New York's In Home Sing 'n Sign Classes for Kids
Schedule a FREE
Trial Class in New York City
Uptown Sing and Sign offers a free in home trial class. If you can gather 3 or more children and are located on Manhattan's upper west side, Washington Heights, Harlem, or Inwood neighborhoods we encourage you to try a class free of charge. Find out for yourself why sing and sign is so much fun. Click here to schedule a class now!
Lori Taylor
Lori Taylor is licensed in Kindermusik and is a professional musician
in the NYC area. She currently teaches in
New York and New
Jersey.
More information
For more information regarding classes at Washington Heights Sing and Sign please email Lori.
or call 724-301-1333
Host a baby or toddler music class in your home
Have you thought about having structured intructor led fun with friends or for your playgroup hosted in your own home. No rushing out the door and onto the subway to make it to class on time. Washington Heights sing and sign brings music classes to you! Our classes are a combination of music and sign language. Through song, your child will learn basic baby signs to better help you communicate in addition to being loads of fun. Just as "head, shoulder, knees, and toys" combines movement with song, the hand gestures involved with baby sign language will make the songs you sing twice as fun. Each class lasts 45 minutes. Sessions last for 7 weeks. Class size starts at three children. We bring the activities and props to you. Before committing to the full seven week session you can try us out, FREE. There is no obligation. Grab your friends and find out why sing and sign is such a blast.
About Baby Sign Language
Baby Sign Language is all about using simple gestures with your hearing child to allow you to communicate long before they can speak. Common terms such as "Eat", "Milk", and "More" help children talk before they can vocalize.
Many of the emotional meltdowns children experience between about 9 and 30 months old bubble up from the frustration of not being able to communicate. Their ideas far outstrip their language skills. The "terrible twos" are less terrible the more children learn how to get across their intense and conflicting thoughts.
Baby signs are a wonderful way to do this. Shaking the head or moving the hand is far easier to learn than the intricate manipulation of the lips, jaw, and tongue necessary for each new word. Large muscle coordination is learned before small muscle coordination - at about the same time kids want to express themselves.
American Sign Language is the third most used language in our country.