Spontaneously Singing Solfege & Piano Progress

[lzp11]

lzp - I suggest you carry on with the course.  Sem 2 will continue to bring back stuff from before.  If you feel you want to reinforce what's already been taught, a much better way to do that would be to go into the Music Notes section and find the lessons you want to repeat, and play that outside of the curriculum lessons.  All curriculum lessons can be found there.

If necessary, create a new folder with the lessons you want to 're-teach', and just play through the lessons of that folder when you want.

Thanks KL - that was my instinct - I will continue with the 2nd semester as you suggest and also find a few key lessons from semester 1 that we can review if I think we need to.

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Here's an update on the kiddos learning. Since my last post, Lily has continued to demonstrate spontaneously singing solfege. I heard her singing "Rocket Needs a Home" from Little Einsteins and I went over to the piano to check.  Sure enough it was correct, so apparently the first time was not a fluke. (For those of you who are familiar, the real name of the piece is Symphony No. 9 from New World, by Antonin Dvorak).

Owen's progressing nicely and seems to have solidified his auditory recognition of la & ti, the two notes that he used to confuse a little bit.Both children are playing without any colors or note name identification on the piano. Owen asks for his piano time after Lily practices in the morning, it's obvious he wants to be in on the action.

Lily is now playing longer songs with two hands. Since she is in a group class, there isn't really much, if any one on one time with the instructor. Without much oversight, I worked with her on her recital pieces myself but didn't realize until after the fact that she was using incorrect finger placement. By that point, it was too late to fix. The reason I mention this, is that the deeper into this we go I realize that computer programs are lovely and convenient, but there is pretty much no substitute for a real human to catch these kind of situations early on. For those parents out there ONLY using a computer program to learn piano, I urge you to consult a rep from your piano software company or with someone else who knows what they're doing to ensure you you are not accidentally teaching your child incorrectly. It's much easier to learn correctly I think that to break well ingrained bad habits later down the road, so I know I need to have some closer oversight because I have no idea what I'm doing. 

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[TeachingMyToddlers]

And I am going to try to grab some video of the kids singing & signing along to LMS this week, I just realized I didn't update that here as I intended to before when I initially mentioned it.

[Korrale4kq]

I am subscribed to your YouTube Channel Tonya and as soon as I opened it today I saw the new videos of Lily and Owen. I can't believe how rapidly they have both progressed. Simply amazing.
Good job mom and kids.

[TeachingMyToddlers]

I LOVE LITTLE MUSICIAN. *This* is what it did for my child, I did not teach her this song! It is one of her favorites and I thought it would be a good song for her to learn, but instead she sat down and played it last night.


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[Skylark]

TmT,

Lily is ADORABLE at her recital and she played so well!!! Congratulations!

[nee1]

Julliard, watch out!

Great job, TmT!

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