Family Music Classes
Ages birth to 5 with a grown-up. One price for your whole household.
Looking for a music class that's more than shaking a few shakers? Family Music invites little ones and their grown-ups into a playful, hands-on space built around real musical fundamentals. Children explore real instruments, movement, themed activities, and live singalongs, all designed on the Family Life Education framework and taught by Ms. Mallory, our music and movement specialist. Every week is built on current child development research to support a baby, toddler, and preschooler at the same time.
What To Expect
A different theme every week, so no two classes are the same
New themed songs, both children's favorites and modern picks
Live ukulele singalongs and real instruments to explore, including a grand piano in our ensemble room
Playful themed props that bring each week's theme to life
Movement, rhythm, and sensory play, with parachute and bubbles
Every part of the class crafted on the Family Life Education framework
Taught by Ms. Mallory, our music and movement specialist, a children's musician, and early childhood and family support specialist with 15+ years experience
How Happy Day Play’s Family Music Class Compares
Most music classes for little ones 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| The music | ✓Live ukulele and real instruments for little hands to explore, in a working ensemble room. | Often recorded music and basic shakers. |
| How activities are designed | ✓Every class is built on current child development research to benefit a baby, toddler, and preschooler at the same time. | Often one-size activities with no stated developmental basis. |
| Mixed-age by design | ✓Children make music across ages together, the way real families and the real world actually work. | Often sorted into one narrow age band. |
| The room | ✓A real ensemble room set up for music, not a multipurpose space. | Often a shared, general-purpose room. |
| Pricing | ✓One price for your whole immediate family, every child included. | Usually priced per child, so the cost climbs with each one. |
| Adults in the room | ✓More than one grown-up can join your child. | Often one caregiver per child. |
| Commitment | ✓Walk-in. Come once or every week. | Frequently a paid term booked in advance. |
| Who designs and teaches it | ✓Designed on the Family Life Education framework and taught by Mallory, a children's musician. | Varies, and not always stated. |
| The grown-up's role | ✓Built in by design. You learn songs and rhythms to bring home. | Parents often just watch from the side. |
Why It Works
For your child:
Supports early musicality, cognitive development, motor skills, and social-emotional growth
Builds confidence through live music and shared experience
Explores real instruments alongside live ukulele in a working ensemble room, an ideal space for age-appropriate musical concepts
One class meets every age, so siblings make music side by side
For you:
You see what your child responds to in music, and why it matters at their stage
You learn simple songs and rhythms to bring home
You get permission to be silly and move, which is exactly what your child needs
One class works for your baby and your preschooler at once
Scheduling and Pricing
Thursdays from 10:30am to 11:15am in the 2nd Floor Ensemble Room at Bernikow JCC, 1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314
One price for your whole immediate family. A baby and two older siblings pay the same as one child. $25 per family, $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.
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