Today little Miss H came for the first time. She's 'almost' 4 & today was more of an introduction & 'environmental inspection'. She was introduced to the shiny piano whilst sitting comfortably on granma's lap. I played Twinkle Twinkle & Old MacDonald Had A Farm & her eyes lit up a little. The smiles started to come & she finally verbalised when I played the 'Grouch Song' from Sesame Street!
(Note to self: the Sesame Street Grouch is a window to encouraging active participation.)
Then we were introduced to the percussion instruments - Santa's Jingle Bells got a beam of excitement, the castanets making horse sounds got her clicking her own pink castanet....
THEN the characters..........Mozart Mouse, Beethoven Bear, Puccini Pooch, Clara Schumann Cat, Elgar E. Elephant. Sadly I don't have J.S. Bunny :( Miss H loved the characters, who are each going to teach her things about music & playing the piano this year through a musical related story.
When Miss H reaches big school she's going to have a head-start. She'll have learnt about the fun of music, she'll have more confidence at the keyboard than other 5year olds, she'll also be ahead with her sense of rhythm & she'll have a wider & more confident understanding of the wider keyboard.
This is early childhood music - she won't be reading music fluently but she'll be clapping in time, dancing in time, understand the repeating pattern of the keyboard, know some notes & keys & rests, understand waltz time & foxtrot time.....most importantly she'll have the confidence to TRY when she gets the 'big kid's' lesson books.
I love my job! :)
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