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[karmie]

Hi Karmie-*

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/xylophone-sound-puzzle

http://www.newhorizontoys.com/music-instruction-kids.html

I was led to this items directly and indirectly via your blog. Now I need to find the puzzle, along with the ringed chopsticks. Any idea where I can get those?

I will look around online for a bow for you in a little bit!

Hi,

I have no idea where to buy that sound puzzle, really.  I've never seen it before in the stores. I bought it off another mom who was selling it on a local forum (singapore). I bought a bunch of M&D puzzles from her.

As for the DVD - I've not heard of it.

Ringed chopsticks is under the Edison brand. We can find it in shops here in Singapore.  And probably on ebay too (i've seen).  Just do a search of Edison training chopsticks.

Hope that helps!

sam
http://karmeleon.blogspot.com

[waterdreamer]

I saw those chopsticks on your blog. I might buy two pairs. One of me and one for my son. I will proabley use them longer then my son will

[karmie]

I saw those chopsticks on your blog. I might buy two pairs. One of me and one for my son. I will proabley use them longer then my son will

If you look at  one of the websites, there are chopsticks for adults too, i think.
http://www.edisonchopsticks.com.au/products.html

I just saw this website too:
http://www.veryasia.com/260343.html

This is the Korean suppliers' website though, I think.
http://www.inpkorea.com/eng/

sam

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Karmie- I also meant to ask, where did you get such a large score for your son to read? Did you make it using a software program? When they're very little, bigger is better in everything so something that big would be perfect to start my kiddos off on.

[karmie]

Karmie- I also meant to ask, where did you get such a large score for your son to read? Did you make it using a software program? When they're very little, bigger is better in everything so something that big would be perfect to start my kiddos off on.

I cut & pasted them together from printouts from the Tweedlewink website!

But I did make some more large scores later on using MS Publisher (as in, I actually "drew" the notes).  So far I've only done C Major Scale & a very simple "Hot Cross Bun" score which he just simply refuses to play for some reason. haha!!!!!!!!!!!

[TeachingMyToddlers]

wow, that sounds like a huge pain! There has to be an easier way. hmmmmm....

Also, when searching for the M & D sound puzzle I came across this youtube clip and it looks really neat. This guy used to offer his own early learning software but has since gone out of business for whatever reason.

http://www.youtube.com/user/geenogee

http://www.youtube.com/user/geenogee#p/a/u/1/uwfEFMLlHAQ

[karmie]

wow, that sounds like a huge pain! There has to be an easier way. hmmmmm....

I'm not going to do it forever, so that's ok.  And I only needed to draw it once, and then I just "copy/paste" the same note all over the scoresheet I'd done and then I just printed it out.  I find the video a little complicated, I'm afraid.

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Oh I would never expect them to play from it initially, I just thought it would be good exposure initially to demonstrate the correlation between reading the notes to the piano location of the notes to the sound. I think I am going to try to show one of these video songs to my kids once a day hoping they absorb just like LR or YBCR.

[aangeles]

waterdreamer,

The training chopsticks are also available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=edison+chopsticks&x=0&y=0

I don't know how useful they are for learning to use real chopsticks though. I learned to use real chopsticks from a young age without using any training ones. My DD likes to use them to pick up toy food -  at least she's practicing those fine motor movements, huh? 

[karmie]

waterdreamer,

The training chopsticks are also available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=edison+chopsticks&x=0&y=0

I don't know how useful they are for learning to use real chopsticks though. I learned to use real chopsticks from a young age without using any training ones. My DD likes to use them to pick up toy food -  at least she's practicing those fine motor movements, huh? 

Yea, actually my elder 3 kids learnt to use chopsticks not from using these.  They just grew into being able to use chopsticks by the time they were in primary school.  But I let my youngest use - to train his muscles, that's all.  Very good for holding bow. ;-)

[aangeles]

karmie,

I was just checking out your blog. I think it is so cool that your son is learning the erhu! How did he get interested in it in the beginning? Do you play any Chinese musical instrument yourself? I learned to play the guzheng back in high school but I've always loved the sound of erhu as well. I would be so happy if I could get my daughter interested in playing a Chinese instrument - eventually when she's older. What age did your son start the erhu?

anna

[karmie]

karmie,

I was just checking out your blog. I think it is so cool that your son is learning the erhu! How did he get interested in it in the beginning? Do you play any Chinese musical instrument yourself? I learned to play the guzheng back in high school but I've always loved the sound of erhu as well. I would be so happy if I could get my daughter interested in playing a Chinese instrument - eventually when she's older. What age did your son start the erhu?

anna

LOL - my youngest 2yo boy is not learning erhu. He's just playing around with one of his brother's old erhu!!!!!!  My 11yo boy plays the erhu.  He started at 7yo. He's very into Chinese traditional/folk music.  If you want to know more, you can PM me. ;D

sam
http://karmeleon.blogspot.com

[aangeles]

LOL - my youngest 2yo boy is not learning erhu. He's just playing around with one of his brother's old erhu!!!!!!  My 11yo boy plays the erhu.  He started at 7yo. He's very into Chinese traditional/folk music.  If you want to know more, you can PM me. ;D

sam
http://karmeleon.blogspot.com

Oh! Of course I was talking about your older son, TJ! I didn't think the baby was playing erhu. 

I found it cool that you got an 11 year-old so interested in traditional Chinese music. Anyway, I will send you a PM so I don't completely hijack this thread! 

[karmie]

Oh! Of course I was talking about your older son, TJ! I didn't think the baby was playing erhu. 

I found it cool that you got an 11 year-old so interested in traditional Chinese music. Anyway, I will send you a PM so I don't completely hijack this thread! 

Yup, please send me a PM if you want to ask more on this. haha!  My TJ plays the gaohu and the traditional beijing jinghu.

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