s musical intelligence as well as their emotional, physical, and social development. Join us for a joyful and interactive music class designed to nurture your child’s love of music and support their development through movement, song, and rhyme.

When we sing, move and play together, we nurture the joys of childhood, parenting and education. This 30-minute weekly program follows the sequential First Steps in Music curriculum. This course strives to enhance the child’s desire for music, foster early childhood growth and development, cultivate the artistry of parenting, strengthen the family unit and build a musical community that participates with joy.

Parents and caregivers are the most important teachers in the child’s life. During music class, you are encouraged to learn and play along with the children. Musical ability is not paramount for participation in class but a genuine love of fun is. After each class, song repertoire will be shared so that you can continue making music in the home environment.

Explore Music

Build musical experience with vocal exploration, singing simple songs, fingerplay, and moving to music.

Resources

We share songs and activities for home use along with a take-home jam bag with instruments and a scarf.

Connection

Indulge in a dedicated time to bond with your child while building adult relationships.

Join us in the Parent-Child Community room at Lupine Montessori School

Thursdays 10:30 am – 11:00 am

Fall Session: September 3-December 17, 2026

Spring Session: January 21 - May 20, 2027

Session fee is $75*

Offering quality music programming to the community is important to us. Please contact us if you need financial assistance.

Registration

Meet Miss Jamie

  • Music Directress
    I have been teaching music since 2008, and I have taught children as young as six months through adult students studying for advanced degrees. I am a certified teacher with a Bachelor of Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master of Music Education with a Kodály Emphasis from Capital University. I teach following the Kodály philosophy of music education, and I also use First Steps in Music. I became interested in Montessori education when seeking out educational opportunities for my daughters. I noticed immediately the similarities between Maria Montessori’s beautiful philosophy and best practice in music education. I am delighted to be a member of the Lupine team, and I’m excited to make joyful music with the wonderful community!

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“He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.”

― Maria Montessori