Baby Beginnings

with Anshe Emet Synagogue

Choose one or more sessions to sign up for!

Description: Nurture baby’s development through live music and movement. Babies and caregivers will enjoy bonding, growing and making new connections. Each class includes learning experiences such as: instrument play, sign language, rhymes and finger-plays, tummy-time and expert guidance from Bubbles Academy teaching artists. 0-12 months

Description: During this music class, your Broadway Baby will be introduced to new songs and sensory experiences designed with their unique needs in mind. After music time, you'll have the chance to connect with other parents and caregivers and ask us all of your burning child development questions! Lullaby League was created by Stages Chicago founder, Emily Pinas, and Director of Early Childhood Development, Colin Funk, who both hold M.S. degrees in Child Development from Erikson Institute.

Description: MDM inspires friends to sing together while gently moving with their babies creating a unique bonding experience through the language of music. This baby class will get your little one rockin’ and rollin’ (maybe even walkin’)! Introduce your baby to music through creative play that builds gross motor skills and social connections. Our teacher, Patrick Martin, is a teaching artist and entertainer who’s been creating memorable musical experiences for Chicago children and their families for fifteen years.

Description: Nurture baby’s development through live music and movement. Babies and caregivers will enjoy bonding, growing and making new connections. Each class includes learning experiences such as: instrument play, sign language, rhymes and finger-plays, tummy-time and expert guidance from Bubbles Academy teaching artists. 0-12 months

Description: Yoga is inclusive, safe, and nervous-system focused at this age! This class is designed for babies 12 months and under with their caregiver to unplug and bond in the most playful of ways. Babies and their grown-ups will interact through moving, breathing, and connecting. Expect giggles, tears, naps, feeding, chaos, and community with baby whisperer Caitlin.

Description: During this music class, your Broadway Baby will be introduced to new songs and sensory experiences designed with their unique needs in mind. After music time, you'll have the chance to connect with other parents and caregivers and ask us all of your burning child development questions! Lullaby League was created by Stages Chicago founder, Emily Pinas, and Director of Early Childhood Development, Colin Funk, who both hold M.S. degrees in Child Development from Erikson Institute.

Description: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso It isn’t too early to cultivate and nurture your baby’s inner artist! Babies can benefit from the expressive, exploratory and sensory nature of the visual arts. In class, babies and caregivers will be guided through sensory base art activity stations. These sensory art stations are designed to enhance your baby’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development through the creative process.

Description: Baby Gross Motor & Sensory Adventures: Skip & Scoot Kids Fitness Through Play offers upbeat and engaging early childhood gross motor classes in Chicago! We are proudly a local, female-owned small business started in 2019. In your class, we will introduce your baby to new aspects of movement that are essential for early childhood development, including supported balance, level changes, midline crossing, bilateral coordination, facial expressions and early communication, spatial awareness, sensory play, and moving to various tempos! As a caregiver, you will learn how to engage in purposeful play time and positioning with your baby, supporting overall gross motor achievement and development. Using adult-assisted, guided play, our activities promote your baby's strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination. This class is also a great opportunity for you and your baby to socialize, as well as spend uninterrupted time together. We can't wait to meet you and your babies! This class is ideal for infants and pre-walkers.

Description: Yoga is inclusive, safe, and nervous-system focused at this age! This class is designed for babies 12 months and under with their caregiver to unplug and bond in the most playful of ways. Babies and their grown-ups will interact through moving, breathing, and connecting. Expect giggles, tears, naps, feeding, chaos, and community with baby whisperer Caitlin.

Description: Nurture baby’s development through live music and movement. Babies and caregivers will enjoy bonding, growing and making new connections. Each class includes learning experiences such as: instrument play, sign language, rhymes and finger-plays, tummy-time and expert guidance from Bubbles Academy teaching artists. 0-12 months.

Description: Baby Gross Motor & Sensory Adventures: Skip & Scoot Kids Fitness Through Play offers upbeat and engaging early childhood gross motor classes in Chicago! We are proudly a local, female-owned small business started in 2019. In your class, we will introduce your baby to new aspects of movement that are essential for early childhood development, including supported balance, level changes, midline crossing, bilateral coordination, facial expressions and early communication, spatial awareness, sensory play, and moving to various tempos! As a caregiver, you will learn how to engage in purposeful play time and positioning with your baby, supporting overall gross motor achievement and development. Using adult-assisted, guided play, our activities promote your baby's strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination. This class is also a great opportunity for you and your baby to socialize, as well as spend uninterrupted time together. We can't wait to meet you and your babies! This class is ideal for infants and pre-walkers.

Description: MDM inspires friends to sing together while gently moving with their babies creating a unique bonding experience through the language of music. This baby class will get your little one rockin’ and rollin’ (maybe even walkin’)! Introduce your baby to music through creative play that builds gross motor skills and social connections. Our teacher, Patrick Martin, is a teaching artist and entertainer who’s been creating memorable musical experiences for Chicago children and their families for fifteen years.

Description: During this music class, your Broadway Baby will be introduced to new songs and sensory experiences designed with their unique needs in mind. After music time, you'll have the chance to connect with other parents and caregivers and ask us all of your burning child development questions! Lullaby League was created by Stages Chicago founder, Emily Pinas, and Director of Early Childhood Development, Colin Funk, who both hold M.S. degrees in Child Development from Erikson Institute.

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Overview

Looking for a way to meet other families with babies under 1 year old? Join us Friday mornings from 9:30am-11am at Anshe Emet! In partnership with JBaby, we bring in experts in the field to sing, stretch, engage in sensory play and more! Classes occur August-May and fill up fast! Sign up for one or all sessions. $12 a class per family – thanks to a generous jbaby grant!

Where

Anshe Emet Synagogue
3751 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60613

Cost

$12/family

Contact

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact jBaby Chicago at 312-357-4907 or jbabychicago@juf.org.

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