Give Your Preschool Child The Edge Musical Training Gives in 5 Key Areas:
Physical, Cognitive, Social, Emotional, and Musical
You, like me, want to see your child grow and have every advantage to do well in life and succeed. This is a sincere desire of parents all over the world, and I'm sure that you share in that desire.
Did you know there is a connection between studying music and students doing well in school? During my 30 years of teaching piano and voice students, I couldn't help but notice that many of my students who did well in music also did well in their school achievement, often becoming honor roll students!
There is considerable research that shows a link between musical training and children doing well in school. I will tell you more about that research in a moment.
If you had time to take your preschooler each week to a class and spend $15 to $20 per week, you could give your child the benefits of age-appropriate musical training. This would have a great benefit to your child's development.
If, however, you would like to give your child age-appropriate musical training in the convenience of your home at a fraction of the cost, let me tell you about Exploring Music™, the musical program for preschool children I've developed over the past 8 years.
Exploring Music™ is an educational tool, a preschool music curriculum on DVD, that develops your child's brain, body and spirit. It does it with joy, and it does it with fun, and it does it with games.
I studied a well known prestigious music program for preschool age children, and became a certified teacher in that program.
This program is a name you would know and recognize for teaching students in a live setting. They do a wonderful job of training children.
But I also realized many parents can't devote an hour a week taking their child to weekly lessons at some location, trying to coordinate complicated family schedules to work these lessons in, or may not have the $15 to $20 per week these lessons would cost.
I discovered I have a great passion for teaching music to preschool children. I love them and they relate well to me.
I just love the way they will jump up and down for the sheer joy of jumping. I love how uninhibited they are in pretending. They will flap their arms like a chicken, moo like a cow with total abandonment, and sing with all their heart where they are on tune or not.
My passion was revealed to me teaching music to preschool children because I am totally convinced of the importance of music in a child's life, what is does for their brain development, and what it does for them socially, emotionally, cognitively, and physically.
I began teaching music in two preschool centers, one a national chain for preschoolers. I decided to create my own program that would be equally robust with more in-depth musical training and at a more affordable price.
Time Saving And Convenience For Parents
To save parents the time and inconvenience of taking their child to some location for specialized lessons, I also decided to put those lessons that I created on DVD. That way parents everywhere could have the advantage that musical training gives young children at the time that is convenient and at a price everyone could afford.
Exploring Music™ is an educational tool that develops your child's brain and body and spirit. It does it with joy, and it does it with fun, and it does it with games.
Every song and activity is thoughtfully selected to develop your child in the 5 key areas: cognitive, social, emotional, physical and musical. This accomplishes far more than a sing-a-long entertainment DVD.
Picture you and your preschooler watching a video lesson together as a whole world of new adventures unfolds. See your child becoming involved and participating in these activities that simultaneously are growing important parts of his or her development.
He may be imitating the sounds with other children in the video in"The Alphabet Song", or "Apples & Bananas", and without realizing, he is learning language development and phonetics.
Your child may be participating in stopping and starting activities with "Once I Saw 3 Goats", "Stars and Stripes", or "London Bridge", while at the same time he is learning inhibitory control, the ability to control him or herself.
She might be fascinated by the interesting sounds of "If All The Raindrops", and become enthralled with the activities of "What Shall we Do on a Rainy Day?"while she is building creativity and imagination.
You and your preschooler can be enjoying the movement and dances of "The Hokey Pokey" and "Down on Grandpa's Farm" while learning whole body movement and control.
One particularly interesting unit to preschoolers is the unit on the orchestra when your preschooler will learn the instruments of the orchestra, what they look like and how they sound. This is always a popular unit.
Your child may be clicking his rhythm sticks together while listening and singing "Hot Cross Buns", "Grandfather's Clock", or "Hickory Dickory Dock", but he is doing much more than learning to keep a steady beat, which is an important skill in itself.
There is important research that supports a link between maintaining a steady beat and academic achievement.
Link to Academic Achievement and Music
I found that studies conducted by Dr. Phyllis Weikart from the University of Michigan in 1994 and Dr. Debby Mitchell in 1999 support a link between academic achievement and the motor skills of maintaining a steady beat.
Other research by Drs. Kuhlman & Schweinhart report that children's timing has been found to be positively related to children's overall school achievement, as well as mathematics and reading achievement.
Before finding these important studies, I would have never known that an activity I took for granted could have such a profound effect on children. While your preschooler is learning to keep a steady beat, he is also improving his academic achievement capability.
I discovered the results of another study conducted by Dr. Laurel Trainor, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior at McMaster University and Director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind who said:
"It is very interesting that the children taking music lessons improved more over the year on general memory skills that are correlated with non-musical abilities such a literacy, verbal memory, visio-spatial processing, mathematics and IQ than did the children not taking lessons. It suggests that musical training is having an effect on how the brain gets wired for general cognitive functioning related to memory and attention."
Study after study will show you that the edge musical training gives children will help them perform better with general intelligence skills such a literacy, verbal memory, visiospatial processing, mathematics and IQ.
Albert Einstein once shared the importance music had in his discovery of the theory of relativity. "It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
The importance of musical training on preschooler's development can hardly be overestimated.
The Lessons in Exploring Music™
Exploring Music™ Interactive Music Curriculum on video is easy to use. Designed for children age 2 through 6, each quarter you will receive 1 copy of a DVD that will have 13 lessons, along with a printed Parent's guide, and 1 CD of the music on DVD.
The lessons are generally between 20 and 25 minutes. You don't need to do the whole lesson. You can go as far as your little one is interested. Sometime that may be just 5 or 10 minutes. As he or she becomes familiar with what we are doing, she will be able to sustain her interest longer.
