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This Little Piggy Went to the Market

This Little Piggy Went to the Market

Under the Sea

Under the Sea

Our Busy Bee Club

Our Busy Bee Club

So much sensory fun for babies in the garden.

Horsey Horsey - Off to the Galway Races!

Horsey Horsey - Off to the Galway Races!

Magic LIGHTS - Baby Sensory Galway

Magic LIGHTS - Baby Sensory Galway

Toad Stool Magic Light Sensory Play

Adored Parachute Magic

Adored Parachute Magic

Toddler Magic

Toddler Magic

Exploring one of our shaky egg instruments

Iris "SIGNING" Bird

Iris "SIGNING" Bird

Baby Signing is a wonderful baby sensory experience of learning to speak.

Baby Sensory Parachutes

Baby Sensory Parachutes

Sensory Magic in our Galway Classes

Interactive Story Time

Interactive Story Time

Preschooler Interaction with Sensory Stories

EXPLORING Musical Eggs

EXPLORING Musical Eggs

Babies are feeling the textures, listening to the sounds of the eggs and practicing putting them in and out of the basket. More baby sensory play.

Sensory Light Shows

Sensory Light Shows

Each class has a magical baby sensory light show which the babies and toddlers adore. This one is from Galway.

Baby SENSORY 'Mirror' Time

Baby SENSORY 'Mirror' Time

Who's that? Another great activity in our Baby Music and Movement Classes with Baby Sensory - Galway

Dancing with Sensory Scarves

Dancing with Sensory Scarves

Toddler Sensory

Role Play - Hanging Out the Washing with Mum

Role Play - Hanging Out the Washing with Mum

Tickle time with Feathers

Tickle time with Feathers

So many great sensory developmental opportunities using our colourful feathers in class.

INTERACTIVE activities for all

INTERACTIVE activities for all

We all learn best by 'doing'. This is a great social activity and teaches co-operation and is massive fun!

Peek-a-BOO!

Peek-a-BOO!

Toddler Sensory Fun and Giggles

Under the Sea

Under the Sea

More Sensory Play for our Babies

Toddler Sensory Bubbles

Toddler Sensory Bubbles

Lap Bouncing

Lap Bouncing

Lap bouncing to stimulate baby's vestibular system. Great sensory activity.

Playing our Frog Guiro Instruments in the Pond with the Frogs

Playing our Frog Guiro Instruments in the Pond with the Frogs

The children are learning the sounds of the frogs through our amazing Frog Guiros. Sensory musical learning is so special.

A Note From The Experts...

 

The first major way that children learn is kinesthetically, through movement, through touch, through experience. This is a time when the brain is growing very rapidly. It is too precious a time to waste."

DR. Martha Bullock Lamberts

Human Development Specialist

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Welcome to

The Best Start Club! 

Baby Signing

Our passion at THE BEST START CLUB is to give each child the best possible start in life.  We do this through the multisensory learning of Baby Signing, Baby Sensory Play, Toddler Sensory Play, Music and Movement.

Every song we sing and sign, every activity we explore, every dance or movement activity we do, or exploring the lights, the different textures, dress-up, visuals, magical scenes, puppets, instrument activities etc has a developmental purpose.  So whilst we have great fun together, make life long friends, your little one is growing and developing in our classes.

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Our Classes 

AGE APPROPRIATE CLASSES

With the addition of new concepts and challenges along the way, each age appropriate program acts as a stepping stone to the next paving the way to a musical journey that can last many magnificent years.

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Baby Sensory Galway

BABY SENSORY MUSIC    0-12 months

 

A magical musical programme for Babies from 3 weeks of age to 12 months where we introduce wonderful engaging music from across the world.  Basic massage and co-ordination to get the brain and body working well together.  Baby Signing to create a visual and kinaesthetic experience of language and to ease the frustration of pre-speech communication difficulty.
We dance, enjoy instruments, lap bounce and explore multiple sensory activities all designed to engage all the senses and promote development and a wonderful introduction to musical learning.

 

Toddler Sensory Galway
Preschool Classes Galway

TODDLER SENSORY MUSIC   1-4 years    -    Siblings Welcome

 

We have so much fun now the children are up and about.  Classes are rich in sensory experiences now adding lots more movement activities as well as a little quiet time to teach the children how to self regulate in a busy world.  We'll explore our hands, tap a steady beat, bounce to the music, play parachute games, bubbles, dance and even dress up to help them understand deeper.  Baby Signing is always a part of every level but now many of the children sign back which is amazing to see.  They meet our fabulous puppets and learn about simple instruments too.
 

PRE-SCHOOL SENSORY MUSIC   3-5 years   -   Siblings Welcome

 

Our Pre-schooler class prepares children for later instrument learning giving them key basic musical skills.  An introduction to Kodaly and Colourstrings.
We learn about our voices and the sounds we can make musically and explore the pentatonic scale.  Very basic reading of music with pictures and tapping a beat with our hands, our drums, or walking the beat.  It's interspersed with puppets, bubbles, parachute play, sign language and much more.

 

Baby Signing

Imagine the joy of your little one communicating with you pre-speech?  This is what Baby Signing is all about.

In all our classes we use gestures, simple signs from sign language with our babies/ toddlers with speech or song as we engage with them.  When they are ready, they do it back.  That's so special!  

Whilst we sign we always speak or sing so that they hear the words. This gives a wonderful multi-sensory experience of language.   

See our slideshow below of babies from our classes over the years here. (tap the arrows)

Testimonials

“Thank you Iris for the most magical year of classes.  We've learned so much but most of all we've had lots of fun and made wonderful memories and friends.”

"The Best Start Club is amazing.  Iris's love and care of the babies and toddlers is incredible.  She just seems to know what each child needs and builds their confidence week by week.  It's the best money we could have spent during my maternity leave.  We will miss you so much."
 

— Katie, Galway

— Lisa and Isabelle, Galway

"Our little lady has flourished when attending your classes. During the first few classes, she didn’t want to go in the door and clung to us and when we compare that now she smiles with excitement the minute we drive up to Oranmore saying it’s time for Iris and playgroup! You have been so understanding and helped her to engage creatively in the class. In particular, she has such a love of the bubbles and parachute and you were intuitively able to pick up on that at times she needed to settle in class"   

Friendships at The Best Start Club

— Amanda and Emilia, Galway

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086 2221525

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