Dance and Sing With Me!

Do you find yourself fighting with your kids to get them to practice every day?

Do you hear your child's frustration when they make the same mistakes over and over?

Do you wish you could help them but feel that music is a foreign language best left to the experts?

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Dance and Sing! Music can help change music practice from boring to delightful and make music learning a joy for the whole family!

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Researchers in early childhood development tell us that
the value of music in a child's intellectual, physical,
emotional and spiritual growth is incalculable:

Music study increases a child's ability to build successful reading comprehension and language skills.
Music helps build math skills and the ability to manipulate symbols and remember patterns.
Music helps to build spatial reasoning skills, fine motor coordination, and the ability to imagine and create.
Music helps define an understanding of aesthetics such as beauty, order and harmony.
Music helps build perseverance, self-confidence and freedom to express oneself creatively.

But all these benefits are only possible if children find pleasure, satisfaction and joy in learning music and achieve the motivation to stay committed to the music learning process.

BUILDING ON CHILDREN'S NATURAL MUSICAL INSTINCTS:

Leading contemporary research in child development focuses on using children's innate musical instincts and natural delight in playing games to learn music skills.

Traditional private lessons emphasize guided instruction from expert teachers in the techniques required to play a musical instrument.

Dance and Sing With Me! FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC STUDENTS:
-- A Combined Approach --

Twenty-five years of music teaching experience with students from kindergarten ages through senior citizens and all levels of skills from beginner to hobbyists to music majors, has resulted in the Dance and Sing! Music approach to music learning which combines these two approaches to music study:

The intrinsic "discovery" approach of games and play
The extrinsic approach of guided expert instruction

This book shows you how using these same ideas in home music practice sessions and family fun activities can help your child learn delight and joy in making music, and can build their interest and commitment to musical success.

Create meaningful family music partnerships as you learn by playing together.
Learn songs and games to play together with your child.
Teach specific musical concepts using familiar songs, dances, and games from your own childhood.

Dance and Sing With Me! will teach you how to interact musically with your child to support their musical growth and development.

Chapter 1: "The Music, The Magic, and You" Benefits of musical interaction with your child.

Chapter 2: "I've Got the Music In Me" Three keys for developing musically motivated children.

Chapter 3: "Play It Again, Sam" Explores the connection between teacher-directed study and discovery play activities.

Chapter 4: "Dance To the Music"    Movement, rhythm games and folk dance activities.

Chapter 5: "Find a Little Rhyme and Step It In Time" Use familiar children's songs, rhymes, and poems to teach basic rhythms and build language and memory skills.

Chapter 6: "Don't Know Much About Beats and Notes"   Read and play melodies of familiar children's songs with just a little music information.

Chapter 7: "I Got Rhythm, I Got Music"   Summary of ideas for using musical activities to create your own teaching tools at home.

Chapter 8: "So Happy Together" The importance that participation in musical activities can have for teens in developing strong self-confidence, positive group connections and a sense of achievement.

Chapter 9: "Sing A Song"   Music Resource List - Songs and more songs and then some more!

Chapter 10: Coda

Let DANCE AND SING! MUSIC help you and your family make music learning a joyful family experience!

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