You and your children simply watch a computer or a TV with a few items listed with the Parent's guide, items such as shakers or rhythm sticks. Your child interacts with the video while you facilitate the activities. At times during each lessons, there are instructions to pause the video while you get your child ready for the next activity.
A variety of methods are used in the video lessons of Exploring Music™. I, Miss Lisa, am the constant in every lesson, talking to your child, directing him or her in what we are doing.
Sometimes I use puppets in the presentation like "Freda the Frog" or "Allie the Alligator". Sometimes other children in the video will be doing the activities with us. The presence of other boys and girls adds social acceptability to the idea of learning music. But always we are having fun, fun Exploring Music.
Each lesson builds on the previous lesson, and repeats what has been learned. Then gradually a new lesson is added to the previous one so there is always something familiar and then something new.
Each DVD series has 13 lessons and each lesson is approximately 20 to 25 minutes long. Each new series take up where the previous lesson stopped. For the low price of $24.95 plus $4.95 shipping, you receive 1 set of DVDs with 13 lessons, and one CD with the music from that series of lessons for us in your car or CD player.
If you don't have a set of rhythm instruments, I would suggest you purchase a set like we use in the lessons. This is a one-time purchase.
You will automatically receive the next unit in the series about 2 weeks before your current series is due to end, unless you cancel your subscription by giving us a 30 day notice. You also have the option to purchase more that one unit at a time if you like.
While your preschooler is enjoy songs like "3 Little Monkeys", "10 In The Bed", and "The Elephant Song", he is actually reinforcing his ability to count.
While your child is performing the words and actions of "B-I-N-G-O", "Cabin In The Woods", and "Peter Rabbit", he is simultaneously building his cognitive skills, and his ability to memorize and language development.
Her social skills and cooperation skills are being developed while performing the songs with others on the DVD with songs such as "The Sharing Song", "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush", and "Here We Go Looby Loo".
Your child will enjoy and learn the songs for other cultures: "Frere Jacques" a French song, "Bassez Down" a Caribbean song, "Punchinello" and Italian song, "Roll And Rock", and African song, "Tinga Layo" another Caribbean song, "La Raspa", a Spanish song.
In addition, your preschooler will be enriched as he learns many musical concepts and terms, all while singing and playing songs like "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", "Tall Silk Hat", "Down By The Station", "Twinkle Little Star", "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain", "Patty Cake". He will also learn note names and values and other musical terms and their meanings.
Scientific Proofs Musical Training Improves Brain Processing And Memory
A controlled study using functional MRI brain imaging reveals a possible biological link between early musical training and improved executive functioning in both children and adults, report researchers at Boston Children's Hospital. The study appeared online June 17, 2014 in the journal PLOS ONE.
Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes that enable people to quickly process and retain information, regulate their behaviors, make good choices, solve problems, plan and adjust to changing mental demands.
"Since executive functioning is a strong predictor of academic achievement, even more than IQ, we think our findings have strong educational implications." says study senior investigator Nadine Gaab, PhD, of the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children's. "While many schools are cutting music programs and spending more and more time on test preperation, our findings suggest that musical training may actually help to set up children for a better academic future."
Although I have studied the research that shows the wonderful effects of musical training, it is from my personal experience that has totally convinced me of the importance of music in a child's life, what it does for their brain development, and what it does for them socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically.
Exploring Music™ video curriculum will help your preschool child develop physically, cognitively, socially, emotionally and musically.
The video lessons are filled with songs, games, and activities that are designed to grow your child in the following areas:
• Language development and phonetics
• Social skills and cooperation
• Whole body movement and control
• Auditory Discrimination
• Developing Finer Motor Skills
• Inhibitory Control-Developing Self Control
• Building Creativity and Imagination
• Musical symbols and concepts
• Ability to Keep and Steady Beat
Join these happy parents using Exploring Music™:
"As a homeschooling mom on a limited budget I was searching for a music curriculum that I could do with my kids at home. The Exploring Music™ videos are great! Each lesson is interactive, educational, and fun! We have "Music Monday" and do one lesson each week. The kids love it and they're learning! Miss Lisa does a wonderful job of teaching and speaks to the kids as if she's right here in the living room with us!"
Robin Mutchie, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
"Miss Lisa's lessons are fun and highly interactive, involving the students in their learning. She incorporates a lot of movement and instruments during each class time. We highly recommend Miss Lisa and are confident you will not only see the smiles on your student's face but also see the benefit as well!"
Kelly Andamasaris,
Administrator, Absorbent Minds Montessori School
"Evangeline loves to sing and dance along with Miss Lisa. She gathers her rhythm instruments and asks to watch the DVD. Every time we get in the car she requests her favorite Miss Lisa songs! It is awesome to see a child excited about music. She is learning and having fun at the same time. Excellent program!"
Mary Chafins
"Three other moms and I have been using Exploring Music video curriculum with out three-year-old boys during our in-home preschool classes. The boys were very reluctant to participate in music time before we started using Exploring Music."
"The first time we started one of the DVDs the boys were immediately drawn in by Miss Lisa and her puppets. Each week we notice more participation as they recognize songs from previous lessons."
"They especially love when they get to use instruments or participate in activities correlated with a particular songs. I find my son singing songs throughout the day from the video or along with the Exploring Music CD in the car."
"I love the confidence I see growing in my son through participating in the Exploring Music lessons. He is matching pitches and learning to keep a steady beat, but most importantly he is gaining the confidence to participate and share his voice with the world around him."
Jen Claytor
Stow, OH
Join these parents and give your preschooler the advantage and edge that musical training gives.