Musik FUNdamentals Grows Its Business in Wayne

Becky Douglas has been teaching Kindermusik and Musikgarten classes as the owner and sole educator for Musik FUNdamentals in Wayne for 12 years at her studio at Wayne United Methodist Church.

Douglas is now being joined by Kristin Cieslak, licensed Kindermusik educator with degrees in music and developmental psychology.

Together, they will offer a selection of age-specific music and movement classes for children from birth through age 8, and will be expanding to offer some Saturday classes to accommodate working parents, Douglas said.

When Douglas broke her leg in December, 2012 and needed someone to teach her classes, she searched for someone in the area who was licensed to teach Kindermusik classes and found Cieslak. The collaboration was started, and is continuing even now that Becky is back on two feet and teaching classes once again.

“Every class is tailored to children’s current developmental level and is designed to facilitate further physical, cognitive and social development,” Douglas said. “The sand block play-along in many toddler classes seems like a genuinely enjoyable activity for parents and children alike. While this is true, the intended purpose is to aid in development of eye-hand coordination as science has proven the back-and-forth motion does so."

Douglas and Cieslak said that Kindermusik is full of such “hidden” benefits, which are communicated to parents. Parents are also offered suggestions on how to recreate elements of the class at home and continue to enhance benefits acquired in class.

To the same piece of music, babies can bounce, and toddlers can tap and pre-schoolers can parade around the room, pretending to play the instruments they hear in the music, Douglas said.

“Every week, they are more in tune to the program than the week before,” Cieslak said.

The next session will start in September. Click here to go to the MusikFUNdamentals web site.