Tag: music classes

Summer

Keep Your Young Child Busy in The Summer

Your memories of summer camp probably include making lanyards and archery. But, let’s be honest, no one wants to see a two-year old with a bow and arrow!

At Gymboree Play & Music, you can build your child’s own “summer camp” experience – “hiking” across a variety of playscapes, exploring our Gymcushion tent, doing craft projects, or singing songs with friends – with a variety of programs that are sure to delight you and your child:

  • Play & Learn: our original, and signature, program that grows with your child from birth to kindergarten
  • Music: get your little Swiftie moving and grooving to a variety of musical styles from around the world
  • Art: every child has creativity just waiting to be unleashed. But how much better is it when the accompanying mess is somewhere other than your house!
  • Preschool prep: we offer a fun, no stress way to gently introduce your child to independent learning, with parent/child play time followed by a gentle separation time
  • Preschool: our School Skills program is an easy transition to fully independent learning, preparing them for kindergarten

As always, all our play-based programs support your child’s physical, cognitive and social-emotional development.

Pick your favorite, or combine a few, for a fun summer at your local Gymboree Play & Music location that will keep your child busy, happy and learning.

Play & Learn Classes

Resolutions: Done!

There’s something about the start of a new year that makes us all reassess our goals and priorities.

Things like: 

  • I want to spend more quality time with my little one
  • I want to be less distracted, more present
  • I want to meet new people who are facing the same challenges (and joys) of raising a young child
  • I want to do everything I can to support my child’s development

Surprise! We can help with all of that!!

Our classes grow with your child from birth to kindergarten, and give you time each week to: 

  • Enter your child’s world of play without distractions
  • Make new friends whose children are at the same place developmentally as your little one, and 
  • Have fun while supporting your child’s physical, cognitive and social-emotional development

Find a Gymboree Play & Music location near you, and mark your resolutions as DONE!

Child Development, Music Classes

Add Music to Your May!

M-usic
U-nlocks
S-elf expression
I-ntelligence
C-reativity

Children react to music from birth. or even before. It gives them a way to express their feelings and connect with others. Singing and dancing can make a bad day good, and a good day better.

At Gymboree Play & Music, our music classes give you a chance to experience the joys of song and movement together, building core memories that will last well beyond the end of the class. Come sing with us!

Music Classes, Play & Learn Classes

Finding the Best Program for Your Little One

You want to find a program to attend with your little one. But how do you choose? Here are a few things to look for:

Gymboree Play & Music has been the global leader in early childhood education for over 45 years, with research-based programs that grow with your child from birth to kindergarten.

Kind of makes it an easy decision, doesn’t it? Find a Gymboree Play & Music location near you today.

Child Development, Music Classes, Play & Learn Classes

Growing Young Minds: Music

“Music is life. That’s why our hearts have beats.”

Cecily Morgan

From the youngest age, children are inspired by music. A baby will turn their head in the direction of the sound. Young toddlers will wiggle, bounce and shimmy along to the beat. And preschoolers will move with defined purpose, even following simple choreography!

The importance of music in early education is clearly documented:

  • Music supports sensory development: exposing your child to different types of music can help create more pathways between the cells in their brains.
  • Music can improve literacy and numeracy: from an early age, babies can hear the difference between different types of sounds. Exposure to music enhances a child’s natural ability to decode sounds and words, and helps them anticipate what is coming next in a song and how to put these sounds in a sequence.
  • Music helps build coordination: music encourages your child to move, developing their fine and gross motor skills.
  • Music helps develop vocabulary: even if your child doesn’t understand the words to a song at first, they develop their understanding by identifying the storytelling within it.
  • Music supports social-emotional development: nothing sparks more joy that a group of little ones all moving to the beat together!

That’s why music is an important part of all our classes at Gymboree Play & Music. Find a location near you.