Learn the best educational concepts in our baby classes designed for babies aged 6 to 12 months.
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Baby Sensory Classes Information:
A one-off Life Membership fee of $100, per student.
The program fee is $650 per 10-week term.
With a maximum of six babies (and one guardian per baby), our small baby class size ensures individual attention, allowing parents to be directly involved, create memorable bonding moments, and track their baby’s progress each week – all with the guidance of a trained Shichida teacher.
Learning Materials: Each class includes access to Shichida-exclusive items, such as baby flashcards, and sensory tools, specially designed to support your little one’s learning journey during sessions.
Parenting Tips: We provide helpful tips, and guidance materials for parents, making it easy to continue skill-building at home and reinforce class activities.
Progress Check-ins: Our teachers offer regular, informal check-ins, giving parents valuable insights into their child’s development and highlighting areas of growth.
Information Sessions: Shichida hosts regular webinars that focus on early childhood education, effective parenting techniques, and Shichida-specific practices to support families in nurturing their child’s potential.
Take-Home Activities: Simple, engaging activities are provided for parents and children to complete at home, promoting continuous learning and fun between classes.
Our baby classes run Monday to Saturday, with carefully selected schedules for each age group. We place babies in small, focused age groups with a maximum 3-month age difference, ensuring every baby benefits from activities designed specifically for their developmental stage. Contact us to find the perfect time for your baby’s age group!
Baby classes are designed as once-a-week, 50-minute sessions, where both parent and baby participate together.
Led by a trained Shichida teacher, each session guides families through engaging, learn-through-play activities that support development in a fun, structured way.
This unique parent-child format allows parents to be directly involved, creating memorable bonding moments while tracking their baby’s progress each week.
Baby Sensory Classes: Infant Stimulation for Optimal Development
Our early learning programs for babies nurture development in all areas, preparing your little one’s brain for advanced abilities through sensory stimulation, fine motor activities, and baby flashcards. Research shows that experiences in the first 1,000 days profoundly impact brain growth, so our teacher-guided classes are perfect for stimulating language, cognitive abilities, social skills, and more.
Boost Your Baby’s Growth with Sensory Play
Babies learn about life and relationships by observing their parents and subsequently form over 1 million neural connections per second.
Therefore, your ability to play and connect with your baby directly impacts their brain development. Let our qualified instructors guide you to become your baby’s best role model through hands-on play and parent coaching.
It has been noted that families who enroll their babies at this stage of the sensory early learning program, certainly stand to gain the most lifelong benefits of the Shichida Method.
What Your Baby Will Experience in Our Baby Sensory Classes:
Every moment in a Shichida baby class is designed to develop your child’s natural curiosity and lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning. Through fun, research-based activities, babies gently explore:
- Baby Massage – Strengthening the parent-baby bond through soothing, gentle touch
- Basic Concepts – Early understanding of everyday ideas
- Body Awareness – Learning about their body parts through guided movement
- Colour Recognition – Engaging with vibrant visuals to identify colours
- Concentration – Building focus and attention in age-appropriate ways
- Early Numeracy – Exploring numbers, quantity, and counting
- Emotional Awareness – Recognising and responding to feelings
- Eye Muscle Development – Strengthening visual tracking and coordination
- Fine Motor Skills – Practising small movements for future writing and self-care
- Flashcards for Babies – Developing memory, language and cognitive connections
- Gross Motor Skills – Strengthening the body through movement
- Intuition – Nurturing instinctive responses through right-brain activities
- Letter Familiarity – Gentle introduction to the alphabet
- Music, Song & Rhythm – Educational songs, instruments and moving to nursery rhymes
- Phonics – Developing early reading skills by connecting letters with their sounds
- Relaxation – Learning to self-soothe and reset
- Sensory Play – Touching, feeling, and discovering with all five senses
- Shape Exploration – Recognising patterns and forms in the world around them
Proven Early Learning Program for Babies
Shichida Australia’s early learning programs for babies establish a strong foundation for learning and skill development for infants between 6 months and 12 months old.
The Shichida Method employs proven early learning techniques to stimulate a child’s whole brain during what we call the “Golden Period” of learning; from birth to 3 years old.
