Take a look at how the skills build over the 3 years in Let's Play Music:
If your child is not yet 4 or 5, take a look at how Sound Beginnings helps prepare young minds for music and academics:
Why parents love Let's Play Music:
A More Humane Human
As individuals and children study and participate in music, awareness grows, appreciation is cultivated, sensitivity is nurtured, self-esteem thrives, creativity and expressiveness flourish, and an aesthetic sense develops. People with these qualities are generally happier individuals, as well as a benefit to others and to society in general!
Skills and Abilities
Aside from producing a well-rounded human being, researchers, teachers, and parents are discovering the overall difference music can make. Music offers enhanced brain functioning, decreased learning and discipline problems, better social skills, and superior communication skills. Music is becoming more than just a goal for many educators; it is actually becoming a means to achieve all of these benefits!
Developing the Mind
Music promotes cognitive development as well as abstract thought. is includes topics such as reading,
math, and even creative thinking. Music instruction enhances the brain’s ‘hard-wiring’ for spatial-temporal reasoning, or the brain’s ability to visualize and transform objects in time and space. Spatial-temporal skills are foundational for higher-level math skills. Music education has also been shown to facilitate the ability to read. Exposure to music can actually rewire neural circuits in the brain for more interconnected functioning!
Starting Now!
Let’s Play Music takes advantage of ‘windows’ of learning, when children’s minds are most capable of absorbing information. As children are introduced to complex musical concepts, they not only develop high musical aptitudes, but high mental capacities as well!
The Let's Play Music curriculum is organized into three sequential years.
The first
year, we use engaging games and songs and incorporate Tone Bells to
teach staff awareness and rhythm reading skills.
The second year, we
transfer these skills to playing the piano where we also teach chord
notation, intervals, and harmonic improvisation.
By the end of the third
year, students are playing piano at level 1-2, transposing music,
composing their own music, sight-reading music, and are prepared to
excel in further private piano instruction.
The Sound Beginings curriculum is organized into four non-sequential semesters.
Your child can jump in at any semester, or even skip a semester- there is no cumulative skill-building required. Although I send home fun activities, they are not required like the Let's Play Music homework, and there are no songs that must be perfected, performed, or passed off as in Let's Play Music.
