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1  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Signing, Speaking, Languages / Re: Russian early learning resources on: February 08, 2017, 02:45:07 PM
Have you seen Kids Stuff Russian: Easy Russian Phrases for You and Your Kids by Therese Pirz? That may get you started until you can afford something better.
2  BrillKids Software / Little Musician - General Discussion / Re: Breezed through both semesters. What's next? on: November 03, 2015, 01:05:17 AM
I have just finished the two semesters of Little Musician. When will the next two semesters be available?
3  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Beginner instruments for kids on: July 28, 2015, 11:49:09 PM
How are they different than other "pre-band" instruments than Flutophones (also made in the USA) or Tonette? Or for that matter, why not start with a recorder?  These are also considered instruments used before taking up the clarinet or saxophone. I see than the  Kidwind need reeds and the Flutophone or Tonette don't. Why not a Kinder Klari or a Lyons clarinet?
4  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Re: How to teach a toddler practical piano on: October 23, 2014, 12:28:11 AM
Many people have found Music for Little Mozarts (http://www.musicforlittlemozarts.com/) to be good for preschool children, but it is advertised for ages 4-6. It uses ABCs instead of solfege.  There is also My First Piano Adventures (http://pianoadventures.com/myfirst/) for ages 5 and 6.

However, if you are having a hard time instituting piano into your life, perhaps you want to look into group piano classes for preschool children. On the forums of pianoworld.com, there are the following quotes:

"Music for Young Children ("MYC" www.myc.com) is one of a very small handful of group piano programs available. Harmony Road (www.harmonyroadmusic.com) and Yamaha are others. My understanding is that the Yamaha program was the 'original' group piano method (it's been around for 30+ years) and that the others are in a sense offshoots of it. They are similar in that they share the same philosophy of 'ear before eye'. Yamaha and Harmony Road use solfege as their musical language, MYC uses traditional letter names (and a little solfege, a la moveable 'do'). MYC is very popular in Canada.

"What I like about these three programs (in comparison to programs like Music Together, Kindermusik, Musikgarten, and others for the 2-4 year old range) is that they are piano-based even from an early age. Each child and parent sits at a keyboard or digital piano. Keyboard activities include 'bouncing on the black keys' then white keys, making 'birdie sounds' and 'elephant sounds', etc.... By the time the kids are 4 1/2 and ready for the group piano program they already have a nice introduction to the piano and can even identify some of the notes on the piano and the staff. "
5  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Encyclopedic Knowledge / Re: Introduce history to young children on: July 18, 2014, 04:24:42 PM
The original edition of The Well Trained Mind suggested the following books to introduce history. They are very well suited to preschool children, but they are out of print and hard to find.

Journey Through History: Prehistory to Egypt
Journey Through History: The Greek and Roman Eras
Journey Through History: The Middle Ages
Journey Through History: The Renaissance
Journey Through History: Modern Times
Journey Through History: The Contemporary Age
6  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Re: Early musical training using guitar... on: January 19, 2014, 08:56:56 PM
If you're still interested, before Suzuki had a guitar method, Sonia Michelson put out New Dimensions for Classical Guitar, which was meant to be used with young children.
7  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Re: Tips for Introducing Music to 4 Month Old on: January 09, 2014, 06:56:08 PM
Sing! I just made a list of children's songs (some of which are included on Little Musician) that you could sing with your baby. If you don't know the words or tune to these songs, most of them are in the public domain and you could find the words/sheet music/tune online legally.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star/Baa Baa Black Sheep/Alphabet Song (same tune, different words)
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Frere Jacques/Brother John
Humpty Dumpty
The Muffin Man
This Old Man
Ten Little Indians
Old McDonald Had a Farm
Rain, Rain, Go Away
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea
Supercalifragolisticexpialialodocious
My Favorite Things (from The Sound of Music, now available as a children's book)
Hickory Dickory Dock
Pop Goes the Weasel

Action Rhymes Joanna Cole has a book, The Eentsy, Weentsy Spider: Fingerplays and Action Rhymes, that has instructions of how to do some of these action rhymes:

I’m a Little Teapot   
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Ring Around the Rosie
The Grand Old Duke of York
Incy Wincy Spider
London Bridge is Falling Down
If You’re Happy and You Know It
The Wheels on the Bus
The Hockey-Pokey

If you want to play an instrument, there's a "lap harp" called the Music Maker for which you can buy song sheets to slip under the strings and play. www.lapharp.com sells both the harp and song sheets. www.worldofharmonymusic.com also makes song sheets for these type of lap harps.