During this period a child’s brain develops most rapidly, building connections and shaping the way they will learn in the future. Therefore, this is a time when learning is fun and easy for babies.
Exposing them to specific, developmentally appropriate activities will maximise this incredible, yet short, window for learning.
How Babies Learn
Studies show brain development for a child is at its most crucial stage up until six years, with 80 per cent of the brain developed by the age of three. The time between 0 – 12 months is transformational for a baby’s growth – at Shichida Australia we call this the “Golden Period” for learning.
Each child processes their experiences uniquely as they interact with the world around them.
During baby learning they;
- Observe and interact with others
- Engage with baby flashcards, educational songs and nursery rhymes
- Learn to communicate with sounds, body language and facial expressions
- Partake in engaging sensory activities that stimulate their 5 senses
- Practice new skills by playing guided educational games
Shichida baby early learning classes gives your child opportunities to concurrently discover and enhance their new skills.
FAQ: Baby Sensory Classes
A baby sensory class is a parent-child experience designed to gently stimulate your baby’s developing brain using age-appropriate activities. At Shichida Australia, these classes use music, baby flashcards, movement, and sensory exploration to support early learning during the most critical window of development – ages 0 to 3.
Your baby will be exposed to a wide range of skills. Each activity is designed to be fun, gentle, and aligned with your baby’s developmental stage:
- Fine and gross motor coordination
- Memory training and early numeracy
- Emotional awareness and communication
- Phonics and letter familiarity
- Colour, shape, and pattern recognition
- Sensory stimulation across all five senses
The first 1,000 days of life are when over 1 million neural connections form every second. Sensory classes during this stage lay the foundation for future learning, confidence, and communication. At Shichida, we support this process through structured play, music, and guided parent-child bonding.
Our classes are designed for babies from 6 to 12 months, but the earlier, the better! The “Golden Period” of brain development spans from birth to age 3. The sooner you begin, the more your baby can absorb through effortless learning.
Shichida baby classes are held at our six Australian centres located across Melbourne and Sydney. Visit our locations page to find your nearest centre.
Shichida classes go beyond basic sensory play. We combine proven brain training techniques with emotional and cognitive development to support whole-brain growth. Our certified teachers guide you in using songs, baby flashcards, numeracy, and parent-child bonding techniques rooted in decades of research.
No. Shichida is not a childcare service. Our classes are educational sessions that you attend with your baby. They are designed to empower you with tools and activities to support your child’s brain development at home and beyond.
Absolutely! Parental involvement is central to the Shichida Method. Our program trains you to be your child’s first and most important teacher through meaningful play and connection.
All delivered in a predictable and soothing structure that babies love. Each 50-minute session includes:
- Baby massage
- Sensory activities
- Songs and movement
- Flashcard games
- Memory and phonics play
- Quiet time and relaxation
Just your baby, nappy bag, a water bottle, and a willingness to play and learn! All educational materials, flashcards, instruments, and props are provided.
Our early learning programs for babies offer adaptive activities in a calm yet surprisingly stimulating environment to prepare the brain for advanced abilities.
Examples of activities and exercises include:
- Flashcards and educational songs coupled with hands-on activities and pattern recognition games to nurture numeracy and language skills.
- Sensory play activities that help your baby explore the senses of touch, sight, smell, sound and taste and develop sensory motor skills.
- Fine motor skills activities to develop the dexterity of your baby’s fingers. For example, placing and removing objects out of small compartments as well as stringing and paper folding (origami).
At Shichida Australia, we not only practise these skills with your child but will also show you how to build on these abilities together with them at home, while having fun.
Our baby classes and learning programs are offered in 6 premium locations across VIC and NSW. See the list of locations for Shichida Early Learning centres here.
Early learning for babies involves activities to help establish and enhance social competence and interaction, numeracy and language skills, cognitive development, emotional wellbeing, concentration and memory, and deepen your child’s love of learning.
Early learning activities also encourage your child to become more intuitive, observant and physically perceptive.
Overall, a baby learning program can help positively shape the direction of your child’s future in relation to their growth, development, social interaction and potential at school and in the community.
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