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Learn how to help your little one move from gestures and sounds to spoken words and phrases. Engage in language-rich play, music and literacy activities and practice language enhancing strategies. Early communication is so important for you and your little one! Learn what to expect and how to elicit your child's first gestures, signs, and words and start communicating with your little one today. This class is taught by Olivia Hallagan, a pediatric speech-language pathologist who specializes in early language development. Join us in this fun and engaging new class while learning the strategies for language development through play, music, books, and movement. Visit our website at parkridgespeechtherapy.com to find out more about speech and language.

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Give your child the keys to reading success. This enrichment class uses fun, thematic, multi-sensory instruction, games, crafts, and stories to teach children how to build their letter and sound knowledge. Each weekly lesson focuses on 2-3 letters. The lessons will ignite your child’s reading interest, while improving your child’s ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds. By the end of the session, your child will have the building blocks to become a successful reader. Because Reading Rookies is built around multi-sensory lessons, regardless of your child’s learning style, your child will thrive, have fun and learn! For more information, visit www.readingrookies.com.

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Spark your little one's imagination in this intro to musical theatre class. Students explore their imaginations with equal class time devoted to dancing, singing, and acting. Children will develop poise, confidence, coordination, as well as motor and language skills through imaginative and creative play.

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Walls are meant for climbing! Test your strength and adventure in this new class! Hot Shots instructors will be supervising the children as they climb up and across the rock wall in our gym. All kids must wear gym shoes. In order to climb, your child must bring a bike helmet. No class Nov 25

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Give your child the gift of experiencing and making live music with Jennifer McCormick from Kitty-Orca Music & Piano. Miss Jennifer leads kids and their grown-ups in musical fun to wiggle their way to move, dance, sing and play! Experience guitar, ukulele, and voice in classic and new songs, as kids play with rhythm sticks, jingle bells, scarves, shakers, triangles, sand blocks, and more! Mini-Kitty Music Classes teach genuine music and childhood development skills, including rhythms, pitch, listening, turn-taking, ensemble, language, and fine and gross motor skills, to create a foundation for a lifetime of music making. Each week’s classes also include puppets, parachute play, and kids’ all-time favorite bubble time! Every child present over 6 months must be registered. Want to bring siblings? Register them both for the older class.

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