Imagine coming home from “date night” to find the house just the way you left it (tidy, of course!) and children happily exhausted after an evening of riotous (but safe) fun. While you were gone, the babysitter was not chatting on the phone the entire evening and her friends did not come over and spill nail-polish on your living room rug. Not only that, your children spent the entire evening engaged and active. Excited about their fun-filled evening, they climb into bed and drift off to sleep, visions of jingle bells dancing in their heads.

Wishful thinking? We don’t think so! Parents’ Night Out (Friday nights from 5:30-9:30) is one of the latest exciting events taking place at PCMS. For an entire four hours your 18 month – 6 year old will participate in games, age-appropriate crafts, play, stories, and, of course, musical activities led by experienced and attentive caregivers at our Simpsonville location.

So, book your reservations for dinner, or whatever else it is that you’ve been hoping to do, and call the office at (864) 232-5010 to reserve your child’s spot for their own night out.

We’re very excited to announce a new offering for two to four year olds at PCMS: Mom’s Morning Out! We know as well as any mother that time to re-charge our mommy batteries makes the difference between grouchy, burning-out mommy and fun, empathetic mommy.

Mom’s Morning out with PCMS is designed to make getting out the door for time with friends, shopping, coffee, a good book, (or much needed quiet!) an easy task to list in your calendar.

Not only will you be enjoying yourself, your child will be, as well. Featuring Kindermusik International’s ABC MUSIC & ME, your child will joyfully thrive in Instrument Exploration Time, ABC Music & Me Class, Music & Movement Story Time, Crafts, Center Time, and Free Play & Social Time. And there’s a new Theme and Home Materials each month!

For more information and to register for Mom’s Morning Out, contact the office at (864)232-5010.

New! Kindermusik Family Time Music class
for families with multiple children
ages newborn and upIn each session, you’ll play instruments together, dance together, share, and take turns, and see how music can bring you closer as a family.

See it for yourself! Click HERE to find a video-clip on Kindermusik International’s homepage.

Benefits for you and your child
* One convenient class that families can take together
* Introduces musical concepts and develops musical skills
* Allows each child to develop social skills—such as sharing, and turn-taking—in a multi-age, multi-child environment
* Strengthens the emotional bond among family members

A one-room schoolhouse approach to music.
With older children ready to show the little ones how it’s done and the younger ones eager to learn, Family Time becomes a multi-layered learning environment. Each week, we will introduce basic musical concepts and then give you the instruments, and the structured free time to put those concepts into play.

Your children will listen to instruments and to each other, learn from their peers and older children, and enjoy music and movement with hoops, scarves and tumble-around play. Story time and family jams, puppet play and happy singing—all the Family Time activities encourage discovery and exploration and foster sharing and social skills too.

In this special place for musical, social and emotional learning, your children will strengthen their ties with each other and with you—and they’ll start developing the skills they’ll need in school and on the neighborhood playground.

Family Time At Home Materials include:
* One hand puppet and finger puppet
* Two instruments
* Two literature books
* Two CDs
* Family Activity Guide

For our Summer class schedule, click HERE.
For our Fall-Spring class schedule – click HERE.

We’re delighted to have something else to sing (and SIGN!) about!! Introducing SIGN & SING, Kindermusik International’s new SIGN LANGUAGE curriculum for parents with hearing children.

A short, five-week session was offered in August, and a longer ten-week session will be offered this Fall and again in the Spring. Click HERE for scheduling information, or call 232-5010 to register. Class space is limited.

Read on to learn more about this exciting new curriculum…

A different approach from other sign language programs.
Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child, Kindermusik Sign & Sing shows you more than 50 signs your child can use to communicate with you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development in hearing children, you’ll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities for your child.

Songs and fingerplays.
Already accustomed to fingerplays and rhyme-songs—such as “This Little Piggy”—you’ll easily substitute American Sign Language (ASL) signs in familiar songs, improving your child’s language skills, fine motor skills, and strengthen fingers for zipping zippers and using scissors.

Learn when you play.
You’ll never have to memorize a list of signs. This curriculum gives you the ASL signs that are most useful to you, and most interesting to your child. So playtime and everyday items around the house—ball, bubbles, mom and dad—become the objects of learning in the classroom, and sign language becomes a natural, happy part of your child’s day.

Hearing children who know signs, learn language almost twice as fast.
As early as 11-14 months old, hearing children exposed to sign language put little sentences together faster than non-signing children, who do not begin to combine words into short sentences, such as “Da-da car” until the average age of 20 months.
Study conducted by Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert, Signing Smart program founders.

Benefits for Your Child and You
* Communicate with your child even before she can form the words.
* Ease a child’s frustration by helping her communicate what she needs, speed language development, and enhance long-term learning abilities.
* Know when your child is most ready to interact and learn.
* Learn sign language teaching methods, such as making the sign on a child’s body, on the floor, or hand over hand.
* Recognize and respond to your child’s version of signs.

Enjoy the Journey All Week Long
Sign & Sing is much more than a weekly class. The At Home Materials you receive from your Educator help you to continue that one-of-a-kind experience at home. Family involvement in your child’s learning is a fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the parent is the child’s most important teacher and the home is the most important place for a child’s learning to take root and grow.

Sign & Sing At Home Materials:
- Family Activity Guide
- DVD glossary showing 60 signs
- Clip-on flashcards that feature photos of both children and adults using family-friendly American Sign Language signs