Week 1 of SoftMozart .// Toddler 28 months

Yesterday we did some coloring of the picture from Hellene's book "the kingdom of the tune"

Here is the way I am covering some parts of the screen to help my DD to focus on the task.

Update 12/18/ 2011:
First I was doing This:

but this morning we tried this way, and it worked much better:

This is really helpful - thanks Nadia. I will definitely try covering the screen to help my DD concentrate. We are starting the programme after Christmas but we have been inspired by your posts to do some preparation before we start which I think will help.

We have been playing do re mi hopscotch with some big pictures of the images and singing the notes. I dont have a playmat so we just laid them next to each other on my yoga mat! We tried it for the first time yesterday and it was a big hit! she loves this game and wanted to play again today with her daddy too

We also laid out the cards in order and out smaller ones on top.
I've also made a PowerPoint with the pictures and play this with the correct notes which we sing along to.

Finally I have found several versions of the song Hot Cross Buns on YouTube (animated ones plus children playing piano) plus I discovered it is on a CD we have at home so I am playing this so she gets to know it well before we try to start gentle piano.

I really hope my DD loves the program as much as I do - I am having so much fun learning with it

Nadia,

What you did make sense to help a young child focus. I will remember to use this method when my son gets older.

I am so glad that my posts are helpful.

Day 6/ Week1 of Soft Mozart.

I think the preparation and guidance is very important, especially when starting a program with a toddler : will need always to be on guard to keep things interesting ( even with hopscotch, it is better not to do it every day and keep the cards away, to keep the things interesting)

I am planning to do LR file unless someone already did find it and can share a link.

Today we did some coloring as well, my DD liked it, so I am thinking to come out with some solfeggio worksheets, so she can scribble
I would appreciate a links to those.

My DD likes to sing Do to Sol, forgetting about La,Ti, Do, so today we were singing and clapping from Fa to Do and back, just for her to become more fluent with the last sounds.

We played The Guess Key Game, she played for 1 min and picked 16 fruits, today she was very easily distracted.

She loves to Practice The Gentle Piano JB Song. I will correct in my previous posts to make clarification. So far DD' ve been playing HCB and JB on mode 1, the R2 that I wrote in previous posts meant second time with right hand.

Today she played JB

R1 a: 41 out of 45 /136
R1 b: 37 out of 45/ 131

Second time she was not paying attention well and we stopped the practice.

I would like to warn everyone: do not adjust stickers while your toddler present, i did that mistake: I wanted to straighten out one of the stickers on the keyboard, I did it in front of my DD, when the next time I saw the keyboard, half of the stickers were missing... So do not let your toddler to be aware that the pictures on the keyboard removable.
Also I think it would be great on top of the sticker put a layer of thin clear scotch, just to make it more scratch proof.

Please feel free to post here more ideas to try out . We will gladly give it a try.

So far the things that I plan to try :

a) finger exercise like recommended by ttteh

b) playing with the left hand following instructions shared by Hellene

Browsing youtube to find songs and clips kids singing solfege :