Baby Sing & Sign Classes
Babies birth to 1.5 years with a grown-up. One price per family.
Baby Sing & Sign helps you connect with your baby through live music and baby sign language in a sensory-rich setting. With a different theme each week, gentle movement, playful repetition, and shared singing, you and your baby build ways to communicate and connect during everyday moments, long before words arrive. It's designed on the Family Life Education framework and our founder’s experience working for the world’s leading parenting brand, What To Expect. Class is taught by Ms. Mallory, a Newborn Care Specialist credentialed through the International Nanny Association.
What To Expect
A different theme every week, focused on a small set of related everyday words
Live music and singing that bring each word and sign to life
Baby sign language for grown-ups, with a take-home printout to keep practicing
Gentle movement and sensory play
Every part of the class crafted on the Family Life Education framework
Taught by Ms. Mallory, a Newborn Care Specialist credentialed through the International Nanny Association with 15+ years experience as an early childhood and family support specialist
How Happy Day Play’s Baby Sing & Sign Class Compares
Most baby classes look similar from the outside. The difference is in how they're designed. Here's what sets the Happy Day Play model apart, from how we price to who's leading the room.
| The Happy Day Play Model | Typical Models | |
|---|---|---|
| Each week | ✓A fresh theme every week, built around a small set of everyday words and signs. | Often the same songs and signs each session. |
| The music | ✓Live music and singing in a working ensemble room. | Often recorded music in a general space. |
| How it's designed | ✓Built on current child development research for the birth-to-1.5 stage. | Often no stated developmental basis. |
| Take-home support | ✓A printout of each week's signs so you can keep practicing at home. | Usually nothing to take home. |
| Pricing | ✓One price per family for your baby, ages birth to 1.5 years. | Usually priced per child, often with registration fees. |
| Commitment | ✓Walk-in. Come once or every week. | Frequently a paid term booked in advance. |
| Who teaches it | ✓Taught by a Newborn Care Specialist credentialed through the International Nanny Association, designed on the Family Life Education framework. | Often no stated infant qualifications. |
| The grown-up's role | ✓Built in by design. You learn the signs and use them at home. | Parents often just watch from the side. |
Why It Works
For your baby:
Pairs sound, gesture, and meaning during a key window of brain growth
Gives your baby simple ways to share what they want before they can say it
Builds connection through repetition, shared rhythm, and eye contact
Supports early social and communication development
For you:
You gain simple signs and songs to use at home during feeding, naps, and goodbyes
You feel more tuned in to what your baby is telling you
You get unhurried time to bond, with no rush and no pressure
You connect with other families in the same stage
Scheduling and Pricing
Thursdays from 11:30am to 12:15pm in the 2nd Floor Ensemble Room at Bernikow JCC, 1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314
This class is just for babies birth to 1.5 years. One price per family, $25 for non-JCC members, $20 for JCC members.
Walk-in. Come once or come every week.
Save with a 6- or 10-class bundle, good across our walk-in classes.
BABY SING & SIGN CLASS TESTIMONIALS