You could also buy a glockenspiel. I got mine from when my son participated in Kindermusik, but they sell them online too: http://store.kindermusik.com/p-302-kindermusik-glockenspiel.aspx  Nancy Poffenberger has several books for glockenspiels with familiar songs: http://www.funpublishing.com/?author=5 These books are with notes written as A-B-C as opposed to solfege or to notes on a staff:

NURSERY RHYMES WITH BELLS AND XYLOPHONE includes these songs: The Muffin Man; The Bear Went Over the Mountain; Ring a Ring of Roses; Eensie Weensie Spider; I'm a Little Teapot; Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Lazy Mary; Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be; This Old Man; Down by the Station; Ten in the Bed; A Tisket, A Tasket.

INSTANT FUN WITH BELLS AND XYLOPHONES includes these songs: Mary Had a Little Lamb; Jingle Bells; London Bridge; Farmer in the Dell; For He's a Jolly Good Fellow; Hickory Dickory Dock; Pop Goes the Weasel; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; Ten Little Indians; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; Brother John; Hot Cross Buns
8  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Music / Re: Fretless Finger Guide for Violin, Viola on: November 13, 2013, 05:02:42 PM
How is the Fretless Finger Guide different and/or better than the Don't Fret http://www.dontfret.net/ finger position indicator?
9  EARLY LEARNING / Prenatal Education / Re: newly pregnant and need advice on: October 30, 2013, 04:33:57 PM
From what I see about Soul Bonding, it is very similar to a book I read when pregnant with my second daughter: Creating a Joyful Birth Experience: Developing a Partnership with Your Unborn Child for Healthy Pregnancy, Labor, and Early Parenting http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Joyful-Birth-Experience-Partnership/dp/0671870270/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383150675&sr=8-1&keywords=lucia+capacchione+pregnancy by Lucia Capacchione and Sandra Bardsley, which integrates art and journaling to explore one's feelings about being pregnant. It's a great book!
10  BrillKids Software / Little Musician - General Discussion / Re: xylophone for 6 month old on: October 30, 2013, 04:16:53 PM
My son participated in Kindermusik for the Young Child, which is a program for 4-7 year old kids, and he got as part of the program a Glockenspiel http://store.kindermusik.com/p-302-kindermusik-glockenspiel.aspx (made by Sonor), which I believe is tuned very well. I use it myself to review the pitches from Little Musician. It's not too expensive (although I can't speak for how much shipping will be), so you may want to check it out.
11  BrillKids Software / Little Musician - General Discussion / Re: looking for xylophone sheet music books on: October 10, 2013, 02:09:23 PM
Nancy Poffenberger has several http://www.funpublishing.com/?author=5 books with notes written as A-B-C as opposed to solfege or to notes on a staff:

NURSERY RHYMES WITH BELLS AND XYLOPHONE includes these songs: The Muffin Man; The Bear Went Over the Mountain; Ring a Ring of Roses; Eensie Weensie Spider; I'm a Little Teapot; Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Lazy Mary; Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be; This Old Man; Down by the Station; Ten in the Bed; A Tisket, A Tasket.

INSTANT FUN WITH BELLS AND XYLOPHONES includes these songs: Mary Had a Little Lamb; Jingle Bells; London Bridge; Farmer in the Dell; For He's a Jolly Good Fellow; Hickory Dickory Dock; Pop Goes the Weasel; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; Ten Little Indians; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; Brother John; Hot Cross Buns
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